A Short History of England
The Elephant Within Us
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Jerusalem: the Biography
The History of History: A Novel of Berlin
The Detour
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
Before I Go to Sleep
Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land
by: Sven Lindqvist
Category: Travel
Price: € 16,50
A meditative journey through the bleak deserts of Australia, and into the past. In 'Terra Nullius', Sven Lindqvist explores how racism against the Aboriginal peoples led to policies of cultural genocide, many acts of individual cruelty, and some of kindness.
"A brilliant and original writer as well ...
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
by: Noo Saro-Wiwa
Category: Travel
Price: € 24,75 >> € 22,00
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, ...
The Shakespeare Guide to Italy
by: Richard Paul Roe
Category: Travel
Price: € 21,45 >> € 19,95
Richard Paul Roe spent more than twenty years traveling the length and breadth of Italy to seek out and document the exact locations in which Shakespeare set his ten Italian plays. Using as his compass only the exact lines spoken by characters in each play, Roe succeeded in pinpointing the location of ...
500 Places to See Before They Disappear
by: Frommer's
Category: Travel
Price: € 26,40 >> € 16,00
500 thoughtfully chosen treasures that will inspire and enlighten travelers of all ages. This book enables passionate travelers and the eco-conscious to learn about and plan a visit to see rare cultural, historic, and natural places before they are irrevocably altered or even gone forever. Included are ...
Finding George Orwell in Burma
by: Emma Larkin
Category: Travel
Price: € 14,85
"Never less than fascinating" -- Sunday Times
"A superb account of life in Burma's exotic tragi-comedy" -- Observer
In one of the most brilliant and intrepid memoirs in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent travelling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, ...
An Iceberg as Big as Manhattan: Reporting from Science's New Frontlines
by: David Shukman
Category: Travel
Price: € 14,85 >> € 13,50
This title reports from science's new frontlines. 'An Iceberg as Big as Manhattan' is a gripping report on the new frontlines of science and the environment from the BBC's own correspondent, David Shukman. His skill is to get the big picture and to present it amid the everyday details of life and people.
And ...
The Glorious Adventure: Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus
by: Richard Halliburton
Category: Travel
Price: € 16,50
It was perhaps inevitable that Richard Halliburton, such a romantic, imaginative wanderer, would follow in the footsteps of another legendary traveller - Odysseus. Halliburton's second book, 'The Glorious Adventure', describes his journey through the Mediterranean in the shadow of his mythical hero. ...
Into the Wild
by: Jon Krakauer
Category: Travel
Price: € 14,85
By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits ...
Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern
by: Simon Winder
Category: Travel
Price: € 14,85 >> € 13,50
'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' - Sunday Times.
Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon ...
The Tao of Travel
by: Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
Price: € 23,10 >> € 21,00
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, "The Tao of Travel" enumerates 'The Contents of Some Travellers' Bags' and exposes ...