Travel & Leisure: Discovering the World and Its Cultures
Our Travel & Leisure books take readers on a journey around the globe, exploring different cultures, landscapes, and travel experiences. These books are perfect for those seeking adventure and cultural understanding from well-versed and researched perspectives.
The Story of Travel and Transport in the Scottish Highlands
by James Miller
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 9781839830846
Pub Date: 2025-05-20
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
336 Pages
Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off course, traffic pile-ups on so-called 'killer' highways - stories abound about the horrors of travel in the Highlands...
Ayrshire has a rich and varied history. The region has been inhabited from earliest times, as the remains of duns, cairns and barrows show. In the medieval period it played a key role in the emergence...
Join Don McCullin as he reveals a world full of wonder from the pavements once trodden by Aristotle and Alexander the Great to the poignant ruins of the once powerful Roman Empire."Photography for me...
In this hugely enlightening book, Carol Foreman investigates the origins of many of Glasgow's street names, examining the influences and inspirations for many of the city's most famous thoroughfares, from local association and sentimentality to the influence of royalty, distinguished individuals and historical events.
War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford
by Claud Williams
Edited by Russell McGuirk
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781900971966
Pub Date: 2020-12-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Institute for Libyan and Northern African
288 Pages
Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, first-hand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background to the formation of the Patrols and follows their activities from the British raid on Siwa Oasis to desert exploration and survey work and the ...
The Tuscan countryside, full of medieval villages, preserves a precious heritage of Romanesque parish churches. These sacred buildings, testimony of an ancient era, were built to represent the path traveled by man on Earth to reach Heaven.
Thomas Pennant's first tour of Scotland started at Chester in 1769. Passing through Yorkshire and Durham he paid a brief visit to the Farne Islands in a coble - 'a hazardous species of boat' - entering...
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