Sailing by Starlight

In Search of Treasure Island
by Alex Capus

Sailing by Starlight is part biography, part travel journal and part tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Capus takes the reader on an adventure on the South Seas in search of the very treasure made famous by Stevenson.

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Portrait of the Gulf Stream

In praise of currents
by Érik Orsenna

‘…a near seamless blend of travel, science and literary reportage, a peerless portrait of a force of nature.’ – Times Literary Supplement

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Beneš, Masaryk: Czechoslovakia

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Peter Neville

To be published on 28th July 2010 - the 90th anniversary of the favourable Teschen award to the Czechs by the Allied Powers. Tomáš Masaryk was hard at work within a month of the outbreak of war lobbying in Paris and London for an independent Bohemia, still a major component of the Austrian Empire within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, which would incorporate the predominantly Slovak regions of northern Hungary.

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Crossing Jerusalem

Journeys at the Centre of the World's Trouble
by Nicholas Woodsworth

Nicholas Woodsworth's Crossing Jerusalem is a travelogue which questions the beliefs and spiritual values within Jerusalem. Many of the themes he touches upon are sensitive and controversial, but the reaction Woodsworth intends to provoke is thought rather than antipathy.

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Damascus

Taste of a City
by Rafik Schami and Marie Fadel

From the author of The Dark Side of Love, comes an updated edition of Damascus, Taste of a City, now in paperback with new material - new recipes, new sectiona and an epilogue...

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Price: £6.40