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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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| 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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| VERNER BICKLEY Book Number: 83826 |
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Educated in Wales and London, Verner Bickley has lived in Asian and Pacific countries for over 50 years and in his engrossing memoirs he retraces his steps as a 19 year old naval officer in pre-ind...
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| JOHN HANNING SPEKE Book Number: 84524 |
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Speke's original text detailing his travels in Africa that began in 1859, during which he hoped to prove that the Victorian N'yanza was the source of the Nile. It details the main sights visited o...
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| MARIAMNA DAVYDOFF Book Number: 83078 |
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In 1983 Olga Davydoff Dax was travelling in the US and decided to pay a visit to a cousin in Long Island. Her mother was Mariamna Davydoff who, on her death in 1961, left her three albums of waterc...
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| HANK O'NEAL Book Number: 84656 |
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A very collectable critical introduction and showcase of the distinguished photographer in an attractive and accessible format. Born in Ohio in 1898, Berenice Abbott moved to Paris in 1921 where h...
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| ROB TEMPLE Book Number: 84888 |
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Our first sighting of the highly contagious condition known as 'Very British Problems' was published in 2013, examining the many strange and complicated symptoms demonstrated by the British within ...
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| DON COHN Book Number: 84964 |
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The best way to see the world's capital cities is on foot, and this is certainly true of Beijing, which abounds in unexpected alleys and broad vistas. Beijing is a vast curiosity shop housing the c...
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| BRONWEN RILEY Book Number: 85027 |
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The distance from the imperial city of Rome to the military garrison of Corbridge on Hadrian's Wall is just under 1500 miles. What was it like to make the journey in, say, 130 AD? The author takes...
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| GEORGE SHELVOCKE Book Number: 85041 |
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It is difficult for readers nowadays to identify with men who led the often cruel lives of privateers, but George Shelvocke's talents for description effortlessly transport us back to the ships and...
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| STEPHEN MCSHANE & GARY WILK Book Number: 85048 |
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From 1896 to 1970 the USA was the world's biggest producer of steel. Not only was steelmaking the country's biggest business in its heyday, but it was a peculiarly American one, an industry that ch...
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| EDITED BY JON E. LEWIS Book Number: 85373 |
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The South Pole, the southern end of the Earth's axis, lies within Antarctica, the world's most hostile continent. From the warmth and comfort of your armchair, here is travel at its most adventuro...
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| JAMES EVANS Book Number: 85425 |
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What led a person in 17th century England to get on a ship bound for the Americas? Evans transports us back to the time of America's earliest immigrants and uses contemporary sources to cast new v...
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| AA Book Number: 85059 |
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A useful touring companion that explains how to discover Britain 'on foot, by bike, by horse, by balloon, by barge or boat, by car, by train from coast to coast.' In other words, it is full of idea...
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| EDITED BY MAGGIE FERGUSSON Book Number: 85071 |
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When the writer Orhan Pamuk created his 'Museum of Innocence' in Istanbul in 2012, he wrote: 'It is imperative that museums become smaller, more individualistic and cheaper. This is the only way th...
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| EDITED BY HUGH THOMAS Book Number: 85626 |
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First published in 1988, this revised edition (2005) is here in 2018 new paperback reprint. Acclaimed historian Hugh Thomas wrote a book ideal for the cultured tourist. He has chosen the Earl of ...
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| DAVID MAIDMENT Book Number: 85597 |
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Beautifully produced by Pen & Sword, this second volume of Maidment's account of his career as a railway manager and chronicler of the last days of steam is a delight to read, with some wonderful p...
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| R. D. BLUMENFELD Book Number: 85690 |
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Here are extracts from the Daily Express Editor's Diaries ranging from 1887 to 1914 and the outbreak of World War One. He begins with a wonderful day spent for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee cele...
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| Luisa Moncada & Scala Quin Book Number: 85760 |
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Go off-piste as it were and be lured into exotic locations like Zanzibar, Hawaii, Japan or Umbria to read not just books that have been made into films like My House in Umbria or A Room with a View...
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| JONATHAN YATES Book Number: 85927 |
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Actor-mates Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman made round-the-world motorcycling fashionable with their Long Way Round TV documentaries, but what is RTW biking really like without brand-new BMWs, sp...
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| MICHAEL FOREMAN Book Number: 85669 |
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The popular and very collectable book illustrator Michael Foreman is very well travelled and of course has taken his paper, pen and ink and watercolours with him everywhere since he was at art scho...
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| OCTOPUS PUBS & MICHELIN Book Number: 85674 |
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Super heavyweight large softback on very strong large spiral flexible binding here is France's most detailed road mapping with France at three miles to one inch and Europe at 55 miles to one inch. ...
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| MARTIN EDMOND Book Number: 86016 |
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By turns memoir, travelogue, history and detective story, the book parallels the life of the author, an emigré to Sydney and that of an historical figure, Antonio da Nova, the servant of a 17th cen...
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| ROBERT MOOR Book Number: 86022 |
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While hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2009, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet. How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others devolve? What make...
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| LAWRENCE OSBORNE Book Number: 86036 |
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"I am taking a few months off to travel and wander, drinking my way across the Islamic world to see whether I can dry myself out, cure myself of a bout of alcoholic excess. It is a personal crisis,...
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| JANE URQUHART Book Number: 85888 |
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A literary cherry tree, a famous skull, an Innu tea doll, a Sikh RCMP turban, a Cree basket, a Massey-Harris tractor, a canoe, ferry. The power of objects to speak of cultures and civilisations ha...
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