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Eland was started in 1982 to revive great travel books that had fallen out of print. Although the list has diversified into biography and fiction, it is united by a quest to define the spirit of place. These are books for travellers, and for readers who aspire to explore the world but who are also content to travel in their own minds. Eland books open out our understanding of other cultures, interpret the unknown and reveal different environments as well as celebrating the humour and occasional horrors of travel. We take immense trouble to select only the most readable books and therefore many readers collect the entire series.
You will find a very brief description of our books on the following pages. Extracts from each and every one of them can be read on our website, at www.travelbooks.co.uk. If you would like a free copy of our catalogue, please email or write to us (details above).
‘One
of
the
very
best
travel
lists’
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
Memoirs of a
Bengal
Civilian
JOHN BEAMES
Sketches
of
nineteenth-century
India
painted
with
the
richness
of
Dickens
Jigsaw
SYBILLE BEDFORD
An
intensely
remembered
autobiographical
novel
about
an
inter-war
childhood
A Visit to Don Otavio
SYBILLE BEDFORD
The
hell
of
travel
and
the
Eden
of
arrival
in
post-war
Mexico
Journey into the Mind’s Eye
LESLEY BLANCH
An
obsessive
love
affair
with
Russia
and
one
particular
Russian
The Way of the World
NICOLAS BOUVIER
Two
men
in
a
car
from
Serbia
to
Afghanistan.
The Devil Drives
FAWN BRODIE
Biography
of
Sir
Richard
Burton,
explorer,
linguist
and
pornographer
Turkish Letters
OGIER DE BUSBECQ
Eyewitness
history
at
its
best:
Istanbul
during
the
reign
of Suleyman
the
Magnificent
My Early Life
WINSTON CHURCHILL
From
North-West
Frontier
to
Boer
War
by
the
age
of
twenty-five
Sicily: through writer’s eyes
ED. HORATIO CLARE
Guidebooks
for
the
mind:
a
selection
of
the
best
travel
writing
on
Sicily
A Square of Sky
JANINA DAVID
A
Jewish
childhood
in
the
Warsaw
ghetto
and
hiding
from
the
Nazis
Chantemesle
ROBIN FEDDEN
A
lyrical
evocation
of
childhood
in
Normandy
Croatia: through writer’s eyes
ED. FRANKOPAN, GOODING & LAVINGTON
Guidebooks
for
the
mind:
a
selection
of
the
best
travel
writing
on
Croatia
Travels with Myself and Another
MARTHA GELLHORN
Five
journeys
from
hell
by
a
great
war
correspondent
The Weather in Africa
MARTHA GELLHORN
Three
novellas
set
amongst
the
white
settlers
of
East
Africa
The Last Leopard
DAVID GILMOUR
The
biography
of
Giuseppe
di
Lampedusa,
author
of
The Leopard
Walled Gardens
ANNABEL GOFF
An
Anglo-Irish
childhood
Africa
Dances
GEOFFREY GORER
The
magic
of
indigenous
culture
and
the
banality
of
colonisation
Cinema
Eden
JUAN GOYTISOLO
Essays
from
the
Muslim
Mediterranean
A State of
Fear
ANDREW GRAHAM-YOOLL
A
journalist
witnesses
Argentina’s
nightmare
in
the
1970s
Warriors
GERALD HANLEY
Life
and
death
among
the
Somalis
Morocco That Was
WALTER HARRIS
All
the
cruelty,
fascination
and
humour
of
a
pre-modern
kingdom
Far
A
way
and Long
Ago
W H HUDSON
A
childhood
in
Argentina
Holding On
MERVYN JONES
One
family
and
one
street
in
London’s
East
End:
1880-1960
Red
Moon
&
High Summer
HERBERT KAUFMANN
A
coming-of-age
novel
following
a
young
singer
in
his
Tuareg
homeland
Three Came
Home
AGNES KEITH
A
mother
’
s
ordeal
in
a
Japanese
prison
camp
Peking
Story
DAVID KIDD
The
ruin
of
an
ancient
Mandarin
family
under
the
new
communist
order
Syria:
through writers
’
eyes
ED. MARIUS KOCIEJOWSKI
Guidebooks
for
the
mind:
a
selection
of
the
best
travel
writing
on
Syria
Scum
of the Earth
ARTHUR KOESTLER
Koestler’s
personal
experience
of
France
in
World
War
II
A Dragon Apparent
NORMAN LEWTS
Cambodia,
Laos
and
Vietnam
on
the
eve
of
war
Golden Earth
NORMAN LEWIS
Travels
in
Burma
The Honoured Society
NORMAN LEWIS
Sicily,
her
people
and
the
Mafia
within
Naples
’44
NORMAN LEWIS
Post-war
Naples
and
an
intelligence
officer’s
love
of
Italy
’
s
gift
for
life
A
View
of the World
NORMAN LEWIS
Collected
writings
by
the
great
English
travel
writer
An
Indian
Attachment
SARAH LLOYD
Life
and
love
in
a
remote
Indian
village
A
Pike
in the Basement
SIMON LOFTUS
Tales
of
a
hungry
traveller:
from
catfish
in
Mississippi
to
fried
eggs
with
chapatis
in
Pakistan
Among the Faithful
DAHRIS MARTIN
An
American
woman
living
in
the
holy
city
of Kairouan,
Tunisia
in
the
1920s
Lords of the Atlas
GAVIN MAXWELL
The
rise
and
fall
of
Morocco’ s
infamous
Glaoua
family,
1893-1956
A
Reed
Shaken by the
Wind
GAVIN MAXWELL
Travels
among
the
threatened
Marsh
Arabs
of
southern
Iraq
A Year in Marrakesh
PETER MAYNE
Back-street
life
in
Morocco
in
the
1950s
Sultan in
Oman
JAN MORRIS
An
historic
journey
through
the
still-medieval
state
of
Oman
in
the
1950s
The Caravan Moves On
IRFAN ORGA
Life
with
the
nomads
of
central
Turkey
Portrait of a
Turkish
Family
IRFAN ORGA
The
decline
of
a
prosperous
Ottoman
family
in
the
new
Republic
The Undefeated
GEORGE PALOCZI-HORVATH
Fighting
injustice
in
communist
Hungary
Travels into the Interior of
Africa
MUNGO PARK
The
first
–
and
still
the
best
–
European
record
of
west-African
exploration
Lighthouse
TONY PARKER
Britain’s
lighthouse-keepers,
in
their
own
words
The People of Providence
TONY PARKER
A London
housing
estate
and
some
of
its
inhabitants
Begums
,
Thugs
&
White
Mughals
FANNY PARKES
William
Dalrymple
edits
and
introduces
his
favourite
Indian
travel
book
The Last Time I
Saw
Paris
ELLIOT PAUL
One
street,
its
loves
and
loathings,
set
against
the
passionate
politics
of
inter-war
Paris
Rites
VICTOR PERERA
A
Jewish
childhood
in
Guatemala
A
Cure
for Serpents
THE DUKE OF PIRAJNO
An
Italian
doctor
and
his
Bedouin
patients,
Libyan
sheikhs
and
Tuareg
mistress
in
the
1920s
Nunaga
DUNCAN PRYDE
Ten
years
among
the
Eskimos:
hunting,
fur-trading
and
heroic
dog-treks
A Funny Old
Quist
EVAN ROGERS
A
gamekeeper’s
passionate
evocation
of
a
now-vanished
English
rural
lifestyle
Meetings with Remarkable
Muslims
ED. ROGERSON & BARING
A
collection
of
contemporary
travel
writing
that
celebrates
cultural
difference
and
the
Islamic
world
Marrakesh
:
through writers
’
eyes
ED. ROGERSON & LAVINGTON
Guidebooks
for
the
mind;
a
selection
of
the
best
travel
writing
on
Marrakesh
Living
Poor
MORITZ THOMSEN
An
American’s
encounter
with
poverty
in
Ecuador
Hermit of
Peking
HUGH TREVOR-ROPER
The
hidden
life
of
the
scholar
Sir
Edmund
Backhouse
The
Law
ROGER VAILLAND
The
harsh
game
of
life
played
in
the
taverns
of
southern
Italy
The
Road
to
Nab
End
WILLIAM WOODRUFF
The
best
selling
story
of
poverty
and
survival
in
a
Lancashire
mill
town
The Village in the Jungle
LEONARD WOOLF
A
dark
novel
of
native
villagers
struggling
to
survive
in
colonial
Ceylon
Death
’
s Other Kingdom
GAMEL WOOLSEY
The
tragic
arrival
of
civil
war
in
an
Andalucian
village
in
1936
The Ginger
Tree