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CATALOGUE NO. 13 The Ginger Tree The WYND OSWALD Travels with Myself Travels and Another Five Journeys from Hell GELLHORN MARTHA The Innocent Anthropologist Notes from a Mud Hut NIGEL BARLEY My Early Life My Early CHURCHILL WINSTON Travels on my Elephant Travels SHAND MARK Full Tilt to with a Bicycle Ireland MURPHY DERVLA www.travelbooks.co.uk A Year in Marrakesh Year A MAYNE PETER Naples ’44 Naples OfficerAn Intelligence Italian Labyrinth in the NORMAN LEWIS Two men in a car from Geneva to the Khyber Pass men in a car from Geneva Two NICOLAS BOUVIER The Way of the World of the Way The Eland Publishing, 61 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QL London Market, 61 Exmouth Eland Publishing, CatalogueCover2018_Catalogue Cover2015 08/08/2018 17:27 Page 1 Page 17:27 08/08/2018 Cover2015 CatalogueCover2018_Catalogue Welcome to the Eland Catalogue, No. 13

In 1982, John Hatt set up Eland. His office was his attic, perched at the top of his house on a grid of 19th-century terraced streets. Thus was Eland born, earning its identity from a South London street named after a large African antelope, which had been nicknamed by a Dutch-African back in the 17th-century, half-remembering the German slang for an elk. Only later did we find out that there had been an old Devonian family of bookseller-publishers called Eland, who worked in the close of Exeter Cathedral, a football stadium in Leeds and an Anglo-Saxon manor in Yorkshire that survived the Norman conquest. But it is to the large, docile, spiral-horned antelope that we owe our brand name. They sound fine animals these African Elands. A bull can stand six feet tall at the shoulder and weigh over two thousand pounds, so can pretty much barge his way through anything in his path, especially when backed up by the rest of the herd. Unlike publishers they tend to avoid lunch, preferring to eat at dawn and dusk and digest with a siesta in the middle of the day. When the herd moves in the night, they create a distinctive castanet-like chorus from the clack of their hooves. For tens of thousands of years the Bushmen have honoured the Eland as a trickster god, who assists in trance, dance and spirit travel. The Eland has now and then been domesticated (their milk keeps well) but they are essentially nomadic, which is true for those who work at Eland, who have spent as much of their time as journalists, writers, editors, musicians and dragoman-guides as behind a desk. And that is as it should be, for the purpose of the Eland list is to delight in the fascinating diversity of our world.

1 We can never quite define what we are looking for until we stumble across it but it needs to be observant of others, capable of summing up a spirit of a place and catching the moment on the wing ­ – aside from such everyday literate skills as being funny, wry, intelligent, humane, universal, self-deprecating and idiosyncratic – plus the whole book has to be held together by a page-turning gift for story telling. John Hatt’s Eland was the first of a wave of travel lists that emerged in the early 1980s, quickly joined by Century Travellers, the Penguin Classic Travel Library, Picador and Virago. You wouldn’t have wanted to put any money on it, but it is only the Eland list that has endured. Indeed once the wheel of fashion had turned and travel was no longer cherished by the corporate masters, we have been able to cherry-pick the best of the titles from the Century, Picador and Penguin lists. E-editions of all our Eland classics now enable our books to be read in parts of the world where bookshops do not exist. Otherwise Eland continues, very much as it first started, with eight revived titles a year, topped up by the occasional new travel book that comes our way. By the end of this year we will have brought the library of red- top paperbacks to a row of 115 titles, excluding 15 collections of travel writing, our 16 Poetry of Place booklets and a dozen original works. It is a classic tale of the Hare and the Tortoise, or should one say the Leopard and the Eland. For one of the defining characteristics of the Eland is that it is no good at high speeds but ‘can trot along at fourteen miles an hour indefinitely.’

Barnaby Rogerson

2 Contents

Backlist

Eland Classics 6–132

Through Writers’ Eyes 133–148

Poetry of Place 149–158

Index

By Country, by Region 159–162

By Author 163–164

Trade Details 165–167

3 eLand 61 Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4QL Email: [email protected] Extracts from each and every one of our books can be read on our website, at www.travelbooks.co.uk.

‘John Hatt founded the incomparable Eland thirty-five years ago. It remains for me, the quintessential travel publisher.’

‘One of the very best travel lists.’ william dalrymple

‘Eland is one of those essential, inimitable and irresistible treasures that reminds us of what books can do that no other medium can match, and why travelling on the page, as well as across the world, remains one of the greatest adventures that any of us can imagine.’ pico iyer

‘Eland is the ‘Ultima Thule’ for fine travel writing. Its list, teeming with the classics, is mouth-watering, its sumptuously produced books lifelong companions to treasure.’ justin marozzi

4 ‘Eland has developed into Britain’s leading independent publisher of inspirational travel writing.’ jamie dunford-wood, travel intelligence

‘Quite simply, the most consistently fine publishing house in the English-speaking world, every title a cracker.’ nicholas shakespeare

‘No British publisher has a list so enticingly eclectic or so consistently rewarding. Eland has established itself as a National Treasure.’ fergus fleming

‘Eland has revived, preserved and celebrated some of the very best travel writing, keeping alive individual voices, travellers’ tales, even glimpses of ways of life that our arrogant, disposable society would have otherwise lost to history.’

‘Four cheers for Eland! For rescuing multitudinous wonderful classics from scandalous obscurity. For introducing important new authors to the reading public. For sticking doggedly to high editorial and production standards. And, of course, for not featuring a single celebrity autobiography on its noble list.’ sara wheeler

5 Eland Classics triumphant novel,TheEnglishPatient. is the quiet heroism of such men that is celebrated in Michael Ondaatje’s the nucleus of the celebrated LRDG, the Long Range Desert Group. It African campaign during the Second World War. For these men formed lives their depended. which Their knowledge went on to play a crucial part in the upon North machines the with relationship tender a and inner strengths, an awed respect for the stern and beautiful environment uncovered Age’.Stone also the They since man by in untrodden ‘regions seas, sand ‘impassable’ across routes camel new by mapped They only caravans. traversed hitherto territory across out set colleagues his and Bagnold Fords, T Model of series a Adapting Sudan. the and Libya with borders the straddles which WesternDesert the explore to In the 1920s and 30s, a band of British officers stationed in began Libya/Eastern Sahara Place: Western DesertofEgypt, Price: £12.99 Format: 228ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-338 ralph bagnold Travel inaDeadWorld Libyan Sands 6 ‘Ralph Bagnold: thepioneerwhomadearomance ‘Libyan Sandsis,withoutquestion,theclassic work of20th-century Saharan exploration.’ of navigating the deep Sahara bycar.’ eamonn gearon, geographical john wright Eland Classics

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Place: Cameroon Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 144pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780601-519 nigel barley A Return Bush to the African Caterpillars A Plague of Plague A Eland Classics this honest, funny and compulsive account of his first year year social anthropologist which neverthelessmakes inspired reading. first his of account compulsive a of life and the to introduction irreverent funny wonderfully a gives and – honest, hostility illness this disaster, boredom, survived who – Barley Dr , in the rules. to conform to refused which society, Dowayo of nature elusive account the into take not did theory the discovered, rapidly he as but, conducted, be should fieldwork how knew He people. Dowayo the of beliefs and customs the study to order in hut mud a set Barley in home Nigel up hislast. nearly very – and fieldwork in experience first author’s the was the in tribe little-known a Studying Place: West Africa Price: £12.99 Format: 192ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-505 nigel barley Notes fromaMudHut Anthropologist The Innocent 8 ‘A riotouslyfunnybookwhich actually hadmelaughingoutloud.’ In ‘Wit andwisdomshinethrough hispages.’ gerald durrell, mail onsunday new statesman Eland Classics 9 listener times literary supplement literary times ‘... he is incapable of being dull.’ of ‘... he is incapable

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Dickens. spanned from lofty Rajas to dissolute Englishmen. lofty spanned from individual in a huge bureaucracy. He writes with the richness of and presiding over the blissful coast of Orissa. His acquaintances defiant a was Beames authority, of fear without and candid ivid, planters, improvising fifteen-gun salutes for visiting dignitaries century after they were penned. after they were century rapacious against peasants powerless defending years, 45 next the for original memoirs were discovered by chance in an attic almost a arrived in India in 1858 and worked there as a civil servant No one could have invented John Beames, whose vibrant and Place: India Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 334pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-095 john beames Bengal Civilian Bengal Memoirs of a Memoirs Eland Classics coast, coaxinghertowards alifeofliterature. community of artists, exiles and intellectuals vibrant who have colonised the the among continues – sexual and emotional academic, – away to England for schooling, the gypsy-like Billi ricochets lectures. Returning to the Mediterranean, her unorthodox education public and friends reading, of life a and tutors short-lived between unreliable motherontheFrench Riviera. château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and German run-down a in life swaps she dies, the father betweenher When Europe wars. in up growing girl a Billi, of childhood the This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, describes Price: £12.99 Format: 368ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-798 sybille bedford An UnsentimentalEducation Jigsaw 10 Sent ‘... atense,denseautobiographical novel...strong writing, wonderful settings, electrifying familydynamics….’ ‘A deliciouslyevoked return toworlds,and a Europe, nowalmostvanished.’ victoria glendinning john fowles Eland Classics 11 sunday times sunday bruce chatwin bruce ‘... a wonderful book.’ ‘... a book radiant with comedy and colour.’ ‘... a book radiant

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Mexican neighbourhood. Mexican – she gains our trust. – she gains life of provincial ease and observing with glee the intense life of a stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish slapping against her face her against slapping fish dead a with bus a in or train, stationary imagination. She stays in his crumbling ancestral mansion, living a horrors of travel – through bug-infested jungle, trapped in a broiling broiling a in trapped jungle, bug-infested through – travel of horrors it is the charmed world of Don Otavio which steals our shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the the of descriptions frank her In sentimentality. and violence shadow, paradox: paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep Mexico, Mexico, through the eyes of Bedford, is a country of passion and Place: Mexico Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 320pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-873 sybille bedford sybille A Mexican Odyssey A Mexican A Visit to Don Otavio to Don Visit A Eland Classics 12 Mind’s Eyeispure intoxication. art travel book, part love story,love Blanch’spart Lesley book, travel art search to recapture the love of her life, and the Russia into theromantic terrainhe ofthemind’shad eye. planted within her, takes her to and beyond, journeying deep lovelorn andinthegripsofapassionateobsession. of Russia. Shewas twenty whenhesweptoutofherlife,leaving her fairytales the of full and furs Siberian in blew swathed nursery, her first into Traveller mysterious the when four was Blanch Lesley Place: Russia Price: £12.99 Format: 352ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-545 lesley blanch Mind’s Eye Journey intothe P The ‘If youare interested inRussia –ifyouare interested in love –thishauntingbookisoneto read andre-read.’ ‘... theperceptions ofafinewriter...all cast uponagorgeouscanvas.’ harvard review philip ziegler Journey intothe Journey Eland Classics 13 Ring of Bright , the vast bulk of bulk vast the , Brother thy Seek Raven new yorker new david attenborough david romance, a tragic and fascinating quest.’ a tragic romance, ‘Totally absorbing, wonderfully written.’ absorbing, ‘Totally ‘Here is a life woven from the stuff of high is a life woven from ‘Here and Remain Rocks The

, Water bankruptcy he could also be insanely profligate and generous. he could also be insanely profligate bankruptcy naturalist, naturalist, poet and a social renegade. Often poised on the edge of most especially otters. But despite the success of hunter, a wartime secret agent, portrait-painter, racing car-driver, true true fulfillment of his affinity with nature and a love of wild things, his life remained a closely guarded secret. He was by turns a shark- trilogy of books set in the north-west coast of Scotland, which was a was which Scotland, of coast north-west the in set books of trilogy a Berber But dynasty). he would become even more famous for his Morocco Morocco (where he spent six years chronicling the rise and fall of befriended both Communist peasants and Mafia hitmen) and Thesiger in 1956 and acquired his firstotter), Sicily (where he writers, who wrote about Iraq (where he travelled with Wilfrid He became one of the most brilliant and quixotic of British travel Place: Iraq, Sicily, Morocco, Scotland Morocco, Sicily, Place: Iraq, Price: £18.99 Price: Format: 605pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780601-069 ISBN: 978-1780601-069 douglas botting douglas A Life A Life Gavin Maxwell Gavin Eland Classics 14 in- have stories travel exhilarating and Bouvier’spassionate ‘Nicolas which are such adynamicpartofitswhole. published here for the first time in English with the Vernet drawings written by a sage with a golden pen and a wide, infectious smile. It is all self, the towards journey a as travel on meditation a another on in the 1950s. On one level it is a candid description of a road journey, Afghanistanto Serbia from journey life-enhancing impecunious, an heap, it tells of a friendship between a writer rubbish and an artist, forged Pakistanion a of ashes the from Reborn written. ever books A cult classic, Place: , , & Price: £12.99 Format: 328ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-538 Translated byRobyn Marsack nicolas bouvier the KhyberPass Two meninacarfromGenevato The Way ofthe World This courageous alchemy, transmitted on every page, is what makes what alchemy,courageousis This page, every on transmitted transformed. is traveller genuine the which by travel, of dimension ‘Bouvier is that rare author who alerts the reader to the transcendent spired generations ofyoungEuropeans ontotheroad.’ The Way of the World is one of the most beguiling travel The Way oftheWorld amasterpiece.’

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‘Some of the most resonant and perceptive travel writing travel and perceptive of the most resonant ‘Some Whether , The Japanese Chronicles Swiss travel writer and photographer

words, Bouvier brings his personal Japan alive in rich, evocative prose. evocative Japan alive in rich, Bouvier brings his personal words, Noh performances or sketching memorable portraits in a few deft commonplace into an unexpected Japan. commonplace into an unexpected retelling Japanese myth and history, composing poems, reflecting on recollections, recollections, and reflections take the reader beyond the on three decades of travel throughout the islands, his reports, In Nicolas Bouvier shares his intimate experience of Japan. Based Place: Japan Place: Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 224pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-048 Translated by Anne Dickerson Anne by Translated nicolas bouvier nicolas Chronicles Japanese The Eland Classics nicolas bouvier 16 ‘A dark-sparkling little masterpiece. I defy the reader to dislodge this releasing himback tolife. author, the on hold their lose eventually which spectres the of two symbol of Bouvier’s scorpion-fish, ambivalent relationship with the Island, are but deadly but beautiful the and priest levitating dead, clear.crystal sometimes are truthslong- A imagination the of world this in but blurred, is fiction and fact between distinction The occult.’the and real the between ‘tensed are that antennae grows he the exorcists, a fake and room; charlatans state, exhausted this priests.In and merchants landowners, indolent the café, this local the of of like habitues insect the inhabitants from distinguishable barely crawling killers, of world pretty the with fascination morbid his deepens insects Indian on book traveller A feverish. the and broke Ceylon, be almost lover, his by abandoned only room, rented 117th can his into checks that island unnamed an On Place: SriLanka Price: £12.99 Format: 160ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780600-444 Translated byRobyn Marsack The Scorpion-Fish book from hismemory anddreams.’ george steiner

Eland Classics 17 graham greene, observer greene, graham man ... Buy it, steal it, read it.’ it, read man ... Buy it, steal j. h. plumb, new york times york new h. plumb, j. ‘A first-class biography of an exceptional of an exceptional biography first-class ‘A characters whom England has ever produced.’ characters of Sir Richard Burton, one of the most bizarre one of the most bizarre Burton, of Sir Richard ‘The latest, far the best and surely the final biography the final biography ‘The latest, far the best and surely

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Eland Classics 19 rory stewart rory of Arabia to Thesiger was shaped his by example.’ of the nineteenth century. Everyone from Lawrence

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‘Burnes is the most mesmerising British official and traveller Kabul. Britain’s most accomplished secret agents before his assassination in to recapture the heady sense of excitement, risk and zeal of one of was a best-seller in its day and this brand new edition allows us charm, insatiable curiosity and irrepressible enthusiasm. His travels simply with an ear for languages, which he combined with a boyish Asia including the hitherto inaccessible Bokhara. He travelled back descriptions of Sind, descriptions Afghanistanback of and the Khanates Central of journeys beyond the frontiers of the Indian Empire, and brought At the age of only 26, Alexander Burnes made two dangerous Place: Pakistan, Afganistan, & Central Asia Central & Afganistan, Place: Pakistan, Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 256pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-710 by Introduction and epilogue and Introduction alexander burnes alexander Kathleen Hopkirk Edited by journey to Cabool, Tartary and Persia A voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a and Lahore Indus to up the A voyage Travels into Bokhara into Travels Eland Classics life. Turkish Lettersiseyewitnesshistory atitsbest. and brings the city at the heyday of Ottoman power bursting back to world’,the of capital the be to nature by ‘created as Constantinople describes Busbecq guards. Janissary the by flowers with welcomed being of habit expensive, but charming, the or super-powerpolitics of court healthy yoghurt sixteenth-century and fruit diet of of country Turks, the the the brutal war,realities of theintrigue of prisoners to Spanish of unloading ambassador the nothing: court, at Habsburg Roxelana missed he Magnificent the Suleyman on ourtravels. and unprejudiced –Busbecqisthesortofmanwewouldalllike tomeet inquiring honest, yet gossipy unpretentious, but Intelligent Place: Turkey Price: £12.99 Format: 172ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-699 by PhilipMansel With anintroduction ogier debusbecq Turkish Letters 20 As ‘... aclassicoftravel literature andaboontohistorians.’ ‘Fresh, appreciative andfunny.’ times literary supplement jason goodwin Eland Classics 21 bruce anderson, reaction anderson, bruce

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life and a wonderful woman. is It a tribute to courage, to the ‘This book is a chronicle of triumph in of a remarkable adversity, glory of the human condition, to a life that was lived not in vain.’ mystique. death, she lost an eye to cancer; but the eyepatch only added to her of the White House in Moscow in 1993. Immediately after Rory’s Vergos Vergos in Peshawar and Rory Peck while trying to film the siege 35, she lost bothgunfirecameramen)husbandslost to she (war 35, Dominique – mother. of agethe by widowed Twice reporterultimatelyandspy. a a worker, colleagues, friends and family to share their memories of their wasdrawn conflict-strickento corners of world,by the turns an aid- children Fynn Crawley Vergos and Lettice Crawley Peck asked earless, beautiful, opinionated and fiercely independent, she courageous foreign news reporter, who died at the age of 45, her To To mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Juliet Peck, the Place: Pakistan, Moscow, USA, England USA, Moscow, Place: Pakistan, Price: £10.00 Price: Format: 320pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1903651-063 Georgiana Campbell Edited by A Life in Memories A Life Juliet Eland Classics its baroque heyday oraworldwideconventionoftrapeze artists. in Istanbul Ottoman bandits, by kidnapped being bath-houses, the in jinks high describing is he whether more, once intelligence and charm his relish can we that so life, to back sparkling Evliya brings readers. This brand new translation western by the to foremost scholar of unknown his age virtually though world, the of travel-writers great the of pantheon the in is humour.He and wit puckish a with of the Ottoman world – a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder Pepys century,the 17th the of Pamuk Orhan the was Çelebi Evliya Place: Ottoman Empire anditsneighbours Price: £18.99 Format: 520ppdemipb ISBN 978-1906011-581 & Robert Dankoff Translated andeditedby Travels ofEvliya Çelebi Selections from theBookof An Ottoman Traveller 22 Sooyong Kim house thatspecialisesinmakingavailable lostjewels of travel writing...tobringoutthisunforgettable, ‘It istypically brave ofEland, asuperbpublishing simon sebagmontefiore, fun yetbrilliantlycompellingselection.’ Eland Classics 23 daily telegraph daily ‘... unusal and life-enhancing.’ being in the least self-conscious.’ self-conscious.’ being in the least ‘Enchantingly self-revealing, without self-revealing, ‘Enchantingly raymond mortimer, sunday times sunday mortimer, raymond

by an infectious personal fascination for horses, God and Spain. personal by an infectious Granada, Granada, described with warmth and wit, humour and candour lit up Church services. The result is a journey, through the region north from The result is a journey, services. Church cavehouse cavehouse or during Penelope’s frequent attendance at unexpected best in their Spanish hosts, whether met on road, crude country Inn, to the expedition. Together the two travellers brought out the very Duke of Wellington, brought her experience conditionsof native travel Wellington, Duke of old bay mare, La This Marquesa. treasured animal, borrowed from the mule tracks and goat paths of Andalusia in 1961 was the twelve-year Penelope Penelope Chetwodes’s middle-aged companion on her ride over the Place: Southern Spain Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 158pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-680 penelope chetwode penelope Ladies In Andalusia In Ladies Two Middle-Aged Middle-Aged Two Eland Classics 24 etes qetn eeg ad anls abto, on f absent parents andmiserable schooling. of born ambition, dauntless and energy that questing of restless, roots the lie Here century. twentieth the of dominating personalities the of elegiac one an of is revealing It story. deeply adventure and War, World an First the just before than content more Edwardian is of this period halcyon et the of portrayal the pagesofMyEarlyLife. War. Acknowledged ashisbestbook,zestforlifeburstsrightoff West North Cuban the to the visit a and prison-camp Boer on a from Frontier,escape skirmishes charges, cavalry marches, night adventure: of full were life Churchill’s of twenty-five years first The Place: India,Sudan,South Africa Price: £12.99 Format: 388ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-620 winston churchill My EarlyLife Y ‘The workIhave enjoyedmostthiscentury.’ max hastings, sunday telegraph ‘The bestofallhisbooks.’ bill deedes, the week Eland Classics 25

imran khan imran is illustrated with watercolours watercolours with Birds of illustrated Passage is is a captivating encounter with a captivating continent.’ encounter with a captivating is a captivating ‘The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive are among the first among the first Clive are ‘The journals of Lady Henrietta I , a of Passage of India by a British woman. Birds account written collection of extracts from her diaries collated by Nancy Shields, her diaries collated by Nancy from of extracts collection Henrietta Clive’s Travels in SouthHenrietta Travels Clive’s India 1798-1801 early female travel text, mportant as an historical and as a social document, and also as an by Annaby Tonelli, who accompanied the party of their voyage. The Journals of Lady Henrietta Clive, a feisty, independent-mindedtraveller, are among the very earliest written accountsBritish woman. of Married India to Lord by Edward Clive, a son of Clive of India and Governor of Madras she – (1898 travelled1803), through southern aftermathagainstdaughterstheretinueandwarIndiainthewith her of Tipu Sultan. In of this diary the from passages with their journals the from extracts firstinterweaves publication, Nancy Shields skilfully Charly, Henrietta’s precocious twelve-year-old daughter, who went on to tutor the future Queen Victoria, first Empress of India. ISBN: 978-1780600-796 328pp demi pb Format: £12.99 Price: Place: India clive henrietta K. Shields Nancy Edited by Birds of Passage of Birds Eland Classics south totheIndianborder forcotton and metalware. and salt, for Tibetto north expeditions: trading through was world outside the with contact only its and road, nearest the from walk days ten was , western of region Jumla remote the in village, fields.terraced The the in planting rice to house the mud-plastering from tasks various its in part taking as well as sorrows and joys its of Talphi. village HimalayanGradually she was Nepalese accepted as the a member in of the family, Chola sharing and Kalchu of guest paying a as lived Connell Monica 1980s early the in years two For Place: Nepal Price: £12.99 Format: 208ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780600-420 monica connell Nepalese village Two years inthelifeofa Against aPeacock Sky 26 ‘A hauntingbookthatachieves informedsympathywithNepalese ‘Acutely observed andfullofmomentsstartling empathy.’ village lifewithouttheleast trace of falseromanticism.’ mail onsunday nigel barley Eland Classics 27 sunday times sunday nicholas shakespeare, sunday telegraph sunday nicholas shakespeare,

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‘Written without self-pity, this is a book to make you marvel at you marvel make this is a book to without self-pity, ‘Written reads like a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. to the resilience a testament like reads eyes of a child, lonely and terrified, yet her determination to survive discovered. discovered. the through her around events the records David memoir this to a catholic convent, where she lived in constant fear of being the verge of starvation, sharing a small room in the ghetto. Warsaw in the sharing a small room the verge of starvation, papers identity false with sent was she dangerous, too became home prosperous prosperous Jewish family One in year . later they were all on David was smuggled out to live with family friends. When their it became clear that none of them were likely to survive, Until Until she was nine, Janina David led a sheltered life with her Place: Poland Price: £13.99 Price: Format: 428pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-736 david janina from Ghetto to Convent from Ghetto A Wartime Childhood: Childhood: A Wartime A Square of Sky of Square A Eland Classics to assertthemselves. atolls, remotest continue dreams the old rationality,the and modernity in our all beyond where, but politics, cold-war and coups ith humour and honesty, Evans uncovers the modern reality: a brave new ocean where the islanders have money and booze, military this promise ofParadise, shadowedbyadarker underbelly. to observe the transit of Venus across the sun, the Pacific has offered to 1769 went in first Tahiti Cook reality.centuryCaptain since Ever fabulous twentieth their and – sex guilt-free the and fish fruits, of abundance an of remnants both of nineteenth-centuryEuropeanthe of kingdoms by fed – imagination search in sand, and palms lagoons, gin-clear of world a into deeper ever Evansjourneys Julian Place: Pacific Islands Price: £12.99 Format: 276ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1786000-536 julian evans Travels inthePacific Transit of Venus 28 W ‘Far andaway the bestbookaboutthePacific ofourtimes’ ‘The bestmoderntravelogue aboutthePacific’ lonely planet norman lewis

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the present that is the magic of childhood. the present sexuality, he leaves us reeling with nostalgia for that timeless sense of sense timeless that for nostalgia with reeling us leaves he sexuality, of the forest and a desiccated and disturbing spinster, Mlle.Firman. Mlle.Firman. and disturbing spinster, and a desiccated of the forest Fedden finds himself expelled from this realm by his emerging of the hillside, solemn Clotilde, who lives in a château in the heart him into a long-forgotten yet echoingly familiar world. When a character in its own right, we meet Battouflet, the singing hermit edden writes with preternatural taking clarity, the reader with Seine. In this minutely observed landscape, where even the wind is is a lyrical evocation of growing up on the banks of the of banks the on up growing of evocation lyrical a is Chantemesle Place: France Price: £9.99 Price: Format: 154pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-927 robin fedden A Normandy Childhood Chantemesle Eland Classics apply tothisday. the customs and character of rural Mexicans, and expatriate gringos, into insights His romance’. absorbing but written carelessly ‘one long as describes he which country a in years five of part best the spent he plantation, coffee brother’s his on Based people. Mexican travel book, first published in 1908, is more than a ramble among the uniformity.WesternHis against except prejudices of no and humour, sense individual an with American young rich a was Flandrau Place: Mexico Price: £12.99 Format: 176ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-130 charles flandrau Viva Mexico! 30 In addition,heisamarvellous writer withsomethingof ‘His impressions are deep, sympatheticandjudicious. Mark Twain’s highspiritandHenry James’s suavity.’ ‘A portrait that isbothhumorous andprofound...’ ‘... probably thebesttravel bookIhave everread.’ stanley olson, times literary supplement geoffrey smith,country life miles kington, the times Eland Classics 31

jason goodwin goodwin jason the independent the independent Stamboul Stamboul Sketches is fashioned from these off-cuts, a ‘Freely reveals a superb eye for the telling details.’ a superb eye for the telling details.’ reveals ‘Freely

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scholarly scholarly guide. go’. you lets never and heart the by you ‘grabs says, Freely which, city tellers, folk healers, mimics and prostitutes, were cut from their a of portrait quirky beautiful, a is It Istanbul. seventeenth-century of gypsies, dervishes, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune- chronicle of chance encounters inspired by Evliya Çelebi, the Pepys love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians, dancers, too indulgent of eccentric personalities, too wrapped up in the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, a legendary guidebook with Hilary Sumner-Boyd. But all the corners and monuments of Istanbul, in between teaching, to create Throughout Throughout the 1960s, John Freely explored the alleys, hidden Place: Istanbul Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 208pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780600-567 With photographs by Sedat Pakay by Sedat photographs With john freely Encounters in Old Istanbul in Encounters Stamboul Sketches Stamboul Eland Classics not withher. are you that God thanking while life, at her with laugh you makes who woman a emerges earth on hell of crucible the through right, humour, black always not and ironic righteous never an but Indignant, reactions. surprising and novelist a of eye the with ritten makeswhat talesthese irresistible are Gellhorn’s often and explosive her better judgement. against Union Soviet the in writer dissident a visits and Caribbean Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of U-boats in the wartime journeys’.meet war-tornto rain-sodden, through bumps She Out of a lifetime of travelling, Gellhorn has selected her ‘best horror Price: £12.99 Format: 296ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-774 martha gellhorn fromHell Five Journeys and Another Travels withMyself 32 W ‘I justlaugheduntil thetears ran downmyface.’ ‘One ofthefunniesttravel booksofourtime.’ ‘She isincapable ofwritingadullsentence.’ hannah gordon, radio 4 dervla murphy the times Eland Classics 33 On the francis king, king, bbc radio francis . A lonely, awkward young Englishman, young awkward lonely, A . Sea the By ‘This is a stunningly good book.’ victoria glendinning, new york times york glendinning, new victoria

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of-war, seeks a new life In the Highlands. seeks a of-war, enchantment and rejection. enchantment holiday doomed a orphaned by bombs in London, disoriented by years as a prisoner- of East Africa. It makes an electric theme, which alternates between their adventures in the great world to their parents’ hotel on death son’s her of memory the escape to tries woman heartbroken the integration of European outsiders into the dramatic landscape wo sisters, one beautiful, one , Mountain plain, where they are caught return up in scandalous unmarried relationships. A from Martha Gellhorn’s three intertwined novellas are concerned with Place: East Africa Place: East Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 248pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-781

martha gellhorn martha The Weather in Africa in Weather The Eland Classics 34 as oftentheyshock. learn to way just inspire which chunks, history,bite-sized in created one also tough but a is It pants. your of seat the by WarWorld in wars Central America. little You will also experience the dirtyprocess of the Second USA’s the and Vietnam in intervention naive murderously the Java, in massacres the China, of invasion Japanese feel the frozen ground of the Finno-Russian war,War, the continent-wide Civil Spanish the during Madrid into back straight plunged yourself find process the in and judgements, own heart”. your warm make But a with eye cold a war- combined she other “because all reporters above Gellhorn Martha admired Cameron James Price: £12.99 Format: 416ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780601-052 martha gellhorn 1937–85 Writings FromtheFrontline The Face of War ‘The bestprose onitssubject written byanybody.’ humble population caught upinthefollyof war.’ ‘A powerful tribute totheinnocentvictims –the yorkshire post new statesman Eland Classics 35

sunday telegraph sunday Justice at Night. at Justice Martha Gellhorn wrote it as a 28-year- ‘Deep with humanity and beautifully written.’ and beautifully ‘Deep with humanity

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ground in the face of it. ground remember the wronged and to bear witness to evil but to stand your stand to but evil to witness bear to and wronged the remember courageous courageous work and is also a passionate call to arms, not only to recovery. recovery. It vividly captures the range and intensity of Gellhorn’s in the making, guilty acts of state terrorism, poverty, injustice and looked looked and felt to those who experienced it. It’s about revolutions collection, collection, journalism, history caught at the moment of its unfolding, as it the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this peacetime of years fifty of selection a is follows What 1936. in Europe, If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share share others make to how about writing, about know to want you If old, having just returned home to the States after four years in Price: £14.99 Price: Format: 464pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780601-045 martha gellhorn martha Peacetime Dispatches 1936-87 Peacetime the Ground the The View from from View The Eland Classics 36 f on mn h n lne ‘eiv i mn r o, e alone let God, or private industry’. man in ‘believe longer no who men young of and indifference’ into ‘sucked generation a of mood the catch They House. Roosevelt’s White to directly reports confidential filed who Martha was the youngest of a squad of sixteen, handpicked reporters hopelessness. povertyand desperate unemployment, sudden of face inthe life American of sufficiency homely spiritual simple, the gradual of collapse the render vividly they accuracy, documentary hand observation oftheGreat Depression. Fiction crafted with first Gellhorn’s Martha encapsulate stories interlinked four These Place: U.S.A Price: £12.99 Format: 248ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-628 Caroline Moorehead With anintroduction by martha gellhorn The Trouble I’veSeen ‘She achieves strength ofeffect withouttheleast sacrifice of veracity, andthoughherworkis saturated withpity never oncedidIfindherlapsinginto sentimentality.’ ‘Lives anddancesinthememory.’ herald tribune h.g. wells Eland Classics 37 , one of the great novels of the of novels great the of one , The Leopard ian thomson, independent thomson, ian allan massie, daily telegraph daily allan massie, Leopard The describes the golden era of nineteenth .’ worthy of The Leopard a biographer – everything a good biography should be.’ a good biography – everything ‘Outstandingly good ... Lampedusa has found good ‘Outstandingly ‘... a triumph of fine writing: elegant, witty, concise witty, ‘... a triumph of fine writing: elegant,

what it is that makes a writer. what it is that makes answer is as unlikely as one might hope. A fascinating meditation on meditation fascinating A hope. might one as unlikely as is answer and inequality. and Who inequality. wrote this masterpiece, this work of art? The life story of the creator of creator the of story life reader for ever, millennial – contagions corruption, brutality the surface lurk Sicily’s David Gilmour’s biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the unearths Lampedusa di Giuseppe of biography Gilmour’s David twentieth A century. book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the beneath But glory. aristocratic fading, sensual, its all in Sicily century Place: Sicily Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 334pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0955010-514 david gilmour david di Lampedusa A life of Giuseppe Tomasi of Giuseppe A life The Last Leopard Last The Eland Classics liberating asfailure leads tofreedom. ultimately is story funny,the and absurd sad, turns By neighbours. struggle to keep up appearances, and a collapsing roof, in front of the the and surroundings, chilled emotionally but elegant in marriage a of disintegration the watch we decline, in family aristocratic an to adaptationsof daughter the of perspective troubled idiosyncratic the from Seen life. modern own their and religion, and racing ascendancy, Irish horse- drink, by the aided depression post-war the of through struggling portrait brilliant a is Walled Gardens Place: Ireland Price: £12.99 Format: 276ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-024 annabel goff Scenes fromanIrishChildhood Walled Gardens 38 ‘Her narrative hasthequality ofbrilliantsocialanthropology ... shewriteswithdelicacy oftouch andbeauty ofstyle.’ mercy addedtotheacuteperceptions ofachild.’ ‘Vividly entertaining ...written withaquality of molly keane, spectator daily telegraph Eland Classics 39 sunday times sunday

daily telegraph daily travel books of our time.’ travel captures the rich physical and psychological detail detail and psychological the physical rich captures ‘Extraordinary ... one of the most remarkable remarkable ... one of the most ‘Extraordinary

‘A book I could not put down from the first page to the last.’ book I could not put down from ‘A Africa Dances

Africa Dances Gorer takes the reader on an odyssey across West can. can. a dirty white to almost black. This is a place where if you believe, you you believe, you if where place a is This black. almost to white dirty a of clear blue skies, and chameleon fetishists whose skin changes from from changes skin whose fetishists chameleon and skies, blue clear of coming up for breath, witch-doctors conjuring thunderstorms out Gorer Gorer witnesses men diving for three-quarters of an hour without of African village life – from food and architecture to dance and magic. and dance to architecture and food from – life village African of missionaries undermine indigenous morality. indigenous morality. missionaries undermine to be destroying African society just as effectively as Christian . Paris. It is a devastating critique of colonial rule, which is shown Africa, in the company of one of the great black ballet stars of 1930’s in the of company 1930’s of ballet one Africa, stars black of the great In Place: West Africa West Place: Price: £9.99 Price: Format: 296pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-187

geoffrey gorer geoffrey Africa Dances Africa Eland Classics 40 writers andjournalists. a son, a descriptive labour of love for Argentina by one of its leading with farmers up-country. It is also the portrait of an errant father by trading citywhilst the of brothels and bars the through way his cut who Scotsman, womanising,emigré hard-drinking, a resentatives– ’30s through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic rep which chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the ’20s and of celebrationArgentina, earthy and vivid a Goodbye BuenosAiresis Place: Argentina Price: £12.99 Format: 296ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-703 andrew graham-yooll Buenos Aires Goodbye ‘Witty, brutal andbeautifully crafted, there isprobably ‘... anelegytoimmigrant wholivedthrough no truer portrait ofthisremarkable country.’ a turbulentswathe of Argentine history.’ london magazine - Eland Classics - 41 the times the spectator . All . around Aires him Herald Buenos friends and acquaint ‘One of the most affecting books I have ever read.’ books I have ‘One of the most affecting society that seems on the edge of final dissolution.’ society ‘... Graham-Yooll’s brilliant book is the portrait of a brilliant book is the portrait ‘... Graham-Yooll’s

confessions. tea tea with a torturer who wasn’t ashamed to make the most chilling guerrilla conferences, helped relatives trace the missing, and took hand experience of this war of terror; he attended the clandestine caused caused his own disappearance, he didn’t shrink from getting first- ances were ‘disappearing’. Although the slightest mistake might have have might mistake slightest the Although ‘disappearing’. were ances tor of the For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the For ten news hair-raising years, edi- Andrew Graham-Yooll Place: Argentina Place: Price: £13.99 Price: Format:192pp demi pb Format:192pp ISBN: 978-1906011-345 andrew graham-yooll andrew Memories of Argentina’s Nightmare of Argentina’s Memories A State of Fear of State A Eland Classics laughter. and life for zest a and wit infectious self-deprecatingan charm,with octopus,writtenan all for bait human as used being and rituals tion initia- clan fights, shark with story,complete adventure rip-roaring a is it addition In life. of way and spells rituals, legends, and dances also interwoven with the rich and complex culture of the region: the 42 memoir,autobiographical an level one and magicwas anessentialpartofeveryday life. endemic was warfare when days pagan the from stories of treasury their him with shared men old the and man, young energetic and happy this charming, to trust began fighters, and poets sorcerers, fishermen, of cast fascinating a neighbours, island his Fortunately oped a rare passion for the language, life and landscape of his parish. devel- and administrator colonial a as islands Ellice and Gilbert the in lived he twentyyears next the Forera. Edwardian the of twilight the at man young a as Seas South the to sent was Grimble Arthur Place: Pacific Islands Price £12.99 Format: 320ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011--451 arthur grimble A Pattern ofIslands On enhances thebook’s overwhelming attraction. A triumph!’ ‘His pagesare enlivened withagleaming humour-which daily telegraph A Pattern of Islands Patternof A is Eland Classics 43 tls professor erik mueggler erik professor who lived there for nine years.’ who lived there in the on China.’ literature in the travel ‘This is a book about paradise by a man ‘This is a book about paradise Kingdom Forgotten nothing else like ‘There’s

happy laughter emerging from out of the wineshops. out of the wineshops. happy laughter emerging from mountain mountain streams, the coarse ribaldry of the market ladies and the warriors warriors as well as catching the sound of the swiftly running attend magnificent banquets, meet ancient dowagers and handsome magnificent banquets,attend meet ancient dowagers hear hear about the love affairs and the social rivalries of his neighbours, loan from the Co-Operative movement. In his company we get to so that he could report on which characters should be backed by a to know all the local traders, merchants, inn-keepers and artisans to his inquiring, gossipy temperament, for it was his mission to get Nakhi Kingdom of China. South He West had a job entirely suited Peter Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all but forgotten, ancient Place: China Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 224pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780601-113 peter goullart peter Nine Years in Yunan in Years Nine Forgotten Kingdom Forgotten Eland Classics our ownsociety. on reflection thought-provoking a and itself, in journey fascinating e wno it a aall universe, parallel a into window a e dignity preserve theimportance oftheindividual. storytellers weave their enchantments nightly and where honour and world where ritual matters and traditions are alive – where saints live, Muslims for half his life. In this series of essays Goytisolo celebrates a amongst worked and lived Goytisolo,has Juan who as intimately as No European writer knows the Islamic shores of the Mediterranean Place: Morocco/Turkey/Egypt Price: £9.99 Format: 144ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1900209-168 Translated byPeter Bush juan goytisolo Mediterranean Essays fromtheMuslim Cinema Eden 44 ‘His works...are like pages tornoutofthebookexperience.’ Lik simultaneously forceful and beguiling.’ ‘Goytisolo’s extraordinary giftsare new york times observer s a is Cinema Eden Eland Classics 45 paul bowles paul maureen freely, cornucopia freely, maureen Anatolia with stark honesty and compassion.’ honesty Anatolia with stark ‘Extremely moving. Grissmann captures life in remote life in remote Grissmann captures moving. ‘Extremely

life in an Anatolian village, the almost tangible good cheer.’ Anatolian village, the almost tangible life in an

‘More than anything I have read, it captures the hum of everyday the hum of everyday it captures read, than anything I have ‘More than a fattening ox where hatred also dwells.’ hatred ox where than a fattening testimony to Proverbs 15:17, ‘better is a dinner of herbs where love is, love where herbs of dinner a is ‘better 15:17, Proverbs to testimony honest, clear-sighted and affectionate portraits of rural Turkey, some forty years was it published, and yet it is one of the most and were remembered and treasured in a private memoir. Not for Uzak Köy accepted her into their community left a deep impression, impression, deep a left community their into her accepted Köy Uzak hospitality, the hospitality, friendship and the way in which the inhabitants of farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250km east of Ankara. The The Ankara. of east 250km some Anatolia, remote in hamlet farming Carla Grissmann spent the better part of a year in the ’60s living in a in living ’60s the in year a of part better the spent Grissmann Carla Place: Turkey Place: Price £12.99 Price Format: 200pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780600-437 John Hopkins John Hopkins With a biographical portrait by portrait a biographical With grissmann carla Village Life in 1960s Turkey Life in 1960s Village Herbs of Dinner Eland Classics h viet te ot ecls, h finlet te Somalis’. acute.’most its at writing observational best, the its at writing travel ‘... friendliest: the merciless, bravest, tomost the better the proudest, the one vainest, difficult, be the most ‘Ofall cannot the ‘there death. than says, for among live he Africa,’ contempt love of their Somalis’ races the to admire the understand to and comes fighting He of committed valuable life. officers most his British ‘the seven of as conditions extreme period time’ these the describes Hanley but suicide, soldiers near-mutinous. native of detachment his and infrequent pay scarce, were Rations with charged War,preventing bloodshed between World feuding tribes at a Second remote outstation. the spent Hanley Gerald that here was It tribesmen. fierce independent-mindedand lands, by inhabited sun-scorched desolate, most world’s the of one is Place: Somalia Price: £13.99 Format: 232ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-835 the Somalis Life andDeathamong Warriors 46 In ‘The foremost writerof hisgeneration.’

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rough guide to morocco rough guide The Times correspondent he observed every aspect melodramatic and extremely funny.’ and extremely melodramatic ‘This book is brilliant – alternately sharp, ‘This book is brilliant – alternately sharp,

‘Among the funniest and best-written books I have ever read.’ I have books the funniest and best-written ‘Among Harris

James Chandler With a biographical afterword by afterword a biographical With other was Walter Harris. Walter other was melodramatic splendour. splendour. melodramatic was poisoned, one stayed for an hour disguised as a rabbi ... the of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, one of Chechaouen: city Christians had ever visited the walled three 35 years, and as a man capable even It of is befriending said his that kidnapper. only was an intimate of at least three of the ruling Sultans and Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than mountainous mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Until Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its Place: Morocco Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 262pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-062

walter harris walter Morocco That Was That Morocco Eland Classics threat ofnineteenth-century mortality. ever-presentsimple the and slaughter animal of ritual agonising the the times – tortured slaves, murderous, macho gauchos delighting in of realities violent the are all it Underlying ballads. extempore with filled evenings companionable long, and horses piebald of breeders obsessive cheese, sheep’s manufacturing multiracial Englishmen their households: and inhabitants human captures its also of He idiosyncrasies life. the bird pulsating its and trees unforgettable storms, spectacular lakes, seasonal thistles, artichoke wild its recalls Hudson detail scintillating In exploration. endless and freedom of Seen through the eyes of a young boy, the Argentine pampas is a land Place: Argentina Price: £12.99 Format: 248ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871--743 Nicholas Shakespeare With anafterword by w. h.hudson A ChildhoodinArgentina Far Away & Long Ago 48 ‘He writesasthegrass grows. It isasifsomevery fineandgentle spirit were whispering tohimthesentencesheputs favourite bookitwas inchildhood andbeyond.’ ‘A masterpiece...Iwas butoneofmanywhose kathleen raine, the tablet down onthepaper.’

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is a precious document seen through the eyes of eyes the through seen document precious a is Arabia in Time A

I suspect that the Hadhramis loved above her, all, for being such a ‘There ‘There are deep insights into a closed and fascinating society... a decent, modest and compassionate woman. society. secrets, secrets, jewels and privileges of this extraordinarily rich traditional domestic quarters, to the women and children, the food, the scents, detailed detailed their adventures and described her unequalled access to the the region by camel and Doreen donkey. kept a diary in which she by boat, and during their ten-year residency travelled throughout Arabia. Arabia. Married to an Arabic-speaking British official, they arrived live in the Hadhramaut, an extraordinary, isolated region of southern of region isolated extraordinary, an Hadhramaut, the in live Doreen Doreen Ingrams and her husband were the first Europeans ever to Place: Southern Arabia/Yemen Place: Southern Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 176pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-802 Tim Mackintosh-Smith Tim by afterword With ingrams doreen Life in Hadhramaut Life in A Time in Arabia in Time A Eland Classics schools ofhistory will bedelightedbythisrich mineofevidence. and Dr Weizmann. Proponents of both the ‘cock-up’ and ‘conspiracy’ Samuel Herbert Feisal,King – seat hot the in men the and Curzon Lord and Lawrence E. T.like Arabists experienced from doom prophecies of the as well as Balfour, Arthur and Churchill as Winston Zionists passionate such behind thinking and background the revealing history, Imperial British of period last the life to brings also Palestinians.It native the British of rights the protecting and Zionism the into 1922 by fostering of objective dual impossible its Palestinewith of Mandate transformed was 1917 of Declaration Balfour the how of story inside vivid the gives which scholarship, dispassionate of Services.extraordinarywork Intelligence An Secret of minutes secret the from Cabinet meetings, the memos of Foreign Ministers and Directors of culled documents original the just History caught in the making. No rhetoric, no apology, no bombast, Place: Palestine/Israel Price: £13.99 Format: 208ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011--383 by Doreen Ingrams Edited & annotated 1917–1922 SeedsofConflict Palestine Papers 50 ‘... ascholarly and impartialanalysisofhowBritishpoliticans made the fatefuldecision topursueapro-Zionist policy inPalestine.’ david gilmour Eland Classics 51 guardian sunday times sunday ... it deserves a lot of readers.’ ... it deserves ‘Moving, intelligent, thoroughly readable readable intelligent, thoroughly ‘Moving,

Jones fakes nothing and blurs little ... It is truthful and moving.’ ... It is truthful and blurs little nothing Jones fakes ‘A remarkable evocation of life in the East End of London ... Mr of life in the East End of London evocation remarkable ‘A Wheelwright family and their neighbours. Wheelwright family and its compelling narrative brings the reader right into the life of the document, the book rings with truth, but it is much more than that: that: than more much is it but truth, with rings book the document, the 1960s, when it was replaced with tower blocks. As a social family (originally dockers) lived there until its demolition in lived on it. The street was built in the 1880s, and the Wheelwright This is the story of a street in London’s docklands and of a family who family a of and docklands London’s in street a of story the is This Place: London Price: £13.99 Price: Format: 336pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-420

mervyn jones mervyn Holding On Holding Eland Classics Kakmi has written a compulsive page-turner,compulsive something a written has Kakmi that isdistinctive, original,humaneanduplifting. Itisalsotrue. how, despiteangerandexile,reconciliation ispossible. violence begets violence, in even the most unexpected of people and how clarity chilling with reveals father. It a of fisherman homeboy, his and mother cosmopolitan his between Christian, and Muslim Turkand and Greek between tensions escalating the of sense make neighbouring cultures. A Greek boy born on a Turkish island tries to on an Aegean island, marked by the furious opposition of hostile yet childhood a of description remembered minutely a is Mother Land Place: Aegean, Turkey & Greece Price: £12.99 Format: 232ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-635 dmetri kakmi Mother Land 52 ‘I amutterly entranced ...soclear, sotruthful, soheart-breaking.’ Dmetri ‘A universalmythofloss...beautiful, evocative andcarefully crafted.’ the age, melbourne maureen freely Eland Classics 53 is a fast- The Catcher Red Moon & High Summer Red Moon & High chris stewart chris ‘This deeply satisfying novel, written as it is with a written novel, ‘This deeply satisfying the desert and its enigmatic inhabitants, the Tuareg.’ the the desert and its enigmatic inhabitants, profound understanding of the subject, reveals the joy, the joy, reveals of the subject, understanding profound

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is his destiny. is his destiny. beloved, only to findthat the solitary life of thewandering minstrel in Africa in the 1950s and ’60s, his own, he avenges the death of his father and wins the heart of his ritten by Herbert Kaufmann, a German journalist who lived volumes. people than a whole shelf load of academic manhood in true Tuareg style. Overcoming poverty to win camels of camels win to poverty Overcoming style. Tuareg true in manhood gives a truer and more of picture vibrant these mysterious, nomadic witted lyrics. A coming-of-age witted A novel coming-of-age lyrics. in the tradition of , in the Rye it follows Mid-e-Mid in his bid to find his ownroute to paced adventure story saturated in Tuareg lore. Though fiction, it grazing lands of his Tuareg tribe for his mellifluous voice and quick- Tuareg lands of his grazing the story of the young bard Mid-e-Mid, famed throughout the vast This magical story, written for teenagers but enjoyed by all ages, tells ages, all by enjoyed but teenagers for written story, magical This Place: Sahara Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 208pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-347 herbert kaufmann herbert High Summer High Red Moon & & Moon Red Eland Classics these strange confines. within development his in pride poignant her and hungry go child her watching at pain mother’s a records she tins, in buries or toys home-made son’s her in hides she which paper of scraps on notes Keepingdies. Keith’s completely food, never of spirit scraps for rats forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with two-year-oldher with imprisoned and Fedrations,son. minimal on capturedKeithwasAgnes 1942, in Borneo took Japanese the When Place: Malaysia Price: £13.99 Format: 304ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-286 agnes keith Japanese PrisonCamp A Mother’sOrdeal ina Three CameHome can fail to share her emotions with something very like the intensityverythe likesomething with emotions her share to canfail Colonel complexity. their all in captors her describes also at timesheradversary, atothersastrange allyinadistortedworld. man; educated highly intelligent, commander,an camp is the Suga, 54 She ‘No onewhoreads her unforgettable account ... ‘... atoncedesolating anduplifting.’ times literary supplement of personalexperience.’ british book news Eland Classics 55 Peking Peking Story is a testimony john updike john swift death of a uniquely ancient civilisation.’ of a uniquely swift death ‘... simple, graceful, comic, mournful miniatures comic, mournful miniatures ‘... simple, graceful, of an ominous catastrophe, the unprecedentedly the unprecedentedly of an ominous catastrophe,

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something tragically profound. something tragically of the goals of the revolution, which transforms this memoir into of the inevitability of great change, and Kidd’s sympathy with of many great of change, and the Kidd’s inevitability care of successive generations of owners. But it is the brooding sense brooding the is it But owners. of generations successive of care never lost the heat of their original founding due to the meticulous and cherished antique heirlooms, such as the set of braziers which had which braziers of set the as such heirlooms, antique cherished and since completely disappeared. since completely disappeared. opulent ceremonies, lavish entertainments picnics, demure servants, to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has sprawling mansion, the visits to ancestral temples, the moonlit Mandarin culture before the revolution, Chinese family, David Kidd had unique access to the the American son-in-law of a revered official life from an ancient – their A A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Place: China Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 176pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-000

david kidd david Peking Story Peking Eland Classics danger ofbecomingatestament tothelastofoldLevant. as a travel classic on first publication (just 12 years ago), but is now in war.saluted wascivil It current the before long and mobiles, of use book’s title. It was written during the era of conversation, before the father, desert Paolo modern Dall’Oglio, and the street philosopher and the a holy fool of the fools, of prince al-Tahib, a Abu activist, political and refugee Palestinian a Yasser, stigmatic, Christian faith-healing a Myrna, as such Syrians, of handful chance a meet Instead we travellers. historic coups or about monuments nothing iconic conspiracies, learn or slow we So the friendship. with towards concerned journey entirely is asmany book over Kociejowski’s undertaken years, journeys, five on Based Syria. of face The Street PhilosopherandtheHolyFool Place: Syria Price: £12.99 Format: 272ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780600-727 marius kociejowski A SyrianJourney & theHolyFool The Street Philosopher 56 ‘This superbbook –destined,tomymind, to becomeatravel classic.’ adam thorpe, tls

rsns h unexpected the presents Eland Classics 57 . After retreating to retreating After Noon. at Darkness guardian times literary supplement literary times to come out of the collapse of France.’ ‘This is a book in a thousand, by far the best book ‘This is a book in a thousand, by far the best book

‘... a memorable story, vivid, powerful and deeply searching.’ vivid, powerful story, ‘... a memorable is more than the story of Koestler’s survival. His survival. Koestler’s of story the than more is Earth the of Scum

a nation loses its honour and its pride. during the summer of 1940 is an illustration of what happens when shrewd observation of the collapse of French determination to resist resist to determination French of collapse the of observation shrewd torture and often execution. and often execution. torture of the innocent refugees, who were handed over to the Nazis for and his passionate energy allowed him to escape the fate of many the south of France working on working France of south the though he had been a respected crusader against fascism. Only luck At the beginning of the Second Koestler War, World was living in he Paris was imprisoned by the French as an undesirable alien even Place: France Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 256pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-491 Laqueur Walter by an afterword With arthur koestler arthur Scum of the Earth of Scum Eland Classics to allthosewhohave cometoloveGreece. a precious fusion of experience, a gift of insight from one philhellene family man, with the ripened sensibility of an acclaimed poet. This is a of eyes mature the through seen is it Lastly quarries. corpse-filled and the earlier occupation of Greece, back to murder, starvation and war civil the during made alliances secret to back led life political of in Athens through the dark days of the dictatorship. Then the sinews a priest working as a diplomat and a friend of the oppressed, he lived and civilisation, in its ruined cities and majestic mountains. Later, as mythology its to keys the spirit, ancient young its a out sought As he exploration. scholar of lifetime a through know to came he In Place: Greece Price: £12.99 Format: 334ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0955010-545 With anappendixofadozenGreek poems peter levi The HillofKronos 58 unique book:toread it istohave theexperienceofGreece itself.’ ‘I have nothingbutgratitude forthisdevoted,splendid, this The Hill of Kronos, Peter Levi paints a radiant portrait of the Greece ‘This bookislitup bythesearch forapoet’s fitting phrase.’ dilys powell, the times robin lanefox Eland Classics

59 simon raven , the sunday morris, jan ‘...a poet as well as a scholar, a Jesuit as well as a poet.’ a ‘...a poet as well as a scholar, ‘...a beautiful book, a poetic evocation and worthy of a a poetic evocation book, ‘...a beautiful

Road to Oxiana.’ Road Byron’s place beside Eothen and Robert In Since

the God-forgiven angel King.’ ‘this highway of archangels/this theatre of heaven/the light garden of garden light heaven/the of theatre archangels/this of highway ‘this invasion and civil war, making it all the more poignant to rediscover rediscover to poignant more the all it making war, civil and invasion his journey, Afghanistan has suffered forty years of and West have penetrated the high valleys of Afghanistan. Afghanistan. of high valleys the penetrated have West and Chatwin. of the young Bruce left, in the company migration From time immemorial, merchants, pilgrims and invaders from East from invaders and pilgrims merchants, immemorial, time From this resonant account, Peter Levi seeks the clues which each Place: Afghanistan Place: Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 272pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-550 James Owen peter levi peter by afterword a biographical With Journey in Afghanistan of the Angel King Angel of the The Light Garden Garden Light The Eland Classics 60 extraordinary this edited and preserved memoir. who Lewes, Diana of With a personal foreword from Nicholas Noble, the great-nephew only finally revealed in thepublisher’s afterword. is were contradictions those complex how Quite contradictions. its young woman appraising the society around her competent and struggling with and intelligent this see We world. man’s this in herself for role meaningful more a find to trying and – riding visits, social alternates Lewes Miss high, between the on acceptable from pursuits of a Victorian distant gentlewoman - a sewing, and sea the overlooking Arcadia, called plantation a on primarily Set passions. hidden and rules coded its understand to world, adult mysterious in is the it in Jamaica herself for place a find to tries Lewes Miss that For adulthood. to journey her on girl Victoriana of passage of rite internal the and Caribbean the family’sin plantationsher sugar visit to England from trip 1889 Lewes’s Diana journeys: simultaneous two of story the telling memoir complex a is A Year inJamaica Place: Jamaica Price: £16.99 Format: 224pphardback ISBN: 978-1906011-833 diana lewes Memoirs ofagirlinArcadia A Year in Jamaica ‘... superblywritten, takes youtothe dark heart ofasugarland anditspeople.’ ian thomson Eland Classics 61 manchester evening news evening manchester cyril connolly, sunday times sunday connolly, cyril ‘Mr Lewis can make even a lorry interesting.’ even a lorry make Lewis can ‘Mr peoples and customs which have gone forever.’ have peoples and customs which ‘an absorbing and heart-aching glimpse of lands, ‘an absorbing and heart-aching

experiment. French officersFrench trapped by the economic imperatives of the colonial change. on the brink of catastrophic society emperors emperors and slaves, brutal plantation owners and sympathetic heart-breaking struggle over and over, leaving a vital portrait of a to retain their integrity in the embrace of the West. He meets From tribal animists to Viet-Minh guerrillas, he witnesses this Vietnam war. He creates a portrait of traditional societies struggling struggling societies traditional of portrait a creates He war. Vietnam civilisations as they were before the terrible devastation of the the French colonial regime, Norman Lewis witnessed these ancient Travelling through Vietnam, Travelling and Cambodia in the twilight of Place: Cambodia/Laos/Vietnam Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 336pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-330 norman lewis norman Laos & Vietnam in Cambodia, Travels A Dragon Apparent Dragon A Eland Classics hing lifts with the army and with travelling merchants, Lew a monktaking orders. quotes Prisons Chaucer and of where three-day theatrical shows Director are staged to celebrate the where rats, the even spare beliefs Buddhist where country a is beautyThis Burmese. gentle natural the by breath-taking peopled of land a describes Lewis Norman Place: Burma Price: £12.99 Format: 296ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-385 norman lewis Travels inBurma Golden Earth of thestock markets asatopicforpolite conversation’. that replaces soul the of condition ‘the where country a reveals and treatedis hospitalityis with war-tornthis in stops whereverhe land, 62 Hitc ‘A truly great travel writer, perhapsthegreatest wehave.’ ‘... thebesteverwritten aboutBurma.’ new york review ofbooks sunday telegraph - Eland Classics 63 observer the times the ‘... every page is horribly absorbing.’ page is horribly ‘... every

In He

‘The Mafia observed by one of the greatest writers of our time.’ one of the greatest by ‘The Mafia observed threats. extortion, frequently using the confessional box for transmitting police, the judiciary and even the church. and even the church. police, the judiciary Camelo year-old who Padre led his monks on sprees of murder and one chilling chapter, Lewis details the escapades of eighty- after Mussolini had come close to destroying it. close to destroying after Mussolini had come infiltrated every aspect of the island’s corruptinglife, landowners, Mafia was returned to power in 1944 by the unsuspecting US army, wasreturnedMafia to power in 1944 by the US army, unsuspecting to preserve Sicily for the Sicilians, despite countless invasions, they Norman Lewis gives a fascinating and detailed account of how the attempt their in how and homeland their in Mafia the at looks Place: Sicily Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 272pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-484

norman lewis norman The Sicilian Mafia Observed Mafia The Sicilian The Honoured Society Honoured The Eland Classics the black market was king. and prostitution to driven been had the women respectable aquarium, in fish tropical the all devoured had population starving The 1944. in officer intelligence an as Naples war-torn in arrived Lewis Place: Italy Price: £12.99 Format: 192ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-729 norman lewis Italian Labyrinth inthe An IntelligenceOfficer Naples ’44 would bethecountry ofmychoice’. clock. ‘Were I given the chance to be born again,’ wrote Lewis, ‘Italy gained but soldiers, fellow his in admire the against lover British her times to who housewife widowed the and little found the gynaecologist who ‘specialises in the restoration of lost virginity’ is There Italians. the of vivacity extraordinary the from sustenance 64 Naples ’44ishismasterpiece. A lyrical, ironic anddetached account.’ ‘... oneofthegreatest of twentieth-century British writersand Lewis ‘One goesonreading page afterasifeating cherries.’ luigi barzini, new york review ofbooks will self Eland Classics 65 sunday telegraph sunday chris hirst, the independent hirst, chris

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‘... a haunting book that encapsulates a whole social revolution.’ a whole social revolution.’ ‘... a haunting book that encapsulates ‘His account of Farol on the Costa Brava is a quirky masterpiece.’ black-marketeer Muga? black-marketeer tourism, which sidles insidiously into the village with the arrival of verse in the bar – hold out against the encroaching tide of package gardens, arranged marriages and made frugal ends meet. and made frugal marriages arranged gardens, feuds and traditions – not least the evenings of impromptu blank and the tuna fishing of and summer, where womenkept goats and their ancient economy, their precarious How long can for centuries. men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn autumn and spring of shoals sardine the by lives their regulated men unchanged life of way a to on hang to struggle villagers the as affection on what is now the Costa Brava in Spain, relishing a society where the course of three years he watches with sorrow and In the late 1940s, Norman Lewis settled in a remote fishing village Place: Spain Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 222pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-611

norman lewis norman Voices of the Old Sea the Old of Voices Eland Classics 66 twentieth century’s greatest travel writers. the of one as career his for apprenticeship an as Italy,acted which and of all Sicily , in spent wartime a and Yemen, the and Cuba Spain, in journeys first his see we Here pleasure. for Bugattis racing and restoring cameras,while in dealing by and photographer aping hiseccentric familybymarrying thedaughterofa wedding a as living a made Norman Mafia, the of associate Sicilian a of baking whose weekly cake tofeedthejackdaws givesthebookitstitle. Carmarthen, in aunts dotty supremely with live to Enfield in parents Spiritualist from moves Lewis Norman Price: £12.99 Format: 250ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-826 norman lewis An Autobiography Jackdaw Cake Esc ‘... thisbook,hilarious,tender, beautifuly written, ‘... asawitnesstohisowntimes–thegood, bad andtheludicrous –heisunmatched.’ is certainly oneofNorman Lewis’s best.’ literary review sunday times Eland Classics 67 time out patrick marnham, literary review literary marnham, patrick even higher than it already is. It is a triumph.’ is. even higher than it already other travel-writing read like the blurb on a brochure.’ the blurb like read other travel-writing

‘Everything is portrayed with a brilliance which makes all makes which with a brilliance is portrayed ‘Everything will carry Norman Lewis’s reputation reputation Norman Lewis’s will carry of the World ‘A View At

professional life. professional of repatriating Cossacks to the Soviet Union in 1944. in 1944. Union to the Soviet Cossacks of repatriating his of achievement important most the was felt, Lewis This, peoples. ferocious ferocious blood feuds of Sardinian bandits and the unpleasant duty Survival International – which campaigns for the rights of tribal unspoilt Ibiza. He describes the gentle pleasures of Belize, the genocide of the Brazilian Indians, which the led heart of to the collection the is Lewis’s creation famous of report on the Hemingway Hemingway and with the unchanged lifestyle of fishermen in an brings us face with to a face tragic Ernest with executioner, Castro’s finest pieces travel of writing, spanning a period 30of years. He Collected Collected between these covers are twenty of Norman Lewis’s Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 320pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-439 norman lewis norman Selected JournalismSelected A View of the World of the View A Eland Classics tribespeople –inhabitsthesuperiorculture. or missionaries – two the of which to as doubt no with and cruelty words their describing and groups two the observing simply y and actions, Lewis leaves the reader devastated by man’s capacity for of themenandwomenwhoseektoconvertthem. the violence, greed mercenary the and standards shameless double piety,ruthless bogus the the with admires so he people tribal the of traditions peaceful self-contained, the contrasts Lewis Norman ground, the on observation convert lifetime’s a of distillation a In to results. missionaries indigenous Christian tribes around the globe, and the genocide which so often fundamentalist American The Missionaries Price: £12.99 Format: 205ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-529 norman lewis God againsttheIndians The Missionaries 68 B ‘... compulsive,deeply upsetting andunforgettable.’ ‘... ascathing andironic indictment ofwhich a Voltaire oraSwiftmightbeproud.’ s saig xmnto o atmt b North by attempts of examination searing a is financial times sunday times Eland Classics 69 michael palin william dalrymple, spectator dalrymple, william seen ten thousand times before ... a joy to read.’ seen ten thousand times before ‘Lewis’s senses are awake for sounds or smells and awake senses are ‘Lewis’s he can make you think twice about scenes you have about scenes you have you think twice make he can people he is interested in, not the sunrises and sunsets.’ people he is interested ‘Lewis is one of the best travel writers I’ve read. He can He can writers I’ve read. ‘Lewis is one of the best travel

bring anywhere in the world close to you because it’s the it’s in the world close to you because bring anywhere

who have survived in isolation. survived who have of Orissa to testify and learn from the life of the ‘indigenous tribals’ happenings, he heads down the coast of Bengal and into the highlands the into and Bengal of coast the down heads he happenings, the untouchables and higher-caste gangsters. From these violent and corrupt state of Bihar - the scene of a brutal caste war between Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated impoverished, the in begin India in travels his Instead hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the Place: India Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 326pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780601-083

norman lewis norman Travels in India Travels A Goddess in the Stones in the Goddess A Eland Classics 70 dominion oftheexploitative Dutch colonial regime. ruling the of power the Javanese generals who for better assess or worse took over the 300-year old to restraint and of humour tools well-honed irony, his using and observe, can he what on only into East Timor and Irian Jaya. He never drops his guard, reporting Sumatra, of edge western extreme the into contentious Indonesia: of most corners the into journeys arduous three of series a on Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when in 1991 he embarked Place: Indonesia Price: £12.99 Format: 280ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780601-021 norman lewis Travels inIndonesia An Empire oftheEast ‘Mr Lewishas,withhisinveterate skill,presented these ‘... apowerfulwork,madebrilliant byitssimplicity.’ purgatories withalighttouch. Hisprose isalmost edible. Inoldageheiswritingbetter thanever.’ michael fathers, independent anthony burgess Eland Classics

71 The Honoured . Society literary review literary evening standard evening ‘...still travelling and writing beautifully.’ and writing beautifully.’ ‘...still travelling

‘...Sicily emerges as a beautiful, accursed and irresistible place.’ place.’ and irresistible accursed ‘...Sicily emerges as a beautiful, best writers, not of any particular decade, but of our century.’ last work of a man described Graham Greene as ‘one of the researching researching his acclaimed study of the mafia, with his formidable style and rasping, dry humour. It is the its pain. His first wartime visit as a soldier led numerous to trips descriptions of Sicily as he now found it, all pinned down closely and returned frequently to chronicle its pleasures and his early nineties. It interweaves memories of earlier trips with last trip to Sicily in the late 1990s, Lewis watched the island This final portrait of the islandwas written when hewas in marrying marrying the daughter of a mafioso exile in the 1930s, to his Lewis’s Lewis’s sixty-year fascination with all things Sicilian. From This loving profile of extraordinaryan country is based on

Place: Sicily Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 184pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780600-093

norman lewis norman In Sicily Eland Classics 72 work, apprentice in Lewis’s described first and in writer distilled nonagenerian his ofmisadventures the also set by is honed book, extraordinary last verythe his For this, characterfirst. that mischievous the is with Lewis keeping Norman in of entirely is hundred Seville. What to a Portugal than via forced more then transport were walked and public two Madrid, to when the miles standstill, Seville, a of Spanish to last cathedral came the the of in tomb the his Corvaja by locate Commissioned to war. father-in-law to civil murderous out Sicilian the turned of what eve on the Spain be of breadth the across Corvaja Eugene travelled brother-in-law his and Lewis Norman 1934, In Place: Spain Price: £12.99 Format: 192ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780600-086 norman lewis The Tomb inSeville ‘Crackles withpoker-faced witandstylistic brilliance.’ ‘Full offeeling...and aloveofthenatural world.’ london review ofbooks the guardian were Seville in Tomb The pns Adventure. Spanish

Eland Classics 73 john mellors jonathan keay jonathan ‘a brilliant exposé of village India.’ ‘harder to put down than any thriller.’ ‘harder

authoritarian holy man. authoritarian snake-infested, snake-infested, ramshackle community which grew up around an Punjabi Punjabi village in 1979 and afterwards in a fly-blown, rat- and a description of the realities of desperate firstpoverty, in aremote book, made vivid by a meticulous examination of landscape and it immerses the reader in the realities of rural India like no other just a cross-cultural love story. With totally convincing authority, impoverished, opium-addicted Sikh temple servant. But this is not a young British woman of adventurous spirit, and Jungli, an An Indian Attachment tells the story of a love affair between Sarah,

Place: India Price: £13.99 Price: Format: 246pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-031

sarah lloyd sarah An Indian Attachment Indian An Eland Classics would recognise it,seenthrough theeyesofapoet. the banality of a half-century of tourism. This is Greece as the Greeks banishes finally Greece of realities the for country.love YetLucas’s corrupt a and city dirty a of portrait gritty a is Street Acharnon 92 Lucas. John of detachment and irony the with individualists heroic pettythe prostitutes, bureaucratic tyrannies, the and noise street the have to seems cherished the Athenian tavernas, the murderous none traffic and the jaded though admirers, its had always has Greece Place: Greece Price: £12.99 Format: 224ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-574 by Pamela Browne With photographs john lucas A Year inAthens 92 Acharnon Street 74 ‘John Lucas writesaboutGreek culture andGreek people with asympatheticunderstanding bornoflove.’ ‘Lucas isadabhandatsocial observation ...his language cackles withcolloquialart.’ peter robinson, guardian manos georginis Eland Classics 75 sunday times sunday katie hickman katie is a unique portrait of traditional Tunisian ‘... a vivid account of life behind the veil.’ ‘... a vivid account

Among the Faithful Dahris

‘... it opens a fascinating window onto Tunisia before the crowds.’ before Tunisia ‘... it opens a fascinating window onto entrancing, dancing Aisha. dancing entrancing, the blind musician, Zinibe who had a heart for all the world and the and world the all for heart a had who Zinibe musician, blind the and dances held for djinn. It sings the praises of the unsung: of Eltifa of unsung: the of praises the sings It djinn. for held dances and society. It tells society. of the deflowering of virgin brides, spirit possession sure lightness of touch. sure privilege she shares without pretension, with affection and with a Martin witnessed domestic life from in within, Tunisia a Kalipha, she becomes part of his circle of friends and family. of friends and family. of his circle Kalipha, she becomes part holy city of Kairouan in the late 1920s. Befriended by the roguish Dahris Martin, a young American in search of sun, arrived in the Place: Tunisia Place: Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 192pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780600-543 dahris martin dahris Tunisia in the 1920s Tunisia Among the Faithful the Among Eland Classics regime toppledlike apack ofcards. Glaoua the Morocco, left French the when 1956, in Yet gates. his on mounted be to enemies his of heads severed the ordered T’hami 1953, in II Elizabeth Queen of coronation the from returning On terror. and flamboyance of mixture a with ruled and princes, Indian the aggression of gangland mobsters with the opulence of hereditary feudal fiefdominsouthernMorocco inthe early twentieth-century. of Madani and T’hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a mountains,High Atlas Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the Place: Morocco Price: £12.99 Format: 320ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-149 gavin maxwell House ofGlaoua1893-1956 The RiseandFallofthe Lords ofthe Atlas 76 ‘... oneofthegreat adventure storiesofthetwentieth century.’ Quislings of the French colonial administration, they combined they administration, colonial French the of sunday telegraph tells the extraordinarythe tells storyAtlas the Lordsof richard ford ‘His bestbook.’ Eland Classics 77 new yorker new new york times york new ‘... prose close to poetry.’ ‘... prose ‘... an almost perfect book of travel.’ ‘... an almost perfect The Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq were one of the most isolated communities in the world. Few outsiders, had let been alone permitted to Europeans, travel through their homeland: a tiny mass islands of lost in a wilderness of reeds and swamps in Iraq. southern One of the few trusted outsiders was the legendary explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who was Gavin Maxwell’s guide to the intricate landscape, tribal customs and distinctive architecture of the Marsh a them assured rifle and chest medicine a with skill Thesiger’s Arabs. welcome in every hamlet, and training Maxwell’s as a naturalist and writer has left an invaluable record of a unique community and a of life. way vanished gavin maxwell gavin ISBN: 978-0907871-934 256pp demi pb Format: £12.99 Price: Place: Iraq Travels among the Marsh among the Travels Arabs of Iraq Shaken Reed A Wind the by Eland Classics 78 this affectionate andhilariousaccount. Mayne neighbours, his by cherished and abused used, turns y wrote their letters for them and captured the essence of their lives in love affairs,potionsandgossip. enchantments and misunderstandings of the street, with its festivals, embroiled in conspiratorial picnics, hashish-laced dinners and in the became and friends made language, the learned rooms, rented he in the 1950s. Rather than watch from the shelter of the hotel terrace, Marrakesh of streets back the in live to down settled Mayne Peter Pakistan, in living while life Muslim appreciate to learned Having Place: Morocco Price: £12.99 Format: 192ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-088 peter mayne A Year inMarrakesh B ‘Few writershave evoked thespirit ofplaceasbrilliantly Douglas was toCapriandLawrence Durrell toGreece.’ as Peter Mayne, whowas toMorocco what Norman ‘Captures thevery essenceoftheplacewith aneasy, natural style thatmakes itcompletely compelling.’ yorkshire post tatler Eland Classics 79 byron rogers, standard rogers, byron when a stage-coach appears.’ appears.’ when a stage-coach ‘The writing is so fresh that you are startled startled that you are ‘The writing is so fresh iain hamilton, illustrated london news illustrated hamilton, iain ‘This account of his travels has a clarity and freshness freshness and has a clarity travels of his ‘This account quite unsurpassed by any contemporary descriptions.’ quite unsurpassed by any contemporary

education among ordinary people. among ordinary education dons, the riotous behaviour in Parliament, and the high level of food they ate, the expense of a simple salad, the drunkenness of the people who wore spectacles, the amount they drank, the dreadful letters letters home he describes his amazement at the number of English or hasn’t changed within the last two hundred years. In a series of the fresh eyes of a foreigner we get a wonderful insight into what has what into insight wonderful a get we foreigner a of eyes fresh the In 1782 an enthusiastic young German landed in England. Through Place: England Price: £13.99 Price: Format: 208pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011--437 carl philip moritz carl A Walking Tour of England in 1782 of England Tour A Walking in England of a German Journeys Eland Classics her majorworkofimperialhistory, thePax Britannica trilogy. write to experience the by inspired was and observer, professional Taimurbin a Said as Sultan Highness His accompanied Morris Jan historic journey – the first crossing of the Omani desert by motorcar. his from southern capital of hinterland, Salala to the northern capital desert of Muscat. It was the an across progress royal a on Sultan the propel to oil of smell unsettling of the with Rumours mingled state. subversion medieval truly hitherto the a across Oman, blow of to sultanate beginning were change of winds the 1955 In Place: Arabia/Oman Price: £12.99 Format: 168ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-178 jan morris Sultan inOman 80 and brilliantlyobserved. Itisthework ofagreat travel writer romantic withoutbeingsentimental, oftenextremely funny ‘The bookisahymntolostculture and alostsociety; incapable ofproducing atriteor ungainly sentence.’ richard crossman, new statesman philip ziegler, daily telegraph ‘A minorliterary masterpiece.’ Eland Classics 81 a. n. wilson, evening standard evening wilson, a. n. been written since the Second World War.’ World since the Second been written ‘Quite simply, the best English novel to have the best English novel to have ‘Quite simply,

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great evil. great book, which captures a time of great intellectual excitement and anthropology and psychology. This is a vivid, strange and compelling compelling and strange vivid, a is This psychology. and anthropology to the end. the intellectual landscape of the new sciences – physics, biology, a life-giving stream twisting a and life-giving turning stream twisting through time, but running Africa and middle Europe. Simultaneously it takes us through atomic power. And through it all runs their love for one another, like like another, one for love their runs all it through And power. atomic reader on a journey through Spain, London, Soviet Russia, North the changing relationship between man and science in the time of story weaves together disparate landscapes taking the power and attraction of fascism and communism is set against the history of Europe in the twenties and thirties. The destructive England and an anthropologist in , Nicholas Mosley retells retells Mosley Nicholas Germany, in anthropologist an and England Through Through a dialogue between two lovers, a young physicist in Price: £14.99 Price: Format: 608pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-116

nicholas mosley nicholas Hopeful Monsters Hopeful Eland Classics danger andextreme discomfortwere remarkable. personal to turned she eye blind the and resourcefulness Persia,her pistol on starving wolves in Bulgaria and to scare lecherous Kurds in .25 her using and quantities, alarming in snow by Undaunted went. almost an was pocket) trouser unknown occurrence and a focus of enormous interest wherever she her in revolver a (with bicycle a on woman lone A India. and Pakistan to Himalayas the over and Afghanistan Persia, through riding while kept she diary daily the on based is book this and off set finally she 1963, in thirty-one, of age the India. At to trip a planning wassecretly she days within and atlas, an and bicycle a given was she ten, was Murphy Dervla When Price: £12.99 Format: 320ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-413 dervla murphy Ireland toIndiawithabicycle Full Tilt 82 ‘She avoided wolves,floods, robbery, hadthree ribsbroken ‘Continuously entertaining ...continuouslyastonishing.’ in abrawl inan Afghan bus... suffered extremes ofheat and cold,ateeverything, liked almost everybody.’ homes and gardens sunday telegraph Eland Classics 83 observer irish independent irish ‘Humour and sturdiness are only the half of it: are ‘Humour and sturdiness the world seem both wider and more intimate.’ the world seem both wider and more warm humanity, her courage and good humour.’ her courage humanity, warm Dervla Murphy is that rare traveller who can make make can who traveller Murphy is that rare Dervla ‘This is a moving – at times even harrowing – story. But – story. ‘This is a moving – at times even harrowing it is leavened by the writer’s irrepressible zest for life, her irrepressible writer’s by the it is leavened After her epic journey from Ireland to India in 1963, Dervla Murphysubcontinent,themonths siximmersed lifeof workingthe for herself in inanorphanage Tibetan for children inNorthern India.fell inlove She with the ‘Tiblets’ – the cheerful,affectionate children uncomplaining, of the new Tibet-in-exile independent– but she also managed and to explore India’s Tibetan frontier, leaving the reader panting wake.in TibetanFootholdonly not confirmed her Dervla’s status a traveller,as but also revealed her to be a trulyobserver of politics and society. independent voice and an acute dervla murphy dervla ISBN: 978-1906011-642 224pp demi pb Format: £12.99 Price: Place: India/Himalayas Tibetan Foothold Tibetan Eland Classics into the remote Langtang region on the border with Tibet. with border the on region Langtang remote the into the of epic an understanding in trek culminate Dervla’s her and own stamina, past, of roots Nepalese the civilization. distinct own its to true yet Hinduism, and Buddhism between India, and China between West, and Here bazaar. a in East stall a between poised Nepal, of land above ancient the of spell the room under falls she vermin-infested settles tiny, a in Dervla live valley), to down Pokhara remote the in tents in lodged Tibetans (a of group refugees five hundred with to work byagain chance the Lured Himalayas. the of cultures mountain self-sufficient the with involvement Land Waiting The Place: Nepal Price: £12.99 Format: 216ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-659 dervla murphy A SpellinNepal The Waiting Land 84 where the only thing certain is that the unpredictable always happens.’ always unpredictable the that is certain thing only the where ‘She revels in bizarre experiences and strange encounters in a land aland in encounters strange and experiences bizarre in ‘She revels supportive to people of most sorts, sometimes exceedingly funny.’ funny.’ exceedingly sometimes sorts, ofmost people to supportive ‘Dashing in her insight, beautifully responsive to environment, environment, to responsive beautifully insight, her in ‘Dashing is the third in a series of books tracing Dervla’s Dervla’s tracing books of series a in third the is irish independent tls Eland Classics 85 daily telegraph daily

customs. A more virtuous figure would be far less endearing.’ virtuous figure more A customs. ‘One of the supreme virtues of Miss Murphy as a travel writer a travel virtues of Miss Murphy as ‘One of the supreme – she is human. She needs her drink; she craves her cigarettes; her cigarettes; – she is human. She needs her drink; she craves she is capable of losing her temper; she smuggles things through her temper; she smuggles things through of losing she is capable rather the growing affection and understanding of another race. of another race. and understanding affection the growing rather not surviving three armed robberies or a thousand mile trail but completed her journey to . Her real achievement, was (named after her publisher) for an un-cooperative donkey, Dervla high ranges to Lalibela. Having exchanged the exhausted Jock northern shore of Lake before Tana crossing the drought-afflicted she descended to the ruined palaces of Gondar and skirted the and upto the icy roof of Africa, the Semien mountains. From there land. She wandered south from the Red Sea shore to Sheba’s Aksum, Sheba’s to shore Sea Red the from south wandered She land. in order to treck across the highlands of this awesome, but troubled troubled but awesome, this of highlands the across treck to order in Sheba, in 1966 Dervla Murphy bought Jock, an amiable pack-mule Inspired Inspired by a childhood stories of Prester John and the Queen of Place: Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 280pp demi pb Format: ISBN 978-1906011-673 dervla murphy dervla with a Mule with In Ethiopia In Ethiopia Eland Classics 86 spiritually andagriculturally self-sufficient Highlands. cardamon-scented, these of portrait affectionate extraordinarily an they travellers, many so like onwards, ever pressing of ad and settle down to live there for two months. Dervla Murphy creates double back to the place they liked most, the hill province of Coorg buses,onfootandbylocalin packed-out boats. by people, they stay in fishermen’s huts and no-star hotels, travelling Cape India, of Comorin. point Interested in everything they southernmost see, but only the truly enchanted to Bombay from south slowly way their meander – plans concrete few and luxury for taste no money, little with – Rachel daughter her and Murphy Dervla Place: India Price: £12.99 Format: 256ppdemipb ISBN 978-1780600-123 dervla murphy An experienceofsouthernIndia Coorg On aShoestringto Inste India, where moments ofgreat happinesscome ‘Murphy spansthewiderange ofsensation ‘A travel writerofrare quality andfreshness. ’ hard uponfrustration andstench.’ the guardian Eland Classics 87 jan morris, the times the morris, jan colin thubron, sunday telegraph sunday thubron, colin the hardship, Dervla never forgets the point of travel,

Despite ‘... the lasting impression left by this book is one of sheer joy.’ left by this book is one ‘... the lasting impression Where Where the Indus is , Young Dervla Murphy’s indomitable will is

‘...the most appallingly fascinating travel book that I have ever read.’ book that I have ‘...the most appallingly fascinating travel on earth. are often locked into the melancholic mood of mid-winter. and bargaining with the Balts, who farm one of the remotest regions regions remotest the of one farm who Balts, the with bargaining and ing her sense of humour to bring out the best in her hosts, who mountains mountains by the Indus, lodging with locals and eating, sleeping retaining enthusiasm for her magnificent surroundings and us- work their way up beside the perilous gorge carved through the winter, but winter, close to disputed Pakistan’s border with They Kashmir. the awe-inspiring Karakorum mountains not only in the heart of Rachel. Rachel. Together they make a mockery of fear, trekking through In daughter six-year-old her and Hallam four-footed of that by matched Place: Pakistan/Himalayas Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 280pp demi pb Format: ISBN 978-1906011-666 dervla murphy dervla A Winter in Baltistan in A Winter Young Where the Indus is Indus the Where Eland Classics either sideofthedivide. on people to speaking by situation the understand to try to Ireland At the height of The Troubles, Dervla Murphy bicycled to Northern Place: Ireland Price: £12.99 Format: 256ppdemipb ISBN 978-1780600-116 an unquenchable thirst for life and peace, a spirit that refused to die. discovered equally,she But grief. and hate with stiff people among herself found sometimes and situations, horrifying through way her navigated she intelligence, penetrating a and bar the at own her curiosity,indefatigable an ability an anecdote, for stand ear to fine a with instead Armed loyalties. sectarian by unfettered largely north David Ramsbotham With afterword by dervla murphy inthe1970s A Place Apart 88 Despite ‘Genial, tolerant andaffectionate. Itseems incredible that such afouloyster shouldproduce such apearl.’ e on aiy oncin t te R, h travelled she IRA, the to connections family own her

the times Eland Classics 89 ‘A giant of travel writing.’ giant of travel ‘A william trevor, the times the trevor, william matthew parris, bbc radio 4 bbc radio parris, matthew woman and one of the great travellers of our time.’ travellers woman and one of the great ‘An extraordinary book, reflecting an extraordinary an extraordinary reflecting book, extraordinary ‘An

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cycle to India. cycle death. seems only natural that her first major journey should have been to parents, parents, particularly her invalid mother whom she nursed until her to travel. Bicycling fifty miles in a day at the age of eleven, alone, it education education and the intense relationship of an only child with her desire her and hardiness her cant, of hatred her curiosity, her writing, and beguiled by books from the first – her intermittent formal e lie the roots of Dervla’s gift for friendship, her love of years. years. She describes her determined childhood self – strong-willed Dervla Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty searingly searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveller What is it that makes us who we are? In this beautifully written and Place: Ireland, Autobiography Place: Ireland, Price £12.99 Price Format: 283pp demi pb Format: ISBN 978-1906011-406 dervla murphy dervla The Makings of a Traveller of The Makings Wheels within Wheels within Wheels Eland Classics 90 hostility from America. insistent of face the in identity their retain to struggling particular, candid curiosity and creates a complex picture of a people returns alone to investigate the experience of modern Cuba with her later Dervla For Revolution. Cuban the by created society unique the understand to quest fully-fledged a of start the just is this But empty on out beaches beneath camp the stars coast, and relish the the ubiquitous along Cuban hospitality. and hills the into trek They Caribbean. the in adventure Amazons’ and ‘Swallows a have you and granddaughters young three and daughter Murphy,her Dervla of company the in Cuba in holiday family three-generation Takea Place: Cuba Price: £12.99 Format: 320ppdemipb ISBN 978-1906011-468 dervla murphy inCuba Journeys The Island That Dared ‘Fierce, highlymoral anduncompromising, thisisclassicMurphy. In anoftenanodyneworld,sheremains anoriginal...sheisa refreshingly defiantvoice,straight-talking and no-nonsense.’ ‘Dervla Murphy’s travelogue isa close asanyforeigner is likely togetthelifeofCubans onthebrink.’ justin marozzi, the financial times stephen smith,daily telegraph

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tls colm tóibín colm to the easy road of indifference.’ of road to the easy is a restless antidote is a restless the Sea Month By ‘A Her book is a kind of wake-up call to the world.’ call ‘Her book is a kind of wake-up

never been heard before. never been heard from the book is of a people whose real, complex, nuanced voice has voice nuanced complex, real, whose people a of is book the from that has so grossly distorted their lives. The impression we take away away take we impression The lives. their distorted grossly so has that often fed, overwhelmingly long for peace and an end to the violence the to end an and peace for long overwhelmingly fed, often to her. What she finds are a people who, far from the story we are so are we story the from far who, people a are finds she What her. to touched by her genuine, unflinching interest and opened their hearts hearts their opened and interest unflinching genuine, her by touched in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, the people she met were Fatah supporters, rich Used and to poor. western reporters dashing a month in the . She met liberals and Islamists, and Hamas Islamists, and liberals met She Strip. Gaza the in month a Over the summer of 2011, in her eightieth year, Dervla Murphy spent Murphy Dervla year, eightieth her in 2011, of summer the Over Place: Gaza Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 224pp demi pb Format: ISBN 978-1780600-673 dervla murphy dervla Encounters in Gaza in Encounters A Month by the Sea by the Month A Eland Classics 92 land andtomake peace intheregion apossibility. might be done to alleviate the suffering of all who wish to share this what herself for out puzzle to and ground, the on life of reality the communicate to desire a lies book the Behind seriousness. her moral and experience the to openness her empathy, her mind, and curiosity,customary her ear with acute attitudes her their and them West Bank, she talks with whomever she meets, trying to understand high-rises, in homes in the settlements and in a refugee camp on the her most recent journeys into Israel and Palestine. In cramped Haifa of honestyexperience passionate the with describes DervlaMurphy Place: Israel, Palestine Price: £14.99 Format: 442ppdemipb ISBN 978-1780600-703 dervla murphy Encounters inIsrael andPalestine and Sea Between River There are no no-go areas forthewonderfully ‘There are nono-go donald macintyre, independent intrepid Dervla Murphy.’ Eland Classics 93 philip zeigler, daily telegraph philip zeigler, daily ‘The book contains some splendid descriptions of ‘The book contains Constantinople in the dying days of the Sultanate.’ dying days in the Constantinople

Sweet Waters contains magical descriptions of Istanbul before it

It is a political thriller, a love story and a travel book in one. and a travel a love story thriller, It is a political alised description of Harold falling in love with Vita Sackville-West. alised description of Harold Sackville-West. falling in love Vita with - fiction a and today of metropolis bustling the into transformed was in on the beleaguered city. city. in on the beleaguered love, friendship and ambition – all are tested as Balkan troops close intrigue-ridden intrigue-ridden Ottoman Empire. Political intrigue and blackmail, deep and dangerous currents These at are play. the last years of the in old Istanbul. Beneath the surface sparkle of the waters there are is a gripping novel Waters Sweet set on the banks of the Bosphorous Place: Turkey Place: Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 208pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-079 biographical afterword by Ariane Bankes by afterword biographical harold nicolson harold by Nigel Nicolson, Foreword An Istanbul Adventure An Istanbul Sweet Waters Sweet Eland Classics 94 story ofhisfamily’s survival. extraordinarythis wrote he later years seven and London, in arrived was family Orga 1942 In life. impoverished unimaginably an to adapt to forced The republic. a became Turkey and overthrown was changed everything. Death and financial disaster reigned; the Sultan FirstWorld the WarBut habits. traditional her maintain to costs all grandmotherat autocrat,class.eccentricHis wasdetermined her an who thirteen, lived in the seclusion of at the harem as befitted married beauty,Turkish women of a was mother His Empire. Ottoman the of twilight the in family prosperous a into born was Orga Irfan Place: Turkey Price: £12.99 Format: 336ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-828 Ates Orga With abiographical afterword by irfan orga Turkish Family Portrait ofa ‘This hastobeoneofthemostremarkable and enjoyable ofallmodern memoirs’

robert fox, daily telegraph ‘This bookisalittle masterpiece’ caroline moorhead Eland Classics 95 the times the Portrait Portrait of a , Turkish Family journeys to the condé nast traveller condé nast ‘... a travel book of the best sort.’ ‘... a travel

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visceral place underpinned by elemental values. values. place underpinned by elemental visceral turned mad by grief are still palpably alive. turned mad by grief are He reconnects us with a once-ubiquitous, emotional landscape – a to feel that heroes dead a thousand years and abducted princesses events. of march the or politics by untouched world a enters a mountains. mountains. He learns their lore, listens to their legends, and lives Irfan Orga, author of to stay with Yürük the nomads in centre Turkey of the Taurus High Place: Turkey Place: Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 176pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-972 Ates Orga Ates Orga With an afterword by an afterword With Turkish Nomads Turkish orga irfan Three Weeks among among Weeks Three Moves On Moves Caravan The Eland Classics 96 homeland. nature, a metaphor, perhaps, for the exiled Orga’s Turkish republican human of ambivalence the of understanding sombre a from springs hate. deep-seated corollary, pent-explosive its with and love myth, up Greek a like smoulders that denouement a for together back them bring fate and secrecy ties, blood But Murat. son her from estrangement her to lead Kamelya by made choices the options for an impoverished widow with a child are few, and the one part Turkishwoman’s young descent towards moral a annihilation -- of one storypart Maupassant, fast-paced disturbing, a is Journey Dark Place: Turkey Price: £12.99 Format: 220ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-819 irfan orga The legendofKamelyaandMurat Dark Journey ‘... anenthralling dramatic tale ofpassionateloveanditscorollary fierce hatred. Butitisalsoabeautifully crafted morality tale.’ One Thousand and One Nights. In the early Turkish republic, marion james, zaman Dark Journey Dark Eland Classics 97 observer turns to rewrite each others’ masterpiece.’ others’ each turns to rewrite ‘As if Lewis Carroll and George Orwell had taken had taken and George Orwell if Lewis Carroll ‘As

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sanctuary in Britain. in Britain. sanctuary survived. Revolution Revolution he was forced to escape with his wife and baby for new afterword by his Agi Argent, widow, describes how they cells. cells. In 1954 he was eventually released, but after the Hungarian forced to flee the country. to flee the country. forced many of them in the solitary confinement of underground prison peasantry. By the 1930s he was an active anti-Nazi and in 1941 he was was he 1941 in and anti-Nazi active an was he 1930s the By peasantry. prison, in days 1,832 spent He regime. communist the by imprisoned that his family’s wealth was based on the exploitation of a brutalised based of on a the brutalised exploitation was wealth that his family’s but this did eturning not prevent after him the from war, being he arrested, tortured became and a dedicated communist of Hungary. of Despite Hungary. his privileged background, he came to realise George Paloczi-Horvath was born in 1908 into the feudal nobility Place: Hungary Price: £13.99 Price: Format: 304pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-185

george paloczi-horvath george The Undefeated The Eland Classics friendship andbetrayal. open-hearted courage, of story a is This heroism. understated own his as well as recorded, are trade slave the and mining gold of tribal justice, experiences first-hand His then. was it as today valuable as Europeans; by Africa of exploitation the before life everyday of record unique a leaving in succeeded he – river Niger the of course of theinteriorcontinent. again in 1805 provided Europeans with their first reliable description and 1795 Westinto in Africajourneys his Park’sof Mungo accounts Place: West Africa Price: £12.99 Format: 384ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-040 by Anthony Sattin With afterwords mungo park Interior of Africa Travels intothe 98 Though e ald n h ojc o hs iso – o hr the chart to – mission his of object the in failed he ‘One ofthemostlivelyandinspirational accounts oftheexploration of Africa.’ dervla murphy, daily telegraph ‘One ofthemost gripping adventure stories intheEnglish language.’ michael palin Eland Classics 99 graham lord, sunday express sunday lord, graham ‘... a book that brings those dusty old documents to ‘... a book that brings those dusty vibrant life and reads at times like a detective story ...’ story a detective like at times life and reads vibrant

feuds and fun, his farms, fights, fornications and families. feuds and fun, his farms, fights, fornications was amplifiedwas by his desire to tell the of story the common man, his wills and The intense land tax focus returns. he brought to his work collecting stories at the pub alongside his scholarly inspection of old of inspection scholarly his alongside pub the at stories collecting way way through archaeological repoints and manor court rolls, and years years of detective work to piece this jigsaw together, combing his a landscape of thousand two years. It thirteen took Rowland Parker stream, stream, a saga of continuity and change which stretches back across This is the story of a village in East Anglia, astride its common

Place: British Isles Place: British Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 288pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780600-758

rowland parker rowland The Common Stream Common The Eland Classics 100 both humannature andtheBritishcharacter. into insight exceptional an us given has he margins, community,the on small living a of portrait revelatory this With interviewer. expert most her and historian oral foremost TonyParker,Britain’s narrow towerwithtwo othermennotofhisownchoosing? away from his family for months at a time, leaving him in a him cramped, took which job, lonely monotonous, a life’sselect to his – keeping occupation lighthouse make to man a led that it was What Place: BritishIsles Price: £12.99 Format: 304ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-583 tony parker Lighthouse He givesaninsightintothemechanics ofpeople’s livesandminds.’ politician andanyonewhohasanythingtodowithgovernment. ‘His booksshouldbeessentialreading forevery schoolkid, every Lighthouse ‘A splendidbookwhich hasenriched my epr ad hi fmle oee ter ol to souls their opened families their and keepers bob hardy, franz ferdinand understanding ofhuman nature.’ sunday times Eland Classics 101 observer ‘It is a triumph.’ times literary supplement literary times

‘One of the most original, absorbing books I have read this year.’ read ‘One of the most original, absorbing books I have community that is diverse and enthralling. community Even Even amid the bleak sprawl of South London, Parker discovered a extraordinary extraordinary stories are found not only in deserts and jungles. their quirks, emotions and prejudices. These interviews prove that The inhabitants of ‘Providence’ opened their hearts, revealing all one or other of about twelve different ladies I meet at our church’. old widower who spent ‘an hour or two in bed each week with pro-flogging magistrate, local a doctor andseventy-five-year- a an often-convicted fence who was the mother of five children, a assortment of personalities including a vagrant, two policemen, of an ordinary housing estate in South London. He listened to an Over a period of 18 months Parker Tony interviewed the residents Place: London Price: £15.99 Price: Format: 416pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-192 some of its inhabitants some of its parker tony A housing estate and A housing of Providence The People People The Eland Classics straight-laced sahibs and the ‘White Mughals’ who fell in love with with love India, married Indian wives in and built bridges between the two fell cultures. who Mughals’ ‘White the and sahibs straight-laced the beautiful, the and violent the profane, the and sacred the – India colonial early of picture true a Hindu to can of one as adorning close as theget to is thugs, journals of trial the by her fascinated read headaches. To on is opium anny of efficacy the by swears and brides culture. Indian of appreciation her in passionate and rule British of critical Urdu, in fluent Indophile, sitar-playing eccentric, an to prim memsahib a from transformation her trace journals Her independent. determinedly and curious indefatigably courageous, – writer travel Fanny Parkes lived in India between 1822 and 1846. She was the ideal Place: India Price: £14.99 Format: 400ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-880 Edited by fanny parkes ofFannyParkes The Journals White Mughals Begums, Thugs and 102 F ‘Her beautiful descriptive journalsprovide aremarkable insight intothiscrossroads in Anglo-Indian history.’ William Dalrymple ‘... extraordinarily modernandreadable.’ sunday telegraph charles allen Eland Classics 103 daily telegraph daily sebastian faulks sebastian to the city of Hemingway.’ to the city ‘... a small classic in the literature of Paris.’ ‘... a small classic in the literature ‘A strongly written and compelling corrective compelling corrective and written strongly ‘A

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unforgettable city. unforgettable tragic poignancy. poignancy. tragic Second World War grows, it endows their quiet, heroic lives with into a tapestry as compelling as a novel. And as the threat of the culturally precocious Hyacinthe to a flock of prostitutes. of prostitutes. to a flock Hyacinthe precocious culturally woven are life of way and culture enmities, and friendships Huchette in the summer of 1923. ‘There,’ he wrote, ‘I found Paris.’ ‘I found Paris.’ he wrote, ‘There,’ 1923. in the summer of Huchette from the stately M. de Malancourt to l’Hibou the tramp; from the biography of the street brings to life a cast of characters, Elliot Paul, an American journalist, first walked into rue de la Place: Paris Price: £13.99 Price: Format: 336pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780600-741 elliot paul elliot I Saw Paris I Saw Time Last The Eland Classics iln caatr f ie n utml, itr eea aae to survive. managed Perera Victor Guatemala, in life of white thecharacter by violent his destroyed all were nurse, friend best Indian mestizo his his and classmates, While outside. sheltered the betweenadaptability world child’s a with moved son sex- dominated and antisemitic catholic, the and family bourgeois his of life leading merchants. third cousin from Jerusalem, he gradually became one of the capital’s a to marriage his post by arranging After Indians. to cloth of bolts selling pedlar itinerant an as began generation who Guatemala first to immigrant a was scholar, talmudic a father, Perera’s Victor Place: Guatemala Price: £12.99 Format: 220ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-246 victor perera A ChildhoodinGuatemala Rites 104 His ‘One closesthisshortbookwithasharpened perception ‘Victor Perera isblessedwithasalty wit,amarvellous not onlyoflifein mid-twentieth century Guatemala, turn ofphrase andacinematiceyefordetail.’ but oflifeinLatin America asawhole.’ times literary supplement san francisco chronicle Eland Classics 105 guardian good book guide good book ‘... a cure for a great deal more than serpents.’ more deal for a great ‘... a cure

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satisfactions known only to those who have lived in Africa’. lived in only to those who have known satisfactions cub with all the charm of a man who boasted of the ‘inestimable entertainers entertainers and the love lost between himself and a wounded lion palpable charms of celebrated courtesans, the excitement of Tuareg fellow Italians. He conjures up the dignity of local chieftains, the Denti preferred the company of Berbers and Eritreans to that of his as he is a writer. Though equally at home in an embassy or a brothel, brothel, a or embassy an in home at equally Though writer. a is he as passionate interest in his work, he must have been as good a doctor work in African Italy’s colonies. With a natural ear for a story and a In 1924, the irrepressibly curious Alberto Denti arrived in Libya to Place: Libya and other countries Place: Libya Price: £13.99 Price: Format: 276pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-446

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loving portrait of this classical land. of this classical loving portrait with its archaeology, ancient history and modern tales, she gives us a us gives she tales, modern and history ancient archaeology, its with audacious actions of World War II. Weaving the myths of the island Weaving II. War World audacious of actions kidnapped on the island by Paddy Leigh-Fermor in one kidnapped of on the the Leigh-Fermor most island by Paddy native inhabitant, the German General Kreipe, who was famously archaeologists archaeologists Evans and She Pendlebury. also tells the story of its and a group of people she knew well, from local Cretans to the Knossos. Dilys Powell captures Knossos. Dilys the Powell spirit of a place she loved dearly on the house built by Sir Arthur Evans, the famous discoverer of The Villa Ariadne is a meditation on the island of Crete, centred Place: Crete Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 224pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780600-352 by Rupert Smith by Rupert afterword a biographical With powell dilys The Villa Ariadne Villa The Eland Classics rcr o lf i te rtc s o ol a astonishing an only not is Arctic the in life of record with theigloo, hasvanished forever. adventure but also an unrivalled record of a way of life which, along years ten spent his owndogsled. Pryde ran even and and wife-exchange in participated shamans, him, of power the suited environment witnessed bears, polar and seals hunt to learned He manifestations. intimate most its even life, new this in absorbed totally becoming the grippingpaceofathriller. all with reads – violence casual the and feuds blood murderous the ex-merchant-of Canada. His initiation into the realities of Eskimo life – the drink, and orphan north far the in fur-trading at hand his 18-year-oldtry to Glasgow left seaman, tough a Pryde, Duncan Place: Canada/Arctic Price: £13.99 Format: 304ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-637 duncan pryde Ten yearsamongtheEskimos Nunaga 108 His The ‘He tellsstories,which heseemsto have beenborntodo.’ ‘... oneofthebestbooksabout Arctic lifeeverwritten.’ time magazine sunday times Eland Classics

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and invaluable picture of Arabian society. society. Arabian of picture and invaluable of affectionate individual encounters which collectively create a true old certainties remained. gift Raban’s for friendship creates a series Europe and engineering in New York. Yet in this fast-moving world, world, fast-moving this in Yet York. New in engineering and Europe The sons of Bedouin nomads were now studying medicine in replaced replaced by cosmopolitan boomtowns, camels by Range Rovers. Qatar, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan on this quest. into almost every corner, and Bedouin encampments had been and their world view. So he journeyed through Bahrain, of dune early European archetypes explorers. Oil wealth had seeped apart. He wanted to discover the reality of their home life What he discovered was a far cry from the camel, tent and sand in floor-length robes and yashmaks remainingand a people Raban was provoked by Arabs holidaying in London, dressed Place: Arabia Place: Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 312pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780601-397 jonathan raban jonathan Through the Looking Glass Glass the Looking Through Arabia Eland Classics 110 English homeland. is a fearless attempt to discover the meaning of belonging and of his Coasting age. middle own his of waters turbulent eddies, and complex the water, racing of navigates he so course, terror collision a on ferries his and sandbars offshore faces he As encounters. he shape- shifting sea and incisive descriptions of the people and communities the of chronicle vivid a vicar, a of son the as childhood of memories awkward between seamlessly moves War. He Falklands the and Thatcher Margaret of time the at English the of and England exploration masterly a conducts Raban Jonathan boat, two-masted sailing antique an in single-handed Britain round Coasting Place: Britain Price: £12.99 Format: 256ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780601-380 jonathan raban Coasting ‘Sharp…funny…a marvellous attempt to ‘Jonathan Rabanisamarvellous stylist discover themeaning ofhome’ and Coastingishisbestbook.’ al alvarez, observer ian jack, observer Eland Classics 111 james campbell, the guardian campbell, james battered affection for the writer’s trade.’ for the writer’s affection battered ‘... so cleverly concocted, so replete with so replete ‘... so cleverly concocted, frank kermode, london review of books london review kermode, frank

‘Raban is never guilty of supposing that he can use lower of supposing that he can ‘Raban is never guilty writing powers because what he is doing is only journalism.’ writing powers because

it is like embarking on a humane, rigorous and witty conversation. and witty on a humane, rigorous embarking it is like events from his eccentric life at the heart of literary London. Reading Reading London. literary of heart the at life eccentric his from events role role of the literary editor and remembers with affection and hilarity the blank page, ponders the true art of the book review, admires the admires the blank page, ponders the art true of the book review, of insolvency and self-worth, confesses to travel as an escape from advantages advantages of maintaining an independent spirit against problems of what it means to live from writing. Jonathan Raban weighs up the up weighs Raban Jonathan writing. from live to means it what of books and travel, and makes for an engrossing and candid exploration exploration candid and engrossing an for makes and travel, and books This collection of writing undertaken for love and money is about Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 352pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780601-403 jonathan raban jonathan Writing, Reading, Travelling, 1969–87 Travelling, Reading, Writing, For Love & Money & Love For Eland Classics the States – a travelogue, a social history and a love letter in one. in letter love a and history social a travelogue, a of – observationStates the breathtaking a is result The West. Key of lowlife watery the to thence and community Asian alienated but thrusting its discovering elderly of Seattle, ‘rented’ promise a the to with flies lake he the there From on lab. cabin a in boy ol’ good a as months few a for settles he where Alabama, Guntersville, he for heads apartment, York New rented minute his outgrown Having Americans. native down-at-heel and immigrants thrusting between city, Streetbig People and town small York, the betweenNew in People Air the and between contrasts, ofmassive a country finds He America. in fared have newcomers of generations Jonathan how succeeding explore to emigrants, , from York countless New for ship of takes Raban footsteps the in Following Place: U.S.A. Price: £12.99 Format: 336ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780601-373 jonathan raban ofAmerica A Discovery Heartbreak Hunting Mister 112 by anEnglishmanaboutthe United States.’ ‘... thefinestwriter afloatsinceConrad.’ ‘... thebestbookoftravel everwritten geoffrey moorhouse, guardian jan morris, independent

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lethargy – and come to know something of its soul. lethargy – and come to sometimes foolishly in love. all of us, and, like its hunger and hospitality, its inventive energy and its charming and the story – finding himself by turns vulnerable, curious, angry tears tears of laughter, we are led into the heartland of America – with irresistible emotional intensity as he tries to give shape to the river the housewives of Pemiscot and the hog-king of Dubuque. Through Through Dubuque. of hog-king the and Pemiscot of housewives the unsuitably fragile aluminium skiff, he immerses himself with an St Louis, worships with black Baptists in Memphis, hangs out with Mississippi. Navigating the dangerous, ever-changing waters in an current current takes him, he joins a coon-hunt in Savana, falls for a girl in the journey is as much the story of Raban as it is of the all her turbulent and unpredictable old Going glory. wherever the Orleans, Orleans, Jonathan Raban opens himself to experience the river in Navigating Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New

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company is enchanting. stones for a shilling a ton or simply doing his morning rounds, his ice, helping a young woman to give birth in the fields while gathering he is a remarkably gentle man. Whether he is rescuing flamingos from suppressed memories of the First War World and his tough physique, Housefull guestsof andthe kitchens proudly filled withlocal produce. poverty and ignorance, and his own brutal father. Despite his half- theland was tended the many, by villages werefull industry,of the Big and wild flowers,but he is also too honestnot to recall the appalling for for 68 years. His story takes us back to an idyll of rural England, when ogers summons up a lost Arcadia of self-sufficiency, bird-song Evan Rogers worked as a gamekeeperasa RogerstheEvanworked same on Herefordshire estate Place: Welsh Borders Welsh Place: Price: £13.99 Price: Format: 224pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1096011-123 Edited by Clive Murphy Edited by rogers evan The Memoirs of Gamekeeper a A Funny Old Quist Old A Funny Eland Classics is a genuine labour oflove. labour agenuine is It Egypt. Upper of practices folk the of details obscure most the even for loveboundless to ability for convey wonderful and Egypt enthusiasm his Sattin’s is work fascinating this animates and sustains ultimately what yet Golden half travel, Bough, Half myths. eternal explain help might that magic modern and manuscripts, long of search in Liverpool of streets damp the as far as Luxor of deserts the from travels he as and lairs reptilian their in trucks up pick jam-packed and buses hunters down snake as temples, wayhe as he his tracks bribes into moonlit rickety trains, and ground, taxis in the him on follow researcher fearless and ‘impervious tireless to discomfort’, a undaunted is by pi-dogs Sattin and charlatans. Anthony So we Place: Egypt Price: £12.99 Format: 264ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780600-611 anthony sattin Travels Egypt inAncientandModern The Pharaoh’s Shadow 116 ‘...agrippingquestthatcaptures thereader onthefirst page anddoesnot release himuntilthe final paragraph.’ The Pharaoh’s Shadow Pharaoh’s The ‘... astrange, wonderfulandoftenbeautiful book.’ william dalrymple, the spectator tim mackintosh-smith is also set to the pace of a detective thriller, thriller, detective a of pace the to set also is Eland Classics 117 observer observer imran khan imran is the story of their epic journey across story for our times.’ Just So story ‘A engaging adventurer I have come across.’ I have adventurer engaging ‘I enjoyed this book immensely. Shand is the most ‘I enjoyed this book immensely.

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attraction who became Mark Shand’s devoted loyal companion. Tara’s Tara’s transformation from a sad, scrawny beggar elephant to the star the dusty back roads of India and a memorable, touching account of fund-raising and campaigning on behalf of Indian elephants. that decades after their travelling days were Markover, Shand was still Sonepur – the Mela oldest elephant world’s market. ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love. So much so, over 600 miles across India, from Konarak, on the Bay of Bengal,themiles600India,of acrossto Konarak,over from Bay the on of elephant driving. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learnt Indian help of a Maratha a of help nobleman, Mark Shand purchased and rodeherTara rom Bhim, a drink-racked Mahout, Mark Shand learnt the skills Tara Tara was an elephant, and in Hindi her name means ‘star’. With the Place: India Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 200pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-697

mark shand mark Travels On My Elephant My On Travels Eland Classics -in-law. for mother a carer cook and gardener, as suspicious teenagers, Sicilian two to mother Sicilian, a to wife as life, after Sicilian in written immersion of years was twenty journal this For insider. an and programme) welfare social a on volunteer a as worked and history medieval studied had who American (an outsider, an both is Simeti Mary that is exceptional truly summer journal this and makes What farm. weekends family old an in the life with sustaining to devoted Palermo of city the in apartment an village and assassinations between divided a life It chronicles casual neighbours. the and weather its its feasts, life, family demanding and fruits its gorgeous festivals, its sacred and its seasons life, is of a Sicilian year This Place: Sicily Price: £12.99 Format: 320ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780601-076 mary taylor simeti A SicilianJournal On Persephone’s Island 118 ‘Evocative & rich ...oneofthoserare piecesofliterature that captures themood& spiritofaplace. Wonderful.’ ‘Simeti hasdonearare thing: shehaswritten ahappy book aboutSicily andyetthere isanundercurrent of sadness, onetrue tothereality of theisland.’ san francisco chronicle washington post Eland Classics 119 neil ritchie kenneth clarke prose Sitwell ever composed.’ Sitwell prose ‘... the best piece of sustained imaginative ‘... the best piece of sustained ‘... contains some of the finest prose written in our day.’ written the finest prose some of ‘... contains

museums – with a haunting and evocative power. museums – with a haunting and evocative of the It Tsars. peoples the magnificent palaces – now turned into Valse Valse des Fleurs is the perfect introduction to the Imperial capital Revolution. Though slim enough to read on the train from Moscow, Moscow, from train the on read to enough slim Though Revolution. officials and dignitaries later condemned to oblivion by theRussian given a glimpse of a lost generation of courtiers, servants, guards, in its heyday. The Tsar is giving a ball, and in the run up we are Valse des Fleurs Valse recreates one glittering winter’s day in St Petersburg Place: Russia Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 152pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-147 sacheverell sitwell sacheverell A day in St.Petersburg in 1868 in St.Petersburg A day Valse des Fleurs Valse Eland Classics making friendsandenemieslike onemore citizenofthetown.’ frustrations, and problems own my out working village, poor a in person another ‘just becoming people, alien an of minds and hearts of tragedy and farce. This did not prevent him from entering into the was for an outsider to help, and most of his attempts were a mixture bought one were at a time, on credit. cigarettes Thomsen discovered how difficult it and wealth, represented chickens six that poor so were inhabitants its Ecuador; of coast the on village impoverished an in lived he years four next the For Corps. Peace the joined and California in farm pig his sold Thomsen Moritz 48, of age the At Place: Ecuador Price: £12.99 Format: 336ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-253 moritz thomsen with Ecuador An American’sencounter Living Poor 120 ‘A superbbookthatputs Thomsen inaclasswith W. H.Hudson.’ ‘Thomsen’s style issimplebuteloquent, intensely moving, buthumorous too.’ new york times book review paul theroux Eland Classics 121 The Fields Beneath is financial times financial ‘... a model for future writers ...’ ‘... a model for future v. s. pritchett, new statesman new pritchett, s. v. imagination … a marvellous way of reading history ...’ history of reading way imagination … a marvellous

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munity and our role within society. and our role munity local local history we find a doorway to a better understanding of com- our understanding of universal Through themes. the microscope of which which in their precise examination of a particular locality open out one of a precious handful of books (like Montaillou and Akenfield) tenants, traders, freeholders and landlords. Kentish Town to reveal the fascinating history of individual the fascinating history to reveal Town Kentish along ancient hedgerows, drove lanes, wells and public houses of takes us along the banks of London’s long buried Fleet River, and long buried Fleet River, the banks of London’s us along takes revealed as in this particular study of Kentish Town. Gillian Tindall Gillian Town. as in this particular study of Kentish revealed London, that city of villages, has never been so vividly, so honestly been so vividly, of villages, has never London, that city Place: London Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 320pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-482 gillian tindall gillian The history village of one London The Fields Beneath Fields The Eland Classics ancient clanfrontiers. these police into drawn were and Uganda of states nation independent newly the as violence, of heights new unexpected explode into would it but raids cattle of tradition this the by of fed was tension feud animating The tribe. Turkana the rivals, age-old their with violence of cycle escalating an in up caught were Dodoth the period this during story,for adventure an also is tip It Uganda. of Northern the in live who cattle-herdsmen handsome tall, the Dodoth, the amongst spent months six of journal personal a is This Place: Northern Uganda Price: £12.99 Format: 256ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1780601-106 elizabeth marshall thomas Uganda of Northern Six MonthswiththeDodothTribe Warrior Herdsmen Bushman oftheKalahari. the on authority leading world’s the was who mother a with girl a as travelled having equal, an like Africans with eat and talk walk, to how knew she herself, anthropologist an not was she though For alive. culture whole their brings which detail for eye lyrical a and 122 Elizabeth asal hmss rtn i cagd ih clarity a with charged is writing Thomas’s Marshall ‘Gripping account byanacuteobserver.’ ‘Rare knowledgeandwarm sympathy.’ harold nicholson the scotsman Eland Classics 123 colin thubron colin prajwal parajuly prajwal ‘A unique insight into an astonishing tradition.’ ‘A the history of Nepal as it is about the Living Goddess.’ is about the Living Goddess.’ of Nepal as it the history

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the daily mail the daily justin marozzi, the national marozzi, justin of his wanderings across Pakistan.’ across of his wanderings ‘A sparkling, prejudice-burning description prejudice-burning sparkling, ‘A ‘Enchanting, exuberant, witty, poignant and deeply witty, exuberant, ‘Enchanting, Travels in a Dervish Cloak is a masterpiece.’ in a Dervish ... Travels evocative

full of open-hearted delight and a poignant lust for life. full of open-hearted a funny, hashish-and-whisky-scented travel book from the frontline, hashish-and-whisky-scented a funny, mystical Pakistan mystical has Pakistan survived and what has been destroyed? His is essence of a country convulsed by Islamist violence. What of the old, the of What violence. Islamist by convulsed country a of essence Seeking the land behind the headlines, Bard sets out to discover the working there as a foreign correspondent during the War on Terror. Terror. on working there as a foreign War correspondent during the became became enthralled by Pakistan as an intrepid teenager, eventually exuberant annual visits of her friend the Begum, Isambard Wilkinson Wilkinson Isambard Begum, the friend her of visits annual exuberant Spellbound by his grandmother’s Anglo-Indian heritage and the Place: Pakistan Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 244pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780601-502 isambard wilkinson isambard Cloak Travels in a Dervish a Dervish in Travels Eland Classics 128 worked youate.If there was noworkyouwenthungry’. Lancashire families, unemployment was an ever-present threat, ‘If you within that comprehend to Forfood. ordinaryenough the buy couldn’t to many afford so even hard– is it today, book this eading living memory – and in what was then the richest country in the world Lancashire’s of demise the life blightedbyextreme poverty. four-years-old, was a faced he family his Woodruffdepression, and great the of period the including on, then From work. of out thrown was father his meant 1920 of crash the to due industry textiles cotton the in supremacy weaving community. Blackburn’sof heart the in WoodruffLondon, lived until to away ran he 1916 in mill cotton a of room carding the in birth his From Place: Lancashire Price: £12.99 Format: 400ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-260 william woodruff childhood Northern An extraordinary The Road toNabEnd R When ‘Once started itisimpossible toputthisbookdown.’ times literary supplement ‘The bookisamasterpiece.’ independent Eland Classics

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civil war in particular. in particular. civil war anger and a thirst for revenge in even the most peaceful of souls. of souls. in even the most peaceful anger and a thirst for revenge of and general, in war of effects emotional the of account harrowing cabbages, cabbages, are caught in a cycle of violence which provokes hatred, first, whatever their political persuasion, and gives a gripping and village. The villagers, wishing simply to be left to cultivate their humane and sympathetic account puts the people of Spain to Gerald Brennan, watches fear stalk through a traditional Spanish monstrous destruction, Gamel Woolsey, monstrous an destruction, American Gamel poet Woolsey, married As Malaga goes up in flames in 1936 and the civil war begins its Place: Spain Price: £10.99 Price: Format: 160pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0907871-194 Jacobs by Michael an afterword With eve of the Civil War eve of the woolsey gamel A Spanish village on the A Spanish Kingdom Other Death’s Eland Classics 132 culture. to forced and alien country, this in alone, and isolated survival, her of and account fictional the mother husband, her by Japan. ejected to flees Mary behind, daughter her leave impossible tokeep secret. is him by pregnancy her but Kurihama, Count soldier, Japanese a with affair an has Mary absences, many his of one During winter. Pekingthe as chilly as bit every be to out turns who man a attaché: In 1903 Mary Mackenzie sails for China to marry the British military Place: China/Japan Price: £12.99 Format: 312ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-033 oswald wynd The Ginger Tree R ‘By theend,itis reader whoshedsthetears ‘Sensitively written, beautifully understated.’ nicholas shakespeare, sunday times his heroine haskept back forforty years.’ ‘absolutely fascinating.’ dame diana rigg japan times The Ginger Treeis Ginger The Through Writers’ Eyes

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glenny, vladimir dedijer, sir john gardner wilkinson, osbert osbert wilkinson, gardner john dedijer, sir vladimir glenny, evelyn waugh, edward gibbon, jan morris, fitzroy maclean, misha misha maclean, fitzroy morris, jan gibbon, edward waugh, evelyn through the eyes of outsiders and Croats alike. the eyes of outsiders and Croats through the glory of Croatia’s past, from Diocletian to independence, seen diversity. Within diversity. these covers the traveller can immerse himself in towns only mock our lack of knowledge with their unexpected palaces and amphitheatres, Byzantine basilicas and walled medieval Its ruined Greek cities, Habsburg gardens, border fortresses, Roman Roman fortresses, border gardens, Habsburg cities, Greek ruined Its travellers travellers know little more than that it was once part of Yugoslavia. beauty, beauty, one of the hidden jewels of the Mediterranean. Yet most Croatia, Croatia, with its unspoiled dramatic coast, is a place of bewitching Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 256pp demi pb Format: peter frankopan peter ISBN: 978-0907871-897 introduction and epilogue by by and epilogue introduction francis gooding, and with with and gooding, francis stephen lavington and and lavington stephen edited by through writers’ eyes writers’ through Croatia Through Writers’ Eyes 136 Hotel atLuxor. the terraceof Winterthe Palaceon takestea and Bennett temple Alan sand-filled a through crawls Lane Edward Nile, the up sails Gordon thinker,Egyptian blind the Taha cityof modern Duff Lucie Hussein. the with hand in walkshand Jubayr Ibn of Cairomedieval Sinai. The Nightingale Florence describing Abu Alexandria, Simbel side by side with description of Ahdaf Soueif’s of account Mahfouz’s to Naguib next papyrus a from myth ancient an dazzling: is here gathered voices of range The nineteenth. the in Cook Thomas with grand less those and century eighteenth the Touristsof Grand the by followed and Napoleon, and crusaders Sinai, to Herodotus pilgrims Caesar.came Julius Then of days the in back travellers was awestruck which attracting Egypt, as observed long so been has earth on land No Place: Egypt Price: £12.99 Format: 248ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0955010-569 sahar sobhi abdel-hakim edited by deborah manley and through writers’eyes Egypt ibn battuta, alan bennett, william dalrymple, e.m.forster, taha hassein, ibnjubayr, roger lancelyn green, pierre loti,naguib mahfouz, amitav ghosh,forence nightingale including: Through Writers’ Eyes

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edward gibbon, james bruce, richard burton, thomas pakenham, pakenham, thomas burton, richard bruce, james gibbon, edward arthur rimbaud, wilfrid thesiger, evelyn waugh, dervla murphy, murphy, dervla waugh, evelyn thesiger, wilfrid rimbaud, arthur equal measure, and the keen interest of writers of all stripes. foolish would-be conquerors, as well as saints and sinners in attracted attracted the attentions of eccentric adventurers, Jesuit explorers, kings descended from Solomon and Sheba, Ethiopia has long and writer. trilingual interpreter Ethiopia resident, a long-time people. As well as peopling the land with its own caste of priest- Stranger, Yves-Marie by hand-picked accounts, travel past of libraries you have here is quite literally the best bits from whole understanding, understanding, allowing you to gaze deeper into the landscape and Ethiopian, the book throws wide open precious windows of or from the depths of an armchair. A compendium of all things Ethiopia, be it in the precarious saddle of an Abyssinian pony, This book is the perfect companion to any exploration of Place: Ethiopia Price: £14.99 Price: Format: 288pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1780600-772 edited by yves-marie stranger yves-marie edited by through writers’ eyes writers’ through Ethiopia Through Writers’ Eyes 138 Inca Emperors and American filibusters. Kings, Spanish of schemes the as well as Robinsons Family Swiss and Crusoes Robinson life real exiles, and writers buccaneers, and pirates discovered and Galapagos, the behind stories human the for open ear an kept always He intimately. them knew Ecuador, Chile and both to ambassador British as serve to went later and man theory of evolution. John Hickman, who sailed past them as a young animals on these remote Pacific islands gave birth to his revolutionary Darwin. The near-miraculous survival of unique species of birds and Charles of explorations the by famous natural made were with beauty volcanic archipelago’ ‘enchanted an Islands, Galapagos The Price: £12.99 Format: 225ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-109 katie hickman and with a preface by edited by johnhickman through writers’eyes Galapagos charles darwin, herman melville, lord byron, william dampier, captain david porter, edward davis, woodes rogers fray tomas, ambrose cowley, alfred wallace, including: Through Writers’ Eyes 139 including: e also has a surprisingly important role in nurturing

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jan morris, pico iyer, nicholas bouvier, yukio mishima, matsuo matsuo yukio mishima, nicholas bouvier, pico iyer, morris, jan polo, alex kerr, kazuo ishiguro, pierre loti, junichiro tanizaki, tanizaki, loti, junichiro pierre ishiguro, kazuo kerr, alex polo, basho, jonathan swift, anthony thwaite, rudyard kipling, marco kipling, marco rudyard thwaite, anthony swift, jonathan basho, Mishima’s meditation on Japan, The Temple of the Golden Pavillion. Temple The Japan, on meditation Mishima’s Basho’s Basho’s masterly Narrow Road to the Deep North and from Yukio living in a down-at-heel district of in Tokyo the 1950s, extracts from a Zen Buddhist monk in Kyoto, Nicolas Bouvier’s reminiscences of culture and religious beliefs as well as their changing lifestyles. as well as their changing beliefs and religious culture become to training of rigours the of account Iyer’s Pico lie covers these builds a complex picture of the islands and their people, their refined extremity via the distant islands of Okinawa and Hokkaido. Between the atom bomb at Nagasaki and of street life in present-day Ginza, she Ginza, present-day in life street of and Nagasaki at bomb atom the returning to the main island and its once inaccessible northern sophisticated court culture, to eyewitness accounts of the explosion of explosion the of accounts eyewitness to culture, court sophisticated these enigmatic islands. From the earliest European reports of Japan’s Japan’s of reports European the earliest From these enigmatic islands. tracked tracked down a wealth of writers who have turned their attention to Like Like a traveller in search of enlightenment, Elizabeth Ingrams has Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 336pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-1906011-086 elizabeth ingrams elizabeth edited by edited by through writers’ eyes writers’ through Japan Through Writers’ Eyes 142 writers’ eyes. inter-cultural harmony – and bigotry – all are reflected through these beauty, poetry, struggle, humour, an occasional example of inspiring versa. Violence,vice and religion informs societypolitics like where mosaic a traditionsin and rites their defending stubbornly sea, and mountains between in hemmed uneasily, coexist groups religious themselves bear genetic witness to this history: dozens of ethnic and Lebanese The attention. for jostling all churches and mosques able there: Phoenician tombs and Roman temples, Gothic castles, vener still are civilisations transient these all Turks.of VestigesOttoman and Mamlukes Persians, Crusaders, Arabs, the Great, the exander Al- Assyria, Rome, Egypt, Ancient France, – powers great world’s the of most of appetites rapacious the to prey fallen has Lebanon Price: £12.99 Format: 312ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-277 and andree fehaligorton edited by ted gorton through writers’eyes Lebanon

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- - Through Writers’ Eyes ­ - 143 -tellers, cooks, ers, fortune ­ including: ali bey, gavin maxwell and leo africanus and leo maxwell gavin ali bey, elias canetti, esther freud, peter mayne, juan goytisolo, sach juan goytisolo, mayne, peter freud, esther canetti, elias everell sitwell, george orwell, edith wharton, wyndham lewis, lewis, wyndham wharton, edith george orwell, sitwell, everell the Djemma el Fna – where story-tell the Djemma el Fna – where nightly magic – and their weave and dancers musicians, acrobats the city’s This book explores festive alleys of the souk. the packed, speculations and scholarship the researches, mystique through of to the enchantment succumbed writers who have of forty to a web of stories privileged access giving the reader Marrakesh, city. this beguiling that enrich Marrakesh is the drum that beats an African rythmn into the com rythmn African an that beats is the drum Marrakesh exotic instantly been a more has never There plex soul of Morocco. the in the background landscape; a dream destination for it is like tops, with their snowy Atlas mountains steel blue of the High ramparts, earth red weathered, then vast, then a hint of the desert, In the olives. verdant and of oranges orchards palms, tapering tall of marvels square on that disordered concentrates life evening, ISBN: 978-0907871-996 312pp demi pb Format: £12.99 Price: edited by barnaby rogerson barnaby edited by shah tahir by preface a with Marrakesh eyes writers’ through Through Writers’ Eyes 144 sense oflife. make to and enjoy to protect, to love, to earn, to need a – subjects What which world a together east. draws writers of collection the diverse in India and humanitywriters common both a by is sharedthrough – shines to west the in Morocco from stretches inspiration theycan be. of source a what – traditions cultural different understanding and sharing for are lives our richer immeasurably how shows it divide, the across bridge a author.Throwing have the personal on mark indelible which an left of encounters chance collection and a friendships of is reminiscences Muslims Remarkable with Meetings Price: £12.99 Format: 314ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0955010-507 barnaby rogerson edited by rosebaring and Remarkable Muslims Meetings with This ‘I have rarely comeacross such compellingtravel writing.’ ‘Every political leader inthe Western world should beforced toread this book.’ gamal nkrumah, al-ahram nick smith,geographical Through Writers’ Eyes 145 including: john simpson and christopher de bellaigue and christopher john simpson

harold nicholson, , robert byron, shusha guppy, guppy, shusha byron, robert stark, freya harold nicholson, herodotus, aeschylus, xenophon, marco polo, ibn battuta, sir sir ibn battuta, polo, marco xenophon, aeschylus, herodotus, john chardin, sir james fraser, george curzon, robert graves, graves, robert george curzon, fraser, james sir john chardin, Khomeni, with Hafiz and with Omar Khayyam. passing acquaintance with both the Shah and the late Ayatollah Xerxes, to ride out with the Parthians and Sassanians and to make a and Sassanians and to make to ride out with the Parthians Xerxes, descriptive writing. He allows us to visit the courts of Cyrus and his knowledgeable selection of the best of three thousand years of invincible fascination. David Blow enriches our understanding with understanding our enriches Blow David fascination. invincible for poets, empires, mystics and saints, it has an enduring and the most sublime architecture in the world, and a breeding ground deserts, yet rich in plains, forests and jewel-like gardens. Home to as Persia, is riven by mountain-ranges, made inhospitable by The land of the Iranians, known to European travellers for centuries for travellers European to known Iranians, the of land The Price: £14.99 Price: Format: 416pp demi pb Format: ISBN: 978-0955010-552 david blow david edited by through writers’ eyes writers’ through Persia Through Writers’ Eyes 146 from Palermo toSyracuse, andfrom arrival to departure. peasants, and princes of eyes the through island the detailing tales, with his own passion for Sicily, chosen a kaleidoscope of enchanting inspired many writers. Novelist and travel writer Horatio Clare has, the Mafia. These influences, along with some ineffable magic, have to Vespers Sicilian the from – societies secret to attachment its in culture, expressed in its own mythology, cuisine and wine as well as and architecture. Yet this always coexisted with a resilient indigenous art distinctive most and finest their of some producing flourished, Athenians, Romans, Phoenicians, Arabs, Normans, Habsburgs, the Bourbons and Byzantines where all place a culture, European of crucible more a is It viceroys. Imperial and invaders of share fair its endured than has Mediterranean, the of epicenter the at Sicily, Price: £12.99 Format: 320ppdemipb ISBN: 978-0907871-941 edited by horatio clare through writers’eyes Sicily w.h. auden, cicero, goethe,homer,ibnjubayr, giuseppe delampe- dusa, d.h. lawrence, norman lewis, gavin maxwell, plutarch, danilo dolci,luigi pirandello, melissa p, peter robb, steven including: runciman Through Writers’ Eyes 147 including: james elroy flecker, ross burns, hester stanhope hester burns, flecker, ross elroy james

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t.e. lawrence, colin thubron, william dalrymple, isabel burton, isabel burton, dalrymple, william thubron, colin lawrence, t.e. this wide-ranging but exquisitely discriminating collection. long experience and continued absorption with Syria into antiquarian book dealer Marius Kociejowski has poured his and ten original woodcuts by Mungo McCosh. Bell amongst the ruins of Palmyra. Poet, travel writer and Clark Peter by epilogue an Burns, Ross by introduction an ith thoughts of Edward Gibbon, Hester Stanhope and Gertrude Castles, follow T. E. Lawrence through Aleppo and read the musing on Byzantine hermits, hear Robin Fedden on Crusader In these pages you will eavesdrop on William Dalrymple For For centuries, visitors have responded to Syria with fascination. Price: £12.99 Price: Format: 272pp demi pb Format: marius kociejowski marius ISBN: 978-0907871-842 edited by through writers’ eyes writers’ through Syria Through Writers’ Eyes 148 ith a foreword by Jeremy Seal and an evocation of life in the in life of evocation an and Seal Jeremy by foreword a ith ancient worldbyFfionaGilmore Eaves antiquarian Turkish British cookingandthesteam-filled vaults ofthehammam. of first delights the celebrating the as well as game-hunters, of and explorers excitement the sharing army, the in travelling relief, company of Hesiod and Homer, sharp following the route of Alexander’s into region the of fascination the brings collection This monuments. and scents colours, its explore to wishing holidaymakers boat-borne and travellers discerning of trickle a for magnet a unspoilt, comparatively remains antiquity,it of ruins the in Rich coves. remote and headlands secretive valleys, isolated gorges, river-cut mountains, wooded towering – beauty The Turkish coast between Izmir and Antalya is an area of drama and Price: £12.99 Format: 246ppdemipb ISBN: 978-1906011-093 edited by rupert scott collected and through writers’eyes The Turkish Coast kinross, freya stark, david sutherland, edith wharton, jeremy seal, georgebean, thomas hope, johnfreely, ernle bradford. lord byron, louisdebernieres, homer,hesiod, pliny, patrick W including: Poetry of Place

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Arabic poetry, from the years AD 600-1000. AD 600-1000. the years from poetry, Arabic book takes us on a poetic journey through the classical age of age the classical us on a poetic journey through book takes Fez, Baghdad to Cairo, as well as in the Arabian heartland. This heartland. Arabian as well as in the Baghdad to Cairo, Fez, developed wherever Arabic came to be spoken, from Damascus to from to be spoken, came Arabic developed wherever Even before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It culture. Arabic of at the heart was Islam, poetry before Even Price: £6.99 Price: Format: 128pp/100 x 150mm pb Format: ISBN 978-1906011-208 ed. & trans. & ed. gorton j. t. by desire for love, wine, laughter, moonlit picnics and bare flesh. and bare moonlit picnics for love, wine, laughter, desire Arabia spaces with the Moorish lust for life, and with a near-suffocating Mosque of Cordoba. This collection of poetry fills those deserted of the Alhambra’s gilded halls or amidst the pillars of the Great Moorish Spain is an elusive place, glimpsed in the haunted emptiness haunted the in glimpsed place, elusive an is Spain Moorish Poetry of Place 152 in people their verse, usuallybrushed of outonbamboo, silkorpaper. habits and lives the captured scholars historical China’s its for China ago, years thousand three match least at poetry.Beginning with can obession that civilisation no is There Price: £6.99 Format: 128pp/100x150mmpb ISBN 978-1906011-307 ed. &Exile City China been translated intoEnglish. odes traditional these have before Never unimpaired. less or more a of representative form, oral in survived has are that culture AgeHeroic rich, particularly which Morocco, central of region Atlas Middle the from part most the for come volume this in poems The alex monro alex ed. ed. Morocco of Mountains the from Poetry Berber Odes Price: £6.99 Format: 128pp/100x150mmpb ISBN 978-1906011-284 michael peyron michael Poetry of Place 153 barnaby rogerson ISBN 978-1906011-055 pb 144pp/100 x 150mm Format: £5.99 Price: Desert Air Desert Arabia,Deserts and the Orient of the Imagination ed.

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plot a course from island to island. Instead, it groups together po but also of violence, of love and death. The Isles of Greece doesn’t islands. of all Greek present Greek Greek Islands have proved to be places and of enchantment, beauty to some in provide sense order of the glitter ems and extracts prose ing delights and dark tragedies that are part of the history and the For For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Price £6.99 Price Format: 128pp/100 x 150mm pb Format: ISBN 978-1906011-161 ed. The Isles of Greece others, salute one of the world’s most remarkable cities. remarkable most world’s others, salute one of the Sultan Sultan Süleyman, W. B. Yeats, Nâzim Hikmet, amongst many paupers and sultans, natives and visitors alike. Between these covers, these Between alike. visitors and natives sultans, and paupers Europe, Europe, has called forth poetry throughout her long from history, Istanbul, Istanbul, capital of two great empires, confluence of Asia and Poetry of Place 156 irony anddelight.aconnection toourpolitical history. grief, of full is collection this itself city the Like floor. pub a from from half-charred lines of Anglo-Saxon to yesterday’s lyrics retrieved to Wordsworth’sbeautythe of Westminsterover sigh dawn Bridge, London’s poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah in yourbed. magic own your creating and monuments from off day a taking for inspiration fitting is It Baudelaire. and Rimbaud rebels, perpetual such and Francoisas swashgallows-fodderbuckling Villon,the of applauds and company sexy the in irreverent, delights personal, collection this is and invigorating Paris of tradition poetic The Price £6.99 Format: 160pp/100x150mmpb ISBN 978-1-906011-314 ed. Paris hetty meyric hughes meyric hetty Price £6.99 Format: 144pp/100x150mmpb ISBN 978-1903651-032 ed. London barnaby rogerson barnaby Poetry of Place 157 glynpursglove Rome ed. ISBN 978-1906011-222 pb 145pp/100 x 150mm Format: £6.99 Price

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differences. choices choices we see the two opposing natures of Italy, united by their and Milton, Gabriele D’Annunzio and Joseph Brodsky. Through her Through Brodsky. Joseph and D’Annunzio Gabriele Milton, and Dante, flickers between the imagery drawn by St Francis, Baudelaire Baudelaire Francis, St by drawn imagery the between flickers Dante, spell-binding intensity, so that the spell-binding and Byron reader between intensity, twists who have expressed this in verse. The cast she has assembled has a retained retained a passionate relationship with her motherland and those Gaia Servadio is an Italian writer, long settled in Britain, who has Price £6.99 Price Format: 80pp/100 x 150mm pb Format: ISBN 978-1906011-567 ed. Tuscany & Umbria & Tuscany drawn to wither upon the bright glory of its ancient stones. glory to wither upon the bright drawn city city and its lessons to us. From Keats to Shelley to Byron, all were cast cast enough to fill thePantheon, whose voices magically echo the and modern from poetry, Virgil to Pasolini. It is a truly Olympian Glyn Pursglove has woven a delicate tapestry of ancient, medieval Poetry of Place 158 decadence. hermantic and – cityscape Canaletto a – surface her of clarity the between duality fascinating that on and history her of meditations on the city, of glimpses remembered first those on Here eavesdrop provocations. we her to respond they as Cocteau, and Pound in walk the company of to Byron, Pushkin, Shelley, time, Wilde, Goethe, Browning, in back travel to chance a offers book little This Price £6.99 Format: 144pp/100x150mmpb ISBN 978-1906011-567 ed. Venice is verse English of vein celebrated here inabrilliantcollection. This poets. the provoked always have they travel.And for passion our fuelled always have They past. the with engagment romantic a of icons physical the are these – tower Gothick a of ruins ivy-clad the citadel, rocky a of gate broken The

hetty meyric hughes Price: £6.99 Format: 80pp/100x150mmpb ISBN: 978-0907871-989 ed. The Ruins of Time anthony thwaite Holding On 51 Index by Country Lighthouse 100 afghanistan The Common Stream 99 The Road to Nab End 128 The Way of the World 14 The People of Providence 101 Full Tilt 82 The Fields Beneath 121 Travels into Bokhara 19 Jackdaw Cake 66 The Light Garden of the Angel 59 Juliet 21 africa south of the sahara London: Poetry of Place 156 A Place Apart 88 The Devil Drives 17 England: Poetry of Place 154 Africa Dances 39 A Funny Old Quist 115 Warriors 46 Hampshire: Through Writers’ Eyes 139 Travels into the Interior of Africa 98 The Weather in Africa 33 burma An Innocent Anthropologist 8 Golden Earth 62 In Ethiopia With a Mule 85 Ethiopia: Through Writers’ Eyes 137 central asia Warrior Herdsmen 122 Central Asia: Through Writers’ Eyes 134 arabia A Ride to Khiva 18 Travels into Bokhara 19 Sultan in Oman 80 Arabia 109 china Arabia, Poetry of Place 151 Hermit of Peking 124 A Time in Arabia 49 Peking Story 55 arctic and antarctic China: Poetry of Place 152 Forgotten Kingdom 43 Nunaga 108 croatia argentina Croatia: through writers’ eyes 135 A State of Fear 41 Far Away and Long Ago 48 cuba Goodbye Buenos Aires 40 The Island that Dared 90 british isles ecuador Coasting 110 Living Poor 120 My Early Life 24 Galapagos: through writers’ eyes 138 159 egypt Goddess in the Stones 69 Cinema Eden 44 indo-china, vietnam, laos & Egypt: through writers’ eyes 136 cambodia Libyan Sands 6 A Dragon Apparent 61 The Pharaoh’s Shadow 116 iran france Persia: through writers’ eyes 145 Chantemesle 29 The Way of the World 14 Scum of the Earth 567 Full Tilt 82 The Last Time I Saw Paris 103 Paris: Poetry of Place 156 iraq galapagos A Reed Shaken by the Wind 77 Galapagos: through writers’ eyes 138 ireland greece Walled Gardens 38 Dublin: Poetry of Place 153 The Hill of Kronos 58 Wheels Within Wheels 89 92 Acharnon Street 74 A Place Apart 88 Mother Land 52 Isles of Greece: Poetry of Place 155 indonesia The Villa Ariadne 107 An Empire of the East 70 guatemala israel Rites 104 Between River and Sea 92 hungary Month by the Sea 91 Palestine Papers 50 The Undefeated 97 italy india & nepal The Honoured Society 63 Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian 9 Naples ’44 64 Begums, Thugs and White Mughals The Law 125 102 Venice: Poetry of Place 158 Tibetan Foothold 83 Rome: Poetry of Place 157 The Waiting Land 84 Travels On My Elephant 117 jamaica On a Shoestring to Coorg 86 A Year in Jamaica 60

160 japan Where the Indus is Young 87 Travels in a Dervish Cloak 127 The Ginger Tree 1 The Japanese Chronicles 15 palestine Japan: through writers’ eyes 141 Between River and Sea 92 lebanon Month by the Sea 91 Palestine Papers 50 Lebanon: through writer’ eyes 142 libya poland A Square of Sky 27 A Cure for Serpents 105 Libyan Sands 6 russia malaysia Journey into the Mind’s Eye 12 Juliet 21 Three Came Home 54 Valse des Fleurs 119 mexico When Miss Emmie was in Russia 106 A Visit to Don Otavio 11 sahara Viva Mexico 30 Africa Dances 39 morocco Red Moon & High Summer 53 Cinema Eden 44 Libyan Sands 6 Morocco That Was 47 scotland Lords of the Atlas 76 Highlands & Islands: Poetry of Place 154 A Year in Marrakesh 78 Gavin Maxwell: A Life 13 Marrakesh: through writers’ eyes 143 sicily Berber Odes: Poetry of Place 152 The Honoured Society 63 pacific Sicily: through writers’ eyes 146 The Last Leopard 37 A Pattern of Islands 42 On Persephone’s Island 118 Transit of Venus 28 In Sicily 71 pakistan somalia Juliet 21 Warriors 46 The Way of the World 14 Travels Into Bokhara 19

161 spain Mother Land 52 Sweet Waters 93 Death’s Other Kingdom 131 Dinner of Herbs 45 Andalus: Poetry of Place 151 Two Middle-Aged Ladies in u.s.a Andalucia 23 Juliet 21 The Tomb in Seville 72 Hunting Mister Heartbreak 112 Voices of the Old Sea 65 Old Glory 113 sri lanka/ceylon The Trouble I’ve Seen 36 The Face of War 34 The Scorpion-Fish 16 The View from the Ground 35 The Village in the Jungle 130 Growing 129 syria west africa An Innocent Anthropologist 8 Syria: through writers’ eyes 147 Africa Dances 39 The Street Philosopher and the Plague of Caterpillars 7 Holy Fool 56 Travels into the Interior of Africa thailand 98 Bangkok 126 tunisia Among the Faithful 75 turkey An Ottoman Traveller 22 Dark Journey 96 Turkish Letters 20 Cinema Eden 44 The Caravan Moves On 95 Portrait of a Turkish Family 95 The Way of the World 14 Istanbul: Poetry of Place 155 Turkish Coast: through writers’ eyes 148 Stamboul Sketches 31

162 Index by Author Gellhorn, Martha 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 Gilmour, David 37 Goff, Annabel 38 Bagnold, Ralph 6 Gorer, Geoffrey 39 Baring, Rose 140, 144 Goullart, Peter 43 Barley, Nigel 7, 8 Goytisolo, Juan 44 Beames, John 9 Graham-Yooll, Andrew 40, 41 Bedford, Sybille 10, 11 Grimble, Arthur 42 Blanch, Lesley 12 Grissman, Carla 45 Blow, David 145 Botting, Douglas 12 Hanley, Gerald 46 Bouvier, Nicolas 14, 15, 16 132 Harris, Walter 47 Brodie, Fawn 17 Hopkirk, Kathleen 19, 134 Burnaby, Fred 18 Hudson, Roger 140 Burnes, Alexander 19, 134 Hudson, W.H. 48, 139 Busbecq, Ogier de 20 Bush, Peter 44 Ingrams, Doreen 49, 50

Chetwode, Penelope 23 Jackson, John Wyse 153 Churchill, Winston 24 Jones, Mervyn 51 Clare, Horatio 146 Clive, Henrietta 25 Kakmi, Dmetri 52 Connell, Monica 26 Kaufmann, Herbert 53 Keith, Agnes 54 Dalrymple, William 19, 101, 130, Kidd, David 55 133, 137 Kim, Sooyong 22 Kociejowski, Marius 56, 137 Dankoff, Robert 22 Koestler, Arthur 57 David, Janina 27

Lavington, Stephen 135 Evans, Julian 28 Langland, Alastair 139 Levi, Peter 58, 59 Fedden, Robin 29, 147 Lewes, Diana 60 Flandrau, Charles 30 Lewis, Norman 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, Freely, John 31, 148 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72 156 Lucas, John 73, 155

163 Mansel, Philip 19 Raban, Jonathan 109, 110, 111, 112, 113 Martin, Dahris 74 Ramsbotham, David 88 Maxwell, Gavin 12, 75, 76, 134, 146 Reid, Michaela 114 Mayne, Peter 78 Rogerson, Barnaby 143, 144, 153, 156 Meyric Hughes, Hetty 156, 158 Sattin, Anthony 98, 116 Miers, Mary 154 Scott, Rupert 138 Monro, Alex 152 Servadio, Gaia 151 Moorehead, Caroline 36 Shand, Mark 117 Moritz, Carl Philip 79 Sharp, Jack 129 Morris, Jan 79, 135, 141 Shields, Nancy 24 Mosley, Nicholas 81 Simeti, Mary Taylor 118 Murphy, Dervla 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, Sitwell, Sacheverell 119 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 137 Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall 122 Nicholson, Harold 135 Thomsen, Moritz 120 Nicolson, Nigel 93 Thwaite, Anthony 141, 158 Tindall, Gillian 121 Orga, Ates 94, 95, 155 Tree, Isabella 123 Orga, Irfan 94, 95, 96 Trevor-Roper, Hugh 124

Paloczi-Horvath, George 97 Waugh, Alec 126 Parker, Rowland 99 Wilkinson, Isambard 127 Parker, Tony 100, 101 Wilson, A. N. 140, 148 Parkes, Fanny 102 Woodruff, William 128 Park, Mungo 98 Woolf, Leonard 129, 130 Paul, Elliot 103 Woolsey, Gamel 131 Perera, Victor 104 Wynd, Oswald 132 Peyron, Michael 146 Pirajno, Alberto Denti di 105 Pitcher, Harvey 106 Powell, Dilys 107 Pryde, Duncan 108 Pursglove, Glyn 157

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