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Krakauer meets Vollmann and Leigh-Fermor in these mesmerizing travel essays, all rendered in an exquisite style all Kociejowskis own.

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The author skilfully evokes contemporary China and the Chinese; his delightful account is peppered with his encounters with the unexpected, including a TV crew, a snake and China's top rock star. He also takes us on a personal journey, revealing the growing sense of loneliness and bewilderment he experienced.

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Peter Hessler's account of his travels through China over the past decade. This is the story of a nation modernising at great pace, and of the lives of ordinary Chinese caught up in that modernisation. With eloquence and humour, Hessler takes us on the road less travelled, showing us a China rarely glimpsed by outsiders.

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This fascinating volume, offering a fresh perspective on the land and its people, will captivate real-life explorers and armchair travelers alike with its intriguing take on Vietnam from the sea.

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America's greatest literary naturalist takes readers on the ultimate wildlife safari: a true back-of-beyond voyage to the world's most unforgiving land, the islands off Antarctica's northern ice shelf, and to that second most remote place on earth, South Georgia Island.

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Clara Parkesrenowned knitter, author, and founder of knittersreview.comis back with more captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays on her knitting and yarn-related travel adventures

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See the world through the eyes of some of the most celebrated and admired people of our time in this engaging new travel book.

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Now Rupert Wright introduces you to the region's winemakers, oyster farmers, canal people and celebrated inhabitants, living and dead, including Montpellier's dynamic Mayor, Georges Freche, and local matador Juan Bautista.

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An account of life in contemporary South Africa as presented by a Peace Corps volunteer and the grandson of Jimmy Carter offers a portrait of a country struggling to recover from deep racial divisions.

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An account of the author's 1,450-mile trip down the overtaxed and drying Colorado River to reveal a pending ecological calamity and find ways to avert it. It focuses on forces exacerbating the River's threatened state, such as population pressures and a drought caused by climate change.

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The great naturalist records his impressions of the flora, fauna, and geology of the South American coasts, detailing his five-year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle on an exploration of the terrain of South America, observing the region's people and landscape, recording data, and collecting specimens.

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What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and 'discovered' Machu Picchu.

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* A unique, fascinating and richly detailed journey around the world as seen through Victorian eyes

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In this unique book Matt Hopwood sets out to walk the length and breadth of Scotland, asking people he meets along the way a very simple question: will you share your love story with me What is your love story

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Originally published: Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing Limited, 1989.

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The award-winning TV adventurer and travel writer's enthralling account of his expedition around the Arabian Peninsula

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* A tale of high adventure in Mexico's bandit country

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'Essential in these times of narrowing national horizons.' - Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller

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This anthology of the very best of Australian travel writing, contains stories representing each of the past 30 years, from 1976 to 2005, and covers destinations in Australia and around the world.

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A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor.