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Ireland, a bicycle and a tin whistle
By David A Wilson. 1995
Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, David Wilson followed the coastline from Prebyterian Islandmagee to Gaelic Cape Clear,…
then from Dublin to Belfast. He explores the Ireland of fiddles, harps, and storytelling 'til dawn, sharing tales of the towns he visited and the people he met. Some strong language. 1995.Neither here nor there: travels in Europe
By Bill Bryson. 1991
Bryson retraces his journeys through Europe in 1972 and 1973, when he and a high school buddy backpacked through the…
continent. Bryson revisits many of those places, and describes the changes in the sites and within himself. As the interests of Bryson and his buddy were quite different then, Bryson blends the accounts of the two journeys, offering insight into the various countries as well as his own life. Bestseller. 1991.2 1/2 men in a boat
By Nigel Williams. 1993
Nigel Williams's first work of non-fiction retells one of the most famous journeys of English literature - how Jerome K.…
Jerome rowed up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford - which Jerome transformed into the 1889 classic of English comedy "Three men in a boat". Williams's odyssey of the 1990s shows what has changed and what remains the same.Strands: a year of discoveries on the beach
By Jean Sprackland. 2012
A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, 'Strands'…
is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation. 2012.The old ways: a journey on foot
By Robert Macfarlane. 2013
Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the…
British Isles and beyond, the author discovers a lost world, a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations. 2013.Clear waters rising: a mountain walk across Europe
By Nicholas Crane. 1997
Alone, and on foot, Nicholas Crane embarked on an extraordinary adventure: a seventeen-month journey along the chain of mountains that…
stretches across Europe from Cape Finisterre to Istanbul, with only an umbrella for company. This classic account is both a tale of endurance and a celebration of the people and landscapes that exist on the periphery of the modern world.Great British railway journeys
By Charlie Bunce. 2011
Without reservations: the travels of an independent woman
By Alice Steinbach. 2000
Travel memoir by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore journalist, who recalls feeling too narrowly defined by her roles as a newspaper…
columnist and mother of grown sons. In 1993, to rediscover herself, Steinbach spent a year living in Europe and sent herself postcards recording her impressions of the adventure. 2000.For her 50th birthday, Jane Christmas finds herself leading fourteen women along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a centuries-old…
European pilgrimage route. Before she leaves, Christmas consults with a psychic, who warns of catfights, lost jewelry, encounters with celebrities, a visit from Death, and a fair-haired man. After less than a week, Christmas sets out on her own, battling loneliness, hunger, and exhaustion while encountering charming villages, forests, more compatible pilgrims - and a fair-haired man. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2007.We bought a country pub
By Alistair Keith Campsie. 1984
After years working as a journalist, the author looked forward to a tranquil life as the owner of a country…
pub in Scotland. However, the locals and staff conspired to create uproarious chaos.Walking to the saints: A Little Pilgrimage In France
By Anne McPherson. 2000
A visit to the time-honoured sites along France's medieval pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela. With reflections on the architecture,…
the spiritual universe of medieval people, and the connections and contradictions between earlier theology and contemporary feminist thought. 2000.Vroom with a view
By Peter Moore. 2003
Stirred by his approaching fortieth birthday, the author decides to pursue a dream, to explore Italy from the seat of…
a 1961 Vespa. Once the perfect motor scooter is found, and finally made as road worthy as possible, he is off, travelling the back roads from Milan to Rome. 2003.Voices in Ireland: a traveller's literary companion
By P. J Kavanagh. 1994
A literary tour of Ireland with a focus on its history and legends. Reveals the unique language and culture that…
evolved on the uninvaded island, so alien to Romanized Europe. Along the way from the north down to Dublin, the author depicts the sound and character of a singular people. 1995, c1994.Vodka, tears and Lenin's angel: my adventures in the wild and woolly FSU (Former Soviet Union)
By Jennifer Gould. 1997
Gould lived and worked in Russia from 1992 to 1994, travelling extensively through the former Soviet Union and recording her…
observations. Chronicling Russia as it re-creates itself, she interviewed new millionaires, soldiers in Chechnya, people just struggling to get by, and even Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of Russia's far right. 1997.Virgin trails: a secular pilgrimage
By Robert Ward. 2002
In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, humble journeyman painters would depict the Virgin Mary on city walls and cobblestones. The most…
beloved figure in Catholic theology has little to say in the Bible itself. It is through a look into history that we may understand how she is viewed today and how that view was formed. 2002.Une année en Espagne (Partis pris actuels ; #51)
By Joseph Facal. 2011
A l'occasion d'une année sabbatique où il a enseigné à l'université Carolo III de Madrid, Joseph Facal s'est installé avec…
toute sa famille en Espagne. L'auteur y note des réflexions très libres, inspirées par l'actualité et par sa découverte de la vie espagnole. Il s'intéresse aussi bien à la tauromachie qu'au nationalisme catalan, aussi bien au renouveau urbain de Barcelone et de Bilbao qu'aux conséquences de la crise financière sur la vie des Espagnols. Agréable à lire, comme un journal de voyage, cet ouvrage donne aussi sur la réflexion de la société québécoise à partir d'un point de vue extérieur. 2011.Two towns in Provence
By M. F. K Fisher. 1983
The day-to-day adventures of the author in Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles. This is a study of customs and manners, and could…
serve as a guide on how and how not to behave when living abroad. 1983.Tropic of hockey: my search for the game in unlikely places
By Dave Bidini. 2000
Author, musician, and hockey fan Bidini decided to seek out Canada's export sport in the far corners of the world.…
His quest led him to a rink on the eighth floor of a Hong Kong shopping mall, the gritty city of Harbin in northern China, to Dubai and even Transylvania. He discovers that hockey is a powerful connector around the world, and glories in its exhilaration and moments of grace. Some strong language. 2000.Trieste and the meaning of nowhere
By Jan Morris. 2001
Jan Morris has crafted a meditation on a most unusual city. James (as she was then) first visited Trieste as…
a soldier at the end of World War II. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. 2001.Transsibérien
By Dominique Fernandez. 2012
Récit de trois semaines de traversée de la Russie à bord du Transsibérien. Au fil du voyage, l'auteur poursuit sa…
méditation sur les paysages et les lieux, sur l'art et la littérature russes, avec en toile de fond le passé soviétique.