Resultaten gefilterd op "Tauris Parke"

Seven League Boots

Richard Halliburton

• Paperback | Engels
• 'I had been commissioned to go anywhere in the world I wished and write whatever pleased me. My only orders were to move fast, visit strange places, t... Lees meer

The Man Who Wasn't There

Richard Bradford

• Hardcover | Engels
• Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non... Lees meer

Storm on Horseback

John Freely

• Paperback | Engels
• Who are the Turks and where did they come from? The successive empires that they created in a whirlwind of conquests from China to North Africa led on... Lees meer

The Last Storytellers

Richard Hamilton

• Paperback | Engels
• Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa... Lees meer

Reading Vasari

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book explores the rich literary character and rhetorical strategies of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Archit... Lees meer

Love in Bloomsbury

Frances Partridge

• Paperback | Engels
• The Bloomsbury Group was as well known for its love affairs as for the work that was produced by its members. Of all the romantic entanglements, the l... Lees meer

The South American Diaries

John Hopkins

• Paperback | Engels | Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• "Now moving swiftly southwards through thorn and cactus country--cattle country--towards real heat and, perhaps, renewed creativity." While writing a ... Lees meer

Land of Eagles

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

• Paperback | Engels
• Albania is the least-known and least developed country in Europe. It has a long, rich and troubled past, characterised by unrest and isolationism. Tod... Lees meer

Vita

Victoria Glendinning

• Paperback | Engels
• The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made ... Lees meer

The Occult Roots of Nazism

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

• Paperback | Engels
• Over half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich the complexities of Nazi ideology are still being unravelled. This text is a serious attempt t... Lees meer

Sardinia

Edward Burman

• Paperback | Engels
• An exploration of Sardinia's rich history and culture, featuring shipwrecks, ancient castles and underwater ruins. Tourism in Sardinia is booming, yet... Lees meer

Vanessa Bell

Frances Spalding

• Paperback | Engels
• Vanessa Bell is central to the history of the Bloomsbury Group, yet until this authorised biography was written, she largely remained a silent and ins... Lees meer

Strolling Through Rome

Mario Erasmo

• Paperback | Engels
• Rome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousand five hundre... Lees meer

Land of the Turquoise Mountains

Cyrus Massoudi

• Paperback | Engels
• For Cyrus Massoudi, a young Britishborn Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty years ago was a place wholly unknown to him. Wanti... Lees meer

Tangier

Richard Hamilton

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Tangier, the Moroccan novelist Mohamed Choukri wrote, 'everything is surreal and everything is possible.' In this intimate portrait of a city, the ... Lees meer

The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran

Jonathan Tucker

• Paperback | Engels
• Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network... Lees meer

Strolling Through Istanbul

Hilary Sumner-Boyd, John Freely

• Paperback | Engels
• 'The best travel guide to Istanbul' - The Times Practical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story o... Lees meer

The Mint

T E Lawrence

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though methodical and... Lees meer

The Kingdom of Women

Choo Waihong

• Paperback | Engels
• In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the "Kingdom of Women," where a small tribe called the Mosuo live... Lees meer

Perseus in the Wind

Freya Stark

• Paperback | Engels
• Written just after the Second World War, Perseus in the Wind (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya ... Lees meer

Siren Land

Norman Douglas

• Paperback | Engels
• Norman Douglas, one of the 20th century's great travellers in Italy, was for most of his life inextricably, passionately, connected to the Bay of Napl... Lees meer

The Land Beyond

Leon McCarron

• Paperback | Engels
• There are many reasons why it might seem unwise to walk, mostly alone, through the Middle East. That, in part is, is exactly why Leon McCarron did it.... Lees meer

Sicily

Andrew Edwards, Suzanne Edwards

• Hardcover | Engels | Literary Guides for Travellers
• Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years. A bounty prized by invaders from the G... Lees meer

In the Shadow of Vesuvius

Jordan Lancaster

• Paperback | Engels
• This is a sparkling portrait of Naples, and the definitive companion for anyone seeking to delve beneath its surface. Naples is an Italian city like n... Lees meer