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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa.

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Simon Reeve reveals more of his journeys, tales and lessons for life.

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Simon Reeve reveals more of his journeys, tales and lessons for life.

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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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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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Tim Mackintosh-Smith concludes his travels in the footsteps of Moroccan traveller Ibn Battutah across the 'worlds beyond the winds'

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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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A wonderful collection of correspondence and observation from two masterful poets.

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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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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.