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Danube: A Sentimental Journey From The Source To The Black Sea
Par Claudio Magris. 1989
Explores the Danube River as it flows through middle-European countries from the Bavarian hills to the Black Sea. Examines the…
tension between Greco-Roman and Teutonic cultures, the roots of fascism, the splendour and decline of the Hapsburg dynasty, and the evil of Nazism. 1989. Uniform title: Danubio.Canadian travellers in Europe, 1851-1900
Par Eva-Marie Kröller. 1987
A detailed survey of Canadian travel writing in the 19th century provides an unusual perspective on Canadian history. Canadians abroad…
preferred Britain, France, Italy and Palestine, in that order. The major world expositions and Queen Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilees figure prominently in the writings. 1987.Between the woods and the water: on foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland : the middle Danube to the Iron Gates
Par Patrick Leigh Fermor. 1986
With a borrowed rucksack, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off in 1933 from the Hook of Holland to walk to Constantinople.…
This sequel continues the journey down the Danube from Budapest; on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain, and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania, a wild beautiful region of forests and mountains secluded from Western eyes during centuries of religious and national complexity. He planned to live "like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar" but found instead leisurely sojourns in castles. Sequel to "A time of gifts : on foot to Constantinople : from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube". 1986.Coasting (Picador Bks.)
Par Jonathan Raban. 1987
In 1982 the author set out in an old, made-over ketch, to the only wilderness left: the sea. Unlike his…
predecessors, he was not weighted down by "testaments, theories and dogmas;" he wanted to find out what made his own "peculiar country tick" and, in so doing, he charted the coastline of his past, took soundings for the future and unfurled a map of Britain that is comedy and tragedy in one. 1987.Beyond Belfast: a 560-mile walk across Northern Ireland on sore feet
Par Will Ferguson. 2009
Ferguson describes his attempt at walking the entire Ulster Way, a 560-mile path that circles Northern Ireland. Along the way,…
this grandson of a Belfast orphan uncovers his own hidden family history. There are clues about a lost inheritance, a mysterious photograph, and rumours of a vast estate, but the truth when it comes is both surprising and funny. Winner of the 2010 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal. c2009.An innocent in Scotland: more curious rambles and singular encounters
Par David McFadden. 1999
Setting out to explore Scotland, his ancestral home, McFadden plans to follow the same route as H.V. Morton. Instead he…
charts an erratic course, interspersing accounts of the country with conversations of the people he encountered. 1999.An innocent in Ireland: curious rambles and singular encounters
Par David McFadden. 1995
In the 1990s, the author intended to follow the same route taken in the 1930s by travel writer H.V. Morgan,…
to chart the similarities and differences about Ireland. Soon, however, he found himself wandering erratically, as the journey became increasingly his own. The book offers a humourous, affectionate look at Ireland of the 1990s. 1995.Among the Russians: From The Baltic To The Caucasus
Par Colin Thubron. 1983
Colin Thubron learned Russian and entered the Soviet Union in an old Morris Marina in which he camped and drove…
for almost 10,000 miles between the Baltic and Caucasus. Everywhere he went he encountered and listened to people of all ages, occupations and interests. He met dissidents and was dogged by the KGB. The result is a fascinating and revealing picture of the many races who inhabit a giant country. 1983.A traveller's history of Ireland (Traveller's history)
Par Peter Neville. 1997
A full history of Ireland from Prehistory to the present. Beginning with early Celtic Ireland, Neville chronicles the main events…
and important figures in Irish history, from Saint Patrick, the high kings, the Anglo-Irish relationship, the Potato Famine, to modern Ireland and its separate Catholic Nationalist and Protestant Unionist traditions. 1997.Aftermath: travels in a post-war world
Par Farley Mowat. 1995
Hoping to put wartime recollections into new perspective, Mowat and his first wife, Frances, toured Europe in the spring of…
1953. Mowat shares his own recollections as well as those of others they met on the journey. The sites they visited included London, Kent, Paris, Positano, and San Carlo. 1995.A year in Provence
Par Peter Mayle. 1989
First, a dream of life in Provence, and then a home to match the dream. Moving into an old farmhouse…
at the foot of the Luberon Mountains between Avignon and Aix was the beginning of an exotic and bewildering new life for Peter Mayle and his wife. "A year in Provence" is Peter Mayle's own hilarious description of their pleasurable and occasionally frustrating experiences. 1989.Abroad in England
Par Frank Entwisle. 1982
A valley in Italy: the many seasons of a villa in Umbria
Par Lisa St. Aubin de Teran. 1994
The author tells the story of her life and challenges while restoring a run-down Italian villa. It is also a…
portrait of life in an Umbrian village, full of warm people who accept their new neighbours as family. 1994.A place in Normandy
Par Nicholas Kilmer. 1997
His ancestral home in France tugs at the American author's heart, and he longs to purchase it. As part of…
his decision-making process, he visits the rural property one day in May to evaluate its structural soundness. As he pokes and prods, he stirs up memories and associations with his family history. 1997.A perfect circle
Par Susie Kelly. 2006
Keen to discover some of France's lesser-known attractions, Susie Kelly, her husband Terry and their two dogs embarked on a…
10,000-kilometre journey, where they encounter exploding gherkins, killer waves, chilli-flavoured chocolates and sinister submarines. 2006.A house in the sunflowers: summer in Aquitaine
Par Ruth Silvestre. 1991
The author's story of her love affair with her dream house in south-west France, chronicling the friendships that she and…
her family formed during the gradual restoration of their once derelict farmhouse and the local festivities, described with natural joie de vivre. 1991.Grèce ((Passions d'ailleurs))
Par Renée Grimaud. 2000
Conçus comme un voyage en soi, les livres de la collection font découvrir un pays en entrant peu à peu…
dans la vie quotidienne, à travers ce que l'on perçoit dès l'arrivée dans le pays ; l'histoire, racontée à travers les grands monuments ; les villes, décrites à travers des circuits, des trajets : itinéraires culturels, parcours culinaires, parcs et jardins, marchés... ; les paysages et les sites naturels, présentés de façon à mettre en valeur leurs aspects remarquables : mer, montagnes, îles, déserts ou volcans... ; les loisirs, les fêtes et la culture contemporaine, aident le lecteur à partager la vie des habitants. - 4e de couv.Dinner with Persephone: travels in Greece
Par Patricia Storace. 1997
Patricia Storace reveals how the dreams of modern Greece are the woven product of classical culture. Through a series of…
encounters with people, with Greek feast days and national dramas and wide registration of places and what happens in them, she leads her readers away from the dead language of the travel book and into a form of writing which allows critical affection and unpredictable understanding to be shared. 1997Snowball oranges: a winter's tale on a Spanish isle (Summersdale Travel Ser.)
Par Peter Kerr. 2000
A Scottish family give up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded…
valley in the mountains of Mallorca. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and "experiences", and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners. 2000.Islander: a journey around our archipelago
Par Patrick Barkham. 2017
The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle…
of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are abandoned and mysterious places haunted by myths, ghosts and foxes. Patrick Barkham explores some of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain as he travels to ever-smaller islands in search of their special magic. 2017.