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Nightwalk A Journey to the Heart of Nature
Chris Yates
Chris Yates, one of Britain's most insightful and lyrical writers, raises his gaze from his beloved rivers and ponds and takes us on a mesmerizing tour of the British countryside. Last November, the sudden appearance of a hundred wintering ravens...
Format: Hardback - Released: 26/04/2012
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The Bicycle Book
Bella Bathurst
May 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
A brilliant, charming, engaging look at the sometimes weird world of the bicycle and bicyclist. The people who ride them (including over water), the people who...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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I Left My Tent in San Francisco
Emma Kennedy
May 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
Startlingly honest and ridiculously funny, I Left My Tent in San Francisco is the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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The Tao of Travel
Paul Theroux
April 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
A travel miscellany with Paul Theroux’s best pieces interspersed with his choice of the best travel writing. Travellers' tales new and old – from novice to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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England My England A Treasury of All Things English
Gerry Hanson
With contributions from Sir Thomas Beecham, Rupert Brooke, William Blake, Noel Coward, Rudyard Kipling, John Betjeman and many more, there is also a chapter entitled 'As Others See Us', which includes George Mikes' observation, 'An Englishman, even if he is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/04/2012
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Paris Revealed : The Secret Life of a City
Stephen Clarke
March 2012 Non-Fiction Book of the Month.
We can imagine Parisians are up in arms about the book being published as Stephen Clarke goes behind the scenes to reveal everything they know about...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/03/2012
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Aleph
Paulo Coelho
From the renowned author of The Alchemist, Aleph marks a return to
Paulo Coelho's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one
of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and
transformative journey of self- discovery.
Paulo...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/03/2012
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An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants
Dame Daphne Sheldrick
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 March 2012.
A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers, finding homes for orphan elephants, all the while campaigning against the possibility that the ivory trade might be...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Himalaya
Michael Palin
A Special Edition of Himalaya by Michael Palin to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Winner of TV& Film Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2005.
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beautiful, glossy, illustrated hardback that accompanied the television
series brought down to a text-led portable-sized paperback...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
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India A Portrait
Patrick French
One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and
social revolution in India. What is the real nature of this rapid
change, and where are its roots? India takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, geographically from the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2012
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To a Mountain in Tibet
Colin Thubron
January 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
Spare like the landscape he depicts, Colin Thubron writes of the landscape of Tibet and the pilgrimage route to Mount Kailas, sacred to Hindus and Buddhists...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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In An Antique Land
Amitav Ghosh
January 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
From the best-selling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies, an extraordinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern-day travelogue.
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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1000 Places to See Before You Die
Patricia Schultz
February 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
Presents the 1,000 most astonishing destinations in the world and brings them to life in lively, evocative prose that reveals why the place is so wonderful....
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2012
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The Traveller's Daybook A Tour of the World in 366 Quotations
Fergus Fleming
The Traveller's Daybook invites you to cross ocean, desert, mountain and ice-cap in the company of the world's greatest explorers, wanderers and writers - Fergus Fleming's day-by-day anthology of travel writing ranges widely across time as well as place: from...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2011
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Aleph
Paulo Coelho
Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, Paulo decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia, he...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2011
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The Olive Harvest
Carol Drinkwater
This is the third of Carol’s books documenting her idyllic life in the South of France but despite the title speaking of plenty and abundance, there was no harvest, no husband and no easy life. I admire this woman; with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The Olive Farm
Carol Drinkwater
A beautiful tale of a new life in France; an account of the highs and lows of restoring an olive farm, and the colourful characters met with in a typical Provencal village. It'll make you want to sell up and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The Masque of Africa Glimpses of African Belief
V. S. Naipaul
Moving beyond travelogue, The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilization. Beginning in Uganda, at the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/06/2011
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Paddle A Long Way Around Ireland
Jasper Wynn
A journey of the mind - as well as out at sea, amid the basking sharks, seals, fulmars and waves the size of wardrobes. And while storms rage, Jasper seeks refuge in bars, playing guitar and talking, as only the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/05/2011
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