| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Category: |
Travel |
| Reading Level: | very good |
In slipcase
| Author: | A. H. and A. W. Reed (eds) |
| Category: |
Nautical |
| Reading Level: | very good |
Epsom trust plate inside cover
| Author: | John Van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker (eds) |
| Category: |
Natural History |
| Reading Level: | very good |
This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia), which led him to come independently to t... read more
| Author: | Christina Lamb |
| Category: |
Media |
| Reading Level: | very good |
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells... read more
| Author: | Dougal Robertson |
| Category: |
Sailing |
| Series: | Sailing Classics |
| Reading Level: | very good |
After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, and rations for only three days, they used every survival technique they could as they ba... read more
| Author: | William Dalrymple |
| Category: |
Travel |
| Reading Level: | very good |
Three brothers from a remote village in the Himalayas are driven by poverty to become monks. One becomes a famous masked dancer; the second an accomplished player of the Tibetan temple trumpet; and the third a great Buddhi... read more
Inscription on half title
| Author: | Edward Gibbon Wakefield |
| Category: |
History |
| Series: | Everyman's Library No. 828 Travel |
| Reading Level: | very good |
Epsom Trust plate inside cover, name on front endpaper, upper spine edge bumped, dustjacket edgewear
| Author: | V. S. Naipaul |
| Category: |
Travel |
| Reading Level: | good |
No dustjacket, name on title page
| Author: | Susan Whitfield |
| Category: |
Travel |
| Reading Level: | very good |
In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many... read more
