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Travel writing
Waterlog
By Roger Deakin
Paperback
Published 18-May-2000
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Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. Encompassing cultural history, autobiography, travel writing and natural history, this title is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, and a celebration of the magic of water.
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Voyages of the Princess Matilda
By Shane Spall
Paperback
Published 23-Feb-2012
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Tells the story of Shane and Timothy Spall and their Dutch barge The Princess Matilda. After a summer on the Thames they head out to sea with only a road atlas and a vast amount of ignorance - and it is absolutely terrifying. On their travels, memories are triggered of childhood trips to the seaside, but also of more recent times.
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Edgelands
By Michael Symmons Roberts
Paperback
Published 02-Feb-2012
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Passed through, negotiated, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. This title describes mobile masts and gravel pits, business parks and landfill sites, taking us on a journey to marvel at these mysterious regions in our midst.
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One Man and His Bike
By Mike Carter
Paperback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling? Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London to Calcutta. This title describes his journeys.
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Pies and Prejudice
By Stuart Maconie
Paperback
Published 07-Feb-2008
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A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers.
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Road to Le Tholonet
By Monty Don
Hardback
Published 25-Apr-2013
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A diary of Monty Don's journey around France looking at the history of French gardens.
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Malay Archipelago
By Alfred Russel Wallace
Paperback
Published 01-Jul-2010
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ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE'S The Malay Archipelago is a work of astounding breadth and originality that chronicles the British naturalist's scientific exploration of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862.
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Meander
By Jeremy Seal
Hardback
Published 05-Jul-2012
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The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression - an invitation Jeremy Seal is duty-bound to accept while travelling the length of it in a one-man canoe. In this book, the author illuminates his account with a wealth of cultural, historical and personal asides.
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Bicycle Diaries
By David Byrne
Paperback
Published 03-Jun-2010
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Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. From music and the visual arts, to globalisation, politics, the nature of creative work, fashion and art, this book gives readers an insight into what Byrne is seeing and thinking as he pedals around these cities.
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Places in Between
By Rory Stewart
Paperback
Published 01-Apr-2005
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A brilliant account of a death defying walk through Afghanistan
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