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Uneori, tristetea ne viziteaza pe neasteptate.Dar poate ca acest musafir neobisnuit nu este ceea ce pare...Eva Eland este o autoare si ilustratoare...

Nicolas Bouvier was an image merchant and photographer as well as a writer. This book is accompanied by several of his images of Japan. It is a dis...

Publisher: Steidl PublishersAuthor(s): Michel ComteIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Unique eyewitness account from 1917 of Morocco as a French protectorate.Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Jean TharaudNumber of pages: 320C...

The memoir of a young cavalry officer in India in the British Empire and his search for spiritual fulfilment.Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(...

A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics.Publisher: Eland...

Letters written from 1716-1718 from the Ottoman Empire by Mary Wortley Montagu, one of the first modern travel writers. A revelation in their day.P...

Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(s): E. M. ForsterNumber of pages: 160Collection: Eland classicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 215 x ...

Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Guy KennawayNumber of pages: 208Collection: Eland classicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 178 x 381 x 1...

Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Veronica DoubledayNumber of pages: 280Collection: Eland classicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 2...

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...

Sometimes it can feel really far away, and sometimes you might have so much you can't help but share. You can try to chase it, control it or captur...

Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year living with a local peasant family in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 km east of Ankara.

A series of books initially published in the 1980s, offering short daily readings derived from the words, lives and ideas of great Christian mystics.

This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling companion. Together De...

Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, this volume tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-...

Recounts the first half of the author's adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy ...

Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Tony ParkerNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 217 x 140 x 21Cover type: Paperback / so...

Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Sybille BedfordNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 214 x 139 x 21Cover type: Paperback ...

Presents a portrait of the Greece the author came to know through a lifetime of exploration. This work is a fusion of experience, a gift of insight...

Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Irfan OrgaIllustration(s): 1 illustrations mapNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 216 x...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Unearths scholars with bizarre sexual fantasies, eunuchs, rare manuscripts and a malicious dowager Queen, and sets them all against the backdrop of...

In 1782 an enthusiastic young German landed in England. Through the fresh eyes of a foreigner, this title offers insight into what has or hasn't ch...

Park's two journeys to Africa, in 1795 and 1805, provided Europeans with their first reliable descriptions of that continent's interior. A vivid re...

Travels in Thailand and Burma in 1968, learning about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism.

Rogerson family history.Illustrations: 48 black and white illustrations

Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his tra...

A collection of Bouvier s best travel stories, covering: the Aran Isles, lowland Scotland, Islay, Xian inChina, Korea and Bouvier s childhood home,...

A new edition of Arthur Koestler's gripping tale of arrest, imprisonment, and subsequent escape to London from Nazi-occupied France.

Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American.

Freely reveals a superb eye for the telling details. - The IndependentPublisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(s): John FreelyIllustration(s): b&w pho...

Bruce Wannell was a true original, remembered here with affection, humour and wonder by fifty writers including such friends as Kevin Rushby, Lisa ...

The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis. Made into a mass...

All of the color, gaiety, and charm of Burma springs to life with this master story-teller, despite the fact that at the time of his visit much of ...

Reducere. This follow-up to When Sadness Is at Your Door suggests that happiness can always be found by looking within. This helpful picture book is a great ...

The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 until he ra...

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 ...

For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, and under threat of 'disappearance' he helped famil...

Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe cornerstone of current understanding of rock art of the San of Drakensberg First published in 1976, People of the Eland was the firs...

This is the story of a village in East Anglia, astride its common stream, a saga of continuity and change which stretches back across a landscape o...

This book is the perfect companion to any exploration of Ethiopia, be it in the precarious saddle of an Abyssinian pony, or from the folds of an ar...

There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the He...

Brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentali...

A record of the people who visited Lebanon since 1800 BC; and of the Lebanese themselves, writing about their homeland, their religions, their joys...

Describes day-to-day life in the camps where hundreds of children are living in squalor while a handful of dedicated volunteers do their best to fe...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

New edition of the biographical novel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. Co-incides with the publication of Bedford's memoirs in J...

Gellhorn was the youngest of sixteen handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of th...

Dilys Powell s love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun?baked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfr...

Puka-Puka is a triangular coral reef, some seven miles in circumference with three islands. It frames a lagoon so clear that one can see the coral ...

`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...

When Sadness arrives, try not to be afraid: give it a name, listen to it and spend some time together. Maybe all it wants is to know that it's welc...

To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, in all its violence and beauty.

A superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen. Describing a little known aspect of WWII,...

Not a Hazardous Sport provides a magnificent end to a trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and A Plague ...

Reducere. DescriptionA comforting primer in emotional literacy and mindfulness that suggests we approach the feeling of sadness as if it is our guest. Sadnes...

The author describes his 600 mile journey to the world's oldest elephant market, the Sonepur Mela, riding his Indian elephant, Tara.

A celebration of the Italian island of Sicily, where the Greek goddess of harvest mythically lived. First published in 1986.

The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. 'A riotously funny book which actually had me laughing out loud' Ger...

Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, `Lords of the Atlas' tells the extraordinary story of t...

James Cameron admired Martha Gellhorn above all other war-reporters 'because she combined a cold eye with a warm heart'. The Chicago Times describe...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Shortly after her tenth birthday, Dervla Murphy decided to cycle to India. Almost 20 years later, she set out to achieve her ambition. Her epic jou...

Ralph Bagnold was among a group of eccentric British explorers who in the 1930's explored the deserts of North Africa using Model T Fords. This boo...

This account of Burnes' travels up the Indus to Lahore, to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia to spy for the British government in the 18...

New in paperback. In the Summer of 2011 Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza strip. She creates a vivid picture of life in this coastal fragment...