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| Author: | Jonathan Raban |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 92572 |
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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...
| Author: | William Fiennes |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 112793 |
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SHORTLISTED for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Award
William Fiennes’ “The Snow Geese” is the profoundly moving account of both a physical and spiritual migration following snow geese in their spring journey...
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
| Author: | Isabella Bird |
| Publisher: | JB Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 172610 |
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Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographic Society, visited the Rocky Mountains alone during the autumn of 1873...
| Author: | Jonathan Raban |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 16784 |
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In which the acclaimed author journeys through the heart of the USA from Minneapolis to New Orleans along the Mississippi, realizing a lifelong dream and producing a masterful insight into contemporary...
| Author: | Bill Bryson |
| Publisher: | Black Swan |
| Catalogue number: | 75300 |
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SIGNED COPIES! This is the book that launched the career of one of the funniest and most successful travel writers working today - Bill Bryson.
Having been living in England for 10 years he decides...
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