Category Archives: Travel Guides
French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times
From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition. Here are today`s rising stars mingling with the great writers of past centuries: La Fontaine, Villon, du Bellay,
Poems of Paris
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, and includes a pantheon of French (and Francophone) poets – Ronsard, Deschamps, Villon, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Jacques Prevert, Aime Cesaire, Hedi Kaddour, to name but
Hip Hops: Poems about Beer
From Li Bai`s `Bring in the Ale` to Ted Kooser`s `Beer Bottle`; from Robert Burns`s` John Barleycorn` to Carol Ann Duffy`s `John Barleycorn` (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected here attest to humankind`s long and joyous (mostly) relationship with the world`s most popular alcoholic beverage. A surprising number of authors, and perhaps
Border Lines: Poems About Migration
Poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards and losses of migration.Each year, millions join the ranks of intrepid migrants who have reshaped societies throughout history. Most recently, Middle Eastern and African people have risked their lives to reach safety in Europe, while central Americans have fled north seeking asylum.
Sri Lankan Wildlife Bradt Guide
Sri Lanka is home to elephants, leopards, bears and water buffalo and boasts one of the highest species densities of marine mammals in the world. An ideal field guide and armchair read, this book is illustrated with colour photographs of species and includes maps charting animal habitats to aid identification. Bradt`s fully illustrated wildlife guides
Connemara Mollie – An Irish Journey on Horseback
Connemara Mollie ‘“ An Irish Journey on Horseback by Hilary Bradt is the moving account written with a humorous style, of the author’s long-distance ride through western Ireland in 1984.Bradt treks through Ireland’s Counties Galway, Mayo, Clare and Kerry with her Connemara pony called Mollie, to fulfil a childhood dream of a long horseback journey.
The Marsh Lions: The Story of an African Pride
The Marsh Lions by Brian Jackman, Jonathan and Angie Scott, is a reissue by Bradt of the 1982 wildlife classic, portraying the daily life of the lions, leopards and cheetahs in Kenya’s Masai Mara game reserve.During 5 years the authors followed the drama of life and death in the African plains. The striking and intimate
Fakirs, Feluccas and Femmes Fatales: Tales from an Incidental Traveller
Fakirs, Feluccas and Femmes Fatales offers everything its title promises and more. A warts-and-all account of author E.T. Laing’s travels, brief encounters and adventures from working in seventy countries, this title offers a kaleidoscope of landscapes, sounds, smells, politics, humour, dialogue and, above all, people.
Madagascar – The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in a Lost World
Madagascar ‘“ The Eighth Continent ‘“ Life, Death & Discovery in a Lost World by Peter Tyson takes the reader on a journey and offers comprehensive observations that new and familiar people with the island will love. Combining personal adventures with scientific facts and historical narrative, the author recalls his experience during four trips to
Dingle Peggy – Further Travels on Horseback through Ireland
The continuation of the journey on horseback through the west Ireland described in Connemara Mollie. With her replacement pony, Peggy, the author travels from the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, south down the coast of Co. Cork, before turning inland through Counties Waterford, Tipperary and Limerick. As with its predecessor, the story is both a
Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories
In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies; while John Cheever,
Trekking in Peru: 50 of the Best Walks and Hikes
This is the most comprehensive, user-friendly trekking guide to Peru available. Peru`s mountains offer the most varied and dramatic treks in South America with the added attraction of Pre-Columbian ruins along the way. Celebrating 40 years of Bradt, this unique guidebook is based on the Peru section of the very first Bradt guide. All the
Rome Stories
During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, the place holds an alternative significance as a realm of fantasy, aspiration and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same moment,
Madagascar Wildlife Bradt Guide
Lavishly illustrated and completely updated, this fourth edition of Bradt`s Madagascar Wildlife is a celebration of the island`s extraordinary flora and fauna, 90% of which is endemic. The pace of change in Madagascar`s biodiversity is staggering, over the past decade a new species of frog has been discovered at a rate of one every six
Berlin Stories
Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, `has always been a city of desperate modernity`, both in terms of urban architecture – largely a creation of the progressive 19th century, laid waste by World War II, temporary home of the infamous Wall – and in ways of living and behaving. As
Saki: Selected Stories
The Masterpieces of World Fiction series brings together the best-loved short stories by the great masters of the genre-from Chekov and Maupassant, Kipling and Wilde, to O. Henry and Saki and Tolstoy and Conrad. Thoughtfully compiled by the bestselling author Terry O` Brien, this series is a great way for readers to revisit old favourites
The Irresponsible Traveller: Tales of Scrapes and Narrow Escapes
Publishing to coincide with Bradt`s 40th anniversary, `The Irresponsible Traveller` is a light but edgy collection of travellers` tales. Travel writers and celebrities alike recount their exciting, and often dangerous, adventures which include being chased by a sea lion, accosted by Brazilian kidnappers and a midnight raid to free turtles on the Amazon. In over
Venice Stories
The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world`s storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier`s haunting `Don`t Look Now`, Anthony Trollope`s wartime romance `The Last Austrian Who Left Venice`, Vernon Lee`s spine-chilling `A Wicked Voice`, and a scene from `The Wings of
Prague Stories
The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends, and scenes from the city`s past and present, from the Jewish fable of the
Irish Poems
With its roots in the devotional verse of the early Christian church and the long lyric poems of the Irish bards, Irish poetry has a rich and robust tradition both of engagement and self-reflection. It has grappled long with politics and has provided the most eloquent response to Ireland`s turbulent history, mediating and mitigating histories
