Authors
- Inc. Berlitz International
Publication date: 2004-11-26
Dewey code: 491
RRP: £10.53
Price: £4.86
Review Czech Berlitz Travel Pack / Berlitz Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-02-01
RRP: £8.50
Price: £8.49
Review The Rough Guide to West African Gold (Rough Guides Reference Titles) / Rough Guides Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-05-05
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £45.95
Price: £60.95
Review Sahara / Chivers Audio Books:Michael Palin's personality is a combination of some very disparate elements, many of them displayed at their most attractive in Sahara. There's the friendly, avuncular manner; the easy-going charm that women find so attractive; and that vein of surrealistic, sardonic humour that is the legacy of his Monty Python days. All these characteristics combined to create the perfect host for the ambitious travel programmes with which he's latterly been associated. The shows (and the handsome companion books that invariably accompany them) avoid the sometimes over-serious approach of other presenters and show us some very exotic parts of the world filtered through Palin's very idiosyncratic vision. Audiences and readers can't get enough. Sahara gives us the latest of his epic voyages, and this one possibly represents the most arduous challenge of his career: across the massive and unforgiving Sahara desert. In this beautifully produced volume (studded with some eye-catching colour photographs), we are taken on a unique journey, as Palin reveals the Sahara to us as something considerably more than endless sand dunes. Facet by facet, Michael Palin uncovers a colourful and eccentric panoply of cultures, with chequered histories that stretch back to the dawn of time. Beginning (and ending) in Gibraltar, we are taken from the fabled realms of the ancient Egyptians to the Islamic republics of the present day, as Palin conjures up a journey that alternates between gallows humour and often considerable discomfort. Most of us will never experience the teeming nightlife of Dakar or travel down the river Niger to the fabled city of Timbuktu. [+]But Palin has done it for us, and this book (with or without the accompanying TV series) is a highly enjoyable way to relive that journey with him. -Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 2004-10-01
Dewey code: 494
RRP: £12.50
Price: £7.44
Review Travel Talk Turkish / Penton Overseas Inc:
Creator: James Bryce
Publication date: 2006-10-01
RRP: £45.50
Price: £45.50
Review From Paella to Porridge: A Farewell to Spain and a Scottish Adventure / Soundings Audio Books:
Publication date: 2003-10-30
RRP: £58.69
Price: £60.68
Review Pole to Pole / Chivers Audio Books: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.
Creator: Entrepreneur Magazine
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2004-04-14
Dewey code: 338
RRP: £35.99
Price: £17.30
Review How to Start a Bar/Tavern / Entrepreneur Press:
Dewey code: 495
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.85
Review Japanese: The New Traveler's Survival Kit (Travel Talk):
Creator: Edward Fox
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-15
RRP: £11.99
Price: £11.99
Review Scott of the Antarctic: The Diary of Captain Scott / Greenpark Media Ltd:
Authors
- Janet King
- Marie-Helene Correard
Publication date: 2003-05-01
Dewey code: 448.3421
Price: £13.00
Review Quick Take Off in French (Quick Take Off in Series) / Oxford University Press:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2005-04-28
Dewey code: 428
RRP: £26.44
Price: £21.19
Review Welcome Audio CD Set: English for the Travel and Tourism Industry (Cambridge Professional English) / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: William Roberts
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-09
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £53.99
Price: £57.68
Review A Walk in the Woods: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:Bill Bryson has made a living out of travelling and then writing about it. In The Lost Continent he re-created the road trips of his childhood; in Neither Here nor There he retraced the route he followed as a young backpacker traversing Europe. When this American transplant to Britain decided to return home, he made a farewell walking tour of the British countryside and produced Notes from a Small Island. Once back on American soil and safely settled in New Hampshire, Bryson once again hears the siren call of the open road-only this time it's a trail. The Appalachian Trail, to be exact. In A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson tackles what is, for him, an entirely new subject: the American wilderness. Accompanied only by his old college friend Stephen Katz, Bryson starts out one March morning in north Georgia, intending to walk the entire 2,100 miles to the trail's end atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. If nothing else, A Walk in the Woods is proof positive that the journey is the destination. As Bryson and Katz haul their out-of-shape, middle-aged bodies over hill and dale, the reader is treated to both a very funny personal memoir and a delightful chronicle of the trail, the people who created it, and the places it passes through. Whether you plan to make a trip like this one yourself one day or only care to read about it, A Walk in the Woods is a great way to spend an afternoon. [+]-Alix Wilber.
Publication date: 2005-08-26
RRP: £9.99
Price: £11.98
Review Green Oranges on Lion Mountain / Eye Books:
Publication date: 2007-06-01
RRP: £45.50
Price: £47.49
Review A Piano in the Pyrenees / ISIS Audio Books:
Dewey code: 430
RRP: £8.99
Price: £7.03
Review German (Travel Talk):
Creator: Charles Collingwood
Publication date: 2005-11-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £40.41
Review Everyman's England / Crimson Cats:
Publication date: 2002-11-28
RRP: £37.13
Price: £37.13
Review English for International Tourism: Intermediate Class (English for Tourism) / Longman:
Creator: Inc. Berlitz International
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2001-10-25
Dewey code: 458
RRP: £12.95
Price: £6.48
Review Berlitz Italian Travel Pack (Berlitz CD Pack) / Berlitz Publishing:
Publication date: 2005-01-01
RRP: £3.47
Price: £5.46
Review Childrens Travel Songs / Global Journey:
Creator: Patrick Lawlor
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-06-10
Dewey code: 973.7092
RRP: £17.49
Price: £11.47
Review Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America / Tantor Media, Inc:
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Czech Berlitz Travel Pack, The Rough Guide to West African Gold (Rough Guides Reference Titles), Sahara, Travel Talk Turkish, From Paella to Porridge: A Farewell to Spain and a Scottish Adventure, Pole to Pole, How to Start a Bar/Tavern, Japanese: The New Traveler's Survival Kit (Travel Talk), Scott of the Antarctic: The Diary of Captain Scott, Quick Take Off in French (Quick Take Off in Series), Welcome Audio CD Set: English for the Travel and Tourism Industry (Cambridge Professional English), A Walk in the Woods: Complete & Unabridged, Green Oranges on Lion Mountain, A Piano in the Pyrenees, German (Travel Talk), Everyman's England, English for International Tourism: Intermediate Class (English for Tourism), Berlitz Italian Travel Pack (Berlitz CD Pack), Childrens Travel Songs, Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America |
