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ELAND PUBLISHING LTD
A Dragon Apparent Description: Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American.... Read More about the "A Dragon Apparent" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Michael Joseph
And Another Thing: The World According To Clarkson Volume Two Description: Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling The World According To Clarkson, things don`t seem to have changed much. And so Jeremy`s having another go. In And Another Thing, our exasperated hero discovers that: - He inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina - We`re all going to explode at the age of 62 - Russians look bad in Speedos. But not as bad as Brits - No one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie`s long lost sister - Cooking a Sunday Roast is one thing. Gravy is quite another - He should probably be nicer about David Beckham But while these things play on his mind, the world remains Jeremy`s favourite place to be. On the whole, it`s brilliant. It s just the idiots, meddlers and do-gooders who spoil it for the rest of us. Laugh-out-loud funny and as straight-talking as ever, Clarkson bursts their pointless little bubble, while celebrating the special things that we should hold dear.... Read More about the "And Another Thing: The World According To Clarkson Volume Two" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Penguin Books Ltd
Aran Islands The Description: First published in 1907, this is a record of Synge`s visit to the three islands off Galway in the west of Ireland in 1898-1901. The visit to the islands was at the recommendation of Yeats. It was not until Synge`s first visits that Aran recovered some of its mystic status that it had enjoyed in previous centuries. The islanders found themselves viewed as the Celtic soul of Ireland. The living culture of Aran was seen as a repository of venerable antiquities. Synge listened to the islanders folktales and anecdotes, many of which he used for his play the Playboy of the Western World. The book is in four parts, corresponding to the first four of his five visits and is an exploration of an island community living a traditional life, but with modern life beginning to invade.... Read More about the "Aran Islands The" on the The Nile Book Store Website

HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited
Bamboo Palace Description: Twenty years after the Indochina wars, Christopher Kremmer visits Laos-at the crossroads of change in southeast Asia. He begins his journey in the tranquility of Luang Prabang, once the royal capital. With its ancient culture and stately airs, the town-like Laos itself-is a place of secrets, mysteries and nagging questions. Setting off in search of the lost royal family, a 600-year-old dynasty consumed by the violent troubles of the 1960s and 1970s, Kremmer reveals a small land-locked corner of Asia struggling to deal with the legacies of the US war and Asian communism. Bamboo Palace begins as a travelogue, turns into a mystery and ultimately redefines a nation`s history as Kremmer journeys through Laos to uncover one of Indochina`s darkest secrets.... Read More about the "Bamboo Palace" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Virgin Publishing
Bike Ride: 12, 000 Miles Around The World A Description: On holiday in India in 1983, girls` school headmistress Anne Mustoe saw a solitary European cyclist pedalling across the Great Thar Desert. Although no cyclist herself, she was seized with the desire to follow his example. Four years later, at the age of 54, she gave up her job, bought a bicycle and set off around the world. She cycled through Europe, India, Thailand and Malaysia, and then from the Far East to the USA - a journey of 12, 000 miles that lasted 15 months. Travelling alone, she faced physical hardship and occasional danger, but she also met an astonishing range of people and discoverd an exhilarating spirit of mutual trust and generosity.... Read More about the "Bike Ride: 12, 000 Miles Around The World A" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Loseby Richard
Blue Is The Colour Of Heaven: A Journey Into Afghanistan Description: This is the story of an astonishing adventure that began in the mind of an eight-year-old boy, obsessed with `looking for the Afghan` and ended with a perilous dash to safety. Avoiding land mines and bullets, he spent months traveling through Iraq and Iran negotiating a way into Afghanistan. Joining forces with the war-weary Mujahedeen, he found unexpected allies and unforgettable friends.... Read More about the "Blue Is The Colour Of Heaven: A Journey Into Afghanistan" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Penguin
Born To Be Riled Description: Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In Born to be Riled, Clarkson takes a look at the world through his windscreeen, shakes his head at what he sees - and then puts the boot in. Among other things, he explains: - why Surrey is worse than Wales - how crossing your legs in America can lead to arrest - the reason cable TV salesmen must be punched - that divorce can be blamed on the birth of Jesus Raving politicians, pointless celebrities, ridiculous `personalities` and the Germans all get it in the neck, together with the stupid, the daft and ludicrous in a tour de force of comic writing guaranteed to have Clarkson`s postman wheezing under sackfuls of letters from the easily offended.... Read More about the "Born To Be Riled" on the The Nile Book Store Website

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Cafe Royale Tales Of Love And Travel Description: A quirky jaunt through some of the world`s great cafes with tales of love and travel by the Australian author of the Broadway musical Hot Shoe Shuffle. London`s Cafe Royale and the Air Bar of Timbuktu are just two of the cafes described.... Read More about the "Cafe Royale Tales Of Love And Travel" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Whereabouts Press
Chile Description: Traverse Chile`s diverse literary and geographic landscape with its best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these 20 stories-many of which appear in English for the first time-guide the reader through Chile`s unique regions. Let Ariel Dorfman take you to Santiago with a prodigal son, discovering his own country for the first time; travel to the remote south with Enrique Valdes; and enjoy the charms of Valparaiso with Pablo Neruda, one of Chile`s two Nobel Prize winners.With the return of democracy to Chile, large numbers of Americans and Chilean expatriates are rediscovering the rich cultural allure of Chile, as well as the draw of its unrivaled ecodiversity. Chile is an excellent literary guide for globetrotters and armchair travelers alike-for those new to Chile as well as those familiar with its charms.Katherine Silver is a freelance translator, editor, teacher and writer who has lived in Chile frequently and for prolonged periods from 1979 to the present. She has translated the Il Postino by Antonio Skarmeta, as well as the works of Elena Poniatowska, Jose Emilio Pacheco and Martin Adan. She is currently translating Pedro Lemebel`s I Tremble Toreador for Grove - Atlantic Press.... Read More about the "Chile" on the The Nile Book Store Website

HarperCollins Publishers
City Of Djinns Description: As Dalrymple`s first book, In Xanadu, traversed thousands of miles, now he traverses thousands of years. In the course of 12 months in Delhi, he peels back the successive encrusting layers of history, using both material and human remains of each of the eight cities of Delhi, interlacing innumerable stories with the present and ending with the Delhi creation myth contained in the great Indian epic The Mahabharata.... Read More about the "City Of Djinns" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Penguin Books Ltd
Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe Description: This is the story of a remarkable journey of 10, 000 kilometres across Europe from the western most tip in Cape Finistere to Istanbul. The author completed this adventure entirely on foot: refusing any mechanical contrivance - car, bicycle, armoured truck (in Eastern Europe) or escalator (in Vienna).;It took him 500 days crossing Europe`s uplands from the Cantabrian mountains, the Pyrenees, Sevenne, Alps, the Carpathians, Transylvanian Alps and Rhodopes. Exactly half the journey was through Western Europe, the other half through Eastern Europe where the life of the mountain people and shepherd is little changed since the Middle Ages. But everywhere this traditional mountain life is vanishing in the face of tourism, ski resorts and the end of traditional farming patterns. This book is part adventure, part political journey, and an acute observation of fauna, flora and geography.... Read More about the "Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe" on the The Nile Book Store Website

HarperCollins Publishers
Come Tell Me How You Live Description: Agatha Christie was already known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s. She took great interest in his excavations, and when friends asked what her strange life was like, she decided to answer their questions in this book.... Read More about the "Come Tell Me How You Live" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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