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    Peter Ross: A Tomb With a View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards: Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021 [2020] hardback

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    A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to...

    Broad Chris: Abroad in Japan [2023] paperback

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    The hilarious and insightful memoir of a Brit trying assimilate into life in Japan. Over ten years we follow Chris Broad as he unravels the wonders and eccentricities of one...

    Dervla Murphy: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle [2010] paperback

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    Braving hunger, heat exhaustion, unbearable terrain and cultures largely untouched by civilization, Dervla Murphy chronicles her determined trip through nine countries, through snow and ice in the mountains and miles...

    Rory Stewart: The Places In Between [2014] paperback

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    The Places In Between is Rory Stewart's moving account of his death-defying walk across war-torn Afghanistan in January 2002.Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time...

    Bruce Chatwin: SONGLINES P/B Z44 [1998] paperback

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    Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed...

    Dervla Murphy: A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s [2014] paperback

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    A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics. Created by a southern Irishwoman, cycling into the mayhem of Northern Ireland...

    Cheryl Strayed: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found [2015] paperback

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    A number one New York Times bestsellerOprah's Book Club 2.0 selectionRadio Four's 'Book of the Week'The official tie-in edition to the stunningly raw and powerful film adaptation of the bestselling...

    Will Self: Psychogeography [2016] paperback

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    Provocateurs Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces in this post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globalised world, bringing together for the first time...

    Russell Shorto: Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City [2014] paperback

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    Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a...

    Alexander Fiske-Harrison: Into The Arena [2011] paperback

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    'Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals' suffering is something that each person must decide for themselves - as they must...

    Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air [2011] paperback

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    Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle...

    South: The Race to the Pole [2018] paperback

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    Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These...

    Levison Wood: Arabia: A Journey Through The Heart of the Middle East [2019] paperback

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    Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Award '[A] rollicking Boys' Own adventure' - Spectator'This heart-stopping personal account of historic Arabia today.' - Compass MagazineFollowing in the footsteps of Lawrence of...

    The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom [2007] paperback

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    'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak...

    A. J. Liebling: Between Meals [2023] paperback

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    'Fantastic. The benchmark for great food writing' Anthony Bourdain'The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite'Between Meals is the gourmand and journalist A.J. Liebling's delectable account...

    Eyewitness DK: Dk Eyewitness South Africa [2023] paperback

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    Whether you're hoping to catch a glimpse of nature's most majestic animals, get an adrenaline fix scaling the heights of Table Mountain or simply soak up the summer sunshine with...

    Mensun Bound: The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance [2022] paperback

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    The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022 On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship,...

    Raynor Winn: Landlines: The remarkable story of a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the million-copy bestselling author of The Salt Path (Raynor Winn, 3

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    Join Raynor and Month on their remarkable 1000-mile walk from Scotland to the South West Coast Path in this powerful account of our country's land, and the people that make...

    Chris Stewart: Driving Over Lemons [2020] paperback

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    A special anniversary edition with an updated chapter set 25 years on by Chris Stewart. Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the...

    David Byrne: Bicycle Diaries: David Byrne [2021] paperback

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    'Byrne comes across like a post-punk Michael Palin.' Sephen Dalton, The Times'An engaging book; part-diary, part-manifesto.' ObserverDavid Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as...

    Steven Price Brown: Riddle of the Waves [2017] hardback

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    Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Ireland - every crewmember aboard the Spirit of Falmouth had served in one of these trouble spots, had had almost unimaginably traumatic experiences there, and then had...

    Bill Bryson: Notes From A Big Country [1999] paperback

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    From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding...

    Michael Wood: In the Footsteps of Du Fu [2023] hardback

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    'Superb... Beautifully written and thoroughly researched' - Guardian A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets. Du Fu (712-70) is one of...

    E. Rees Gareth: Sunken Lands [2024] hardback

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    Travel through drowned forests, vanished villages and sinking cities: the lost lands of our past, present - and future. 'A rich, haunting account of lost lands and vanished futures.' Professor...

    Rupert John Attlee: The Trail to Titicaca [2001] paperback

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    It seemed like a mad enterprise: three inexperienced cyclists setting out to pedal 6,500 miles up the Andes, from Tierra del Fuego to Lake Titicaca. After nearly a year and...

    Ranulph Fiennes: Around the World in 80 Years [2024] paperback

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    He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven continents, he's hauled loaded sledges across both polar ice caps and he's circumnavigated the...

    Eyewitness DK: Be More Japan [2024] hardback

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    Be More Japan is a celebration of all things Japanese. You can look through popular sights and pick and choose what interests you to plan your perfect trip. Or take...

    Frank Nugent: In Search of Peaks, Passes & Glaciers: Irish Alpine Pioneers [2013] hardback

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    No goggles or glacier glasses, no hi-tech axes or day-glo Gore-Tex adorned Alpinists of the mid-nineteenth century. From the 1850s to the early twentieth century, the achievements of Irish mountaineers...

    Helena Attlee: The Land Where Lemons Grow [2015] paperback

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    '4 stars. Attlee, who knows and loves Italy and the Italians, takes the reader through the country's scented gardens with her sharp descriptions, pertinent stories and quotes and intriguing recipes....

    Michael Palin: Sahara [2009] paperback

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    Michael Palin's superb No. 1 bestseller about his incredible voyage across the Sahara.Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, travel from the North to the South Pole...

    Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love [2010] paperback

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    It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she...

    Hunter Davies: The Heath: z16 [2021] hardback

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    An engaging portrait of Hampstead Heath - a place rich not just in natural wonders but in history and monuments, emotions and memories, people and places. 'I enjoyed every inch...

    Watkins: The Old Straight Track: Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites and Mark Stones [2021] paperback

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    A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English countryside.First published in 1925, The...

    Karl Pilkington: More Moaning [2016] paperback

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    After going on a journey of discovery in The Moaning of Life, the enlightened one - otherwise known as Karl Pilkington - finds himself back on the road. In his...

    Travelling with Ghosts: An intimate and inspiring journey [2018] paperback

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    'A cross between H is for Hawk and Wild' Stylist 'A courageous memoir of love and loss . . . compelling' Sunday Express'Intimate and inspiring' Observer 'Rich and absorbing' Cathy...

    Shannon Fowler: Travelling with Ghosts [2017] paperback

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    In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler was backpacking with her Australian fiance Sean in Thailand. The couple were planning to return home to Melbourne after their excursion to...

    Merlin Coverley: SOUTH Z25 [2018] paperback

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    Artists and writers from the colder climes of northern Europe have long felt the lure of the South of the continent. Goethe was revitalised by his encounters with Mediterranean culture...

    Cynthia Dial: Teach Yourself Travel Writing New Edition [2003] paperback

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    Imagine travelling around the world...and getting paid to do it. As a travel writer, you're no longer a tourist: you must absorb the surroundings, note details and put your observations...

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