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An Unlikely Spanish Don: the life and times of Professor John Brande Trend
John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish in Cambridge in 1933, arrived at his Chair by a circuitous route through a variety of disciplines, encountering a host of prominent people in pre-war political, cultural and intellectual life. It was this wider experience that made his teaching so unique and makes his story central to the period through which he lived. Read more...
The Kombi Trail: Across Three Continents in a VW Van
Cambridge, 1961. A group of students set off on the trip of a lifetime. Against the backdrop of the Cold War they travel through the Soviet Union to the Middle East, South Asia and on to Africa. Their mode of transport? The iconic VW Kombi. This book tells the story of that trip and the many experiences that they encountered along the way. Read more...
The Museum on the Roof of the World
For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. This book addresses the question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond. Read more...
The Rough Guide to the Dark Side
Why a young reporter quit his job at The New York Times, and got himself mixed up with Balkan gangsters. Read more...
The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: tales of big fish in small ponds
The Best Water Skier In Luxembourg is a quest to meet undiscovered heroes, apolemic against celebrity and a celebration of small worlds. Read more...
The Old Ways: a journey on foot
Lets readers follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove - roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. Read more...
Travel: A Literary History
The first general survey of the entire history of travel literature with illustrations reproduced from manuscripts and books in the Bodleian Library's collections. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book highlights over a hundred texts spanning more than 3,000 years from the ancient world to the present day. Read more...
Mountains of the Mind: a history of a fascination
Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die climbing in this season in Scotland than they do on the roads. Read more...
The Wild Places
The Wild Places explores our ideas of the wild. This book also tells the story of a friendship, and of a loss. It mixes history, memory and landscape in a strange and beautiful evocation of wildness and its vital importance. Read more...
Afghanistan: Land of Conflict and Beauty
John Griffiths delves into the history, culture, social fabric, internal politics and economy of this intriguing and backward country. Read more...
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. Read more...
Wild Coast
In this compelling and elegant travel memoir, John Gimlette returns to Guyana, the Wild Coast in South America, to discover his ancestral colonial history – one of brutal, cruel and often uncomfortable truths. Read more...
The Modern Middle East
Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region. Read more...
Cloud Road
In every atlas there is a country missing from the maps of South America: the Andean nation. Read more...
Rebel Land
What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? Read more...
The House on the Sacred Lake
In 1959 Margaret Anstee was working for the UN in Uruguay when she was offered the job of Deputy Resident Representative in Bolivia, then an extremely poor and underdeveloped country. Read more...
