Departures and Arrivals

Eric Newby transports the reader around the world, from an elephant fair in India, to a settlement of opal miners in Australia.

My Name is Not Konnichiwa!
By Rodney Ee
Rodney Ee loves to travel.
The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman
By Betsy Whyte
The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman
Vilnius: City of Strangers
By Laimonas Briedis
This book features quotes from travellers who passed through the city during their own life journeys.
A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings
By Laurence Sterne
This volume demonstrates the rare early satire which marked the beginning of the major phase of Sterne's career.
A Tale of a Tub: The Battle of the Books ; The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
By Jonathan Swift
This edition is also the first to recognize that the text of A Tale of a Tub is a mosaic, composed of quotations from other texts, which incidentally accounts for the necessity of many end notes.
Slow Boats to China
By Gavin Young
It needed twenty-three vessels and seven months to transport Gavin Young by slow boat from Piraeus to Canton - seven months crowded with adventure, excitement and colour.
Aspects Of Tourism: Tourist Behaviour
By Philip L. Pearce
Aspects Of Tourism: Tourist Behaviour
The Travels of Ibn Battuta
By ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ʻAzzām, ʻAbd ar-Raḥmān ʻAzzām
"In 1325, Ibn Battuta, a 21 year old scholar and religious judge, set off from his hometown in Tangier to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca. What was meant to take one year, took 30"--Cover.
Push Start 1984
By Alan P Savage
Push Start 1984