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Ebdon's England
By John Ebdon. 1985
John Ebdon captures the whims and eccentricities of the English character in this portrait of the country and its people:…
the regimented Farnham commuter, and the cantankerous neighbours with deep down hearts of gold. Explaining along the way why Yorkshiremen are "God's own people" and how London views tourists. 1985.Ebdon's odyssey
By John Ebdon. 1979
The first book from the Director of the London Planetarium, better known as a humorous broadcaster. Here he writes about…
the non-tourist side of Greece, two islands in the Cyclades, where he is accepted into the villages as a welcome inhabitant. In his own words, "It is not a travel book. It is about people... of the islands of Andros and Kos." 1979.Dying every day: Seneca at the court of Nero
By James S Romm. 2014
Explores the moral struggles, political intrigues and violent vendettas that enmeshed Seneca, the ancient Roman writer and philosopher, in the…
brutal daily lives of the imperial family and the regime of his student, Nero. 2014.Classical mythology: the Romans (The modern scholar)
By Peter Meineck. 2005
In this course, New York University professor Peter Meineck examines, in detail, the way in which military power, colonial organization,…
superior technology, a well-organized infrastructure, and a cohesive economic system helped to make Rome such a successful empire. These elements of Roman genius are well known, but it was the very idea of Rome that proved persuasive and this Roman ideal was born from mythology. 2005.Danube: A Sentimental Journey From The Source To The Black Sea
By Claudio Magris. 1989
Explores the Danube River as it flows through middle-European countries from the Bavarian hills to the Black Sea. Examines the…
tension between Greco-Roman and Teutonic cultures, the roots of fascism, the splendour and decline of the Hapsburg dynasty, and the evil of Nazism. 1989. Uniform title: Danubio.Canadian travellers in Europe, 1851-1900
By Eva-Marie Kröller. 1987
A detailed survey of Canadian travel writing in the 19th century provides an unusual perspective on Canadian history. Canadians abroad…
preferred Britain, France, Italy and Palestine, in that order. The major world expositions and Queen Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilees figure prominently in the writings. 1987.With a borrowed rucksack, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off in 1933 from the Hook of Holland to walk to Constantinople.…
This sequel continues the journey down the Danube from Budapest; on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain, and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania, a wild beautiful region of forests and mountains secluded from Western eyes during centuries of religious and national complexity. He planned to live "like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar" but found instead leisurely sojourns in castles. Sequel to "A time of gifts : on foot to Constantinople : from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube". 1986.Coasting (Picador Bks.)
By Jonathan Raban. 1987
In 1982 the author set out in an old, made-over ketch, to the only wilderness left: the sea. Unlike his…
predecessors, he was not weighted down by "testaments, theories and dogmas;" he wanted to find out what made his own "peculiar country tick" and, in so doing, he charted the coastline of his past, took soundings for the future and unfurled a map of Britain that is comedy and tragedy in one. 1987.Beyond Belfast: a 560-mile walk across Northern Ireland on sore feet
By Will Ferguson. 2009
Ferguson describes his attempt at walking the entire Ulster Way, a 560-mile path that circles Northern Ireland. Along the way,…
this grandson of a Belfast orphan uncovers his own hidden family history. There are clues about a lost inheritance, a mysterious photograph, and rumours of a vast estate, but the truth when it comes is both surprising and funny. Winner of the 2010 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal. c2009.An innocent in Scotland: more curious rambles and singular encounters
By David McFadden. 1999
Setting out to explore Scotland, his ancestral home, McFadden plans to follow the same route as H.V. Morton. Instead he…
charts an erratic course, interspersing accounts of the country with conversations of the people he encountered. 1999.An innocent in Ireland: curious rambles and singular encounters
By David McFadden. 1995
In the 1990s, the author intended to follow the same route taken in the 1930s by travel writer H.V. Morgan,…
to chart the similarities and differences about Ireland. Soon, however, he found himself wandering erratically, as the journey became increasingly his own. The book offers a humourous, affectionate look at Ireland of the 1990s. 1995.Ancient Greece
By Don Nardo. 1994
History of the culture often credited with originating belief in the worth of the individual. Begins with the birth of…
Greek civilization about 2200 B.C. and continues with the development of city-states, the Greek and Persian wars, the Athenian Empire and Athens's golden era, the Peloponnesian War, the feats and death of Alexander the Great, and the Hellenistic Age that ended about A.D. 1. Junior High. c1994.Among the Russians: From The Baltic To The Caucasus
By Colin Thubron. 1983
Colin Thubron learned Russian and entered the Soviet Union in an old Morris Marina in which he camped and drove…
for almost 10,000 miles between the Baltic and Caucasus. Everywhere he went he encountered and listened to people of all ages, occupations and interests. He met dissidents and was dogged by the KGB. The result is a fascinating and revealing picture of the many races who inhabit a giant country. 1983.Ancient Greece (History in a hurry #Vol. 8)
By John Farman. 1998
Ancient Egypt (History in a hurry #Vol. 1)
By John Farman. 1997
A universal history of the destruction of books: from ancient Sumer to modern Iraq
By Fernando Báez, Alfred J Mac Adam. 2008
Beginning with ancient Mesopotamia, Báez considers the wide-ranging reasons why books are destroyed: the desire of conquerors to eradicate their…
predecessors or foreign cultures, religious intolerance, fire and other natural or man-made disasters. Other books were lost because they were no longer considered important, and we know of them only through references in other works. Includes a chapter on fictional book destroyers, from Don Quixote to Fahrenheit 451. Some descriptions of violence. c2008. Uniform title: Historia universal de la destrucción de libros.A traveller's history of Ireland (Traveller's history)
By Peter Neville. 1997
A full history of Ireland from Prehistory to the present. Beginning with early Celtic Ireland, Neville chronicles the main events…
and important figures in Irish history, from Saint Patrick, the high kings, the Anglo-Irish relationship, the Potato Famine, to modern Ireland and its separate Catholic Nationalist and Protestant Unionist traditions. 1997.Aftermath: travels in a post-war world
By Farley Mowat. 1995
Hoping to put wartime recollections into new perspective, Mowat and his first wife, Frances, toured Europe in the spring of…
1953. Mowat shares his own recollections as well as those of others they met on the journey. The sites they visited included London, Kent, Paris, Positano, and San Carlo. 1995.A year in Provence
By Peter Mayle. 1989
First, a dream of life in Provence, and then a home to match the dream. Moving into an old farmhouse…
at the foot of the Luberon Mountains between Avignon and Aix was the beginning of an exotic and bewildering new life for Peter Mayle and his wife. "A year in Provence" is Peter Mayle's own hilarious description of their pleasurable and occasionally frustrating experiences. 1989.Abroad in England
By Frank Entwisle. 1982