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Travel & Places
Travel & Places
Travel and adventure, road trips to explorations and endeavours. The world at large can be enjoyed from the comfort of your armchair through the pens of intrepid travellers.
| INTRO. BY DR BEAU RIFFENBURGH Book Number: 56596 |
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Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of the third. His first expedition was not a total success (they did not reach the South Pole), and the second ...
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| WASHINGTON IRVING Book Number: 57493 |
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People had thought it was only the great distance that made it impossible to reach Asia sailing west from Spain. No one had predicted that a vast continent stood in the way. And indeed, for Colum...
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| CAPTAIN ROBERT F. SCOTT Book Number: 59989 |
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'When I received the script of The Voyage of the Discovery I was amazed. I had only to read a few pages to realise that it was literature, unique of its kind . . . Scott's mind was like wax to rece...
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| HENRY MORTON STANLEY Book Number: 62728 |
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Stanley’s accounts of his expedition not only helped transform Livingstone into one of the great Victorian heroes, but were also the springboard from which Stanley himself became the most accomplis...
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| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, INTRO Book Number: 62731 |
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The author of dozens of adventure novels and fantastical tales, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an enthusiast of travel, whether wandering on foot through France in the company of a donkey, crossin...
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| ASA BRIGGS Book Number: 76485 |
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One of our most respected British historians describes how he got his unusual name, a question often put to him, and considers whether having been born in Bradford, an industrial town surrounded by...
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| RICHARD STONEMAN Book Number: 78752 |
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Sub-titled 'A Literary Guide to Turkey', here is a lively guide to the remarkable literature which has inspired for 2,000 years. The range of travel writing shows how, while political circumstance...
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| RALPH WALDO EMMERSON Book Number: 78761 |
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As a young and unpublished writer, Ralph Emerson visited England twice, in 1833 and again in 1847. He travelled to meet the men whose works had inspired him, the giants of 19th century English lit...
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| MORGAN FALCONER Book Number: 79485 |
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New York City, among its many attractions, offers an unrivalled range of the world's art in museums and galleries. However, the problem with such a large number of premises exhibiting so much art i...
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| GERALD DURRELL Book Number: 80040 |
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Bridges that nearly collapsed as they were crossed and ancient ferries which ran a 'sometime-this-week' schedule were just a couple of the problems which Gerald and Lee Durrell faced on their exped...
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| CATRIONA RAINSFORD Book Number: 80631 |
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Sub-titled 'Travels with Mexico's Malabaristas' here is a journey through the two faces of Mexico; one a vibrant mix of Hispanic and indigenous cultures, the other a society traumatised by drugs ca...
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| WILLIAM WILLIAMS Book Number: 80715 |
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First published by the Indiana University Press in 1969, this welcome reprint of a long-neglected first American novel narrates the adventures of a young British man who flees an unhappy home life ...
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| TOM ZOELLNER Book Number: 80728 |
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'Under the skin of modernity lies a skeleton of railroad tracks.' On an average weekday morning, approximately 100 million people across the world are boarding trains, from Paddington Station in L...
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| MARY MCGRIGOR Book Number: 81113 |
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The author grew up in a 15th century Scottish castle which inspired her love of history. She has lived in Argyll for many years and describes the area's links with the past from pre-Christian and ...
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| EDITED BY LAURENCE KELLY Book Number: 81130 |
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Kelly recreates for contemporary visitors the vanished glories of Constantinople with vivid, eyewitness accounts of the coronation of a Byzantine emperor, the funeral of a sultan and the building o...
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| DAVID HEMPLEMAN-ADAMS Book Number: 81138 |
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An industrialist by profession, an adventurer by preference, David Hempleman-Adams was the first person to reach the highest peaks on all seven continents, and journey fully to the North and South ...
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| MICHAEL PALIN Book Number: 81141 |
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With his childish wonderment, natural charm, good humour and great chinos, Michael strode across the world and onto our TV screens and utterly charmed us with this bestselling series. He had of co...
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| KEVIN TURNER Book Number: 81070 |
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Sub-titled 'A Hapless Biker's Guide to Europe', here is an hilarious insight into the challenges and excitement afforded by a lone motorcycle journey through Europe. In his quest to escape the fra...
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| ANNE WATTS Book Number: 80168 |
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Sub-titled 'Adventures in Nursing, From the Arctic to the Outback'. Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse in the early 1960s. Her adventurous spirit meant she wasn't going to stay in North Wales...
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| FREDERICK BROWN Book Number: 80826 |
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Focusing on writers and intellectuals, the author traces the rise of Fascist attitudes and ideologies in France that led to occupation and collaboration during World War II. Maurice Barres became i...
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| DAVID REES Book Number: 80869 |
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The recent history of Korea is well-known: Japanese occupation in the 20th century brought with it modernisation and industrialisation on the one hand, but also cultural suppression symbolised in t...
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| KATHLEEN BERTON MURRELL Book Number: 80897 |
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The first mention of Moscow is in 1147 when Prince Yury gives a banquet in his new fortress on the site now occupied by the Kremlin. Yury may have been the grandson of Harold, the last Saxon king o...
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| VALERIE ANN LEEDS Book Number: 80915 |
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Ray Ellis is an impressionist painter for the modern world, recording the luminous play of light and shade on the sandy beaches of Martha's Vineyard, and further south the lush gardens and restrain...
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| DAVID CRANE Book Number: 80925 |
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Lionised by the British public as the embodiment of selfless heroism, Scott's achievements and his tragic failure of his final expedition 100 years ago have long captured the imagination. This mag...
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| DOUGLAS KEISTER Book Number: 80939 |
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Sub-titled 'A Field Guide to Paris Cemeteries and Their Residents', around 12 million people have found a resting place in the catacombs, cemeteries and mausoleums in the Paris metropolitan area. ...
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| AA Book Number: 80950 |
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What a superb book for anyone who loves both history and walking. Over 100 walks are described here, ranging in length from 1.5 miles to 10 miles, all of which explore our history and the character...
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| ROBERT GOODWIN Book Number: 81099 |
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The much-acclaimed history of Golden Age Spain told through the kings and queens, bureaucrats and bankers, soldiers and priests who made Spain wealthy and powerful, plus the artists, playwrights, p...
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| Unknown Book Number: 81250 |
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Shoot the rapids at Killarney through these windows on the past. With unspoilt coasts and rugged mountains, the little towns such as Sneem, Caherdaniel and Waterville, Kenmare Bay to the south, Di...
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| KEITH SMITH Book Number: 81254 |
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Following almost a century of warfare, the Xhosa peoples of the Cape Colony were finally defeated in the Ninth Xhosa War of 1877-9. The Colony had been administered by the Dutch since 1652, with th...
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| GERTRUDE BELL Book Number: 81375 |
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A keen traveller and explorer, Gertrude Bell led an extraordinary life which that took her all over the Middle East. Having grown up in England her lifelong fascination with the region began when ...
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