The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels (Stark Freya)(Paperback)

The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels (Stark Freya)(Paperback)

Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only a

Valleys of the Assassins - A John Murray Journey (Stark Freya)(Paperback / softback)

The travel classic by intrepid explorer Freya Stark, relating her journeys through the infamous 'Valleys of the Assassins' alone in the 1930s. A John Murray

Death in the Woods and Other Stories (Anderson Sherwood)(Paperback)

Still fresh and strikingly contemporary, the stark realism of these stories carefully explores the dreams and emotions of Sherwood Anderson's unforgettable characters. In Death in the Woods, we travel deep into the heart of America as Anderson saw it, to find an introspective man, in a desolate

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations (Carr Nicholas)(Paperback)

With razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade's worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy is 'Carr's best

The Ming Storm: An Assassin's Creed Novel (Leisheng Yan)(Paperback)

The Ming dynasty becomes a battleground for the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Order of the Templars in this blockbuster action novel from a previously unexplored part of the beloved Assassin's Creed universe. China, 16th century. The Assassins are gone. Zhang Yong, the relentless leader of the

Stark Naked - The Autobiography of Graham Stark (Stark Graham)(Paperback / softback)

First paperback edition of the hilarious autobiography of Graham Stark, one of the great all-rounders of British comedy, an actor in 99 films and a celebrity

Gulliver's Travels: And Verses on Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback)

'Gulliver's Travels' describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the

Perseus in the Wind: A Life of Travel (Stark Freya)(Paperback)

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 Stark's writings. She muses on the seasons, the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day, the smell of the earth after rain,

Travels in the South of France (Stendhal)(Paperback)

Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South of France provides an illuminating perspective on this popular region and the phenomenon of tourism in

The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices (Shepherd William)(Pevná vazba)

Weaving together the accounts of the ancient historian Herodotus with other ancient sources, this is the engrossing story of the triumph of Greece over the mighty Persian Empire. The Persian War is the name generally given to the first two decades of the period of conflict between the Greeks and

Shadow Scale (Hartman Rachel)(Paperback / softback)

As Seraphina travels the Southlands in search of the other half-breeds to help in the war effort, the dragon General Comonot and his Loyalists fight against the upstart Old Guard - with the fate of Goredd and the other human countries hanging in the balance. The gripping sequel to the bestselling

Railways and Industry in the Tondu Valleys: Bridgend to Treherbert (Hodge John)(Pevná vazba)

The book begins with a history of the industrial development of the Tondu Valleys, including the succession of great industrialists who led the way in the area. This is followed by a chapter on the position of the Tondu Valleys in the South Wales Coalfield with colliery and colliery company

The Great Code the Bible and Literature (Frye Northrop)(Paperback)

An examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively presents the Bible as a unique text distinct from all other epics and sacred writings. 'No one has set forth so clearly, so subtly, or with such cogent

In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch (Zada John)(Paperback)

Freya (Quinn Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship... Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel

Millennium - The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom (Holland Tom)(Paperback / softback)

* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year

Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver meets some extraordinary people and remarkable creatures. From a race of miniature folk to some surprisingly gentle giants and wise horses, Gulliver sees society from many different perspectives. Back

To The End of the Land (Grossman David)(Paperback / softback)

As they sleep out in the hills, ford rivers and cross valleys, Ora recounts, step by step and word by word, the story of her son's birth, life and possible death, in one mother's magical, passionate and heartbreaking attempt to keep her son safe from

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings (Pope Alexander)(Paperback)

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics. Alexander Pope was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose

The Book of Marvels and Travels (Mandeville John)(Paperback)

In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. Written in the fourteenth century, the Book is a captivating blend of fact and fantasy, an extraordinary

Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories (Henry O.)(Paperback / softback)

O. Henry was a master of the short story and one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century. This selection of tales from across his writing career ranges from New York apartments to the cattle-lands of Texas, taking in con men, clerks, hustlers, shop assistants, tramps and

Selected Poems (Rumi)(Paperback / softback)

Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and

Men and the Fields (Bell Adrian)(Paperback)

Adrian Bell's travels through East Anglia and lowland Britain capture the character of the countryside before modern agriculture altered the landscape and changed forever the way we eat and

The Rubiyt of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian (Khayyam Omar)(Paperback)

A repository of subversive, melancholic and existentialist themes and ideas, the rubaiyat (quatrains) that make up the collected poems attributed to the 12th century Persian astronomer Omar Khayyam have enchanted readers for centuries. In this modern translation, complete with critical introduction