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  • Far to Go and Many to Love

    People and Places

    de Lesley Blanch ...
    Series Libro 4 - Contemporary Classics
    “I love LB. WHAT a spirit. What courage. What class” – MIRANDA SEYMOURFar To Go and Many To Love: People and Places is the sequel to the memoirs of Lesley Blanch, published posthumously by Virago, On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life.The collection opens with an insightful introduction about her two great loves: émigré theatre director, Theodore Komisarjevsky, and twice-Goncourt-winning ... Leer más

    $13 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Istanbul

    de Orhan Pamuk ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire."Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World**A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, ... Leer más

    $202 MXN

  • Istanbul

    de Orhan Pamuk ...
    Traducido por Maureen Freely ...
    Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writerWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'A declaration of love.' Sunday Times'A fascinating read for anyone who has even the slightest acquaintance with this fabled bridge between east and west.' The Economist'An irresistibly seductive book' Jan Morris, GuardianIn a surprising and original blend of personal memoir and cultural his... ... Leer más

    $195 MXN

  • Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

    de Lawrence Durrell ...
    Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.'Stunning.' André Aciman'Masterly ... Casts a spell.' Jan Morris'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' Victoria Hislop'These days I am... ... Leer más

    $161 MXN

  • The Broken Road

    From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

    de Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III?' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he ... Leer más

    $235 MXN

  • In Xanadu

    A Quest (Text Only)

    de William Dalrymple ...
    One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the ... Leer más

    $157 MXN

  • The Emigrants

    de W. G. Sebald ...
    Traducido por Michael Hulse ...
    "A masterpiece."—Richard Eder, The New York Times.Published to enormous critical acclaim in the US, The Emigrants has been acclaimed as "one of the best novels to appear since World War II" (Review of Contemporary Fiction) and three times chosen as the 1996 International Book of the Year. The poignant and acclaimed novel about the beauty of lost things, while the protagonist traces the lives of ... Leer más

    $214 MXN

  • The Road to Oxiana

    de Robert Byron ...
    In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now ... Leer más

    $197 MXN

  • The Way of the World

    Two men in a car from Geneva to the Khyber Pass

    de Nicolas Bouvier ...
    The Way of the World, a cult classic, is the beguiling tale of an impecunious and life-enhancing journey from Geneva to the Khyber Pass in the '50s. When Nicolas Bouvier and the artist Thierry Vernet set out, they had money for four months and a sturdy Fiat Topolino. They broke their journey when money ran low, to teach and sell paintings and articles in Istanbul, Tabriz and eventually in Quetta. ... Leer más

    $170 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Harem: The World Behind the Veil (25th Anniversary Edition)

    de Alev Lytle Croutier ...
    A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages.“I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” writes Alev Lytle Croutier. “People around me often whispered things about harems; my own grandmother and her sister had been brought up in one.”Drawing ... Leer más

    $78 MXN

  • In Xanadu

    de William Dalrymple ...
    William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan.At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kubla Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. As he and his companions travel ... Leer más

    $158 MXN

  • Oleander, Jacaranda

    A Childhood Perceived

    de Penelope Lively ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'So vividly evocative that you can smell the dust and dung, jacaranda and the oleander. It offers potent glimpses of British colonial life 50 years ago: the snake-charmer in the garden; the nine-year old Penelope spying on de Gaulle at Government House... The result is a wise, colourful and touching tale' The TimesThis poignant, bittersweet autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. Yet it is ... Leer más

    $285 MXN