(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Raban
ISBN: 9781780601397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2018
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Dervla Murphy
ISBN: 9781780600703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2015
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine
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By: Peter Fleming
ISBN: 9781780602004
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th April 2023
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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First published in 1933, Brazilian Adventure is Peter Fleming s account of his expeditionary search for the lost Colonel. Peter Fleming was the brother of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series and was literary editor of The Times.
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By: Yves-Marie Stranger
ISBN: 9781780600772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2016
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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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 armchair.
(Paperback)
By: Lewen Weldon
ISBN: 9781780601991
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th April 2023
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Weldon was mapping the deserts of Egypt when war broke out. Working from out of a steam yacht based on Port Said or Famagusta, he ran a network of spies and confidential agents onto the Levant coast behind Turkish lines. He was a fluent Arabic speaker and could conduct personal interviews on the shore, as well as landing and taking off agents - all
(Paperback)
By: Roger Hudson
ISBN: 9781780600765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not
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By: R A Bagnold
ISBN: 9781906011338
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2010
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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A work of an Englishman, a desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Norman Lewis
ISBN: 9780907871729
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2002
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2002
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Raban
ISBN: 9781780601366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2018
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Lesley Chan Downer
ISBN: 9781780602301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2024
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Lesley Chan Downer set off in the footsteps of Matsuo Basho, Japan s most cherished poet, to explore the country s remote northern provinces.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Ifran Orga
ISBN: 9780907871828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2002
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2002
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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A story of Irfan Orga's family's survival.
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By: E. M. Forster
ISBN: 9781780601601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2022
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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This book chronicles Forster's infatuation and exasperation, fascination, and amusement at this idiosyncratic court, leading us with him to its heart and the eight- day festival of Gokul Ashtami, marking the birth of Krishna, where we see His Highness Maharajah Sir Tukoji Rao III dancing before the altar like David before the Ark.
(Paperback)
By: Nigel Barley
ISBN: 9781906011505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2011
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Offers an introduction to the life of a social anthropologist.
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By: Mary Wortley Montagu
ISBN: 9781780600390
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 12th August 2021
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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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.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Nicholas Bouvier
ISBN: 9780907871538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2007
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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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-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s.
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By: Veronica Doubleday
ISBN: 9781780601977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2022
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Veronica was not a casual traveler but a young musician married to a scholar. She was determined to make use of her time in Afghanistan and break out of the charmed circle of the expatriate academic and make real friendships with local women.
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By: Ronald Wright
ISBN: 9781780601588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2020
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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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 profound understanding of other cultures.' Jan Morris, Independent
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Gerald Hanley
ISBN: 9780907871835
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2004
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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A superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen. Describing a little known aspect of WWII, a group of British Army soldiers try to prevent bloodshed between feuding Somalian tribes.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Norman Lewis
ISBN: 9780907871330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2003
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Said to have inspired Greene's The Quiet American, A Dragon Apparent chronicles the charm and grandeur of the ancient native civilizations that survived until the devastation of the Vietnam War.
(Paperback)
By: Norman Lewis
ISBN: 9781780601083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2017
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar - the scene of a brutal caste war between the untouchables and higher-caste gangsters
(Paperback)
By: Arthur Grimble
ISBN: 9781906011451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2011
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant octopus.
(Paperback)
By: Dervla Murphy
ISBN: 9781780600116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2014
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics.
(Paperback)
By: Norman Lewis
ISBN: 9781780601557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2026
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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By happy agreement with the literary estate of Norman Lewis, the previous five collections of Norman s work have been withdrawn, so that all the best pieces are now in one book.
(Hardback)
By: Norman Lewis
ISBN: 9781780602318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2024
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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A selection of Norman Lewis's work from Eland founder, John Hatt
