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In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on journeys through Cevennes and America where he wrote 'Travels

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The bestselling first volume of Tim Mackintosh-Smith's masterful journey in the footsteps of fourteenth-century traveller Ibn Battutah

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Collected here for the first time, a hugely entertaining selection of Michael Frayn's classic travel writing - including pieces on Germany, Cuba, Israel, Japan and Russia.

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Presents a story of two city slickers - one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell, the other the long-suffering author - and how they came to terms with England's countryside and waterways. This book provides an account of a mismatched couple and of the people they meet and places they visit.

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Records how the author set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. The author sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time).

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Mrs Billy Connolly/ Pamela Stephenson follows in the footsteps of Fanny Stevenson, maverick wife of the even more maverick Robert Louis, around the South Seas

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During his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. This book details personal and cultural loss, connecting disparate fields of thought.

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In Tropic of Capricorn, bestselling author Simon Reeve embarks on a 23,000-mile trek around the southernmost border of the tropics - a place of both amazing beauty and overwhelming human suffering.

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Both clear-eyed and tender hearted, Two Trees Make a Forest is a profound and gorgeously written meditation on the natural and familial environments that shape us. Jessica J Lee is a poetic talent keenly attentive to the mysterious and sublime - Robert Macfarlane

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Glen Heggstad is an adventure motorcyclist who seeks out and rides the most

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A charming examination of the community of Hay-on-Wye from an acclaimed travel writer.

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* Fresh, funny and impeccably researched, UNDERGROUND LONDON is 'alternative' history at its best - an illuminating glimpse into the hidden world beneath our feet.

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A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged, and typically rather cautious, journalist Mike Carter to take off on a life-changing six month motorcycle trip around Europe.

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'Unofficial' Britain is made up of the places that are often left behind. This is a journey into the forgotten spaces that really tell the modern story of our island.

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* Nick Thorpe learns how to let go in this often funny, often moving search for calm, out now in paperback

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The true story of the Zen brothers, fourteenth-century merchant navigators whose fabled voyage to the North Atlantic made history.

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A whimsical, unconventional guide to Venice - an ode to the city.

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An indispensable literary companion, vividly evoking the life of Venice in the voices of both residents and visitors through the centuries.

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The great Dutch author and traveller Cees Nooteboom (author of Roads to Santiago and The Following Story) sheds new light on the city, its history and its treasures

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Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

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Follow the hilarious misadventures of Ian Moore and his family as their search for serenity in rural France leads them on a journey of chaos, commotion and comedy. But despite the ups and downs, the Moore family persevere in true Brit style to create a unique, colourful and ultimately rewarding life in their new home - la campagne!