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. ...

Anxious to please his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy, Mihaly `loses` his bride at a provincial station & embarks on a chaotic & bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted & erotic elements of his past converge, & he, like Erzsi, has finally to make a choice. ...

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. ...

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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From St. Peter`s Basilica to the Capitoline Hill, this unique resource--part biography, part history, & part travel guide--provides an intimate portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo & the city he restored to artistic greatness. Lavishly illustrated & richly informative, this travel companion tells the story of Michelangelo`s meteoric rise, his career marked by successive artistic breakthroughs, his tempestuous relations with powerful patrons, & his austere but passionate private life. Providing street maps that allow readers to navigate the city & discover Rome as Michelangelo knew it, each chapter focuses on a particular work that amazed Michelangelo`s contemporaries & modern tourists alike. ...

The iconic broadcasting legend dusts down his suitcase for a final journey around the globe, revisiting locations of significance to his life & career. ” You might say I`m set in my airways. I`m one of those lucky people whose professional & private lives blend exactly.” Alan Whicker, 2007 Published to coincide with a major BBC TV series of the same name, Alan Whicker`s Journey of Lifetime is a glorious celebration of 50 years in front of the camera. For as long as most can remember, Whicker has roamed far & wide in search of the eccentric, the ludicrous & the socially-revealing aspects of everyday life as lived by some of the more colourful of the world`s inhabitants. Since the late 1950s, when the long-running Whicker`s World documentary was first screened, he has probed & dissected the often secretive & unobserved worlds of the rich & famous, rooting out the most implausible & sometimes ridiculous characters after gaining admittance to the places where they conduct their leisure hours. The great man`s legacy contains a number of genuine TV firsts. As well as landmark interviews with figures as diverse as Papa Doc, Paul Getty & The Sultan of Brunei, he was a pioneer, covering subjects like plastic surgery, gay weddings, polygamy, swinging & following gun-toting cops, fly-on-the-wall style, for British screens long before anyone else. This wonderful new book is the end product of a very personal journey. Whicker retraces his steps, catching up with some past interviewees & reflecting on how the world has changed
- for good & bad
- over the passing of time. Journey of a Lifetime is lyrical, uplifting & peppered with our favourite globetrotter`s brand of subtle satire.

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Who were the Magi & why did they travel hundreds of miles to worship a newborn child? These are mysteries that have endured & remained unsolved for centuries, in part because nativity accounts & descriptions of the Magi vary dramatically
- from the Bible itself to the Arabic Nativity Gospel. Intrigued by Marco Polo`s claim to have visited the tomb of the Magi in a `castle of fire-worshippers`, Paul William Roberts here travels to Iran & traces the Magi`s legendary journey overland to Bethlehem, through Iran, Iraq, Syria & Jordan. In the course of his extraordinary adventure, Roberts encounters a diverse cast of characters, from fearless smugglers to serene Zoroastrian priests, & chases clues from Marco Polo`s Travels & the Dead Sea Scrolls to the legends of King Solomon & the Crusader Knights. ” Journey of the Magi” is an exciting & illuminating voyage of discovery into the truth behind the Magi & the birth of Jesus.
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Journey Six from the Travel Photographer of the Year presents a collection of images chosen as winners, runners up, commendations & special mentions from the 2013 entries. The entries are grouped into nine categories: Travel Photographer of the Year, Young Travel Photographer of the Year, Vanishing & Emerging Cultures, Monochromal, Wild Stories, One Shot – Extraordinary, New Talent – Metropolis, First Shot – En Route, & Best Single Image in a Portfolio. Each image is accompanied by full technical details. The book also

Includes:: a list of judges & details of the sponsors of the competition.

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