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This is Frank Gardner's compelling, personal account of the myriad adventures that made him the man he was on that fateful day - and of the journeys he's made since, and how they've helped him to become the remarkable and inspiring individual he is today.

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Takes us through the in-between spaces of Nature - such as strandlines, mudflats, cliff tops and caves - where one wilderness is on the verge of becoming another and all things are possible. The author searches out wildlife and plants to reveal a Nature that is inspiring yet intimidating; miraculous yet mundane; part sacred space, part wasteland.

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Award-winning travel writer cycles through Israel and occupied Palestine.

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A brilliant political travelogue that uses Burma to explain Orwell and Orwell to explain what life is really like under the authoritarian rule of the Burmese generals.

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A poet explores the nature and landscapes of Scotland.

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'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of Florence

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Following Fish reveals a series of unknown Indias in a book as revealing of the subcontinent as any three times its length.

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John Hanson Mitchell tells of his 1500 mile ride on a trusty old Peugeot bicycle from the port of Cadiz to just below the Arctic Circle. The journey is interspersed with myth, natural history, and ritual all revolving around the lure and lore of the sun, culturally and historically.

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Through past and present, the country and the city, a unique exploration of the British Isles

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The gripping story of the worst ever catastrophe in British exploration, and the captain at the heart of it.

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One woman's around-the-world adventure, and an exploration of borders, freedoms and womanhood.

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A combination of travel book about Iceland and rehabilitation of a Victorian hero. Inspired by the swashbuckling travelogues of Victorian diplomat Lord Dufferin, frail surburbanite Tim Moore sets out to prove his physical and spiritual worth before his sceptical Nordic in-laws by retracing Dufferin's epic voyage to Iceland and Spitzbergen.

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Michael Palin's terrific account of his journey through 18 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, published by Phoenix for the first time.

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Ghost Riders combines history, travelogue and a personal narrative to create a multi-dimensional map of the travelling soul.

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Thirty years ago the author left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Great Railway Bazaar" - was a landmark book. Now he makes the trip all over again to discover the changes that have swept the continents. In this book, he gives us the highs and lows of his journey.

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By turns a biography, a travel journal and a portrait of American women today, THE GLADYS SOCIETY is also a testimony to the value of friendship.

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Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar

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Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar

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Acclaimed journalist Steve Boggan goes in search of precious metal

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A travel book that reveals Corsica as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice, as well as their pride, hospitality and poetry.

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'I remember seeing the lion looking yellow and heavy-headed and enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush and P.

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Tom Anderson has always loved surfing anywhere except the UK. But a chance encounter leads him to a series of adventures on home surf As he visits the popular haunts and secret gems of British surfing he rekindles his love affair with the freezing fun that is surfing the North Atlantic.

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When Jason Webster and his wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep. Yet the more Webster unveils of the passions that set one countryman against another, the more he is led to wonder.