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1000 Places To See in The USA & Canada Before You Die

From the author of 1,000 Places To See Before You Die, this book provides another 1,000 amazing ‘must see’ places to see in the USA and Canada. The book is filled with factual information from the Appalachian...

In Bear Country

Bears are a symbol of the health of an ecosystem - and the global population is dwindling to the point where only eight different species remain. These creatures have long fascinated us and their influence...

Passage to Juneau

The Inside Passage to Alaska, with its outer fringes and entailments, is a very complicated sea-route. Parts of it are open ocean, parts of it no wider than a modest river, and it has been in continuous...

The Meaning of Tingo

Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means "to take off your clothes in order to dance"? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or the Dutch word for skimming...

The Snow Geese

I¿m not fond of birds. So I wouldn¿t usually choose to read about a birdwatcher¿s obsessive quest. But The Snow Geese is much more than a ¿bird¿ book. Fiennes¿ journey across North America in pursuit...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The Snows of Kilimanjaro contains some of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular early works of fiction. In all these stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight...

Thunder & Sunshine - Around the World by Bike, part 2

“Thunder & Sunshine” tells the second part of Alastair Humphreys’ incredible 40,000-mile journey around the world by bike. The journey was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget and spontaneous...

Voyageur: Across North America in a Birchbark Canoe

Fifteen years before Lewis and Clarke Scotsman, Alexander Mackenzie (looking to open up a trade route) set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie...

On Beauty

Zadie Smith’s wonderful homage to Howard’s End provides plenty of parallels for devotees to spot while remaining greatly enjoyable on its own terms. The action has transferred to New England, with some...

The Barefoot Book of Fairy Tales

Follow a journey to magical and memorable lands with this anthology of classic fairy tales from cultures around the world.
This marvellous collection includes twelve popular and lesser-known fairy tales...

The Catcher in the Rye

“The Catcher in the Rye” is claimed by many to be the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, although such a simple classification would undermine it’s literary value, as this classic text is relevant...

Into the Wild (Film tie-in)

In April 1992, Chris McCandless, a young man from a well-to-do family, hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness. He had given all his savings to charity, abandoned his car and possessions...

On the Road

Regarded as the quintessential work of the Beat Generation’s literary output, Jack Kerouac wrote the book in a marathon peyote-fuelled writing session on one long piece of paper, prompting Truman Capote...

A Crack in the Edge of the World - The Great American Earthquake of 1906

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this...

Almost Heaven

After seven years working in the relative civilisation of Washington Martin Fletcher sets of to investigate the wilder prejudices and paranoias that lie hidden along America's many backroads.

America Unchained

With “America Unchained”, Dave Gorman’s plan was simple. Go to America. Buy a second-hand car. Drive coast-to-coast without giving any money to The Man. What could possibly go wrong?
Dismayed by the...

Facing the Frozen Ocean

In June 2003, Bear Grylls and his team set out from Halifax, Nova Scotia, across the infamous Labrador Sea, one of the most treacherous stretches of water in the world. The team headed for the vast...

Fast Food Nation

Eric Slosser's bestseller is at times funny but most of the time it is a harrowing account of the fast food chain, the influence it has on millions of people's lives all over the world.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“Fear & Loathing” tells the tale of journalist Hunter S Thompson and his ‘attorney’, the Samoan, driving to Las Vegas, to find the dark side of the American dream.
Roaring down the desert highway from...

Fugitives and Refugees

Clearly, the first questions any potential visitor to Portland will have are: "Where do Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils currently reside?", "Where can I find a naked mannequin to hide in my kitchen cabinets...