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Travel books
Sketches of Spain
By Federico Garcia Lorca
Paperback
Published 31-May-2012
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Old Ways
By Robert Macfarlane
Paperback
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
Paperback
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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True North
By Martin Wainwright
Paperback
Published 02-Jun-2006
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Abysmal weather, slag heaps, funny accents and, the detritus of an industrial revolution well past its sell-by date. These, all too often, are the gloomy perceptions of 'the north'. With an insider's sensitivity and a journalist's enquiring mind, this title dispels these and other myths.
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Extreme Sleeps
By Phoebe Smith
Paperback
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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Calcutta
By Amit Chaudhuri
Hardback
Published 14-Feb-2013
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An unforgettable portrait of Calcutta from one of its great chroniclers.
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Trouble I've Seen
By Martha Gellhorn
Paperback
Published 10-Sep-2012
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Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House.
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Findings
By Kathleen Jamie
Paperback
Published 01-Jun-2005
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Features the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities.
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O, My America!
By Sara Wheeler
Hardback
Published 07-Mar-2013
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After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as "Terra Incognita" and "The Magnetic North", the author rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country.
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