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Wild Swim
By Kate Rew & Dominick Tyler
Paperback
Published 16-Apr-2009
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A guide to outdoor swimming in Britain from the Outer Hebrides to the Isles of Scilly and everywhere in between.
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100 Greatest Cycling Climbs
By Simon Warren
Paperback
Published 03-Jun-2010
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A pocket-sized guide for road cyclists of all abilities.
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Tent, the Bucket and Me
By Emma Kennedy
Paperback
Published 27-Feb-2010
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For Emma Kennedy, and her mum and dad, disaster always came along for the ride no matter where they went. But they never gave up. This memoir of Emma presents a reminder of just what it was like to spend your summer holidays cold, damp but with sand between your toes.
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Icons of England
By Edited by Bill Bryson
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Published 01-Apr-2010
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Focuses on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments of the English countryside that set England apart from the rest of the world. First published as a colour coffeetable book, this paperback edition features contributions from many celebrities including Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, and Eric Clapton.
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Rivers
By Griff Rhys Jones
Paperback
Published 29-Apr-2010
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Griff Rhys Jones, one of Britain's favourite travel presenters, explores the extraordinary rivers of Britain.
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Single Swallow
By Horatio Clare
Paperback
Published 04-Mar-2010
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From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows. This work follows the swallows from reed beds in South Africa, where millions roost in February, to a barn in Wales, where a pair nest in May.
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Talking to Zeus
By Jane Shaw
Paperback
Published 27-May-2010
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An entertaining and unforgettable memoir of a young woman's year spent working on an organic garden in Greece
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Sushi and Beyond
By Michael Booth
Paperback
Published 06-May-2010
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Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The author sets of to take the culinary pulse of contemporary Japan and he and his young family travel the length of the country - from bear-infested, beer-loving Hokkaido to snake-infested, seaweed-loving Okinawa.
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Gentleman in the Parlour
By W Somerset Maugham
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Published 06-Sep-2001
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Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own. This book presents an account of his trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam.
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Wild
By Jay Griffiths
Paperback
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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