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A unique collection of essays accompany Wilfred Thesigers own personal photographs of the Africa he experienced as one of the worlds most celebrated explorers.

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A collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers, including Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron, In Morocco by Edith Wharton, The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird.

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This republishes Mark Twain's Australian travel writing, in which he recounts his impressions of Sydney and his view of Australian history. Includes introduction from Don Watson.

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Includes a travel book and a biography of its author.

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A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newbys iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.

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Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere.

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In 1935, the author set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. This title describes the trip and his return journey on a Dutch steamer. It shows height of his powers.

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'Full of heart.' Michael Harris, author of Solitude

Being alone isn't something to endure - it's something to relish.
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The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone.

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When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination.

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The world as seen through the eyes of the inventor of the world's greatest detective

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Widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan Morris at her best - at once magisterial and particular, whimsical and profound. It is a matchless portrait of a continent.

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In this series of pen-portraits of England in the 1930's, Victor Canning vividly captures the pattern and colour of the great fabric of English life from Cumberland to Cornwall from a bygone era.

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'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of Florence

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Describes a Maharajah's eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court.

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A wonderful collection of correspondence and observation from two masterful poets.

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The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries.

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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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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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Written just after the Second World War, this is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark's writings. Each chapter is devoted to a particular theme, from happiness to education to death. For those who love her travel writing, this book illuminates the motivations behind her journeys and the woman behind the traveller.

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Begins with an account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for "The Times".

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The author, America's favorite adventurer, dined with Haile Selassie and rode the Rhinocerous Express in Ethiopia; he had an audience with King Ibn Saud outside the gates of Mecca (which he had tried to sneak into) and finally rode an elephant over the Alps in the tracks of another great adventurer, Hannibal. This book presents him at his best.

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**Sunday Times Bestseller**
**Book of the Week on Radio 4**

'A beautiful book about a part of the modern world which remains genuinely magical Mark Haddon

'One of the most constantly fascinating, but consistently under-appreciated aspects of modern life is the business of flying.