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During 1949 and 1950 H.W. Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal's Himalaya. He explored the Ganesh Himal, before moving on to the Jugal Himal and then an ambitious trip to Annapurna and Everest. Nepal Himalaya presents Tilman's sketches, encounters with yetis, trouble with porters and food, and his obsessive relationship with alcohol.

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Oliver Sacks turns his attention away from the human mind to investigate a fascinating and exotic Mexican province.

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Featuring Rick Steves' original 1978 travel journals, On the Hippie Trail documents Rick's beginnings as a travel writer and serves as a time capsule of the legendary trail's final year-with a brand-new preface and postscript reflecting on the experience and adding historic context

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From Mappa Mundi to Google Maps - the bestselling Just My Type author turns his gaze to maps.

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Over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine.

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An acclaimed author, abetted by a noted artist, serves the dish on Select, the famous Montparnasse caf that for nearly nine decades has been so vital to Paris and its intellectual denizens: from Hemingway, Beauvoir, Picasso, James Baldwin, and George Plimpton to the writers and artists of today.

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'Essential in these times of narrowing national horizons.' - The Bookseller

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This travelogue recounts the great storyteller's sojourns in Genoa, Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. Dickens evokes the region's dramatic contrasts, from scenes of glorious buildings on blighted streets to vignettes of modern life amid ancient monuments.

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Unlike other guidebooks which focus on one destination, this invaluable book helps you decide where to go. Organised by month, Pilot Guides enables you to see what's happening in destinations around the world at the time you want to travel.

(Hardback, New edition)

A long awaited new edition of this classic text on the plants of china with new text and many new color photographs.

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Adventurer Lois Pryce ignores all warnings and embarks on a 3,000- mile journey across Iran by motorcycle (a country where Iranian women aren't allowed to ride motorbikes), discovering what real life is like for people there today

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Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and bountiful valleys, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines there is no better way to see Spain than by train.
Tom Chesshyre hits the tracks to take in the country on a series of clattering rides beyond the popular image of holiday Spain.

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Ever dreamt of dropping everything and adventuring cross-country to the edge of the Orient From London via Paris, Naples, Nuremberg, the Swiss Alps, Budapest and into the furthest corners of Eastern Europe across Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, join Tom Chesshyre on his fascinating journey to Istanbul and back.

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Now in paperback to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the original publication and including images discovered in Antarctica in 2013!

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What do you do in the swinging 60s when you've got a great job as a reporter, and the car to match, but lost your love Hugh Lunn went to China on the eve of the Cultural Revolution,and fell in love again. Armed only with Banjo Patterson ballads, and an artificial sheepskin coat, he soon learnt that life is not all cricket and cheongsams.

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Terra Nullius is a journey across Australia's desert and into its shocking past. This lyrical book describes its landscape, flora and fauna and geology, tells the history of the country and reveals the shocking treatment of its Aboriginal peoples.

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A hilarious field guide to the worlds most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English.

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A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year

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The fascinating story of the first generation of 'Globetrotters' - leisure tourists with a keen interest in experiencing authentic culture, brought to life with first hand accounts and beautiful illustrations of the views and artefacts of their travels.