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Pictures from Italy By: Dickens Charles Format: Paperback |
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Description:In 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novels to travel in Italy for almost a year. This thrilling travelogue is the......ISBN: 9780140434316 |
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South : The Endurance Expedition : Popular Penguins By: Ernest Shackleton Format: Paperback |
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Description:Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men...ISBN: 9780141037561 |
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Road to Oxiana The By: Byron Robert Introduction by: Colin Thubron Format: Paperback |
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Description:In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to...ISBN: 9780141442099 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: The Hunt for the Southern Continent By: Cook James Format: Paperback |
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Description:On the second of his three great voyages, James Cook (1728-1779) took on the most frightening of all his...ISBN: 9780141025438 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Borneo, Celebes, Aru By: Wallace Alfred Russel Format: Paperback |
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Description:Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes...ISBN: 9780141025483 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Escape from the Antarctic By: Shackleton Ernest Format: Paperback |
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Description:Although Shackleton's (1874-1922) epic expedition to reach the South Pole was a complete disaster, it was rescued from......ISBN: 9780141025520 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Can-Cans, Cats & Cities of Ash By: Twain Mark Format: Paperback |
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Description:One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Mark Twain's (1835-1910)...ISBN: 9780141025568 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes By: Dampier William Format: Paperback |
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Description:Dampier's (1651-1715) adventures and writing inspired both Robinson Crusoeand Gulliver's Travels,but in his...ISBN: 9780141025414 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: A Journey To the End of the Russian Empire By: Chekhov Anton Format: Paperback |
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Description:Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904)...ISBN: 9780141025506 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Fighting in Spain By: Orwell George Format: Paperback |
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Description:For an entire generation, the Spanish Civil War was the ultimate test of commitment and courage as Communism...ISBN: 9780141025537 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Snakes with Wings & Gold-Digging Ants By: Herodotus Format: Paperback |
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Description:So much of what we know of the Ancient World comes from Herodotus (c.490 BC - c.420 BC) that he will always...ISBN: 9780141025339 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Adventures in the Rocky Mountains By: Bird Isabella Format: Paperback |
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Description:Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new...ISBN: 9780141025346 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: From the Meadows of Gold By: Mas'udi Format: Paperback |
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Description:Much of his work has vanished, but Mas'udi's (c.890-c.956) matchless The Meadows of Goldhas almost...ISBN: 9780141025353 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: The Shipwrecked Men By: Cabeza de Vaca Alvar Nunez Format: Paperback |
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Description:The original disaster narrative, The Shipwrecked Menby Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1492-c.1560) tells how a...ISBN: 9780141025360 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: In the Heart of the Amazon Forest By: Bates Walter Henry Format: Paperback |
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Description:One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvellous writer, Bates' (1825-1892)...ISBN: 9780141025391 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: The Customs of the Kingdom of India By: Polo Marco Format: Paperback |
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Description:As Marco Polo (1254-1324) returned home across the Indian Ocean, after years in the service of Genghis Khan,...ISBN: 9780141025407 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Life on the Golden Horn By: Montagu Mary Wortley Format: Paperback |
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Description:Travelling through the wartorn Balkans with her husband on what proved to be a wholly useless diplomatic...ISBN: 9780141025421 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Sold as a Slave By: Equiano Olaudah Format: Paperback |
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Description:In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West...ISBN: 9780141025445 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Jaguars & Electric Eels By: von Humboldt Alexander Format: Paperback |
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Description:A great, innovative and restless thinker, the young Humboldt (1769-1859) went on his epochal journey to the...ISBN: 9780141025452 |
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Penguin Great Journeys: Across the Empty Quarter By: Thesiger Wilfred Format: Paperback |
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Description:Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for himself in a world ever more hemmed in by...ISBN: 9780141025490 |
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