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“charles sprawson”

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  • Haunts Of The Black Masseur

    The Swimmer as Hero

    by Charles Sprawson ...
    Haunts of the Black Masseur is a dazzling introduction to the great swimming heroes:Byron leaping into the surf at Shelley's beach funeral, Hart Crane, swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico, Ulysses, Leander, Weismuller and many more. In lively prose bursting with anecdote, Charles Sprawson leads us into a watery world populated by lithe demi-Gods - one that has obsessed humans from the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Mountains Of The Mind

    A History Of A Fascination

    by Robert MacFarlane ...
    Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die climbing in this season in Scotland than they do on the roads. Mountains of the Mind is a fascinating investigation into our emotional and imaginative responses to mountains and how these have changed over the last few centuries. It is rich with ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Tao of Travel

    Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

    by Paul Theroux ...
    This beautiful collection of travel wisdom is the perfect gift for any Theroux fan, and will equally delight seasoned travelers, young adventurers, and everyone in between.Few have traveled more than Paul Theroux, and fewer have crafted the original, perceptive, and entertaining body of work that he has. The Tao of Travel is a departure for him: it's a gift book, a gorgeously illustrated and pithy ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Rings of Saturn

    by W. G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Michael Hulse ...
    Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: "Stunning and strange . . . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . . . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . . . It glows with the radiance and resilience of the human spirit."—Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review"Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia," as Robert ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Mountains of the Mind

    A History of a Fascination

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    Series series Landscapes
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Is a River Alive? and Underland, a soaring blend of cultural history, meditation, and memoir about the mysteries of the world’s highest places and our unending quest for the summit"Wonderfully illuminating.” —Los Angeles Times • “Fascinating.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFor those who love mountains, their wonder is beyond dispute. But for many, th. ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

  • Black Beech and Honeydew (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)

    by Ngaio Marsh ...
    Series series The Ngaio Marsh Collection
    A series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with an edition of her autobiography.With all the insight and style her readers came to expect of her, Ngaio Marsh's autobiography captures all the joys, fears and hopes of a spirited young woman growing up in Christchurch, and charts her theatre and writing careers both in New Zealand and the UK. This sanguine, unpretentious and revealing book has been ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Albert & the Whale

    by Philip Hoare ...
    A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARAN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022‘This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into the natural and unnatural world’ Patti Smith‘Everything Philip Hoare writes is bewitching’ Olivia LaingAn illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of L... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • A Writer's House in Wales

    by Jan Morris ...
    Series series Directions
    Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block of her former family house nearby. Surrounding it are the fields and outbuildings, the mud, sheep, and ... Read more

    Was $23.00 CAD Now $13.62 CAD

  • These Possible Lives

    by Fleur Jaeggy ...
    Translated by Minna Proctor ...
    Brief in the way a razor’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylistNew Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and lapidary poetic ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Allegorizings

    by Jan Morris ...
    'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.'Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first ascent of Everest, the Suez Canal Crisis, the Eichmann Trial, The Cuban Revolution and so much more. Now, in Allegorizings, published posthumously as was her wish, Morris looks back over some of the key moments of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Sidetracks

    by Richard Holmes ...
    In this beautiful reissue, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical curiosities he discovered while researching the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir.‘Sidetracks' is a sister book to 'Footsteps', conjured up from decades of 'wanderings from the straight and narrow' of his major biographies of Shelley and Coleridge. As Holmes himself says, 'to be ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD