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Tells the story of a love affair between Sarah, a young British woman of adventurous spirit, and Jungli, an impoverished, opium-addicted Sikh temple servant.

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Istanbul, capital of two great empires, confluence of Asia and Europe, has called forth poetry throughout her long history, from paupers and sultans, natives and visitors alike.

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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 the globe. It is a source book for those visiting Japan for the first time and for expatriates.

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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 changed over the years. In a series of letters home he describes his amazement at the number of English people who wore spectacles, the amount they drank, and the dreadful food they ate.

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Lebanon: through writers' eyes brings together the best of writing on this troubled but ancient trading nation. With enthusiasm, wit and fascinating period detail, Homer and Hester Stanhope, James Frazer and T. E. Lawrence all share their insights and experience.

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Reveals a woman of courage, humour and passion. - Kathleen Frank

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A chronicle of the lives of several British lighthouse keepers and their families, revealing the reason for their solitary career.

(Paperback, Revised edition)

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The first in a series of pocket-sized poetry books for travelers and poetry lovers who seek inspiration while on the go. Here is the poetry of London, from: Zephaniah, Wordsworth, Keats, Milton, Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare, Betjemen, and many more.

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Features, perhaps the most fashionable, talked about, photographed city in Africa, which is home to Yves St Laurent, the Bransons and others.

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A collection of travel writing celebrating friendship and the chance encounters that unexpectedly enrich our lives, which shows the diversity of the Islamic world. With portraits of many people, it is dedicated to the millions who marched against the war in Iraq, and who wish that Britain's other voice be heard.

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A collection of travel writing celebrating friendship and the chance encounters that unexpectedly enrich our lives, which shows the diversity of the modern Islamic world.

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Vibrant and original memoirs of a civil servant in India from 1858 to 1893, telling of rapacious planters, improvised fifteen-gun salutes, lofty Rajas and dissolute Englishmen. Vivid and candid tales from a huge bureaucracy, in rich descriptive prose

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Here are the vanished days of the unfettered Sultanate in all their dark, melodramatic splendor.

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Duncan Pryde went to work in northern Canada as a fur trader for the Hudson Bay Company at the age of 18. His many adventures & his warm relations with the Inuit are detailed in this volume.

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Ronald Wright's skills as an ethnologist, political historian, and travel writer have found an ideal outlet an excellent book.' The Independent

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With both a native s intimacy and the fresh-eye of an outsider, Simeti celebrates the Mediterranean island she and the Greek goddess of the harvest call home.

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Guy Kennaway's novel about Jamaican life and culture is set in the fictional village of Angel Beach. It is an affectionate and hilarious description of a small community where everyone knows everyone's business, poverty is a way of life and dreams of escape trickle through fingers.

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Describes the creation of a Zionist homeland out of the Palestine Protectorate.

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Whether you're a backpacker from Idaho on your first visit, or a cultural swallow on an annual migration to Paris, this book helps you intoxicate and inspire, goad and guide. It delights in the company of such swashbuckling gallows-fodder as Francois Villon, and chuckles at the audacity of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, the perpetual rebels.

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A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution. This book is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared.

(Paperback, 2nd ed.)