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  • Far to Go and Many to Love

    People and Places

    de Lesley Blanch ...
    Series Libro 4 - Contemporary Classics
    “I love LB. WHAT a spirit. What courage. What class” – MIRANDA SEYMOURFar To Go and Many To Love: People and Places is the sequel to the memoirs of Lesley Blanch, published posthumously by Virago, On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life.The collection opens with an insightful introduction about her two great loves: émigré theatre director, Theodore Komisarjevsky, and twice-Goncourt-winning ... Leer más

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  • Istanbul

    de Orhan Pamuk ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire."Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World**A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

    Life on a Mediterranean Island

    de Lawrence Durrell ...
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet: "A superlative piece of . . . writing . . . rooted in the Mediterranean scene" ( Time).In 1953, as the British Empire relaxes its grip upon the world, the island of Cyprus bucks for independence. Some cry for union with Athens, others for an arrangement that would split the island down the middle, giving half to the Greeks and ... Leer más

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  • In Xanadu

    A Quest (Text Only)

    de William Dalrymple ...
    One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Emigrants

    de W. G. Sebald ...
    Traducido por Michael Hulse ...
    "A masterpiece."—Richard Eder, The New York Times.Published to enormous critical acclaim in the US, The Emigrants has been acclaimed as "one of the best novels to appear since World War II" (Review of Contemporary Fiction) and three times chosen as the 1996 International Book of the Year. The poignant and acclaimed novel about the beauty of lost things, while the protagonist traces the lives of ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD

  • Harem: The World Behind the Veil (25th Anniversary Edition)

    de Alev Lytle Croutier ...
    A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages.“I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” writes Alev Lytle Croutier. “People around me often whispered things about harems; my own grandmother and her sister had been brought up in one.”Drawing ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • In Xanadu

    de William Dalrymple ...
    William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan.At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kubla Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. As he and his companions travel ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • Hav

    de Jan Morris ...
    “Journey through a mystical country where everything is possible and easily arranged” in this 2-part travelogue set in a fictional Mediterranean city of dreams (Los Angeles Times).“A touching lover letter . . . to life itself”—featuring Last Letters from Hav, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Independent)Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Passenger to Teheran

    de Vita Sackville-West ...
    In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the Persian Gulf to Iraq and on through bandit-infested mountains to Teheran. She returned to England ... Leer más

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  • Istanbul (Deluxe Edition)

    Memories and the City

    de Orhan Pamuk ...
    Traducido por Maureen Freely ...
    From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction.Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader

    de Lawrence Durrell ...
    A collection of travel essays from the New York Times –bestselling author whose writing sparkles with "prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves" ( Time ).Few men have traveled as wisely as Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, he lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle. Over the following decades, he rambled aroun... ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • On the Shores of the Mediterranean

    de Eric Newby ...
    With his trademark charm and sharp wit, Newby leaves no stone unturned in his quest for wonderfully detailed and quirky knowledge to share with his reader. Insightful, hilarious and sheer fun, this is an adventure not to be missed, by Britain's best-loved travel guide, and father of the genre.'Why don't you start in Naples and go clockwise round the Mediterranean instead of dashing off in all ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD