Holding On
MERVYN JONES
One family and one street in London’s East End: 1880-1960
Red Moon & High Summer
HERBERT KAUFMANN
A coming-of-age novel following a young singer in his Tuareg homeland
Three Came Home
AGNES KEITH
A mother’s ordeal in a Japanese prison camp
Peking Story
DAVID KIDD
The ruin of an ancient Mandarin family under the new communist order
Syria: through writers’ eyes
ED. MARIUS KOCIEJOWSKI
Guidebooks for the mind: a selection of the best travel writing on Syria
Scum of the Earth
ARTHUR KOESTLER
Koestler’s personal experience of France in World War II
A Dragon Apparent
NORMAN LEWTS
Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam on the eve of war
Golden Earth
NORMAN LEWIS
Travels in Burma
The Honoured Society
NORMAN LEWIS
Sicily, her people and the Mafia within
Naples ’44
NORMAN LEWIS
Post-war Naples and an intelligence officer’s love of Italy’s gift for life
A View of the World
NORMAN LEWIS
Collected writings by the great English travel writer
An Indian Attachment
SARAH LLOYD
Life and love in a remote Indian village
SIMON LOFTUS
Tales of a hungry traveller: from catfish in Mississippi to fried eggs with chapatis in Pakistan
Among the Faithful
DAHRIS MARTIN
An American woman living in the holy city of Kairouan, Tunisia in the 1920s
Lords of the Atlas
GAVIN MAXWELL
The rise and fall of Morocco’ s infamous Glaoua family, 1893-1956
A Reed Shaken by the Wind
GAVIN MAXWELL
Travels among the threatened Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq
A Year in Marrakesh
PETER MAYNE
Back-street life in Morocco in the 1950s
Sultan in Oman
JAN MORRIS
An historic journey through the still-medieval state of Oman in the 1950s
The Caravan Moves On
IRFAN ORGA
Life with the nomads of central Turkey
Portrait of a Turkish Family
IRFAN ORGA
The decline of a prosperous Ottoman family in the new Republic
The Undefeated
GEORGE PALOCZI-HORVATH
Fighting injustice in communist Hungary
Travels into the Interior of Africa
MUNGO PARK
The first – and still the best – European record of west-African exploration
Lighthouse
TONY PARKER
Britain’s lighthouse-keepers, in their own words
The People of Providence
TONY PARKER
A London housing estate and some of its inhabitants
FANNY PARKES
William Dalrymple edits and introduces his favourite Indian travel book
The Last Time I Saw Paris
ELLIOT PAUL
One street, its loves and loathings, set against the passionate politics of inter-war Paris
Rites
VICTOR PERERA
A Jewish childhood in Guatemala
A Cure for Serpents
THE DUKE OF PIRAJNO
An Italian doctor and his Bedouin patients, Libyan sheikhs and Tuareg mistress in the 1920s
Nunaga
DUNCAN PRYDE
Ten years among the Eskimos: hunting, fur-trading and heroic dog-treks
A Funny Old Quist
EVAN ROGERS
A gamekeeper’s passionate evocation of a now-vanished English rural lifestyle
Meetings with Remarkable Muslims
ED. ROGERSON & BARING
A collection of contemporary travel writing that celebrates cultural difference and the Islamic world
Marrakesh: through writers’eyes
ED. ROGERSON & LAVINGTON
Guidebooks for the mind; a selection of the best travel writing on Marrakesh
Living Poor
MORITZ THOMSEN
An American’s encounter with poverty in Ecuador
Hermit of Peking
HUGH TREVOR-ROPER
The hidden life of the scholar Sir Edmund Backhouse
The Law
ROGER VAILLAND
The harsh game of life played in the taverns of southern Italy
The Road to Nab End
WILLIAM WOODRUFF
The best selling story of poverty and survival in a Lancashire mill town
LEONARD WOOLF
A dark novel of native villagers struggling to survive in colonial Ceylon
Death’s Other Kingdom
GAMEL WOOLSEY
The tragic arrival of civil war in an Andalucian village in 1936
The Ginger Tree
OSWALD WYND
A Scotswoman’s love and survival in early twentieth-century Japan
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