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1000 Books to Change your Life
| Publisher: | Time Out Group |
| Catalogue number: | 157129 |
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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...
| Author: | Adam Jacot De Boinod |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Catalogue number: | 150604 |
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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...
| Publisher: | Allen Lane |
| Catalogue number: | 160702 |
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Drawing on the collective wisdom of over three-hundred languages, “Toujours Tingo” has discovered all kinds of actions and objects, tastes and noises that English simply doesn’t have the vocabulary...
| Author: | Lynda Murphy |
| Publisher: | Frances Lincoln |
| Catalogue number: | 149189 |
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Celebrating the timeless pleasures of reading, casting an irreverent eye over the foibles and eccentricities of booklovers and revealing the reading habits of a host of famous writers, this compendium...
| Author: | Eric Newby |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 126182 |
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Eric Newby¿s enthusiasm for his subject shines through in his anthology. The tales collected in this treasure-trove of the bizarre, the touching, the profound and the farcical have a scope and range...
| Author: | Jan Morris |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 127092 |
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Celebrating fifty years of travel writing and reportage, this book gathers together a hugely evocative collection of Morris's own work. The articles and extracts contained within this anthology offer...
| Publisher: | Virgin Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 123243 |
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Some summer holiday experiences are impressed upon the memory in a way that can be instantly and vividly recalled, given the right trigger, owing to their life changing, profoundly illuminating nature...
Travelling Hopefully: A Golden Age of Travel Writing
| Publisher: | Mercer Oliver Wyman |
| Catalogue number: | 145575 |
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Nowadays, while the impulse to travel remains as strong as ever, travel has changed out of all recognition. It is difficult, not to say almost impossible, to be a traveller in this age of airplanes...
| Author: | Peter Whitfield |
| Publisher: | Wychwood Editions |
| Catalogue number: | 163099 |
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“A Universe of Books” is an outstanding publication by Peter Whitfield, a book born out of love and respect of all books before it.
What was the most powerful tool ever to have shaped our civilisation...
| Author: | Christina Lamb |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 158120 |
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‘Small Wars Permitting’ is a collection of Christina Lamb’s best reportage, following the principal events of the last two decades everywhere from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. But Lamb’s main interest has...
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The basis of the this handsome looking book is the true story of Gilbert Bland. In 1995 Bland was caught stealing four 200-year-old maps from the Peabody Library of John Hopkins University in Baltimore. Further investigation revealed that 19 libraries across North America had been systematically vandalised...
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The Economist's “Pocket World in Figures” reveals fascinating facts about our planet such as where people live the longest, which is the biggest island and who glugs the most wine...
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What if the world were a village...?
The population of the world is enormous, and the figures are often hard to understand, so a popular children’s book investigates what the world would be like if we imagined it as a village of just 100 people...
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