Search Results: TRAVEL / Europe / Eastern from William Robertson

Hong Kong: APA , 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good/-. Part of the lavishly illustrated Insight Guides series. Everything you've ever wanted to know, or might need to know, about travel to, and within, the newly independent Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. Size, 22 x 15cm, 430 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photos and maps. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings, pictorial laminated card covers in Very Good condition. Internally, Very Good: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Exceptional condition for ex-library example.

London: Secker & Warburg , 1992. Hardcover. Fair/very good. Travelling at first by car and, when that disintegrates, by any means at hand, the author - an adventurous, irreverant Muscovite - reveals a Soviet Union few Western travellers have ever seen; a country on the edge of civil war, where ethnic tensions are leading increasingly to violence and gangs of young thugs terrorise outsiders like himself. As he travels - through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenia and Azerbaijan - he visits new towns and old haunts, friends and family, and poets, artists and scholars who have become politicians in the newly politicised nation. The result is a book rich in history, full of marvellous anecdotes, a compelling portrait of an empire on the edge of disintegration. Size, 24 x 155cm, 431 pages, 1 map. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in very good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, Fair-to-Good: pages yellowing slightly, but overall are clean and unmarked in… Read More

London: HarperCollins , 1992. Hardcover. Good/good. With the unlikely cast of a Tamworth pig, a coffin, two elderly aunts and a battered Trabant, the author creates a fantastic tableau that embraces the horrors, betrayals and ironies of modern East European history. Humerous and black, touched with the surreal and the farcical, this is an exceptionally vivid story of a journey from the Baltic to the Black Sea, between Berlin and Moscow, through an Eastern Europe divested of fear and free to face its past. Grows in stature with every page. Size, 24 x 16cm, 211 pages, maps on endpapers. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Blue cloth boards in good illustrated dust jacket. Internally, good: generally clean and unmarked in sound bindings.