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1599 km tussen Amsterdam en Gouda

Een ontdekkingstocht langs Nederlandse plaatsnamen in Zuid-Afrika

Amsterdam en Utrecht. Amersfoort en Ermelo. Haarlem en Dordrecht. Dorpen en dorpjes die diep verscholen liggen in het binnenland van Zuid-Afrika, waar nooit of vrijwel nooit bezoekers komen. Dit boek diept de verrassende verhalen op achter Utrecht, dat zijn naam dankt aan een chanterende dominee, en andere 'Hollandse' plaatsen in het land onder de zuidersterren. Wat deed het schaap in de ambulance van Haarlem? Wat zoeken Urkers in de woestijn? En wat hebben krokodillen met Amsterdam van doen? 1599 Kilometer van Amsterdam naar Gouda is een reisverslag vol lieg-, lag- en...

30 Days in Sydney

Attempts to capture Sydney's character. This book features famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains.

A House For Mr Biswas

"A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion". (Anthony Burgess). "A House for Mr Biswas" is V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his forty-six years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, for which he is inadvertently resp...

A Long Way Gone

The True Story of a Child Soldier

The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime." "Yes, sometime."' This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and ...

A Parrot in the Pepper Tree

A Sequel to

Chris Stewart's "Driving Over Lemons" (9780956003805) told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller. "A Parrot in the Pepper Tree", the sequel to "Lemons", follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter, Chloe, as they get to grips with a misanthropic parrot who joins their home, Spanish school life, neighbours in love, their amazement at Chris appearing on the bestseller lists and their shock...

A season with Verona

Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? This book follows the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities.      

A secret country

A study which takes the reader beyond the euphemistic and romantic popular misconceptions to reveal the often invisible past and the present subterfuge of Australia. It portrays a country of stark contrasts, of visionaries and criminals whose secrets are exposed.

A street without a name

Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club, but beyond the cliches about undrinkable plonk, cheap property, and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy outskirts of Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under Communism, got away just as soon as she could, and has loved and hated her homeland in equal measure ever since. In this illuminating and entertaining memoir, Kapka revisits Bulgaria and her own muddled relationship to it, travelling back to the scenes of her childhoo...

A Year In Marrakesh

Peter Mayne (1908-1979) is to Morocco what Peter Mayle is to Provence or Lawrence Durrell to Greece. This 1953 classic in a new edition captures the very essence of the people and place. Having already learned to appreciate Muslim life when he was in Pakistan, Mayne bought a house in the labyrinthine back streets of Marrakesh. He wanted to settle there, not as a privileged visitor in a hotel or grand villa, but as one of the inhabitants. He learned their language, made friends, took part in their festivals, and wrote their letters. This is not a travel book in t...

Aan de oevers van de Bosporus

Dit autobiografische familieportret vormt een historisch roman over de nadagen van het Ottomaanse rijk en het begin van de republiek Turkije onder leiding van Kemal Atatürk. De auteur werd geboren in 1908 in Istanbul en groeide op met de normen en waarden van zijn stand, die vertegenwoordigd werd door een traditioneel islamitische grootmoeder. Zijn vader streed in de slag om Gallipoli, zijn oom in de woestijnen van Mesopotamië en Syrië. Hijzelf was voorbestemd voor een succesvolle militaire loopbaan, had daar echter weinig enthousiasme voor. De Eerste We...