In July 1789 George Cadogan Morgan born in Bridgend Wales & the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price (1723-91) found himself caught up in the opening events of the French Revolution & its consequences. In 1808 his family left Britain for America where his son Richard Price Morgan travelled extensively made a descent of the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers by raft & helped build some of the early American railroads. The adventures of both men are related here via letters George sent home to his family from France & through the autobiography written by his son in America. ...

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy has been lauded by the New York Times Financial Times & reviewers worldwide. Translated in fourteen languages Travels has received numerous awards for its frank & nuanced discussion of global economic realities. Now updated & revised--including a discussions of environmental issue--this fascinating book illustrates crucial lessons in the debate on globalization. The major themes & conclusions from the first edition are intact but in response to questions from readers & students around the world the second edition now
Includes:: Updates on the people businesses & politics involved in the production of the T-shirt. Discussions of environmental issues related to both international trade & the T-shirts life story. A look at the maturing of the anti-globalization movement & the recent shift in public opinion against internationalism.
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He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map covering seventy-five thousand miles & getting as far north as the Volga as far east as China & as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels & comes across as a superb ethnographer biographer anecdotal historian & occasional botanist & gastronome. With this edition by Mackintosh-Smith Battutas Travels" takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre." ...

Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller & his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polos journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent but which was almost unknown to Polos contemporaries. Encompassing a twenty-four year period from 1721 Polos account details his travels in the service of the empire from Beijing to northern India & ends with the remarkable story of Polos return voyage from the Chinese port of Amoy to the Persian Gulf. Alternately factual & fantastic Polos prose at once reveals the medieval imaginations limits & captures the wonder of subsequent travel writers when faced with the unfamiliar the exotic or the unknown. ...

The newest volume in Sterling Signatures successful Illustrated Edition" series takes readers on a fascinating journey into a world once unknown. Marco Polo almost single-handedly introduced fourteenth-century Europe to the civilizations of Central Asia & China. Now this stunningly illustrated volume edited by renowned historian Morris Rossabi offers the complete text of Polos travelogue (in the respected Yule-Cordier translation) enhanced with more than 200 images
- including illuminated manuscripts paintings photographs & maps. Sidebars & dozens of informative footnotes combine to present Polo & his travels in a captivating new light."
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Travels With Boogie" is the story of two city slickers
- one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell the other the
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In 1960 John Steinbeck set out to rediscover & document his native land; accompanied only by his dog he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. This Penguin Classics" edition of " Travels with Charley"

Includes:: an introduction by Jay Parini. 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. John Steinbeck (1902-68) winner of the Pulitzer Prize & the Nobel Prize for literature is remembered as one of the greatest & best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the Second World War Steinbeck served as a war correspondent his journalism later collected in " Once There Was a War" (1958) & he was awarded the Norwegian Cross of Freedom for his portrayal in " The Moon is Down" (1942) of Resistance efforts in northern Europe. His best-known works include the epics " The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) & " East of Eden" (1952) & his tragic novella " Of Mice & Men" (1937). John Steinbeck's complete works are published in " Penguin Modern Classics". If you enjoyed " Travels with Charley" you might like " Cannery Row" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " Pure delight a pungent potpourri of places & people". (" The New York Times Book Review")."



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Our society worships at the fountain of youth. Each year we try to delay the arrival of old age using everything at our disposal from extreme exercise & botox to pilates & cosmetic dentistry. But in the process are we missing out on a distinct & extraordinarily valuable stage of life? Asking whether it is better to be forever young or to grin toothlessly & live an authentic old age Daniel Klein journeys to the Greek island of Hydra to see a different side to aging. There he draws on the lives of Octagenarian Greek locals as well as philosophers ranging from Epicurus to Sartre to discover the secrets of aging happily. A travel book a witty meditation & an optimistic guide to living well this is a delightful quirky jaunt through the terrain of old age led by a perceptive & witty modern-day sage. ...

After a thirty-year career as high profile vet columnist presenter & author Bruce Fogle
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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 mothers 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 Europes 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. ...