Travel Writing (Thompson Carl)(Paperback)

Travel Writing (Thompson Carl)(Paperback)

An increasingly popular genre - addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics - travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown.In this volume, Carl Thompson: introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions and

The Best American Travel Writing 2019 (Wilson Jason)(Paperback)

An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing (Clarke Robert)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken

Travel Write: Select Entries from 20 Years of the Bradt Travel-Writing Competition (Dillow Celia)(Paperback)

Tao of Travel (Theroux Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A compendium of travel writing from a master traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, it celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped the author, as a reader and a

Just Another Mountain: A Memoir of Hope (Douglas Sarah Jane)(Paperback)

Shortlisted for Travel Memoir Book of the Year, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 / Winner - GOLD in Personality of the Year, SILVER in The Extra Mile Award as well as SILVER in Book of the Year all in The Great Outdoor Awards 2019 'This uplifting memoir is testament that in life there are

The Best American Travel Writing 2021 (Lakshmi Padma)(Paperback)

'The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture,' writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, 'and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space.' The essays in this

Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Prentiss Sean)(Paperback)

Whatever genre you are writing in - whether it's travel writing, memoir or sports journalism - this book will show you how you can improve your craft and your creative nonfiction writing. Bringing together in one accessible volume advice by two widely published writers and teachers and an anthology

Note Speller: A Music Writing Book (Thompson John)(Paperback)

(Willis). Thompson's popular Note Speller includes drills in notation and musical rudiments for the piano student. Notes are presented so that learning to read notes goes hand-in-hand with the student's piano

Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler (Spalding Lavinia)(Paperback)

Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert's bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love) to write one's own memoir; the second, an explosion of social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to document and share their

AA Gill is Away (Gill Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of travel writing by Britain's funniest and most feared

Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers (Fiennes Peter)(Paperback)

A Guardian Travel Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 'The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I started.' Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of twelve inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through

Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis (Thompson Emma)(Paperback)

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris.'All power to this amazing project.' JOANNE HARRIS'Makes sense of the climate crisis in a whole

African Trilogy (Matthiessen Peter)(Paperback / softback)

This volume contains three pieces of travel writing by Peter Matthiessen, who joined a number of expeditions to Africa in the 1970s and 1980s - 'The Tree Where Man Was Born', 'African Silences' and 'Sand Rivers'. The book contains an introduction by the

Suffolk Coast Walk (Caton Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Combining travel writing with a walking guide, Suffolk Coast Walk provides a wonderful insight into this fascinating county and is the companion book to Essex Coast Walk by the same

Isolarion - A Different Oxford Journey (Attlee James)(Paperback / softback)

A travel writing classic, with a new preface by the author and an afterword by Geoff

Wordtamer: Activities to Inspire Creative Thinking and Writing (Waite Judy)(Paperback)

Imagine a funfair in the classroom...invite dragons to school...let pupils travel through time!Written by award-winning children's author Judy Waite, Wordtamer offers over fifty ideas for exciting, innovative writing activities and creative workshops. The book explores how authors actually work

Adrift - A Secret Life of London's Waterways (Babbs Helen)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful piece of nature / travel writing akin to Robert MacFarlane or Richard

Soft City - Picador Classic (Raban Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

One of the classics of travel writing, this is a prescient exploration of the individual's relationship with urban

Among the Believers - An Islamic Journey (Naipaul V. S.)(Paperback / softback)

An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic

The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback)

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left

Seven Years in Tibet (Harrer Heinrich)(Paperback / softback)

A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World

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

On War (Clausewitz Carl Von)(Paperback)

'War is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to our will' Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent system of political thought