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  • Shadow of the Silk Road

    by Colin Thubron ...

    $8.99 USD

  • To a Mountain in Tibet

    by Colin Thubron ...
    "A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted." —Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books"Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living, and I can't remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved by an author's outward journey inward." —Bob Shacochis, Boston GlobeNew York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Life at Full Tilt

    The Selected Writings of Dervla Murphy

    Edited by Ethel Crowley ...
    Between these covers we follow in the slipstream of the indefatigable Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy (1931–2022). Here we find descriptions of her beloved Afghanistan from her 1963 masterpiece Full Tilt, with accounts from the Peruvian Andes, of bicycling in South and East Africa and most recently of the journeys she made in the troubled territories of Palestine and Israel, published when she ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arabia Felix

    The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767

    by Thorkild Hansen ...
    Translated by James McFarlane, Kathleen McFarlane ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    Discover the riveting true story of the 18th-century expedition that left only one survivor in this lost classic of adventure and travel writing—with 33 drawings and maps.Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 6 men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Amur River

    Between Russia and China

    by Colin Thubron ...
    "A gripping read with fascinating political insight." (Sunday Times, London)"Elegant, elegiac and poignant...Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide... to the river, much of it along the border between these two powers at a time of rapid and tense reconfiguration of global geopolitics." (Washington Post)The most admired travel writer of our time—author of Shadow of ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mirror To Damascus

    by Colin Thubron ...
    A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author.Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides a rich and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, and is also a charming and witty personal record of an extraordinary city.In ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lost Heart of Asia

    by Colin Thubron ...

    $13.49 USD

  • True North: Travels in Arctic Europe

    by Gavin Francis ...
    Series series Canons
    Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers to the Vikings to modern polar adventurers, he travels through history and legend to find out why – and how – we are drawn to the North.Francis's encounters in the Arctic teach him as much about that ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Among the Russians

    by Colin Thubron ...
    "There is no travel writer working today in English who possesses such a remarkable combination of the observant and the lyric gifts--the most poetic of us all." — Jan MorrisThe first book in Thubron's Russian trilogy AMONG THE RUSSIANS, called "superb" by the New York Times Book Review, recounts Thurbon's 10,000 mile journey throughout half of Russia's cities and countryside.Here is a fresh ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Night of Fire

    A Novel

    by Colin Thubron ...
    Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants-including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is both ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In Siberia

    by Colin Thubron ...

    $14.99 USD

  • The Divine Supermarket

    Travels in Search of the Soul of America

    by Malise Ruthven ...
    'A perfect guide and crazy concept...It's a rocking good read and something of a pocket guide to hell.' - Time OutTravelling in a battered camping van, Malise Ruthven set out across America in search of the manifestations - often bizarre and sometimes terrifying - of its religious spirit.The journey took him from the dark woods of Puritan New England to neo-Nazi cults in the Rockies; from Mormons ... Read more

    $12.29 USD