` For God`s sake look after our people` Captain Scott`s harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party`s optimistic departure from New Zeal&, the hazardous voyage of the Terra Nova to Antarctica, & the trek with ponies & dogs across the ice to the Pole. On the way the explorers conduct scientific experiments, collect specimens, & get to know each other`s characters. Their discovery that Amundsen has beaten them to their goal, & the endurance with which they face an 850-mile march to safety, have become the stuff of legend. This new edition publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott`s original text before publication. In his Introduction Max Jones illuminates the Journals` writing & publication, Scott`s changing reputation, & the continued attraction of heroes in our cynical age. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World`s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford`s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, & much more. ...

Follow a girl on an elaborate flight of fancy in a wondrously illustrated, wordless picture book about self-determination
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Follow a girl on an elaborate flight of fancy in a wondrously illustrated, wordless picture book about self-determination
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Lizzy Hawker has always run, & run far
- & it is the mountains, & specifically the lure of the Himalayas, where she has found
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Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi & Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties & pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihaly prefers to roam around the back alleys & the canals on his own, & as they continue their journey through the Bel Paese there is a growing sense of unrest between them, until Mihaly misses the train to Rome they were due to take together. Wandering alone from city to city, with his marriage rapidly falling apart, Mihaly must confront the ghosts of his past & try to find a sense of purpose. Originally written in 1937, & here presented in a brilliant new translation by Peter V. Czipott, Antal Szerb`s gently humorous & psychologically subtle exploration into the workings of a budding bourgeois marriage has been hailed as one of the great rediscovered classics of the twentieth century. ...

A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb`s Journey by Moonlight (Utas es Holdvilag) is the fantastically moving & darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty & desire. ` On the train, everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice.. .` Mihaly has dreamt of Italy all his life. When he finally travels there, on his honeymoon with Erszi, he soon abandon his new wife in order to find himself, haunted by old friends from his turbulent teenage days: beautiful, kind Tamas, brash & wicked Janos, & the sexless yet unforgettable Eva. Journeying from Venice to Ravenna, Florence & Rome, Mihaly loses himself in Venetian back alleys & in the Tuscan & Umbrian countryside, driven by an irresistible desire to resurrect his lost youth among Hungary`s Bright Young Things, & knowing that he must soon decide whether to return to the ambiguous promise of a placid adult life, or allow himself to be seduced into a life of scandalous adventure. Journey by Moonlight (Utas es Holdvilag) is an undoubted masterpiece of Modernist literature, a darkly comic novel cut through by sex & death, which traces the effects of a socially & sexually claustrophobic world on the life of one man. Translated from the Hungarian by the renowned & award-winning Len Rix, Antal Szerb`s Journey by Moonlight (first published as Utas es Holdvilag in Hungary in 1937) is the consummate European novel of the inter-war period. Published by Pushkin Press for the first time in a cloth-bound hardback edition, beautifully designed by Nathan Burton. `A writer of immense subtlety & generosity.. . Can literary mastery be this quiet-seeming, this hilarious, this kind? Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers`- Ali Smith `A novel to love as well as admire, always playful & ironical, full of brilliant descriptions, bon mots & absurd situations.. .it`s a book utterly in love with life`- Kevin Crossley-Holl&, Guardian Books of the Year ` Just divine.. .the kind of book that makes you imagine the author has had private access to your own soul`- Nicholas Lezard, Guardian ` This radiantly funny & intelligent novel.. .shows its author to be one of the masters of twentieth-century fiction. Len Rix`s loving translation of a book that might have remained lost to us deserves special praise`- Paul Bailey, TLS International Books of the Year `A burning book, a major book`- Georges Szirtes, TLS Antal Szerb (1901-1945) was a writer, scholar, critic & translator born to Jewish parents but baptized Catholic. Multilingual, he lived in Hungary, France, Italy & Engl&, & after graduating in German & English he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama & poetry, studies of Ibsen & Blake, & histories of English & Hungarian literature. At the age of 39, Szerb wrote an authoritative History of World Literature. He wrote his first novel, The Pendragon Legend, in 1934, followed by Journey by Moonlight in 1937 & The Queen`s Necklace in 1943. These, & a collection of his short stories, Love in a Bottle, are also published in English by Pushkin Press. Szerb was killed in a concentration camp in January 1945. Pushkin Press`s special hardbacks also include deluxe editions of Stefan Zweig`s Beware of Pity & The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig. ...

High up in the remote mountain passes on the Indian border with Tibet, China & Pakistan, Ladakh has been a centre for Buddhist meditation since three centuries before Christ & is one of the last places on earth where a Tibetan Buddhist community still survives. Arriving by rickety bus, Andrew Harvey was unprepared for the breathtaking splendour, colour & silence of the landscape, & was entranced by the simple way of life of its people, for whom the sacred & everyday merge into one. Frustrated by the spiritual poverty of his sophisticated, western, intellectual lifestyle, Andrew Harvey finds peace, hope & freedom in the Buddhist teachings of Thuksey Rinpoche at Shey monastery, & discovers spiritual strength. ...

In the spring & summer of 1931, Wyndham Lewis travelled to the westernmost part of the Berber heartland in Morocco, known traditionally as ` Barbary`. Wanting to avoid what he called `the Baedekered blight` of Anglo-American tourism, he set out for the majestic High Atlas mountains with pens & watercolours to record, in words & images, the rich traditional culture & changing face of the wild, isolated Berber tribes who carved a harsh life out of Morocco`s remotest regions. The result is a blend of two arts, the literary skill of a detached & humorous observer, mixed with the drawings of one of the 20th century`s most exciting & original artists. Through the eyes of a creative genius, Journey into Barbary is both an inimitable portrait of Morocco & one of the first truly modern accounts of a country that had for so long remained an enigma to generations of travellers. ...

The people, their history & the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy. This is the account of a unique journey
- a six-hundred-mile
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It is 1940 & Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer & arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. & now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home
- alongside, among others, an entrancing French dancer, an unkempt trader, a mysterious German doctor & a small, brutal man in a crumpled suit
- he enters a nightmarish world where friend & foe are indistinguishable. Graham can try to run, but he may not be able to hide for much longer.

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