For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging ... Weiterlesen

Jedidiah Jenkins: To Shake the Sleeping Self

A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret. USA 2018, 333 pp., brochure, € 22.95
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Penguin USA

On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? In ... Weiterlesen

Mackenzi Lee: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

USA 2017, 513 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Harper Collins

A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age.- Henry �Monty� Montague doesn't care that his roguish passions are far from suitable for the gentleman he was born to be. But as Monty embarks on his grand tour of Europe, his quests for ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: The Condor and the Cows

A South American Travel Diary. USA 2013, 256 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage

In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and his lover Bill Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Isherwood's account of this journey, The Condor and the Cows, is one of very few classic travel books on South America and was among the books Isherwood considered ... Weiterlesen

Ella K. Maillart: The Cruel Way

Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939. USA 2013, 218 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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University of Chicago Press

Following Ella K. Maillart's 1939 journey with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach from Geneva to Kabul in a brand-new Ford, �The Cruel Way� reveals Maillart to be an author of astonishing talent. As the two flash across Europe and the Near East in a streak of �lan and daring, Maillart writes of comical mishaps, breathtaking landscapes, vitriolic religious clashes, and the ... Weiterlesen

Annemarie Schwarzenbach: All the Roads Are Open

USA 2011, 140 pp., hardbound, € 14.95
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In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan journey documented in �All the Roads Are Open� is one ... Weiterlesen

Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana

UK 2010, 393 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Vintage

In 1933, the delightfully eccentric gay descendant of the famous Lord Byron, Robert Byron, set out on 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 formed part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. While his arrival ... Weiterlesen

Nigel Barley: Island of Demons

Singapore 2010, 388 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Monsoon

In the 1920s and 30s, Walter Spies - gay German ethnographer, choreographer, film maker, natural historian and painter - transformed the perception of Bali from that of a remote island to become the site for Western fantasies about Paradise as it underwent an influx of foreign visitors. The rich and famous flocked to Spies' house in Ubud and his life ... Weiterlesen

Roland Graeme: The Temple of Skanda

USA 2010, 250pp., brochure, € 13.20
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Determined to turn his life around after a run-in with the law, Conor desperately needs a job, and a place to stay. He finds both with Murray, an importer, who hires Conor as his shipping clerk and live-in handyman. What Conor hadn't counted on was falling in love with his new boss - hopelessly, he thinks, because Murray still seems ... Weiterlesen

K. G. MacGregor: Worth Every Step

USA 2009, 229 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Family and friends are shocked when Mary Kate Sasser throws herself into the adventure of a lifetime. The small-town Southerner follows her imagination on a quest to Africa, refusing the escort of her boyfriend. His marriage ultimatum echoes in her ears, but she's not going to think about that until she has climbed the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Addison Falk ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods

UK 2007, 209 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, ... Weiterlesen