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Travel writing
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Published 08-Mar-2013
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From Ohran Pamuk, Paul Theroux and Paul Bowles to Elif Shafak, Yashar Kemal and James Baldwin and over sixty other dazzling writers, some translated for the first time.
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Urban Circus
By Catriona Rainsford
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Published 25-Feb-2013
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A story that opens in Chihuahua, North Mexico, with a chance meeting with a group of itinerant Mexican street performers. Entranced by their stories and free-roaming lifestyle, the author decides to go with them on what becomes a two-year, hand-to-mouth journey across Mexico.
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Wild
By Jay Griffiths
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Published 01-May-2008
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Discusses the author's journey, telling how he went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang his head off in their highlands; met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trustworthy than the murderous missionaries who evangelize them; and, how he anchored a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept, ate witchetty grubs and visited sea gypsies.
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Tiny Islands
By Dixe Wills
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Published 01-May-2013
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Although Britain boasts hundreds of tiny islands, Dixe Wills has selected just the very best of them for this book. Found around the coast, in lakes, in lochs and on rivers, these little worlds are waiting for you to discover them - whether you swim to them, walk to them at low tide, row to them, or catch a dinky little ferry.
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You are Awful (but I Like You)
By Tim Moore
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Published 31-Jan-2013
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Would you cheer if they sent you to Coventry? Could you stick up for Stoke or big-up Bracknell? Can you handle the thrill of Rhyl, the heaven of Hull or the mirth of Tydfil? The author takes you round all places on our beloved island that nobody wants to go to - our most miserable towns, shonkiest hotels, and silliest sea zoos.
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Sketches of Spain
By Federico Garcia Lorca
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Published 31-May-2012
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Old Ways
By Robert Macfarlane
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Published 30-May-2013
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Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, the author discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts.
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Vertigo
By W G Sebald
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Published 07-Nov-2002
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At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. This experience is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing, and fact clashes with memory. Sebald's novel, part fiction, part travelogue explores this theme.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
By Artemis Cooper
Hardback
Published 11-Oct-2012
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The authorized biography shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year, the National Book Awards and the Costa Biography Award
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Extreme Sleeps
By Phoebe Smith
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Published 01-Apr-2013
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From spending the night in the decaying wreckage of a World War Two bomber at Bleaklow to pitching next to the adrenaline-inducing sheer drops of Lizard Point, the author's extreme sleeps defy her perceptions of the great outdoors and teach her about herself along the way.
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