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The Crown of Columbus
A novel from Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, winner of America’s prestigious National Book Award for Fiction, 2012. Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his …
The Ra Expedition
Borrowed Finery
Born in the 1920s to bohemian parents, Paula Fox was left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage. Rescued by her grandmother and cared for by a poor minister, her parents began to …
The Danakil Diary
The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now considered to be the greatest living explorer. The Danakil Diary is the account of two journeys Thesiger made …
Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter
The Queen’s Conjuror
Based on Dee's secret diaries which record his experiments with the occult, Woolley's book tells the story of one man's struggle to come to terms with the fundamental dichotomy of …
From the Holy Mountain
The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu (‘one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years’ – …
The Accursed Mountains
The remarkable tale of a series of journeys through remote, extraordinary Albania in the brief period between Communism and anarchy before it was again closed to Western …
The Life of My Choice
In this autobiography, Wilfred Thesiger highlights the people who most profoundly influenced him and the events which enabled him to lead the life of his choice. An explorer of …
Travels in an Old Tongue
Studying in Lampeter, Dyfed and learning Welsh, Pamela Petro found it infuriating that whenever she stumbled with her Welsh, the locals would always revert to English. She decided …