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By: Paul Theroux

ISBN: 9780141189147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gives an account of the author's journey by rail through Asia. This work describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met. It also shows how he is drawn into conversation with fellow passengers, from Molesworth, while avoiding the forceful approaches of pimps and drug dealers.


(Hardback)

By: Markus Rex

ISBN: 9781771649483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Greystone Books,Canada
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(Paperback, New Edition)

By: Paul Murton

ISBN: 9781780278926
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Paul Murton has spent half-a lifetime exploring some of the most beautiful islands in the world the Hebrides.In this new and updated edition of his acclaimed book, Paul visits each of the Hebridean islands in turn, introducing their myths and legends, history, culture and extraordinary natural beauty.


(Paperback)

By: Tim Parks

ISBN: 9781529112597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th June 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: E. M. Forster

ISBN: 9781780601601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2022
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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This book chronicles Forster's infatuation and exasperation, fascination, and amusement at this idiosyncratic court, leading us with him to its heart and the eight- day festival of Gokul Ashtami, marking the birth of Krishna, where we see His Highness Maharajah Sir Tukoji Rao III dancing before the altar like David before the Ark.


(Paperback)

By: Nigel Barley

ISBN: 9781906011505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2011
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Offers an introduction to the life of a social anthropologist.


(Hardback)

By: Sarah Baxter

ISBN: 9781836002765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2025
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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Drawing from four books in White Lion's bestselling Inspired Traveller's Guides and with 10 newly commissioned entries, Cultural Places is an all-encompassing tour of the most culturally important places on the planet - be they literary, artistic, cinematic, gastronomic or musical.


(Paperback)

By: Ben Coates

ISBN: 9781915590350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th March 2025
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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(Paperback)

By: Helena Attlee

ISBN: 9780241952573
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits. Combining travel writing with history, recipes, horticulture and art, it takes the reader on a unique and rich journey through Italy's cultural, moral, culinary and political past.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Rachel Cusk

ISBN: 9780571351633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A paperback edition of The Last Supper in a stunning new look.


(Paperback)

By: Ithell Colquhoun

ISBN: 9781805330974
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2025
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Bryson

ISBN: 9781784161804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land.

Brysons acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartache and the book that first staked Bill Brysons claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.


(Paperback)

By: Sophy Roberts

ISBN: 9781784162849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2021
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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That they might be capable of making music in such a hostile landscape feels like a miracle.

The Lost Pianos of Siberia is an absorbing story about a piano hunt - a quixotic quest through two centuries of Russian history and eight time zones stretching across an eleventh of the world's land surface.


(Paperback)

By: Wilfred Thesiger

ISBN: 9780141442082
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. This book provides an account of his time spent among them. It pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage and endurance of the people.


(Paperback, No Edition)

By: Neil Peart

ISBN: 9781550226652
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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Neil Pearts travel memoir of thoughts, observations, and experiences as he cycles through West Africa, reveals the subtle, yet powerful writing style that has made him one of rocks greatest lyricists.


(Hardback)

By: Erling Kagge

ISBN: 9780241645833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Robert Macfarlane

ISBN: 9780141030586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Following the tracks, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, the author discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.


(Paperback)

By: Ken Haley

ISBN: 9781925760859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing
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(Hardback)

By: Malcolm Croft

ISBN: 9780711282131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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The Planets Most Spiritual Places presents the 100 most important faith and spiritual sites from all over the world.


(Paperback)

By: Tobias Jones

ISBN: 9781786697400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A journey along the River Po and through Italian history, society and culture, from journalist and author Tobias Jones.


(Hardback)

By: Tobias Jones

ISBN: 9781786697394
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A journey along the River Po and through Italian history, society and culture, from journalist and author Tobias Jones.


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By: Christopher Pym

ISBN: 9781912081325
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2023
Publisher: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
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The Road to Angkor describes a journey through Indo-China from the ancient capital of Champa (now south Vietnam) to Angkor, capital of the old Khmer empire in Cambodia. Christopher Pym originally went to Indo-China in 1956. He stayed 20 months and during 1957 made the seven-week journey described in this book.


(Paperback)

By: Bill Bryson

ISBN: 9780552779838
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016
WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country.


(Paperback)

By: Robert Byron

ISBN: 9780141442099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1933, the author began 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 forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. In this title, he presents a record of his adventures.

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