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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780857057747 | ISBN 10: 085705774x
SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020 An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning author of international reportage. Erika Fatland takes the reader on ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783526901 | ISBN 10: 1783526904
When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn't want to write a straightforward travel book. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. Mind is the Ride takes the reader on a physical and intellectual adventure from West to ... more
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£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
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781849534147 | ISBN 10: 1849534144
Mr Fernando led me into a dark room that was lined with book-cases and smelled of leather and damp. The polished, concrete floor of the library was covered with white jasmine flowers that had blown through the windows during the storm. He began to se ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847674371 | ISBN 10: 1847674372
After living in China for five years, and learning the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavor: he acquired his Chinese driving licence. An eye-opening, often hilarious, at times maddening challenge, it enabled ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846041891 | ISBN 10: 1846041899
Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance by three wandering minstrels from rural India. They wear flowing, multicoloured robes and play frenetic rhythms on strange instruments made of wood and clay, ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007265121 | ISBN 10: 0007265123
Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and by Buddhism. Accompanied by a television crew, she spent a year in a remote town in the Tibetan mountain area and recorded what life is like for the people there. Despit ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141021140 | ISBN 10: 0141021144
Ryszard Kapuscinski was the greatest traveller-reporter of our time. Travels with Herodotus depicts his beginnings as an inexperienced young Polish journalist and reveals what drove him throughout his extraordinary life. At every encounter ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844080168 | ISBN 10: 1844080161
Jenny Diski's attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the S mi people of Lapland. Diski failed to keep still and lik ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099460220 | ISBN 10: 009946022x
Mark Abley's journeys among the speakers of languages at the brink take him to aboriginal Australia, to American Indian reservations and to elderly Canadian speakers of Yiddish, as well as to places where the languages are fighting back: Wales, the F ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571228706 | ISBN 10: 0571228704
In 2003, twice Booker-winning author Peter Carey travelled to Japan, accompanied by his twelve-year-old son Charley, on a special kind of pilgrimage. In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion f ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9789745240506 | ISBN 10: 9745240508
A new memoir of the author's journeys among the brave indegenous peoples of some of Asia's most remote and violent regions. Knowledgably obsessed with Burma's struggle for freedom, American artist/activist Mirante breaks laws and infiltrates borders, ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780907871330 | ISBN 10: 090787133x
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 War. He creates a portrait of traditiona ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780099283294 | ISBN 10: 0099283298
'My painter friends think I am a die-hard conservative, my writer friends think I am a man of loose morals. In Jushlin Temple I am a quiet disciple, in the Propaganda Department I am a decadent youth. Women call me a cynical artist, the police call m ... more
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