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Britain's high places are many and varied, from the rolling hills and lush valleys of the Malverns to the vertiginous slopes of Snowdonia, the romantic peaks and vistas of the Lake District and the silent sub-Arctic tundra of the Cairngorms.

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Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025 A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024

'A powerfully delicate book of love, loss and discovery, along paths of emotional understanding and physical wonder.' Raynor Winn

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Selected as the Independent's Best Travel book, Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world.

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The journey of a young, suburban Texas woman's path to self-discovery at the end of the twentieth century

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1606 marked the first European sighting of Australia, when the Dutch ship Duyfken landed on Cape York. This book tells the stories of the seafaring explorers, shipwrecks and mutinies that followed, including the voyages of Torres and La Perouse, Dampier and D'Entrecasteaux.

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Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar - the scene of a brutal caste war between the untouchables and higher-caste gangsters

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Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant octopus.

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A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics.

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By happy agreement with the literary estate of Norman Lewis, the previous five collections of Norman s work have been withdrawn, so that all the best pieces are now in one book.

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A portrait of the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, and their disappearing way of life.

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A selection of writing by the most unknown great traveller.

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Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine

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A travel memoir which explores the condition of the migrant writer living between the place of his birth, his adopted country, and the wider world.

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Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy temperament: to get to know the local traders, merchants, inn-keepers and artisans to decide which to back with a loan from the cooperative movement

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The diary of Dervla Murphy's bicycle trek from Dunkirk, across Europe, the Middle East, and the Himalayas, to India. An amazing narrative from an amazing woman.

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Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It is doubtful that any Empire at any time has been served by such an intelligent, dutiful, hardworking and incorruptible civil servant as the young Leonard Wool

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Brigid Benson's Hebridean Journeyis a fabulous invitation to discover the unique spirit of Scotlands island archipelago.Packed with fascinating insights, hidden gems and helpful information, it offers the uplifting opportunity for meaningful travels and life-affirming experiences in these extraordinary islands.

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Drawn by the natural beauty, rich literary tradition, and charming eccentricities of the island nation, two lifelong friends journey across Iceland

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In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethiopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not surviving three armed robberies or the thousand-mile trail, but the gradual growth of affection for and understanding of another race.