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From a travel writer and dark sky advocate, a profound and beautifully written exploration of our connection with the night sky, and what we stand to lose when we lose darkness

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A second take of the very best of Will Self's columns for the Independent on the oddities of place, with Ralph Steadman's trademark illustrations.

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Discover Monocle's favorite places to stay, eat, shop, and visit across Spain.

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Monocle heads north in this celebration of all things Nordic.

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Meet the obsessives and dreamers of this remote island nation, and travel through the collections of Iceland's eclectic museums and into its curious past.

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A captivating compendium of rare and exquisite first-hand records of ocean voyages around the world and in different ages, providing a fascinating insight into exploration and adventure at sea.

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A fast-paced account of the year Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way.

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This republishes Mark Twain's Australian travel writing, in which he recounts his impressions of Sydney and his view of Australian history. Includes introduction from Don Watson.

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Travel around the world to some of the most spiritual places on the planet with a collection of star authors including Michael Ondaatje, Alexander McCall Smith and Andrew Motion

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Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s Fleet Street to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of characters who embodied the reality of living on the wrong side of the wall.

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533 days in the life of a great writer, reflecting on his immediate surroundings on the island of Menorca, on literature, global affairs and his place in the universe.

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Near Mount Etna in Sicily lies Casa Cuseni, the home which Daphne Phelps was astonished to find she had inherited in 1947. At the age of 34, with barely any Italian, and little money, she had to overcome financial difficulties but local authorities and a house staff who initially felt no loyalty to the new Signorina.

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A remarkable combination of memoir, history and travel.

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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)

Chris Stewart turns another leaf on his life in southern Spain in this evocative and very funny sequel to Driving Over Lemons.

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* George Alagiah's personal testament about Africa, updated in a new Abacus edition

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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.

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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

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Includes a travel book and a biography of its author.

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A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newbys iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.

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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)

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.