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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786855312 | ISBN 10: 1786855313
Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer. Travel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visit. But what happens whe ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786890160 | ISBN 10: 178689016x
With an introduction by Robert Plant. Against an unflinching backdrop of 90s reservation life in the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf Nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white and one Native American, connected by their own understandings o ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472118936 | ISBN 10: 1472118936
From the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters, Carsick is his hilarious (if not always 100% true) account of hitchhiking fearlessly into the heart of middle America. John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin moustache ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782394860 | ISBN 10: 1782394869
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781682951 | ISBN 10: 178168295x
A roller coaster ride through the ruins of modern America from the most influential journalist of his Generation. Whether ruthlessly exposing Beltway hypocrisy, pricking the pomposity of those in power, or tirelessly defending the rights of ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241955819 | ISBN 10: 0241955815
Iain Sinclair looks to the open road and the Beat Generation in American Smoke. Iain Sinclair breaks for the border with American Smoke, his first full engagement with the memory- filled landscapes of the American Beats and their fellow tra ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781423607120 | ISBN 10: 1423607120
Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846684968 | ISBN 10: 184668496x
OxTravels is a collection of travel writing, which will act as a focus for the Oxfam Bookfest in 2011 donated by world class travel writers. You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that com ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571241774 | ISBN 10: 0571241778
Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the United States, by car, train, ship and aeroplane. In her words a 'period piece', Coast to Coast describes an American identit ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780091899370 | ISBN 10: 0091899370
The 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 relentless onslaught of faceless American chains muscling in where local busin ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747565611 | ISBN 10: 0747565619
"No one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell."(Bob Dylan) The great pre-war blues musician Blind Willie McTell was one of the most gifted artists of his generation, with an exquisite voice and a sublime talen for the 12-string guitar. Yet h ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781593762407 | ISBN 10: 1593762402
In his quest for an indigenous American Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a series of interstate odysseys. Traveling 20,000 miles by Greyhound in sixty days, he squats in run-down mosques, pursues Muslim romance, is detained at the U.S.-Canad ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571215256 | ISBN 10: 0571215254
In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris has produced a unique portrait of the late twentieth century - from New York to Venice, from the first ascent of Everest to the fall of the B ... more
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