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The classic account of Italian corruption and culture, covering Berlusconi's demise and resurrection, and Italy's financial meltdown.

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A haunting and disturbing portrait of modern Jamaica: a country of lost opportunity and promise, and one of the most violent places in the world.

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Beekeeper Jess De Boer's unique story tracks her transition from privileged white African to nomadic world traveler. Funny and extremely well written, this book follows Jess' bizarre and hilarious experiences on her travels, until a strange sequence of events takes her, broken and lost, back to Africa.

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The celebrated journals of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume.

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An anthology of worlds revealed by explorers through the ages.

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COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE

This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit Adam Nicolson

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A portrait of Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island and a place of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity (including a plethora of endemic species), as well as for its tangled and troubled history.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX

Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own.

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The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between...

After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all.

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A journey through time and space, grappling with the ghosts of empire

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Britain's most readable journalist takes on his biggest challenge - America.

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Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christies extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition.

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A lyrical account of an east-west walk across Cornwall, Britain's westernmost and most mysterious region.

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60 achievable adventures that celebrate the best of Britain and Britishness must-do things that are on your doorstep rather than the other side of the world.

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The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through author's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This title tells the trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies.

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Walking right across England, along ancient trackways and green grass roads, Hugh explores the way the country was and the way it is today: the legends, literature and natural world that define us, and the undercurrent of regret running throughout our history;

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The Hezbollah Hiking Club is a comedic travelogue in which Dom Joly and his two best friends hike across Lebanon. It's three men on a camel . . . without the camel.

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Now in paperback: A powerful, surprising exploration of Scotland's landscape and its hidden history.

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A "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder).

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For four months and five hundred miles the author walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers. His journey was not only a survey of a remarkable country, but a quest for the gods and divinities who held the secrets of death and rebirth in the land's ancient cults. This title tells his story.

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William Atkins revives the great British tradition of travel writing by recording his journeys to the earth's most desolate, inspiring places: deserts.

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Presents a portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua. This book brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. It shows us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, everything is contested, and life-or-death struggles are an everyday occurrence.