Travel

Farewell to Salonica

City at the Crossroads
by Leon Sciaky

In this warm and moving memoir, Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the First World War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica (now Thessaloniki in Greece). Under the Ottoman Empire, the city’s diverse communities – Jews, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians – met, traded and lived alongside each other in a day-to-day atmosphere of mutual respect and tolerance. Salonica was also a point of contact between East and West, and Sciaky describes the impact of Western ‘machine civilisation’ on the older, more human ways of the Orient.

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Price: £14.40

Happy Landings!

Cartoons by Bosc, Chaval, Paul Flora and Loriot
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This is a journey around the world in 65 cartoons. To all rolling stones and armchair travellers alike the world-renowned artists Bosc, Chaval, Paul Flora and Loriot say: Happy Landings!

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Price: £5.55

In Search of Eden

The Course of an Obsession
by James Weir

Journeys to Turkey, Iraq, Ethiopia, Iran, Yemen and Bahrain, although not undertaken consciously by the author in search of Eden, James Weir confesses to have had a life-long fascination with the loss of Paradise and the dream to return.

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Price: £9.40

Hidden Macedonia

The Mystic Lakes of Ohrid and Prespa
by Chris Deliso

The tectonic lakes of Macedonia, Ohrid and Prespa, are among the most ancient and enthralling in the world, abundant in rare wildlife and the seat of mediaeval kingdoms, richly endowed with sacred shrines, mysteries and watery legends. In this fascinating account of a circular summertime journey with his wife and young son around the lakeshores, passing through three countries, Greece, Albania and the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, the author seeks out the spirit of the lakes, through encounters with fishermen, philosophers, archaeologists and snakes.

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Price: £11.40

Light Years

A Girlhood in Hawai’i
by Susanna Moore

Susanna Moore cannot remember her first encounter with the sea – it has always been part of her life. She grew up in Hawai’i in the 1950s in a paradise of colour and light, a five-day voyage away from the US mainland.

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Price: £10.40