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By: Sanmao

ISBN: 9781408881842
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Maria Coletta McLean

ISBN: 9781770411371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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The anticipated follow-up to My Father Came from Italy (2000, Raincoast). Becoming Italian is Maria Coletta McLean's memoir of her time with her husband, Bob, in Supino -- becoming accustomed to the town her father grew up in and the peculiarities of the people who live there.


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By: Michael Booth

ISBN: 9780099516446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The creativity of the Japanese, their dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm and octopus ice cream, is only now beginning to be fully appreciated in the sushi-saturated West, as are the remarkable health benefits of the traditional Japanese diet.


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By: Matthew Fort

ISBN: 9780091910815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2009
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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At the age of twenty-six Matthew Fort first visited the Italian island of Sicily.


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By: Richard Hamilton

ISBN: 9781784533434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Tangier is perennially fascinating and experiencing a major renaissance


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By: Hugh Thomson

ISBN: 9780753826942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2010
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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'Try this tequila oil, Hugito. Just as the alcohol hits your stomach, the chilli will as well and blow it back into your brain. It will take your head off.' Explorer Hugh Thomson takes on Mexico.


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By: Sara Wheeler

ISBN: 9780099731818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1997
UK Publication Date: 4th September 1997
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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An investigation into the culture which exists at the South Pole, asking why its population is overwhelmingly male, how women fit into the society, and how the inhabitants of the area relieve stress and conflict within their confined quarters.


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By: Andrew Eames

ISBN: 9780552150774
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2005
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Fascinated by the exotic history of this quintessentially English crime writer, he decided to retrace the trip from London to Baghdad which she made in 1928 - a journey which was to change Agatha Christie completely and led to her other life as the wife of an archaeologist in the deserts of Syria and Iraq.


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By: William Dalrymple

ISBN: 9780006547754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1999
UK Publication Date: 21st June 1999
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Travels and encounters in India.


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By: Adrian Gill

ISBN: 9780753820964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2006
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Foreigner Adrian Gill (a Scot) goes in search of the essence of England and the English


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By: Sylvain Tesson

ISBN: 9781786079992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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By: James O'Reilly

ISBN: 9781932361544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
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By: Stephanie Elizondo Griest

ISBN: 9781932361742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
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Presents the adventures from women who have travelled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. This title enables the readers to: discover the hidden magic of Flamenco in Spain; walk the night and its terrors in Benin; travel the darker side of the Hawaiian fantasy; and, draw a map of Argentinian tango.


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By: Lavinia Spalding

ISBN: 9781609520120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
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Women have been writing about the world for generations. This title is the seventh in an annual series - "The Best Women's Travel Writing" - that presents adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves.


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By: Lavinia Spalding

ISBN: 9781609520595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
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By: Patrick Leigh Fermor

ISBN: 9781529369519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The final volume of the classic trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor - hailed as the greatest travel writer of his generation.


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By: Dan White

ISBN: 9780061376931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Tells the story of "one and a half step" Warren Rogers, co-founder of the Pacific Crest Trail. Rogers overcame polio and risked ruin during the Great Depression to chart the trail from beginning to end.


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By: Christopher Hope

ISBN: 9781786490612
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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From one of South Africa's finest writers comes a powerful exploration of politics, race and population in the post-Apartheid era.


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By: Louis Theroux

ISBN: 9781509893287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd March 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A funny, insightful journey into what is so wonderfully weird about America by award-winning documentary film maker Louis Theroux.


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By: Jessica Nabongo

ISBN: 9781426222269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongothe first documented Black woman to visit all 195 countries in the worldshares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections.


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By: Eliane Brum

ISBN: 9781846276644
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2019
Publisher: Granta Books
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From Brazil's answer to Svetlana Alexeivich: a powerful glimpse into the lives of ordinary Brazilians.


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By: Henry Miller

ISBN: 9780141980546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the Grecian countryside with his friend Lawrence Durrell in 1939. In this book, the author describes drinking from sacred springs, nearly being trampled to death by sheep and encountering the flamboyant Greek poet Katsumbalis, who 'could galvanize the dead with his talk'.


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By: Christopher Isherwood

ISBN: 9780099561187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYER

In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina.


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By: Tim Moore

ISBN: 9780224100212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'Bill Bryson on two wheels' Independent

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike.

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