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Carsten Jensen's epic journey takes him through China, Cambodia and Vietnam, with many pauses on his way to meditate on the history and customs of the people he meets.

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The book, printed in landscape form, traces the author's travels to 60 countries and all seven continents over the period of four decades. Coverage of each country consists of a full page of text, and a full facing page of photographs taken by the author that illustrate the text.

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'Here is art which conceals art, and intellect which conceals intellect, so that by the end of the book one feels that one understands something one had not understood before.

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A wonderful mix of legends, stories, history and humour from the outback as Bruce Simpson explores Leichhardt's journey in the light of his own adventures as a drover. Revised and updated for the book's tenth anniversary.

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* From the bestselling author of ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING comes the first travel audiobook to examine the global appeal of the King of Rock'n'Roll

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One hundred years on, in October 2008, a team that included descendants of that original party, led by Henry Worsley, set out from Shackleton's hut to celebrate the centenary of his expedition by retracing the exact 870 mile route and going on to finish the last 97 miles.

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As a child, Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on horseback. This is the story of how that dream was fulfilled by following in the footsteps of a 13th century Franciscan friar.

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Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements.

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An adrenalin-pumping, heart-stopping account of one man's dream to become the first person to navigate the full length of the mighty Mekong from its source in Tibet to the South China Sea.

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O'Hanlon takes readers on a four-month journey up the Orinoco River and across the Amazon basin in search of the Yanomami Indians. His book contains humor, adventure, and a wealth of information. One map.

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Sanjeev Bhaskar, the comedian and writer behind The Kumars at No. 42 embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through modern India. Sanjeev's characteristic humour and unique take on the country form the heart of this beautifully written travel book that became a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback when it accompanied his BBC series.

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*A unique insight into an India never seen by tourists and a story of success against the odds.

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Here a young Englishwoman fell in love with France, the French and one Frenchman in particular.

In her seductive, lyrical and witty memoir Helen Stevenson writes about life in Le Village, not as an expat, but as someone adopted by her neighbours as one of their own.

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By turns harrowing and hilarious, insightful and entertaining, Into the Blue retraces the great voyages of Captain James Cook, the British farmboy who drew the map of the modern world.

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The author travels across twenty thousand kilometres of the Australia's remote outback, to its coast and its cities in search of the Australia of the stereotypes and discovers that Australia is, contrary to popular imagination, resolutely urban, with a rich multicultural population struggling to be tolerant.

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Travel writer Thurston Clarke has long been obsessed with islands, an affliction he calls 'islomania', and his new book is a kind of love letter to these worlds surrounded by sea. Beginning with the accepted model for Robinson Crusoe's remote abode, Mas Tierra in the Pacific, Clarke then takes us on a tour of his favourite islands.

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An indispensable literary companion, vividly evoking the life of Istanbul, that exotic city where East meets West, in the voices of both residents and visitors through the centuries

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After working for four years at a leading London book publisher, Polly Evans moved to Hong Kong where she spent many happy hours as a senior editor on the city's biggest entertainment weekly. So Polly exchanged the shiny red cabs of Hong Kong for a more demanding form of transport - a bicycle - and set off on a voyage of discovery around Spain.

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He's watched a wrestling match between a shark and an "underwater zombie" during a horror movie shoot off the coast of Mexico.

In this classic collection of adventure travel writing, Tim Cahill writes evocatively and often hilariously about these close encounters.

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Three years into his solo adventure in rural France, Michael Wright has everything he ever wanted: a ramshackle house, several manly power tools, a cat, a grand piano and a vintage aircraft. Yet the lovelier his life becomes, the lonelier he feels. Three unfulfilled wishes return to haunt him.

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In the 1920s Gordon West and his wife toured the little-known island of Majorca, observing the rich pageantry of a people whose customs, gentle manners and generous hospitality made the island a unique and fascinating place. This is West's account of those experiences.

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The Serene City beckons, promising Paradise regained for Ruth Cracknell and her husband, Eric. What they are seeking is time. Time to think, time to gaze, time for each other. But from the moment the holiday becomes an uncharted journey, their time is measured. Journey from Venice is an acknowledgement of the miracle that is unconditional love.

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Part travelogue and part adventure story, two men sailed half way round the globe with no GPS, electronics, radio or any of the mod cons we take for granted. Staggering that they did it, and staggering that it was only a few decades ago.