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This 1929 volume offers firsthand accounts of Haitian voodoo and witchcraft rituals. Author William Seabrook introduced the concept of the walking dead to the West with this illustrated travelogue.

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Classic of travel literature offers journalistic account of English tramp steamer's passage through the Amazon River and its tributary, the Madeira. "Accurate and difficult to improve upon." - Peter Matthiessen.

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From the author of the beloved novel The Towers of Trebizond, a book about Portugal that is part travel-ogue, part history and wholly personal.

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A unique collection of essays accompany Wilfred Thesigers own personal photographs of the Africa he experienced as one of the worlds most celebrated explorers.

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A collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers, including Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron, In Morocco by Edith Wharton, The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird.

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This republishes Mark Twain's Australian travel writing, in which he recounts his impressions of Sydney and his view of Australian history. Includes introduction from Don Watson.

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Includes a travel book and a biography of its author.

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A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newbys iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.

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Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere.

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In 1935, the author set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. This title describes the trip and his return journey on a Dutch steamer. It shows height of his powers.

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'Full of heart.' Michael Harris, author of Solitude

Being alone isn't something to endure - it's something to relish.
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The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone.

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When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination.

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The world as seen through the eyes of the inventor of the world's greatest detective

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Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. This vibrant assessment of a great people at their greatest hour is full of happy surprises, curious facts and stimulating opinions that reflect Maugham's lifelong enchantment with the landscape and people of Spain.

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Widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan Morris at her best - at once magisterial and particular, whimsical and profound. It is a matchless portrait of a continent.

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In this series of pen-portraits of England in the 1930's, Victor Canning vividly captures the pattern and colour of the great fabric of English life from Cumberland to Cornwall from a bygone era.

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'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of Florence

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Describes a Maharajah's eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court.

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A wonderful collection of correspondence and observation from two masterful poets.

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The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries.

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It explains clearly all the references in the book, and shows in detail with new maps the routes described from Venice to Beijing, from Beijing to Burma, and from Beijing to south-east China.

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As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational style, which made him one of the best-selling travel writers of his age. First ever translation into English.