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as he meets some of the great British eccentrics who involve themselves in a host of bizarre pastimes which include hurling themselves down a grassy cliff in pursuit of a cheese, coating themselves in prickly green burrs, hanging toast on trees and prancing around with reindeer antlers on their heads.

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Features the dazzling women of Paris; from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Napoleon's Josephine to Edith Wharton. In this book, the author journeys to Paris and takes a very personal tour through the lives, loves and losses of its celebrated women.

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A loving portrait of the other Majorca, and of a blissful life there revolving around the magic of music a book to savour, perfect for escaping those crowded beaches.

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From the author of the bestselling A Thousand Days in Venice, these are the further adventures of Marlena and Fernando and their experiences as they move to a small village in Tuscany. Originally published as Dolce e Salata, this is another delicious combination of authentic Italian life, food, recipes, love and memoir.

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In her forties Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis decided to trade in her landlubber life a nice house in Cardiff and a sensible job at the BBC for life aboard a small yacht with her husband Leighton, a former bosun with the Merchant Navy and now in his mid-sixties.

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Following the success of her two previous outings, A Bike Ride and Lone Traveller, adventuresome ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe donned the cycle helmet once more and set out on an exhilarating journey round the Indian subcontinent.

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A sailing narrative which traces a convalescing young man's adventure sailing from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast. It has an introduction by Gary Kinder, plus commentaries, notes and a reading group guide.

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In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu.

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* A fascinating and illuminating travelogue and 'alternative' history of England, as seen from below ground

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A journey across the scenery of the Moroccan Sahara, Jeffrey Tayler's trip is a journey threaded with danger, adventure and temperamental camels

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When TIME magazine writer Pico Iyer set out to explore the East, what he found was: Mohawk haircuts in Bali; yuppies in Hong Kong, a local movie industry that produces not one, but five Rambo ripoffs in Bombay; and young Filipinos rendering a perfect imitation of the latest Madonna song.

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The lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines.

A vast vortex of plastic floating endlessly around the Pacific.

An eerie abandoned town square in a radioactive Ukrainian wilderness.

These are the places the tourist boards would rather you didn't see.

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Two years after riding from Milan to Rome in search of la dolce vita, Peter Moore's life has changed dramatically. He has married Sally and she is pregnant with their first child. With fatherhood only five months away Peter reacted the way some men facing nappies and travel systems do, he panicked.

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After a late night Tai Bo fitness commercial warns him that his life will be over after 40, Peter Moore decides to pursue a boyhood dream sparked by watching old black and white movies of Sophia Loren riding motor scooters - to putt-putt around Italy on a 1960s Vespa, living la dolce vita. Of course, it couldn't be just any Vespa.

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Based on the author's many visits to Turkey and Gallipoli, this is a moving, inspiring, occasionally hilarious, and always practical roadmap to the heart the Gallipoli experience.

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One Columbus Day, John Mitchell made an "Americana" pilgrimage, from an ancient burial site, along the Great Road used during the Revolution by the minutemen, 15 miles to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and the home of Thoreau, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Emerson. This is the account of the trip.

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"An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, sak is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns--by an American writer and food stylist who spent years working alongside artisans"--

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When Bill and Laurel Cooper decided to spend the winter in the South of France, they took their Dutch barge Hosanna" by a route through the canals and rivers of France. This book describes their journey, the people they met, and the folklore and customs they experienced."

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Sue Williams has delivered us Women of the Outback and Outback Spirit, stories she gathers from the people of the bush. Ever curious, this time Sue puts herself in the firing line, seeking to find the essence of the outback experience -- perfect for all us armchair travellers.

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The warm, funny and utterly engaging true story of a young Aussie safari guide who has spent the last twelve years leading tours in the African bush.