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By: Paul Carter

ISBN: 9781741751253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Adrenalin junkie, oil rigger, motorbike fanatic, madman . . . Paul Carter, author of Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse, is back with more (mostly) good clean stories of life on the rigs.


(Paperback)

By: Veronica Doubleday

ISBN: 9781780601977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2022
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Veronica was not a casual traveler but a young musician married to a scholar. She was determined to make use of her time in Afghanistan and break out of the charmed circle of the expatriate academic and make real friendships with local women.


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By: Caroline Eden

ISBN: 9781399805704
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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By: Ronald Wright

ISBN: 9781780601588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2020
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Time Among the Maya shows Ronald Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures.' Jan Morris, Independent


(Paperback)

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

ISBN: 9781846047046
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2021
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Kapka Kassabova

ISBN: 9781783783984
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the celebrated author of Border, here is a portrait of an ancient but little-understood corner of Balkans, and a personal reckoning with the past.


(Paperback)

By: Giovanni Belzoni

ISBN: 9781912081301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2023
Publisher: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
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Travels in Egypt and Nubia is the travel journal of Giovanni Belzoni, in which he tells the story of three journeys made between 1815 and 1819 and describes the historic monuments of Ancient Egypt, such as the temple at Abu Simbel, the pyramid at Khafre and the tomb of Seti I.


(Paperback)

By: Mungo Park

ISBN: 9781909612785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
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Mungo Park set off from his home in the Scottish borders in May 1795 at the age of 23 to discover the course of the River Niger in West Africa. When he reappeared in England more than two and a half years later, he had been presumed dead, and the tale of his perilous journey published in 1799 was greeted with great acclaim.


(Hardback)

By: James Reeve

ISBN: 9781916495791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2020
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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Colourful short travel stories by a master of description


(Paperback)

By: Meredith McKinney

ISBN: 9780241310878
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Steinbeck

ISBN: 9780141186108
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, the author observed America, and the Americans who inhabited it. What he saw was a lonely, generous nation too packed with individuals for single judgements; what he saw made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated.


(Paperback, Main - Canons)

By: Gavin Francis

ISBN: 9781837261956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The first book from Sunday Times bestselling author Gavin Francis, a travelogue of his adventures in the far north, introduced by Colin Thubron


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By: John Nicol

ISBN: 9781876485610
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: Text Publishing
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Tim Flannery brings together these two classic bestselling Australian tales of travel and exploration. Tench introduces us to the iconic figures of Bennelong and Arthur Philip and provides fascinating descriptions of the infant colony. Nicol describes his experiences in the great era of European exploration and expansion.


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By: Heather Ellis

ISBN: 9781863958202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Black Inc.
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By: Robert Macfarlane

ISBN: 9780141030579
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, 2nd New edition)

By: Gareth E. Rees

ISBN: 9781783965960
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2021
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
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Unofficial Britain is made up of the places that are often left behind. This is a journey into the overlooked spaces that really tell the modern story of our island.


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By: Mark Eveleigh

ISBN: 9781837994274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2024
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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Recounting Mark's incredible 1,225-km solo hike across the Iberian Peninsula, Vagabond is a homage to the disappearing lifestyle of the "vagabundo", as well as a celebration of rural Spain and its forgotten communities. It reminds us of the value of slowing down and connecting with others, and the beauty in taking life one step at a time.


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By: Jan Morris

ISBN: 9780571168972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2004
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An evocation of Venice which uses vivid prose, humour and irony to present a personal portrait of an eccentric city.


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By: Levison Wood

ISBN: 9781473654099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2018
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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From the bestselling author of Walking the Himalayas and Walking the Nile, explorer Levison Wood begins his next challenging adventure - walking 1,700 miles along the spine of the Americas from Mexico to Colombia.


(Paperback, UK edition)

By: Tony Kevin

ISBN: 9781921372339
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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In May 2006, armed only with a small rucksack and a staff, Tony Kevin, an overweight, sedentary, 63-year-old former diplomat, set off on an eight-week trek across Spain. But this was not just a very long walk - it was a pilgrimage. This book captures the flavour of this journey, and is filled with observations and anecdotes about Spain.


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By: Alice Morrison

ISBN: 9781398503441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A remarkable adventure as Alice Morrison journeys across Morocco with three Amazigh nomads and their camels


(Paperback, New edition)

By: Gerald Hanley

ISBN: 9780907871835
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2004
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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A superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen. Describing a little known aspect of WWII, a group of British Army soldiers try to prevent bloodshed between feuding Somalian tribes.


(Paperback)

By: Juliane Koepcke

ISBN: 9781857885835
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2012
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Soon to be a film: Girl Who Fell from the Sky, starring Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner. The amazing true story of the sole survivor of a plane crash and her 11-day trek through the Peruvian rainforest back to civilisation.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Emily Chappell

ISBN: 9781788161527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Emily Chappell's story of transformation into a cross-continental bike racer, pushing the limits of her endurance.

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