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The jhankri accepted David as his pupil, and so began the next stage of David's extraordinary journey, in which he embarked upon an adventure that was more challenging and, ultimately, life-affirming than anything he could have imagined.

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Mayor of London, MP for Brent and Leader of the GLC, Ken Livingstone with a witty and worldly eye takes a look at his home town; the people, places and the politics that have shaped the landscape.

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Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the northernmost tip of Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America.

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Explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route.

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Now we are nation of vaping and nail salons, pulled pork and salted caramel.

In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries.

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A gorgeous, layered portrait of a city and its people.

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From the author of "The Roads to Sata", this book tells the story of an odyssey to the vanishing heart of Japan.

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An irreverent and critically acclaimed account of a journey around Nigeria, a country which 'gets fewer voluntary visitors than the moon', by the daughter of Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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A wonderful antidote to rose-tinted travel writing.

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Rahns personal diary from his travels as occult investigator for the Third Reich.

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A collection of travelogues by distinguished women authors includes the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Vita Sackville-West, Annie Dillard, Isak Dinesen, Rebecca West, Willa Cather, Margaret Mead, and Mary McCarthy, among others.

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It explains clearly all the references in the book, and shows in detail with new maps the routes described from Venice to Beijing, from Beijing to Burma, and from Beijing to south-east China.

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Peter Millar embarks upon the train journey of a life time, travelling through this still exotic, diverse and challenging North African country, struggling to maintain its unique blend of tradition and tolerance in the turbulent winds of the Arab Spring.

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A collection of essays from New York Times columnist Reggie Nadelson, profiling and celebrating the (largely family-owned) institutionsrestaurants, bookstores, museumsthat make up the heart and soul of New York City.

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The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression. In this title, at every twist and turn of the author's journey, from the Meander's source in the uplands of Central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, he illuminates his account with a wealth of cultural, historical and personal asides.

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As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational style, which made him one of the best-selling travel writers of his age. First ever translation into English.

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Provides the history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture and tradition, the author explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes.

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An epic voyage along the Mississippi River by canoe, and an unforgettable American adventure. A John Murray Journey.

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A fascinating and wide-ranging anthology, vividly evoking the life of the city in the voices of both visitors and residents through the centuries

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"One woman's quest to learn Mandarin in Beijing, Arabic in Beirut, and Spanish in Mexico, with her young family along for the ride"--

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Provides accounts of coming to New York by more than fifty remarkable people who have called the city home. This title presents impressionistic history of New York since the Great Depression.

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Ten years ago, Janine Marsh decided to leave her corporate life behind to fix up a run-down barn in northern France. This is the true story of her rollercoaster ride from her early struggles and homesickness through personal tragedy, to her attempts to become self-sufficient, with her sharp observations on the very different way of life in France.

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