Travel Guides

Mark Mann / The Good Alternative Travel Guide (Large Paperback)

 * Stay with indigenous tribes in the Amazon * Dog-sled with the Inuit in the Arctic

David Herman / Ireland (Large Paperback)

 This guide, part of the "Walker's Companion" series, covers 23 walks in popular walking areas of Ireland, covering regions in the east, north west, west and south west of the country. The walks are...

Paul Clements - Irish Shores : a Journey Round the Rim of Ireland ( 25th Anniversary Edition )- PB - BRAND NEW

'Irish Shores: A Journey Round the Rim of Ireland' tells the story of a hitchhike around the West of Ireland's coastline. It conjures up a picture of a pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, reminding us that...

Alain De Botton / The Art of Travel (Hardback)

 Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere far from home. So why are we so often dissatisfied with the reality of travel? In THE ART OF TRAVEL, Alain de Botton, takes us on a...

Hugh Oram / Travellers' Trails : Ireland (Large Paperback)

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Ronan Moore / Irishography : Connemara, Croagh Patrick, Coppers and everywhere else we love in Ireland (Hardback)

   In his second book Ronan Moore, author of Irishology, has created a humorous and irreverent guide to every county in Ireland: Galway, where rainfall is measured not in millimetres but in days;...

Secret Dublin: An Unusual Guide

  Discover the inner sanctum of Freemason's Hall, see Napoleon's toothbrush, marvel at a hoax plaque hidden in plain sight on O'Connell Bridge, try George IV's footprints for size, venture into a...

Karen Farrington / Everything You Didn't Need to Know about the USA (Hardback)

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Ben Fogle / Up : My Life's Journey to the Top of Everest (Hardback)

 My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest.Everest, the mountain of my childhood dreams. A mountain that has haunted me my whole life. A mountain I have seen...

Daniella Moyles / Jump (Large Paperback)

 'The point of all this has nothing to do with finding yourself. It's about what you can do to lose what you don't need.'It's a dark rainy afternoon on Dublin's jammed M50 motorway. The rain is...

James Doyle / Where on Earth? : Geography Without the Boring Bits (Hardback)

  Where on Earth? is Jam-packed with all of geography's greatest hits, with all the boring bits taken out. From lava-spewing volcanoes to cool ways to remember the world's highest mountains,...

Charlie Connelly / In Search Of Elvis (Large Paperback)

  Since his death in 1977 Elvis Presley has become an even greater cultural icon than when he was making records and consuming deep-fried peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches. IN SEARCH OF ELVIS...

V. S. Naipaul / An Area of Darkness

 AN AREA OF DARKNESS is V.S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, always concerned - of his first visit to India, the land of his forbears. From the moment of his...

Sarah Woods / The 50 Greatest Bike Rides of the World

 Imagine freewheeling through tufted French vineyards, scaling the rocky, cloud-topped tracks in the Himalayas or rattling past whitewashed sugar-cube houses in narrow Spanish valleys.From surviving...

Francis Gimblett / In and Out of Africa : In Search of Gerard Depardieu

 Francis Gimblett is "The Wine Adventurer" and this book sees him discovering wine-making on the wild side. A journey that starts at a London talk show and ends in North Africa's Atlas mountains,...

Schneider, Anne & Steven - The Climber's Sourcebook - PB - 1976 - Mountaineering in the USA

A vintage 1976 compendium of information relating to mountaineering and rock climbing in the United States. CONTENTSWHERE TO LEARN TO CLIMB - climbing schools etc, mountaineering clubsTECHNICAL...

Gyles Brandreth / Have You Eaten Grandma? (Hardback)

 Pedantic about punctuation or scrupulous about spelling? You'll love this hilarious and definitive guide to 21st century language from grammar-guru Gyles Brandreth.'Brilliant, clear, entertaining,...

Bernard Neary / Dublin 7 (Large Paperback)

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William Black / Al Dente

 In Al Dente, William Black travels the length and breadth of Italy in order to get to the roots of Italian food. Our intrepid gastronome eats whatever gets in his way which often isn't quite what it...

Rosita Boland / Elsewhere

 'Utterly engaging.' - Sunday TimesFrom her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of...

John McKenna / Ireland The Best (Large Paperback)

 The true Irish insider's guide to the very best Ireland has to offer. This fully comprehensive and independent guide to Ireland gives you only the very best recommendations, whatever your budget...

Louise Wates / A Girls' Guide to India

  Revised 2013 edition. Telling it like it is, A girls' guide to India, a survivor's handbook reveals to women travelling to India what they really need to know. While lads can hoist on a rucksack...

Brendan Lehane / Wild Ireland (Large Paperback)

  Exploring the wild side of Ireland is made easier with this guide that takes travelers far beyond Dublin to the remote sea cliffs, secret valleys, and mountain lakes. Readers can savor vivid...

Michael Palin / Full Circle : A Pacific Journey with Michael Palin

  In this account of the third of Michael Palin's travel adventures for BBC Television, he journeys for almost a year, covering 50,000 miles and all of the 18 countries that border the Pacific...

Orhan Pamuk / Istanbul

 Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, was born in Istanbul,...

Charley Boorman / Race To Dakar (Hardback)

    In January 2006, 230 people raced in trucks, cars and motorbikes from Lisbon to Dakar in the 28th annual Dakar rally - the most dangerous race in the world. Taking part was a team of three...

Charley Boorman / By Any Means : His Brand New Adventure From Wicklow to Wollongong (Large Paperback)

    Four million captivated viewers watched Charley Boorman complete his last adventure - LONG WAY DOWN - which took him from John O'Groats to Cape Town. Along with Ewan McGregor he achieved not...

Pat Preston / Take a Break in Ireland

   Ireland is brimming with fun-filled travel experiences, with spectacular scenery, awesome attractions and friendly people. Wander amid ancient dolmens, castles, crannogs and round towers. Ride a...

Frank Booth / The Independent Walker's Guide to Ireland

     This unique series is designed for visitors who enjoy walking and getting off the beaten track. In addition to their value as general guides, each volume is peerless as a walker's guide,...

John McCarthy / A Ghost Upon Your Path

    We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our family, our house, our hometown, our nation. Ever since he first visited Ireland with his family 20 years ago,...

Redmond O'Hanlon / Into the Heart of Borneo

   `We've left a lot of men in Borneo - know what I mean?' With their SAS trainer's warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O'Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to...

Tim Bradford / Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive?

    A book of Irish journies, both real and imagined, as the author sits in pubs and listens to old men's stories, laughs at and falls in love with mad Irishwomen, sings folksongs, cries in the...

William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India

     William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and...

Patrizia Chen / Rosemary And Bitter Oranges : Growing up in a Tuscan Kitchen

    This rich combination of cookbook and memoir tells the story of a family and the secrets of its kitchen in post-World War II Tuscany. Suffused with the scents of simmering pots of cacciucco -...

Peter Stothard / On the Spartacus Road : A Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy

 In this inspiring and original book, former editor of The Times, Sir Peter Stothard, re-traces the journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels.In the final century of the first Roman Republic...

Annie Hawes / Journey to the South : A Calabrian Homecoming

   Ever since Annie got together with Ciccio, his Calabrian family have spoken of their homeland as an earthly paradise, of wild nights dancing the tarantella, of almond milk sold fresh from...

David Monagan / Jay Walking with the Irish

   The Monagan family left home in 2001, exchanging Connecticut for the dynamic city of Cork. A compelling portrait of modern Ireland in all of its excesses, foibles and inspirations, this is a...

Emily Monk / Don't Tell Mum : Hair-raising Messages Home from Gap-year Travellers

   The e-mail home is an essential part of every gap-year back-packers journey. Where once the news of narrowly surviving a bus crash on the dirt-roads of India, waking up to gunfire in Honduras or...

Paul Clements / The Height of Nonsense

    In 'The Height of Nonsense' Paul Clements recounts his journey through the 32 counties of Ireland along the Great Mountain Roads and the eccentric characters he encountered along the way,...

Hugh Halpin / Leisure Cycling Near Dublin

   This book serves two practical purposes. The first is to encourage you to cycle - a good thing in itself. The second is to introduce you to the marvellous varieties of terrain and cycling routes...

Patricia Schultz / 1,000 Places to See Before You Die

    This title describes 1000 "must-see" spots, from beaches to museums to cathedrals to bustling markets, grand hotels to backwater inns, rugged safaris to the most pampering spas. It includes...

Lucy Wadham / The Secret Life of France

   At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the...

Time Out Miami

 Florida's most flamboyant city is changing fast. The fabled tourist industry is booming: the designer hotel craze shows no signs of slowing, with new additions in the next year from big players,...

Travel Guides (Irish Independent) (Complete 20 Book Set)

Travel Guides: 1 New York  2 Rome 3 Amsterdam 4 Prague 5 Barcelona 6 London 7 Andalusia 8 Florence 9 Berlin 10 Milan & the Italian Lakes 11 Algarve 12 Venice 13 Crete 14 Paris 15 Munich 16 Isyanbul &...

Brian Lalor / The Ultimate Dublin Guide: An A-Z of Everything

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Dublin for Kids

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