This lovely mug & coaster set is a great gift for jet setters & those who love travelling Made from bone china ...

Since 911 the reader has been inundated with academic volumes about radical Islam the geo-political alliances of Pakistan & the identity of the Taliban What has been lacking is Travels in a Dervish Cloak an affectionate hashish-scented travel book full of humour & delight written by a young Irish foreign correspondent living on his wits on the contacts from his grandmother s address book & with a kidney given to him by his brother Others might have conserved this gift of a life-saving kidney by living a sober & quiet life but it had the opposite affect on Isambard Wilkinson who took to the adventurous life of a Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent like a cat assured of nine lives His rich & wonderfully intimate picture of Pakistan describes the country in all its exuberant colourful contemporary glory It s a place where past empires be they Mughal or Raj continue to shine like old gold beneath the chaotic jigsaw of Baluch Punjabi Sindi & Pashtun peoples not to mention warlords hereditary saints bandit landlords smugglers & party-mad socialites The only way to understand the contradictions is to plunge into the riot of differences & to come out grinning ...

' You will hear it for yourselves & it will surely fill you with wonder' In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times & explains how to retrieve diamonds from snake-infested caves Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Marco Polo (1254-1324) Polo's Travels are available in Penguin Classics ...

Alexander Burnes travelled up the Indus to Lahore & to the Khanates of Afghanistan & Central Asia in the 1830s spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the ' Great Game' His account of these travels was a bestseller in its day & this brand new edition brings the heady sense of excitement risk & zeal bursting from the pages ...

With the help of a Maratha nobleman Mark Shand buys an elephant named Tara & rides her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela the world's oldest elephant market From Bhim a drink-racked mahout Shand learned to ride & care for her From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways & with Tara his new companion he fell in love " Travels on my Elephant" is the story of their epic journey across India from packed highways to dusty back roads where communities were unchanged for millennia It is also a memorable touching account of Tara's transformation from scrawny beggar elephant to star attraction & of the romance that developed between her & her owner Mark Shand For what began as an adventurous whim has developed decades later into a life of campaigning to provide vital migratory corridors for these magnificent creatures whose habitat is under constant assault from man ...

When he was almost sixty years old worried that he might have lost touch with the sights the sounds & the essence of America's people Steinbeck took note of his itchy feet & prepared to travel He was accompanied by his French poodle Charley diplomat & watchdog across the states of America from Maine to California Moving through the woods & deserts dirt tracks & highways to large cities & glorious wildernesses Steinbeck observed
- with remarkable honesty & insight with a humorous & sometimes sceptical eye
- America & the Americans who inhabited it What he saw was a lonely generous nation too packed with individuals for single judgements; what he saw made him proud angry sympathetic & elated His vision of how the world was changing still speaks to us prophetically through the decades

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Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays
- to India China & Africa
- with the great Greek

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Henry Pulling a retired bank manager meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral Soon after she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood his dahlias & the Major next door to travel her way Brighton Paris Istanbul Paraguay Through Aunt Augusta a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms Henry joins a shiftless twilight society mixing with hippies war criminals CIA men; smoking pot breaking all the currency regulations & eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life In Travels with my Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas ...

A sensitive introduction to old-age confusion & dementia through the loving & imaginative relationship between Granny & her grandchild
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After two years travelling the length & breadth of the country visiting schools libraries & festivals & meeting thousands of children Travels with My Sketchbook provides a glimpse of the incredible journey Chris has been on during his time as Children&s Laureate Full of sketches doodles & pages from The Laureate Log
- his daily record of his time as Laureate
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Includes:: Train doodles Key events & prizes in the world of children&s books Early sketches (including handwritten manuscripts & cover roughs) from the books he has worked on during his time as Laureate including Goth Girl & the Wuthering Fright & The Hunting of the Snark Political sketches or roughs for the Observer cartoon reminding us of the major events that have punctuated his time as Laureate Birthday sketches impromptu portraits posters & Christmas cards sketches for poems & song lyrics With its cloth quarter binding ribbon marker & beautiful end papers his truly is a book to treasure



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