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The Saddest Pleasure

Moritz Thomsen

• Paperback | Engels | Eland Classics
• Abruptly expelled from his farm in Ecuador at the age of sixty-two, Moritz Thomsen indulges in that saddest of pleasures - travel - taking a trip to B... Lees meer

Scum of the Earth

Arthur Koestler

• Paperback | Engels
• A new edition of Arthur Koestler's gripping tale of arrest, imprisonment, and subsequent escape to London from Nazi-occupied France. Lees meer

Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian

John Beames

• Paperback | Engels
• No one could have invented John Beames, whose vibrant and original memoirs were discovered by chance in an attic almost a century after they were writ... Lees meer

One People

Guy Kennaway

• Paperback | Engels | Eland classics
• First published in 1997, it would be hard to find a publisher today for a white, male expatriate writing about the realities of life in a Jamaican ham... Lees meer

In Ethiopia with a Mule

Dervla Murphy

• Paperback | Engels
• Dervla Murphy set out with her pack-mule Jock on a hazardous trek through Ethiopia's remote and hostile regions. Inspired by stories of Prester John a... Lees meer

A Cure for Serpents

Alberto Di Pirajno

• Paperback | Engels
• The autobiography of the Duke of Pirajno, who worked for eighteen years as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland. Lees meer

Dinner of Herbs

Carla Grissmann

• Paperback | Engels
• Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year in the `60s living in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 155 miles east of Ankara. The hospitali... Lees meer

The Last Leopard

David Gilmour

• Paperback | Engels
• David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of The Leopard, one of the great novels of the twentieth cen... Lees meer

Golden Earth

Norman Lewis

• Paperback | Engels
• Like most travelers in Burma, Norman Lewis fell in love with the land and its people. Although much of the countryside was under the control of insurg... Lees meer

The Narrow Smile

Peter Mayne

• Paperback | Engels | Eland Classics
• The Narrow Smile is a portrait of the Pathan and their highland home on either side of the Pakistan-Afghan frontier. Peter Mayne grew up in India, and... Lees meer

Marrakesh

• Paperback | Engels | Through Writers' Eyes
• This collection includes work from George Orwell and Winston Churchill and has enough wit, spice, glamour, humor, and cruelty to inspire the most bewi... Lees meer

The Waiting Land

Dervla Murphy

• Paperback | Engels
• Having settled in a village in the Pokhara Valley to work at a Tibetan refugee camp, Dervla Murphy makes her home in a tiny, vermin-infested room over... Lees meer

Central Asia Through Writers' Eyes

• Paperback | Engels
• Between these covers, the millennia of mercantile and cultural exchange along the Silk Route are celebrated by travellers and writers from Marco Polo ... Lees meer

A State of Fear

Andrew Graham-Yooll

• Paperback | Engels
• For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. All around him friends and aquaintances were 'disappea... Lees meer

A Plague of Caterpillars

Nigel Barley

• Paperback | Engels | Eland Classics
• When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for the village ... Lees meer

Life at Full Tilt

Dervla Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Eland Original
• Life at Full Tilt is a whirlwind tour of Dervla Murphy's travels. It begins in Spain in 1956, before her first book, and follows in her tracks for ove... Lees meer

A Ride to Khiva

Fred Burnaby

• Paperback | Engels
• A memoir of the author's 1875 trek across Central Asia to the newly conquered Uzbek city of Khiva. The Russians had seized the city two years earlier ... Lees meer

The Hill of Kronos

Peter Levi

• Paperback | Engels
• Peter Levi paints a radiant portrait of the Greece he came to know through a lifetime of exploration. As a young scholar he was fascinated by its ruin... Lees meer

Lebanon

Various

• Paperback | Engels | Through Writers' Eyes
• A reasoned anthology, a record of people who visited Lebanon from 1800 BC to the present; and of the Lebanese themselves, writing about their homeland... Lees meer

Jackdaw Cake

Norman Lewis

• Paperback | Engels
• Norman Lewis recounts the first half of his adventurous life with his dry, infectious, laconic wit. He takes us on a journey that transforms a stammer... Lees meer

Hampshire

• Paperback | Engels
• The rounded chalk hills of Hampshire have protected not only the ancient capital of Anglo-Saxon England but also the two-thousand-year-old arsenal-har... Lees meer

A Reed Shaken by the Wind

Gavin Maxwell

• Paperback | Engels
• This 1967 title is a portrait of the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq. Maxwell presents his impressions of these secluded people, along with numerous phot... Lees meer

A Moroccan Trilogy

Jerome Tharaud, Jean Tharaud

• Paperback | Engels | Eland classics
• The Tharaud brothers became unique eyewitnesses to history when summoned in 1917 from the Western Front to Morocco by the Resident-General of the Fren... Lees meer

Naples '44

Norman Lewis

• Paperback | Engels
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