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Welcome to Paradise opens a window into the hearts of a small group of African would-be emigrants, waiting on the beach in Morocco for a boat that will take them to a new life in Europe.

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Traveler Dervla Murphy recalls her unconventional first thirty years of life, including her bicycle trek from Dunkirk to India.

(Paperback, 2nd ed.)

Winner of the Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008. A sharply observed and passionate portrait of Greece as Greeks would see it.

(Paperback, New edition)

The autobiography of the Duke of Pirajno, who worked for eighteen years as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland.

(, New edition)

A game-keeper tells of his sixty-eight years on the same Herefordshire estate. An unsentimental yet affectionate picture of life on a semi-feudal estate.

(Hardback)

Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement and underwritten by an intense enjoyment of family life. In this title, the author develops an acute eye for the way in which isolation has shaped this society.

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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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For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, and under threat of 'disappearance' he helped families of the missing, attended guerilla conference, and took tea with torturers.

(Paperback, Revised ed.)

Doreen Ingrams and her husband were the first Europeans ever to live in the Hadhramaut, an extraordinary, isolated region of southern Arabia. Married to an Arabic-speaking British official, she arrived by boat, and during their ten-year residency travelled throughout the region by camel and donkey. This book tells her story.

(Paperback, New edition)

Selected travel writing from Norman Lewis, which makes you laugh, but also brings home the world's hurt in glorious understatement.

(Paperback, New edition)

(Hardback)

Set primarily on a plantation called Arcadia, overlooking the sea and a distant Cuba from on high, the author alternates between the acceptable pursuits of a Victorian gentlewoman - sewing, social visits, riding - and trying to find a more meaningful role for herself in this man's world.

(Paperback, New edition)

A new edition of a 1953 classic that captures the very essence Marrakesh and its people.

(Hardback, New ed.)

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Dilys Powell s love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sunbaked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfry Payne, on the remote peninsula of Perachora, she came to know the villagers who laboured on the site, camping beside them year after year, for months at a time.

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(Paperback)

An account of two years spent as a house guest in remote Nepal, in a village a ten days' walk from the nearest road.

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A unique portrait of 1920's Tunisian domestic life, telling of barefoot pilgrims and Bedouin, the deflowering of virgin prides, spirit possession, and dances.

(Hardback)

Evliya Celebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world - a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckish wit and humour. He is in the pantheon of the great travel-writers of the world, though virtually unknown to western readers. This title discusses Evliya.

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Medieval Andalucia is known as a land of regrets, the place of the Moorish King's last sigh, where travelers sense the destruction of mosque of Cordoba and feel emptiness of the Alhambra's domes. This collection of poetry fills those halls with life, a desire for love and enchantments of wine, laughter, moonlit picnics, and bare flesh.

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This book takes us on a poetic journey through the classical age of Arabic poetry, from the years AD 600-1000.

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Presents the portrait not only of the city of Bangkok, but also of the dynasty and culture which created it. This work unravels the plots, coups, wars, assassinations, invasions and counter-coups of three hundred years of history.

(Paperback)

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