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£18.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780300244151 | ISBN 10: 0300244150
A writer’s travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River—exploring the long conflict over water supply.
Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has diverted the River Jordan via pipes a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786855312 | ISBN 10: 1786855313
Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer.
Travel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visit. But what happens whe ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784535704 | ISBN 10: 1784535702
For Cyrus Massoudi, a young British born Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty years ago was a place wholly unknown to him. Wanting to make sense of his roots and piece together the divided, divisive and deeply contradictory puz ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781841624754 | ISBN 10: 1841624756
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, war reporters rushed to publish accounts of the uprising. Tom Chesshyre took a different approach – he jumped on a plane and became the first to return to the region as a tourist. The result is the fascinating, st ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780140455076 | ISBN 10: 0140455078
In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking custo ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848851924 | ISBN 10: 1848851928
Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored its vast hinterlands. In 1934, she made her first journey to the Hadhramaut in what is now Yemen - the first woman to do so alone. E ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844672332 | ISBN 10: 1844672336
Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a city’s inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of its streets and stories, so ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781861978998 | ISBN 10: 1861978995
When Raja Shehadeh first started hill walking in Palestine in the late 1970s he was not aware that he was travelling through a vansihing landscape. The hills would have seemed familiar to Christ - until the day concrete was poured over the flora and ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780719597404 | ISBN 10: 0719597404
Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia.For the Classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieva ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141015958 | ISBN 10: 0141015950
In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap dope.
Since the Summer of Love, the coun ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904955351 | ISBN 10: 1904955355
This timely portrait of Lebanon exposes the fault lines that underlie the current crisis in the Middle East, and charts the country’s attempts to rebuild a fragile peace after its long civil war and recent conflict with Israel.
Part reportag ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780907871842 | ISBN 10: 0907871844
The historical wealth of Syria is triumphantly visible and diverse. It is one of the best-kept secrets of the passionate Mediterranean traveller. That it is also a remarkably hospitable country, where the way of life is still intimately engaged with ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571218332 | ISBN 10: 0571218334
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination."An extraordinary and transcendentally be ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571215256 | ISBN 10: 0571215254
In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris has produced a unique portrait of the late twentieth century - from New York to Venice, from the first ascent of Everest to the fall of the B ... more
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