Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Japanese Chronicles
Nicolas Bouvier was an image merchant and photographer as well as a writer. The Eland edition of “Japanese Chronicles” will be accompanied by many of his startling images of Japan. “The Japanese Chronicles” is a distillation of Bouvier`s lifelong quest for Japan and his many travels, so that the reader is able to discover the
A Pattern Of Islands
“A Pattern of Islands” is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant octopus. Beyond the hilarious
Morocco That Was
Apart from Walter Harris, until 1912 no foreigner had access to Morocco, which was closed to foreigners; its mountainous interior unexplored. Harris lived in Morocco for 35 years and as correspondent for The Times he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, melodramatic splendour. Harris was an
The Island That Dared – Journeys in Cuba
Award-winning travel writer Dervla Murphy’s journey into the heart of Cuba in The Island that Dared is a three-generation adventure into one of the Caribbean’s most fascinating islands. Accompanied by her daughter and grand-daughters, their adventure leads them into the hills and along the coast as they camp out on empty beaches beneath the stars
Japan through Writers` Eyes
From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-century traveller and poet Basho: the most recent addition of Eland`s through writers` eyes series brings together a chorus of voices from Japan and across the globe. Detailed introductions stemming from Elizabeth Ingram`s own experiences as a traveller,
A Month by the Sea
Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement and underwritten by an intense enjoyment of family life. During her “Month By The Sea”, Dervla develops an acute eye for the way
Turkish Coast – Through Writers` Eyes
Turkish Coast is an anthology of writings about Turkey’s south-western shore through the eyes of the authors, diarists and famous observers who have been there. Rich in antiquity and still a comparatively unspoilt corner of the world, the Turkish coast between Izmir and Antalya is an area of beauty and drama.The book is arranged thematically,
The Fields Beneath
A masterpiece of local history, by the Queen of the genre; Gillian Tindall has acquired a devoted readership through her lovingly researched works, such as the prize-winning “The House” by the Thames and “Celestine: Voices from a French Village”. A journey through time: from a scattering of cottages along a pre-roman horse track, to a
Galapagos – Through Writers` Eyes
Galapagos: The Enchanted Island through Writers’ Eyes is a compilation of human stories and tales from the island that gave birth to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Chapters include tales of pirates and buccaneers, real life Robinson Crusoes and Swiss Family Robinsons, the schemes of Spanish Kings, Inca Emperors and American filibusters, as well as snippets
Sultan in Oman
Winner of the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Outstanding Contribution to Travel WritingAn affectionate and atmospheric portrait of Oman under Sultan Said, the present Sultan Qaboos`s father, a country held in near medieval isolation.
People of Providence: A Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants
Over a period of eighteen months Tony Parker interviewed the residents of an ordinary housing estate in South London. He listened to an assorted mixture of personalities – including a vagrant, two policemen, an often-convicted fence who was the mother of five children, a pro-flogging magistrate, a local doctor, and a 75-year-old widower who spent
Voices Of Arabia
Even before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It developed wherever Arabic came to be spoken, from Damascus to Fez, Baghdad to Cairo, as well as in the Arabian heartland. This book takes us on a poetic journey through the classical age of Arabic poetry, from the years AD 600-1000. This collection
Lebanon – Through Writers` Eyes
This book is a record of the people who visited Lebanon from between 1800 BC to the last summer; and of the Lebanese themselves, writing about their homeland, their religions, their joys, their wars and their sorrows. The passages have been selected and presented by Ted Gorton and Andree Feghali Gorton. Ted first came to
Highlands & Islands
There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides. From its bleak mountains to its flower-filled meadows, from savage sea-cliffs to pure white beaches, it has inspired an equally varied oral heritage. There are the works of gentle scholar
Paris: Poetry of Place
Whether you`re a backpacker from Idaho on your first visit, or a cultural swallow on an annual migration to Paris, this pocket book will intoxicate and inspire, goad and guide. Unlike the grand city of public architecture and political achievement, the poetic tradition of Paris is personal, irreverent, sexy and invigorating. This collection delights in
Libyan Sands
“Libyan Sands” is unmistakably the work of an Englishman, a modest, machine- and desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war.
A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina`s nightmare
For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yool was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. All around him friends and aquaintances were `disappearing`. Although the slightest mistake might have caused his own disappearance, his didn`t shrink from getting first-hand experience of this war of terror. He attended clandestine guerrilla conferences, helped relatives trace the missing,
Palestine Papers
This book brings the forgotten pages of history back to passionate life. Doreen Ingrams has sieved through secret cabinet documents, Foreign and War office memorandum and their cryptic annotations to observe the creation of a Zionist homeland out of the Palestine Protectorate. Cock-up or conspiracy? Judge Curzon, Churchill, Weizmann, Blafour, TE Lawrence by their own
Wheels Within Wheels
In this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveler Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty years. She describes her determined childhood self – strong-willed and beguiled by books from the first – her intermittent formal education and the intense relationship of an only child with her parents, particularly her
Dales Way
The popular Dales Way long-distance footpath begins in Ilkley, West Yorkshire and runs for 84 miles (135km) to end in the Lake District, in Bowness-on-Windermere. It follows riverside paths along the River Wharf towards Ribblehead and the watershed of northern England, then meanders along the river valleys of Dentdale, the River Mint and the River
