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A collection of writing from Britain's best-loved travel writer, A Merry Dance around the World is the culmination of a lifetime of adventure.

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A humorous and honest account of how the author spent a month exploring his home city, going to many out-of-the-way places with his partner and young child, and learned to enjoy the present rather than worry about the past.

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In these essays Pam Houston describes real-life adventures which range over five years and five continents. Through her we meet some good dogs, a few good men, and the occasional grizzly. There's a horse named Roany with the presence of a Zen master. And there's a Buddhist named Karma, proving fiction has nothing on real life.

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In 1977, Rubenstein, an avid golfer, travelled to Dornoch in the Highlands. He sought to uncover an authentic sense of self and turned to a place where golf was purest. The experience had a profound effect on him. Twenty-three years later, in 2000, he returned to Dornoch to spend an entire summer.

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Sam Miller investigates how the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, Arabs, Africans, Europeans and Americans everyone really, except for Indians themselves came to imagine India.

His account of the engagement between foreigners and India spans the centuries from Alexander the Great to Slumdog Millionaire.

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Spend a glorious thousand days in Venice with Marlena de Blasi writing delightfully on romance, food, recipes, wine and friends.

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A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush.

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This is the true story of a Vermont couple who decide to set up a restaurant on a Caribbean island. The restaurant becomes a success and the couple become very attached to their island home. It seems an idyllic life, until the approach of Hurricane Luis, with 200 mile-an-hour gusts.

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Tim Cahill brings 'em back alive. Fearless and hell-bent on destroying all obstacles in his path, Cahill takes us to places rarely seen and barely endured. All admonitions and warnings be damned: Tim Cahill dares us to follow him wherever danger and craziness lurk.

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BBC journalist and environmentalist Rory Spowers wanted to finally live his dream and abandon life in London for a more ecologically sustainable lifestyle. Moving with his wife and two toddler sons to a 60-acre abandoned tea estate in Sri Lanka, Rory sets out to create a model organic farm there and earn his livelihood from the land.

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Offers a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely places, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. This book brings to the page the curiosity of an intrepid explorer, remarkable insights into the wonder of the everyday, and a compelling narrative style that entertains as it informs.

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A behind-the-scenes view of Russia and its people and a quest to rediscover a family's cultural heritage, this text reveals how 40 of Russia's finest dishes have been preserved and passed down through the feast days of the Russian Orthodox Church and the rhythm of country life.

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Weaving a bird's-eye view of aviation's peculiar history into a narrative, this book offers intimate insights into the passion and perils of the pilot's seat.

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In a series of remarkable books - Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry Garrard, Too Close to the Sun and The Magnetic North - Sara Wheeler has shown that she is not only one of the finest travel writers of her generation but a very fine biographer too.

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How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life Presenting the portraits of places seen from within, the author contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives.

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Greg Bearup and his partner survived three years living in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but life with the Taliban was nothing compared to taking a toddler to Caravanastan. Following the trail of the superannuated wildebeest, they wind up the jockey wheel, check the safety chains and hitch up the van for the great lap of Australia with their baby son.

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Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.

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Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, going deaf from the clamor of immense speakers, and being punched, stabbed, pummeled, or fondled by other lustful revelers.

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It was along and by these rivers that Fort travelled around Eastern Europe meeting its people and immersing himself in its culture.

Since that trip though, much has changed and in more recent years around one million Poles have settled in Britain.

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And as he eats his way to the country's culinary heart, he unearths the fascinating story of his own family's role in Italian history.

A joy from cover to cover and 100 per cent mierda di bufala-free, Al Dente is a must for anyone with an interest in Italy or its food.

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After his wife announced she had met someone else and wanted a divorce, Brad Newsham went for the drastic measure of buying a one-way ticket to Asia in the hope that she would miss him. It worked, but by then he was having the time of his life, blazing a trail across China, Japan an