First Russia, Then Tibet (Penguin Travel Library)
By: Robert Byron
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1933, this text is an account of Robert Byron's travels in Russia, India and Tib…
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1. Great Mutiny: India 1857
By: Christopher Hibbert
3.99
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
'By far the best single-volume description of the mutiny yet written' - "Economist". A beautifully … read more
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2. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
3. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
By: William Dalrymple
3.99
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
William Dalrymple has proved himself to be one of the most perceptive and enjoyable travel writers … read more
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"Hindu civilisation is the only great classical culture to survive intact from the ancient world, and at temples such as Madurai one can still catch glimpses of festivals and practices that were seen …"-William Dalrymple, The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
4. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
5. Kim
By: Rudyard Kipling , None
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and … read more
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6. Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A DANGEROUS NEW TWIST IN THE GREAT GAME In this gripping narrative Peter Hopkirk tells how Lenin an… read more
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- russia
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7. Tortilla Flat
By: John Steinbeck
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more
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9. Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir
By: Dervla Murphy
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Hardcover
Dervla Murphy spent eight months in Transylvania - and beyond - sharing the everyday lives of ordin… read more
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10. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
11. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By: Michael B. Oren
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Eve… read more
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12. On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India
By: Dervla Murphy
3.74
Format: None pages,
From Bombay to the hippy beaches of Goa and on to the tropical tip of India, travelling by boat and… read more
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13. Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.71
Format: 192 pages,
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14. Pompeii
By: Robert Harris
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
With his trademark elegance and intelligence Robert Harris recreates a world on the brink of disast… read more
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15. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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16. Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia and the Peloponnese
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.93
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
In Mediterranean Winter, Kaplan, bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts, relives an austere journey he… read more
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17. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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18. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more
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19. The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba
By: Dervla Murphy
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba in the company of Dervla Murphy, her daughter, and t… read more
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20. The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
By: Paul Theroux
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Award-winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboardThe Old Patagonian Express by Train thro… read more
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21. The Flight of Ikaros: Travels in Greece During a Civil War
By: Kevin Andrews
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
"One of the great and lasting books about Greece." --Patrick Leigh Fermor In 1947, at the age of tw… read more
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22. Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
By: Evan S. Connell
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapa… read more
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23. Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances, #2)
By: Alexandre Dumas , David Coward , Auguste Maquet
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.' Twenty Years After(1845), the sequel to The Three … read more
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24. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
25. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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26. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
27. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
28. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
29. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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30. Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-… read more
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31. First Russia, Then Tibet (Penguin Travel Library)
By: Robert Byron
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1933, this text is an account of Robert Byron's travels in Russia, India and Tib… read more
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