Met z-w en kleurenfoto's, Nederlandse vertaling van Duitstalig origineel.

Enhanced with 15 new essays, this collection is the benchmark of an acclaimed writer's spunk and sense of place. Originally published in 1987, "Falling Through Space" provides a funny and intimate diary of a writer's self-discovery. 42 photos.

TS copy of original manuscript of Hand fasted, an unpublished novel by Catherine Spence using the pseudonym Hugh Victor.

Verslag van een reis door de Dolomieten in Tirol.

The author explores the landscapes and people of her native country, recounts the 1973 assassination of her uncle, which caused her to go into exile, and shares her experiences as an immigrant in post-September 11 America.

In het Nederlands bewerkt door Marcel Meijer met z-w foto's.

The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.

Verhalen over het leven in Mali.

Korte verhalen over en natuur- en landschapsfoto's van de steppenvlakten van Centraal-Azië.

"Remarkable" and "astonishing," says Jan Morris of Roy Moxham's account of his search for "one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria's India," and John Keay finds it "a compelling read, simply told, and simply wonderful." An unquestionably fascinating tale, as well as a travel book and historical detective story, The Great Hedge of India begins in a secondhand bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road. There Roy Moxham buys the memoir of a nineteenth-century British colonial administrative officer, who makes a passing reference to a giant hedge planted by the British across the Indian subcontinent. That hedge--which for fifty years had been manned and cared for by 12,000 men and had run a length of 2,500 miles--becomes what Moxham calls his "ridiculous obsession." Recounting a journey that takes him to exotic isolated villages deep in the interior of India, Moxham chronicles his efforts to confirm the existence of the extraordinary, impenetrable green wall that had virtually disappeared from two nations' memories. Not only does he discover the shameful role the hedge played in the exploitative Raj and the famines of the late nineteenth century, but he also uncovers what remains of this British grand folly and restores to history what must be counted one of the world's wonders--and a monument to one of the great injustices of Victorian imperialism. "Grandly entertaining ... close to being a perfect story of a fanciful quest."--Boston Globe

Klimverhalen, afgewisseld met herinneringen en overpeinzingen.

Verslag van een reis door Indonesië, Iran, Maleisië en Pakistan, waarbij de aandacht van de schrijver vooral uitgaat naar de invloed van de Islam op deze landen.

Verslag van een verblijf in een klein Italiaans dorpje om twee aangekochte huizen te restaureren en in te richten.

Verslag van een reis van de Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijver (1939- ) door zijn geboortestreek, de Westkaap.