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1000 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...

Venice Literary Companion

Venice Blue Guide Literary Companion is a pocket sized anthology of extracts from writings by the poets, novelists, playwrights, historians, travellers and socialites who have visited Venice down the...

Poland

More of a historical and cultural than travel guide to Poland, Pallas Athene’s monumental tome on Poland is without doubt one of the most in-depth looks at Polish culture available. Divided by area...

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 Fez of the Heart

This is Jeremy Seal's quest, by means of a fez, for the heart of a country culturally and spiritually at odds with herself. It is also a very skilled and entertaining portrait of modern Turkey, as the...

A House for Mr Biswas

A House for Mr Biswas is VS 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 of...

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

SIGNED COPIES! "A Mad World My Masters" is arguably John Simpson's most popular volume of autobiographical writing.
There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald...

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 Walk in the Hindu Kush

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby is an acknowledged classic of travel writing. The 50th anniversary edition of the book’s publication includes previously unpublished photographs of the expedition...

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...

A Year in Provence

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle is a much-loved book, a perfect example of both a wonderful read and also the kind of travel writing that will get you rearing to go and see it for yourself.
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