Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century…

\nIn the consultation room I staredat the purple flowers in their purplevase and imagined my insides:an ocean, a cave, a…

From the authors of the bestselling "American Indian Myths and Legends" comes a rich and ribald collection of Native…

Topsy and Tim make new friends, follow a nature trail and even get to stay in their own tent.…

Adam Smith's landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the…

Whether you're travelling to New York for a weekend break or a week's business, this guide contains everything you need to…

Contains Italian words and phrases for travellers. This book includes basic grammar, a pronunciation guide and additional…

If you assume an average life expectancy of 85 years, and deduct the hours we spend daily on sleeping, shopping, eating,…

• Rok vydání 2006

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak…

Tells the story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with an introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi Bakha…

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A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and…

Chronicling the 13th-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign…

Winner of the National Book AwardRecommended by National Book Award Winner Jason Mott on the Today Show"Proof of Malinda…

• Rok vydání 1984

\nRandall Woodfield was every college girl\'s dream - and nightmare. He cruised an 800-mile-long northwestern highway, the…

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Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to…

This winner of the 2003 Michael Printz Award and the Carnegie Medal, told in dual narratives, takes the reader on a…

• Rok vydání 1878

In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his…

India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs…

Thirty years ago the author left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The…

Following one Alex-Li Tandem - a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised…

Tells a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns,…

On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before…

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Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's…

Showcases the evolution of the writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels", through his work at the…

An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. §§Originally written in…

In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail'…

A collection of stories of the author whose stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself -…

How close did Britain really come to invasion during this time? What were Hitler and Churchill's motives? And what was the…

A practical guide to the charms of the Gallic people - from their daily routines to their peerless gesticulations, from…

Features stories that explore the roots of love, murder and racial conflict. This book unlocks the concepts of history and…

• Rok vydání 2019

Italy's famous sights are all to be found here - St Peter's in Rome, Naples with Vesuvius smouldering in the background and…