Travel writing
Let Our Fame be Great
By Oliver Bullough
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Published 03-Mar-2011
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The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia's attempts to add them to its empire. Travelling from remote village to refugee camp, rocky mountain gorge to forgotten massacre site, the author discovers exiles, fighters, defiant survivors - and an unbreakable spirit.
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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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Wild
By Cheryl Strayed
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Published 01-Jan-2013
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Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
By Artemis Cooper
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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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Watermark: an Essay on Venice
By Joseph Brodsky
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Published 28-Feb-2013
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Looking at every aspect of the city, from its waterways, streets and architecture to its food, politics and people, the author captures its magnificence and beauty, and recalls his own memories of the place he called home for many winters, as he remembers friends, lovers and enemies he has encountered.
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Calcutta
By Amit Chaudhuri
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Published 14-Feb-2013
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An unforgettable portrait of Calcutta from one of its great chroniclers.
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Sightlines
By Kathleen Jamie
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Published 05-Apr-2012
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Offers a fresh look at the authors native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn seas. Her gaze swoops vertiginously too; from a countryside of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to killer whales rounding a headland, to the constellations of satellites that belie our sense of the remote.
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Sketches of Spain
By Federico Garcia Lorca
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Published 31-May-2012
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Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945
By Oliver Lubrich
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Published 08-Jul-2010
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Drawing on published and unpublished accounts from writers and public figures visiting Germany, this book creates a composite portrait of the reality of life under Hitler. It offers an insight into the range of responses to Nazi Germany. It also offers a new perspective on the quotidian details of life in Nazi Germany.
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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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