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This guide is a unique resource for music lovers with a passion for travel. Europe's foremost concert halls and opera houses are presented here in a comprehensive, accessible and attractive collection.

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An accessible and entertaining story of Egypts archaeology, this book covers the hand axes of Homo erectus to the latest findings from KV5; all while considering the backdrop of Egypt's history, culture, and national heritage.

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Two girls who 'just wanna have fun', hit the open road in a quest to discover the perfect 'solo gal' holiday. Warm, engaging, and bloody funny, this is also an armchair traveller's guide to finding happiness in a couples' world.

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Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, the author was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race around the world in emulation of Phileas Fogg. This title deals with her works.

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Aims to disentangle the intricate accumulated meanings of the iconic Australian landscape of the Blue Mountains in NSW. This illustrated work starts with the complex interplay between myth and history to produce a discussion of place and colonialism.

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The essential gap year guide for everything you need to know about travelling and working in Australia..

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A traveller's guide to the Australian battlefields and cemeteries in Vietnam written for people actually holidaying in Vietnam as well as the wannabes who think they might go to Vietnam.

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Luckily, his friend and walking companion Mick Webb has a complementary range of phobias, such as being confined with 54 fellow hikers, and their socks, in a refuge two miles above sea level.
Together, they step out to conquer the roof of the Pyenees, following the time honoured tradition of walking the GR10.

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Relying on atmosphere and sensation over fact and statistic, Christine Jordis has written a deeply personal, vividly impressionistic account of several journeys to the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java.

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This is travel with a mission and it takes the author deep into Laos, to the bomb craters and enigmatic stone containers of the Plain of Jars, the brooding caves and limestone peaks of Houaphan near the Lao border with Vietnam and the southern provinces bordering Cambodia.

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Whether they're a man who loves his Heinz so much he's changed his name to Captain Beany or a kleptomaniac Vintage Radio buff, these eccentric collectors are Britain's finest and could live in no other country in the world.

Once you discover these museums and get to know their curators, Great Britain won't look quite the same again...

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Beijing has debuted as the defining city of the now and foreseeable future, and China as the ascendant global power. Beijing is the ultimate representation of China's political and cultural capital. Scocca arrived in 2004 as an American eager to see another culture, and preparations were in full swing to create a renewed city.

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Offers a passionate and lyrical account of the author's continuing love affair with Italy. This title is also a memoir of a season of change, and of renewed possibility. It is spiced with recipes from the author's Tuscan kitchen. It is a celebration of the sweet life in Italy.

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Mewshaw knows two Africas: the picturesque one seen on postcards, and the dangerous one he discovered on African soil. Here, he takes readers from the benign beaches of Morocco to the casbahs of Algeria, where more than 100,000 people have died during a decade of political strife.

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An adventurous journey to the hidden islands and lagoons beyond Papua New Guinea and north of Australia.

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One of two companion volumes which represent a guide to the major sites of African-American history throughout the Unites Stated. It includes descriptions and detailed information for visitors in respect of hundreds of places of national and local significance in the south of the country.

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In 1969 the author set out with the expedition led by Peter Gimbel, whose aim was to find and film underwater for the first time the great white shark. Here he offers a chronicle of the expedition.

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An enthralling journey into the shadowy republic of Haiti. In the land of Vodou, zombies and the Tontons Macoute. In this classic account, history jostles with adventure, high comedy is touched with danger; and Haiti glows like a magic charm.

Now updated and with a new foreword by the author for the post-earthquake edition.

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It is a fabulous account of the old traditions of her culture and the inspiring strength with which she faced her own personal struggles and the loss of the world she knew as a child.