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Freely reveals a superb eye for the telling details. - The Independent
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The narrator arrives in his 117th rented room at the end of an epic journey, abandoned by his lover, almost broke, and certainly feverish. A razor sharp chronicle of experience that grew out of a seven-month stay in Sri Lanka.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics.
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A cast of poets of spellbinding intensity bring this much loved region of Italy to life to show us two opposing natures of Italy, united by their differences.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. This title brings together the best in their Spanish hosts, informed by personal fascination for horses, religion and Spain.
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Tells the story of a street in London's docklands and of the family who lived on it. The street was built in the 1880s, and the Wheelwright family (originally dockers) lived there until its demolition in the 1960s, when it was replaced with tower blocks.
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A lyrical evocation of growing up on the banks of the Seine- a minutely observed landscape, where even the wind is a character in its own right. We meet a singing hermit, a disturbing spinster, and the author's first girlfriend in this magical work.
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'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a subtle and imaginative brilliance.' Colin Thubron
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Dilys Powell s love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun?baked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfry Payne, on the remote peninsula... Læs mere
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Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It is doubtful that any Empire at any time has been served by such an intelligent, dutiful, hardworking and incorruptible civil servant as the young Leonard Wool
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With both a native s intimacy and the fresh-eye of an outsider, Simeti celebrates the Mediterranean island she and the Greek goddess of the harvest call home.
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Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal.... Læs mere