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1,000 Places To See Before You Die

This unique book describes 1000 “must see” places to see before you die. The book is filled with factual information from beaches to museums to castles to bustling markets, impressive hotels to backwater...

1000 Books to Change your Life

1000 Books to change your life celebrates the transforming power of literature. More than 50 leading novelists, writers and critics draw the arc of a life lived in books, from birth to death. With...

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...

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...

A Death In Brazil

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2005 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
Delving into Brazil’s baroque past, Peter Robb’s “A Death in Brazil” looks at its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed...

A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Travelling through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the twilight of the French colonial regime, Norman Lewis witnesses these ancient civilisations as they were before the terrible devastation of the Vietnam...

A House for Mr.Biswas

A House for Mr.Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel. Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years...

A Land of Two Halves

In A Land of Two Halves, Joe Bennett came to ask himself what on earth he was doing in New Zealand after spending ten years there. Other than his dogs, what was it about these two small islands on the...

A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“A Long Way Gone” tells how, at the age of 12 years old, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in his home country of Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognisable by violence. At 13, he was...

A Mad World, My Masters

From small heroes to big villains, John Simpson is a master of storytelling, carrying within him a sense of wonder and adventure. Having been at the epicentre of many of the world's flashpoints for...

A Ride in the Neon Sun

“A Ride In The Sun” is a wonderfully fresh insight into Japan and Japanese society through the immediacy and humour of Josie Dew. It's not easy landing unprepared in a country like Japan. The eccentricities...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson hangs up his walking boots and other travelling paraphernalia to instead study, well, the history of nearly everything. He’s driven by simple questions and an enquiring mind. He doesn’t...

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Illustrated

Bryson hangs up his walking boots and other travelling paraphernalia to instead study, well, everything. He’s driven by simple questions and an enquiring mind. He doesn’t want so much as to know what...

A State of Independence

A British West Indian returns to the Caribbean to witness the end of colonial rule, however his visit turns sour as he finds himself an outsider in a place he thought was home.
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A Summer in Gascony

“A Summer in Gascony” is a tale of two love affairs: an idyllic summer romance with blonde-haired Anja and a lifelong love affair with Gascony with its village festivals, dusty roads and sun-baked wine...

A Time In Rome

Elisabeth's Bowen account of a time spent in Rome between February and Easter is both an introduction for visitors and an attempt to capture the "mood" of the Eternal City. It is no ordinary guidebook...

A Time of Gifts

In 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Liegh Fermour's set out to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This book covers the first stage of that walk from the Hook of Holland, through Germany...

A Traveller's Life

This is the autobiography of Newby as a traveller. The book is organised in episodes showing the whole range of situations into which he has thrown himself. He never loses his wanderlust and optimism...

A Walk in the Woods

On discovering the Appalachian Trail runs through the New Hampshire community he has settled in, Bill Bryson impulsively decides that he must walk it, all of it -and it’s the longest continuous footpath...

A Year in Marrakesh

Having learned to appreciate Muslim life while living in Pakistan, Peter Mayne settled down to live in the back streets of Marrakesh in the 1950s. Rather than watch from the shelter of a hotel terrace...