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Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy temperament: to... Læs mere
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'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman
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Said to have inspired Greene's The Quiet American, A Dragon Apparent chronicles the charm and grandeur of the ancient native civilizations that survived until the devastation of the Vietnam War.
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A travel book on Croatia, which presents an abundant culture of Roman remains, Venetian and Hapsburg-era palaces.
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From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-century traveller and poet Basho, this work brings together a chorus of voices from Japan and across... Læs mere
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Not a Hazardous Sport provides a magnificent end to a trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and A Plague of Caterpillars (both published by Eland).
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Eothen, which means `news from the east started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advice for his own youthful `year off travels, but it became one of the most influential, witty and idiosyncratic of travel books.
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`The Purple Land is a very sinister book if read too late in life. It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land. Ernest Hemingway
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An immediate bestseller when first published in 1877, Burnaby s delight in a life of risk and adventure still burns through the pages, as does his spontaneous affection for the Cossack troopers and Tartar, Khirgiz and Turkoman tribesmen that he encounters on his way.
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Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant octopus.