One of the great works of mountaineering literatureWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOE SIMPSONIn 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000…

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• Rok vydání 2016

One of China's most important novelists tackles the country's great remaining taboo -- the Great Famine, in which at least…

FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF STONER AND REVOLUTIONARY ROAD COMES REUNIONReunion is a little-known novel. Middle-class Hans is…

Tells a story of the narrator, his son Chris and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California profoundly…

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• Počet stran 183
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• Rok vydání 2011

Kniha "Journey to the Centre of the E" spadá do žánru Cizojazyčná literatura. Autorem je Jules Verne. Kniha je brožovaná.…

The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons'…

British soldiers patrol the streets, and bullets and bombs are a nightly occurrence. Caught up in the fervour and unrest…

Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy.…

Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. Back home, his mother…

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In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother…

Grossman tells the stories of those people entwined with Ivan's fate: his cousin Nikolay, a scientist who never let his…

Set in the bohemian cafe society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the…

'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' -…

It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled…

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As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a…

A House in Corfu is the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth, still astonishingly unspoilt, on the west coast…

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small…

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Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original…

Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey…

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the…

For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers. His…

Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to…

Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while.…

Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop was leading guided walks at Nenthead, one of a network of `model' villages which sprang…

Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither…

Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and…

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These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with…

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's…

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. His fascinating attempt to capture…

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind What begins as the record of a…

Peter Robb's journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern…

The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression - an invitation…

He wanted particularly to visit the Georgian mountain tribes - Tush, Khevsurs, Ratchuelians and Svans - to discover if they…

TOP TEN BESTSELLERMount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Having recently…

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXSomerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of…

**Shortlisted for the 2017 Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards****Shortlisted for the 2018 Fortnum & Mason Food Book…

In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a…

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How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy? When Tim Parks first moved to…

It sounds out the complex and ambivalent terrain of early motherhood - its anxieties and claustrophobias as well as its…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher…

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'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. Through winter frosts and summer dawns, from horse…

A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly…

During their childhood years in the Kenya Highlands of the 1950s, three girls from vastly different backgrounds become blood…

• Rok vydání 1994

Taken from the definitive edition of Owen's work, and containing material unavailable to other editions, this selection has…

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In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long…

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LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017`This is travel writing at its best.' Katherine Norbury, Observer An Observer Book of…

Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its…

`I remember again / the corridor / of the labour ward // and that woman / sitting weeping / with her man // having given…