Authors
- Inc. Berlitz International
Publication date: 2004-11-26
Dewey code: 439
RRP: £13.68
Price: £6.71
Review Dutch Berlitz Travel Pack / Berlitz Publishing:
Creator: Saskia Wickham
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2008-05-31
RRP: £13.00
Price: £3.99
Review A Handful of Honey: Among the Palm Groves of North Africa / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Authors
- Inc Penton Overseas; Lonely Planet Publications
RRP: £8.99
Price: £39.95
Review Italian (Travel Talk) / Penton Overseas Inc:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 799.12
RRP: £14.46
Price: £9.44
Review Dream Fish and Road Trips: Fly-fishing Tales from Alaska, Montana, and Beyond / American Media International LLC:
Publication date: 2003-08-01
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.99
Review McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:The premise of Pete McCarthy's first book is that you should never pass up the opportunity of having a drink in a bar that shares your name. There is clearly more to this plan than the obvious publicity stunt, since it seems to work with books as well-my favourite author is Cormac McCarthy and, after reading this hilarious, informed and intelligent book, I am tempted to buy books by every other McCarthy around. Born in Warrington, Pete McCarthy decides to go back to rural Ireland, to rediscover his Irishness. The feeling that you have heard this sort of thing all before doesn't last for long. There is a serious writer struggling to make himself heard above the many excellent jokes and this is what makes McCarthy's book so distinctive. Although he can crack Brysonesque quips with the best of them ("I've often wondered how businessmen used to cope before [mobile phones] were invented. How did they tell their wives they were on the train?"), and take us through hilarious and largely drunken set-pieces, McCarthy is equally at home discussing Celtic standing stones and the potato famine. The resulting book is a wonderful debut. By the end, we, too, would like to move to Ireland. You sense that McCarthy has such a genuine feeling for Ireland, Irishness and Irish history that he can only temper his writing with side-splitting humour. [+]In this way, hisfirst book successfully embodies much of what it is to be Irish. -Toby Green.
Edition: Com/Bklt
Publication date: 2003-09-26
Dewey code: 495
RRP: £10.03
Price: £4.93
Review Thai Berlitz Travel Pack (Berlitz Travel Packs) / Berlitz Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-03-06
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.90
Review Moondust (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Kati Nicholl
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-01-05
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.55
Review The Motorcycle Diaries / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 2005-10-06
RRP: £13.00
Price: £7.80
Review A Castle in Spain / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: Stephen Fry
Publication date: 2002-10-07
RRP: £40.00
Price: £99.99
Review Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2 - Audio CD Travel Bag) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:
Authors
- Inc. Berlitz International
Publication date: 2003-11-28
Dewey code: 492.483421
RRP: £13.68
Price: £7.71
Review Hebrew Berlitz Travel Pack / Berlitz Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-05-04
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.24
Review A Piano in the Pyrenees: The Ups and Downs of an Englishman in the French Mountains / Random House Audiobooks:
Edition: 1 Com/Bklt
Publication date: 2007-07-15
Dewey code: 458
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.30
Review Italian Berlitz for Your Trip / Berlitz Publishing:
Creator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Publication date: 2006-11-13
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.35
Review Scott and Amundsen / CSA WORD:
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2003-08-04
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.87
Review Pole to Pole: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:Having circumnavigated the globe from west to east in Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin proceeded to stretch even his endurance with his next journey, travelling due south from the North Pole, arriving five months later at the southernmost point of the globe, the South Pole. The result is Pole to Pole, Palin's account of his extraordinary journey between July and December 1991, passing through 17 countries from Greenland and the former Soviet Union in the north to Kenya, South Africa and Chile in the south. From the frozen wastes of both poles, to the scorching heat of Africa, Pole to Pole is a travelogue of bizarre extremes. Palin revels in the surrealism of it all as he travels through a range of vastly different European and African communities undergoing massive social and political upheavals in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Palin's shrewd observations are as ever interspersed with his eye for the weird and the comical, as he meets Santa Claus and Lenin, goes shopping for camels in Omdurman, and makes a final hectic dash to the South Pole via Chile. It's all quite exhausting! -Jerry Brotton.
Edition: Com/Pap Un
Publication date: 2006-12-01
Dewey code: 495
RRP: £10.03
Price: £5.36
Review Vietnamese Berlitz CD Travel Pack (Berlitz Travel Pack) / Berlitz Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-06-05
RRP: £25.00
Price: £6.98
Review Geldof in Africa / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2007-02-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £1.40
Review In Search of Elvis / Hachette Audio:
Publication date: 2004-10-04
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.75
Review Himalaya / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Andrew Sachs
Publication date: 2006-05-15
RRP: £9.53
Price: £9.53
Review Bitter Lemons of Cyprus / CSA WORD:While Cyprus is often touted as a tourist destination, the origins of the prolonged war between the island's Greek and the Turkish communities are less well known. In Bitter Lemons of Cyprus-first published in 1957-Lawrence Durrell blends the story of beginning a new life in this beautiful place with an account of the conflict's beginnings. It is a narrative that retains political relevance today. The book starts out like something by Peter Mayle or Chris Stewart, a forerunner of the "good life abroad" genre. Durrell is a hard-up writer looking for Mediterranean peace and a stunning old house-Cyprus obliges. But circumstances and Durrell's poetic genius ensure that the book is far more than a glib chronicle of hilarious events and eccentric neighbours. These exist in plenty, and Durrell writes about them with zest and great wit, but slowly he gets drawn into the unfolding tragedy of Cyprus's battle for self-determination. The revolt ignites, and Durrell's tranquil life is shattered. His stay on Cyprus becomes one of great sadness, which he communicates with restrained fury as he describes the political transformations and paradoxes that overtake the island. In his poetic and loving descriptions of places and people-most of them remarkably steadfast in the face of political convulsions-there is an empathy and an attention to detail which provides a poignant memorial to a life which, it becomes clear, was shattered as much by the indolence of men in grey suits as by the violent spirits of the hills. [+]-Toby Green.
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Dutch Berlitz Travel Pack, A Handful of Honey: Among the Palm Groves of North Africa, Italian (Travel Talk), Dream Fish and Road Trips: Fly-fishing Tales from Alaska, Montana, and Beyond, McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland, Thai Berlitz Travel Pack (Berlitz Travel Packs), Moondust (BBC Audio), The Motorcycle Diaries, A Castle in Spain, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2 - Audio CD Travel Bag), Hebrew Berlitz Travel Pack, A Piano in the Pyrenees: The Ups and Downs of an Englishman in the French Mountains, Italian Berlitz for Your Trip, Scott and Amundsen, Pole to Pole: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection), Vietnamese Berlitz CD Travel Pack (Berlitz Travel Pack), Geldof in Africa, In Search of Elvis, Himalaya, Bitter Lemons of Cyprus |
