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Books narrated by Mathijs Deen

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  • Down Old Roads

    by Mathijs Deen ...
    Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole, Jonathan Reeder ...
    "This is the E8," my father said. "It runs from London to Moscow."For a million years people have been travelling throughout Europe, from the mysterious homo antecessor who left his footprints on the coast of England to travellers on the motorways of today. Under every footstep lies an older one, under every paved road a donkey trail or wagon rut, under every footpath the prints of a hunter or his ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • A Time of Gifts

    On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.'In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Between the Woods and the Water

    On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mani

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky central prong of the Peleponnese at the southernmost point in Europe.Bad ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 24 Hours in Ancient Rome

    A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

    by Dr Philip Matyszak ...
    Series Book 1 - 24 Hours in Ancient History
    Walk a day in a Roman’s sandals.What was it like to live in one of the ancient world’s most powerful and bustling cities – one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York?In this entertaining and enlightening guide, bestselling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to the people who lived and worked there. In each hour of the day we meet a new character – from emperor to ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD

  • Amsterdam

    A brief life of the city

    by Geert Mak ...
    Translated by Philip Blom ...
    A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank.In this fascinating examination of the city's soul, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak imaginatively recreates the lives of the early ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Vikings

    by Else Roesdahl ...
    Translated by Kirsten Williams, Susan Margeson ...
    Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today'Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • To Turn the Tide

    by S.M. Stirling ...
    New time travel military adventure from New York Times best-selling novelist S.M. StirlingIT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW ITEveryone could see it coming. But one man could do something about it. Oh, he couldn’t avert the nuclear holocaust, but a scientist in Austria, ruthlessly using billions of research dollars for his own purposes, set himself up an out: he created a time machine, and ... Read more

    $12.20 CAD

  • The Eleventh Hour

    by Nick Brown ...
    Syria, 262 AD.Imperial agent Abascantius has failed his superiors and now faces the unwelcome prospect of a return to the legions. With only hours to work with, he will need resourcefulness and ruthlessness in equal measure if he is to salvage the situation and save himself. From Agent of Rome author Nick Brown, this compelling short story is set in the violent, corrupt underbelly of third century ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Vikings: Classic Histories Series

    by Magnus Magnusson ...
    Series series Classic Histories Series
    The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both symbolically and in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe. Magnus Magnusson's indispensable study of this great period presents a rounded and fascinating picture of a people who, in modern eyes, would seem to embody striking contradictions. They were undoubtedly pillagers, raiders and terrifying warriors, but they ... Read more

    $11.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Words of Mercury

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he developed his extraordinary sense of the continuity of history: a quality that deepens the colours of every place he writes about ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Castles, A Very Peculiar History

    by Jacqueline Morley ...
    Series Book 29 - A Very Peculiar History
    Whether you're planning your first seige, building a fortress or just looking for a way to escape the peasants below, 'Castles: A Very Peculiar History' is full of tips, tricks and horror stories from the castle-building trade. We can't all match up to the combined beauty and danger of the Tower of London, but in this title you'll learn who developed the world's first flat-pack castle, the ... Read more

    $9.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus