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Be inspired by Stanfords' substantial selection of travel writing and classic literature books. From early epic adventures to contemporary tales, from personal anecdotes and memoirs to historical accounts, humorous tales and journeys of discovery, we have hundreds of titles covering almost all the world, which make fascinating reading.
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    Voyages of Delusion

    by Glyn Williams
    In Voyages of Delusion in the Age of Reason, Williams charts the 18th-century’s perilous and often fatal attempts to discover a passage through the Arctic to the Pacific.

    Williams’s book is set in...
    • Publisher: HarperCollins

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    The Life of My Choice

    by Wilfred Thesiger
    Great traveller and explorer Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa and spent his early years in Abyssinia. In this book he reveals to what extent the early experience of Abyssinia influenced his...
    • Publisher: Flamingo

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    City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

    by William Dalrymple
    Dalrymple’s second book was the result of a six year stay in Delhi. Here he removes the focus from his own experiences to instead attempt to uncover the various layers of both old and new Delhi....
    • Publisher: Flamingo

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    Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of The Great Explorer

    by Alexander Maitland
    A legend in his own lifetime, the explorer and traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for 60 years in some of the remotest most dangerous places on Earth. His books are widely acclaimed, yet his...
    • Publisher: HarperCollins

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    The Spirit Wrestlers

    by Philip Marsden
    Marsden starts in Moscow and journeys South East, meeting monks, mystics, icon painters, Russian special forces soldiers fresh from Chechnya, a priest who prayed hard and built a church from scratch an...
    • Publisher: Flamingo

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    The Glass Palace

    by Amitav Ghosh
    Rajkumar is only a boy, helping out on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Thus begins this...
    • Publisher: HarperCollins

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    In the Empire of Genghis Khan

    by Stanley Stewart
    WINNER OF THE THOMAS COOK/ DAILY TELEGRAPH TRAVEL BOOK 2001

    "In The Empire of Genghis Khan" is a superb book, feeling like an epic poem of old, it's all the more incredible when you realise this was...
    • Publisher: HarperCollins

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    In Xanadu - A Quest

    by William Dalrymple
    When the Karakoram Highway reopened in 1986 it was again possible to use the mountain road linking Pakistan and China and so to complete an overland trip from Jerusalem to Xanadu for the first time in...
    • Publisher: Flamingo

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    From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium

    by William Dalrymple
    In his third book, William Dalrymple makes another ambitious journey, this time following in the footsteps of John Moschos, a sixth-century Byzantine monk who made records of the various religious comm...
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    The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters

    by William Dalrymple
    In The Age of Kali, William Dalrymple travels around the Indian subcontinent, journeying to places that few travellers ever get to see and often he goes at great personal risk. The name of the book...
    • Publisher: Flamingo
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