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In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in six deserts on five continents that evoke the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-sixth of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless,...

Miguel Torga's first novel is a tribute to the Douro, its people and its landscapes. A book for all who love this extraordinary region....

Bernard Lewis gives us a rich overview of two thousand years of commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration. We hear from Napoleon, St. Augustine, T. E. Lawrence, Karl Marx and Ibn Khaldun. We peer into Queen Elizabeth's business correspondence, strike oil with Freya Stark and follow the footsteps of M...

The Silk Road, the great trans-Asian highway linking Imperial Rome and distant China, reached the height of its importance during the T'ang Dynasty. Along it traveled cargos of silk, gold, ivory, as well as new ideas, art and knowledge. But then, China lost control of the region and finally the town...

Collection of British Authors. Selected, with an introduction, by William Sharp. Copyright edition. ...

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Ever since Paul Theroux embarked in London on the first train of his Great Railway Bazaar, railways have been a rich source for the best travel writing. This is truer than ever in the twenty-first century. As the environmental implications of relentless air travel cast an ominous shadow over the pro...

Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way b...

Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only a ...

The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot. John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Rae's prolific record: 1,776 miles surveyed of uncharted territory; 6,555 miles hiked on snows...

L'oeuvre de Rabelais est en France « notoirement méconnue », ou connue seulement pour ce qu'elle n'est pas, et l'épithète de « rabelaisien » ne s'applique bien souvent qu'aux plaisirs de la table, surtout quand ils sont excessifs, et aux éructations d'ivrogne. Or François Rabelais, s'il man...

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