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By: Benedict Allen

ISBN: 9780571206223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Benedict Allen travelled through Papua New Guinea in search of a tribe who would let him participate in an initiation ceremony into manhood. He was finally admitted to the ceremonies of the Sepik tribe, whose totemic god is the crocodile. This is a tale of love, community through shared pain - and sudden death.


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By: Redmond O'Hanlon

ISBN: 9780140073973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1985
UK Publication Date: 5th September 1985
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'We've left a lot of men in Borneo - know what I mean' With their SAS trainer's warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O'Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo. They were loaded with enough back-breaking kit to survive two months in a steaming 95degree jungle.


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By: Julian Hoffman

ISBN: 9780241979495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Patrick Barkham

ISBN: 9781783781904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Granta Books
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An enticing exploration of the smallest islands of the British Isles from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Butterfly Isles.


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By: Tim Parks

ISBN: 9780099286950
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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But like any place that's become home I hate it too."

How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy When Tim Parks first moved to Verona he found it irresistible and infuriating in equal measure;


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By: Alice Leccese Powers

ISBN: 9780679770237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Two centuries of writers--including Harold Brodkey, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Calvin Trillin, Michael Ondaatje, Lawrence Durrell, Edith Wharton, and others--celebrate their love of Italy in an anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, journals, letters, and novel excerpts. Origina


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By: Alan Macfarlane

ISBN: 9781861979674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
UK Publication Date: 17th July 2008
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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This entertaining and endlessly surprising book takes us on an exploration into every aspect of Japanese society from the most public to the most intimate.


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By: Jeffrey Angles

ISBN: 9781883513160
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
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A collection that guides the reader through the complexity that is Japan. This work guides the reader - from the beauty of northern Honshu through the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, to the many temples in Kyoto, through Osaka and the coastline of the Sea of Japan, and down to southern Kyushu - to Japan.


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By: Danny Wallace

ISBN: 9780091895822
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2004
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Some men are born to lead.

A book about dreams, ambition and the responsibility that comes with power, Join Me is the true story of a man who created a cult by accident, and is proof that whilst some men were born to lead, others really haven't got a clue.


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By: Colin Thubron

ISBN: 9780099570257
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Moving from Greek villages to Turkish towns, the author of Shadow of the Silk Road and Night of Fire provides a profound look into the people of Cyprus from Orthodox monks to wedding parties to peasant families against the landscape of a beautiful Mediterranean island on the eve of chaos and tragedy.


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By: Jos Saramago

ISBN: 9781784871826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Jos Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country.

From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jos Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own land.


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By: Graham Greene

ISBN: 9780099282235
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa.


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By: Simon Reeve

ISBN: 9781529364019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Simon Reeve reveals more of his journeys, tales and lessons for life.


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By: Simon Reeve

ISBN: 9781529364026
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Simon Reeve reveals more of his journeys, tales and lessons for life.


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By: Fergus Fleming

ISBN: 9781862074538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
UK Publication Date: 22nd August 2001
Publisher: Granta Books
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A hair-raising and hilarious account of the birth of mountaineering, from the days when dragons and other monsters were believed to reside on the mountain-tops, to modern-day competitive sport.


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By: Adam Weymouth

ISBN: 9780141983790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Evelyn Waugh

ISBN: 9780140188370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1999
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 1995
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From Europe to the Middle East and North Africa, from Egyptian porters and Italian priests to Maltese sailors and Moroccan merchants - Waugh describes the local colour as he cruises around the Mediterranean as an Englishman abroad.


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By: Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent

ISBN: 9781471156564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 15th June 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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By: Cyrus Massoudi

ISBN: 9781788318341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith

ISBN: 9780719567780
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2011
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Tim Mackintosh-Smith concludes his travels in the footsteps of Moroccan traveller Ibn Battutah across the 'worlds beyond the winds'


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By: Mary Wortley Montagu

ISBN: 9781857151312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
UK Publication Date: 8th October 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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Letters by the 18th century blue-stocking grande dame, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was a duke's daughter, who married the English ambassador in Constantinople, and the friend of Swift and Pope, whom she numbered among her correspondents.


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By: Louis MacNeice

ISBN: 9780571283521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A wonderful collection of correspondence and observation from two masterful poets.


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By: Anka Muhlstein

ISBN: 9780940322813
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2002
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries.


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By: Rinker Buck

ISBN: 9781501106378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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A "blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand 'flatboat era' of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America's first western frontier"--Dust jacket flap.

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