Among the Mountains. Travels Through Asia, Paperback - Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger, this century's greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia.

Reducere. The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now considered to be the greatest living explorer.The Danakil Diary is the account of two ...

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Reducere. Autorul bestsellerului Nisipurile arabe In cei opt ani petrecuti la jumatatea secolului trecut in tinuturile mlastinoase de la confluenta Tigrului ...

Reducere. First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of ...

Publisher: Grolier Club of New YorkAuthor(s): Levison WoodNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 279 x 289 x 30Cover type: HardbackR...

Reducere. DescriptionThis evocative and lively travelogue by Isabella L. Bird lifts the veil of the culture of Colorado and the Rocky Mountains as it was in ...

Reducere. In Russia's Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and bears roam the ...

From the lens of Magnum's Abbas - the mystical world of the Hindu revealed, from ancient rites to contemporary beliefsPublisher: Phaidon Press LtdA...

Time Among the Maya shows Ronald Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profou...

An exploration of the English community in a remote corner of France. A book which looks beyond the stereotype of the English living abroad. No oth...

Meet the obsessives and dreamers of this remote island nation, and travel through the collections of Iceland's eclectic museums and into its curiou...

No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In thi...

Sir Richard Francis Burton was perhaps the most colorful British explorer of the 19th century. In 1860 he left England and his fiance to explore th...

A journey that explores floods and flooding in all its forms: Platt investigates the ways in which water has shaped our landscape, our literature a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Wilfred OwenEditor: Jon StallworthyThis new, authoritative edition, indispensable to student and general reader alike, cont...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR.* A journey across the former Ottoman Empire reveals its legacy and the integral diver...

During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem, " as President Franklin Roosevelt declare...

Reducere. Aim Humbert (1819-1900), Swiss politician, traveler, and educator, arrived in Japan in 1863 as envoy plenipotentiary of the Swiss federal governmen...

Reducere. Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, whic...

No. 1 New Release in Spain & Portugal Travel, General Portugal Travel Guides, and Motorcycles. When Andy and his wife, Kim, set out on their Harley...

A blistering account from the acclaimed author of The Unravelling, which traces the threads of violence that have scorched the Middle East for decades

Reducere. DescriptionIbn Battuta, the greatest of all the medieval travellers, was in Tangier in 1304. At the age of nineteen he set out on his travels that ...

Reducere. Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Ba...

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-cen...

"Poems by Wilfred Owen - In the Trenches" is a 1920 collection of poetry by English poet and soldier Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (1893-1918). A ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): D. H. LawrenceNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 14Cover type: Paperb...

In this rich and original photo book, Austrian photographer Michael Koenigshofer explores how lives are lived in the intense and extreme environmen...

Reducere. Travel author Horace Kephart discusses the culture of Appalachia he observed while living in a mountain cabin for several months at the start of th...

Wilfred Owen is perhaps the most remembered of the First World War poets, writing some of the most powerful denouncements of the horrors and hypocr...

Reducere. Ibn Batt ta was a geographer and traveller who spent decades roaming distant lands; these are his journeys, translated to English by celebrated sch...

Reducere. Some seemingly preordained lives end up elsewhere entirely when a person manages to break the mold. Mary's mold was broken from the outside. When t...