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By: Charles Allen

ISBN: 9780349139388
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A classic book from the bestselling travel writer and historian, Charles Allen, author of Plain Tales from the Raj, first published by Abacus in 1983.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Chris Stewart

ISBN: 9780956003812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Sort of Books
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Chris Stewart turns another leaf on his life in southern Spain in this evocative and very funny sequel to Driving Over Lemons.


(Paperback)

By: George Alagiah

ISBN: 9780349120782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* George Alagiah's personal testament about Africa, updated in a new Abacus edition


(Hardback)

By: Simon Parker

ISBN: 9781914613593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2024
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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Compelling, funny and highly topical account of a bike ride through the heartlands of America, in the company of its endlessly surprising citizens


(Paperback)

By: Gary Buslik

ISBN: 9781932361582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
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Each chapter of this often hilarious and sometimes poignant travelogue recounts an island-hopping, culture-clashing crisis that pits the homesick author against falling coconuts, hospitals that remove wrong organs, insects as big and dangerous as stealth bombers, garbage-bin sex, steel drum bands, and the French.


(Paperback)

By: Tim Parks

ISBN: 9780099422679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'Delves into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring Italian history, politics, culture and society,' Guardian

Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states


(Paperback)

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

ISBN: 9780140432695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1987
UK Publication Date: 30th April 1987
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes a travel book and a biography of its author.


(Paperback)

By: Horatio Clare

ISBN: 9780099526315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Martin Calder

ISBN: 9781857885316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The only travel writing book on Gascony, A Summer in Gascony is a charming and humorous tale of an extraordinary summer spent in this relatively unknown part of south-western France, the home of D Artagnan, Cyrano de Bergerac, gutsy red wine, fine sweet wine Armagnac and sunflowers.


(Paperback)

By: Elizabeth Bowen

ISBN: 9780099284956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere.


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By: V.S. Naipaul

ISBN: 9780330522946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 17th June 2011
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A thoughtful and beautifully crafted epilogue to the history of slavery essential reading for anyone interested in American history.


(Paperback)

By: W L Rusho

ISBN: 9781529376104
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The remarkable story of Everett Ruess, told through his letters, diaries and poems. A John Murray Journey.


(Hardback, Main)

By: Jan Morris

ISBN: 9780571233052
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An enchanting tour of the history and culture of Venice.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Jan Morris

ISBN: 9780571215256
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2004
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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In a hugely evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from five decades, Jan Morris has produced a unique portrait of the late twentieth century world


(Paperback)

By: Peter Mayle

ISBN: 9780140296037
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2000
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley and began a new life. This work lets you discover the joys of French rural living.


(Paperback)

By: David Moore

ISBN: 9780340832288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2004
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
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When an Irishman, an Englishman, a man with an identity crisis and an inexperienced biker are all the same person, scaling the heights of the Alps on a cheap tourer seems as reasonable a way as any to get to the bottom of things


(Paperback)

By: Nick Thorpe

ISBN: 9780349117379
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A quirky, off-beat tour boat-hopping around the coasts and canals of Scotland by the author of Eight Men and a Duck


(Paperback)

By: Stuart Maconie

ISBN: 9780091926519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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From Shakespeare to JK Rowling, Vaughan Williams to Craig David, William Morris to B&Q, Stuart Maconie leads the expedition, with plenty of stop-offs for tea and scones, to discover the truth.


(Paperback)

By: Mark Beaumont

ISBN: 9780552172479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR

In the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his latest world record attempt - solo, the length of Africa, intending to ride to Cape Town in under 50 days.


(Paperback)

By: Nelson Algren

ISBN: 9781583228418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Nelson Algren takes on Hemingway and the world in his famous travel essays.


(Paperback)

By: Tim FitzHigham

ISBN: 9781848090262
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2009
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The book follows the author's death-defying 200-mile journey in his antique Thomas Crapper bath - not just across the Channel, but around Kent - right up to the tremendous reception and huge media attention which awaited him under Tower Bridge.


(Paperback)

By: Hannah Pierce

ISBN: 9781837994014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2024
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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Having spontaneously bought a houseboat after a break-up, Hannah is plunged into life on the water, learning quickly how to deal with exploding toilets and disappearing hulls. When life threatens to sink her, Hannah embarks on an odyssey along Britain's canals. An uplifting and hilarious story of a woman trying to keep her boat and life afloat.


(Paperback)

By: Peter Millar

ISBN: 9781906413965
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Suitable for modern Britons keen to get beneath the skin of the country that more than any other influences their lives, for intelligent Americans open to an oblique look at their own country, and for railway lovers everywhere.


(Paperback)

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

ISBN: 9781541724655
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A hilarious memoir from a popular travel blogger who has no sense of direction, near-constant motion sickness, and a debilitating fear of pigeons, proving that if you are trying to find yourself, getting lost--literally, figuratively, and existentially--is a great place to start.

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