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I Left My Tent in San Francisco
Emma Kennedy

Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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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 tell the disastrous tale. Emma Kennedy has the wonderful gift of being able to write as if she is talking to you, in a chatty, half laughing way. The basis of her story is her post university trip across America with her well bred friend Dee which turns into an adventure they will never forget. They seem, on the face of it, an unlikely combination but in fact balance each other and combine well to give a contrast in each scene the author presents. She has an amazing memory for detail, for conversation and has a self deprecating air which highlights her liability to be involved in incidents where she is made to seem amusingly either inadequate or inefficient. I suspect she is neither, but instead has the art of turning the most trivial happening into an adventure which makes for laugh-out-loud reading. There is an element of “there but for the grace of God go I” about much of her recollections, as most of us can remember getting into scrapes when young which seemed hilarious at the time, so it is easy to relate to her style of writing. I suspect that looking back at the trip has highlighted the fun and the amusement rather than any hardship and this gives the book a sunny, happy go lucky air which recommends itself for light summer reading. ]]> http://www.lovereading.co.uk//book/7410/I-Left-My-Tent-in-San-Francisco-by-Emma-Kennedy.html

The Bicycle Book
Bella Bathurst

Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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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 build them (the revered magicians), in fact a huge cast of colourful characters and stories. A must for any fan of pedal power. ]]> http://www.lovereading.co.uk//book/7358/The-Bicycle-Book-by-Bella-Bathurst.html

The Tao of Travel
Paul Theroux

Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2012
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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 expert.Like for Like ReadingOxTales: Meetings with Remarkable Travellers, Ruth PadelThe Smell of the Continent: The British Discover Europe, James Munson & Richard Mullen ]]> http://www.lovereading.co.uk//book/7282/The-Tao-of-Travel-by-Paul-Theroux.html

Nightwalk A Journey to the Heart of Nature
Chris Yates

Format: Hardback - Released: 26/04/2012
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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 in a wood in Cranborne Chase, where I have lived for twenty-five years without seeing more than a few solitary specimens, reminded me that there is always something ready to flame up again in the landscape, just when it seemed the fire had gone out. In Crystal Wood we accompany Chris Yates on the most magical of journeys into the very heart of the British countryside. His acute observation of the natural world and ability to transcend it exquisitely sets Chris apart from his contemporaries. Time slows down for a deeper intimacy with nature, and through Chris's writing we hear every rustle of a leaf, every call of a bird. He widens the power of our imagination, heightening our senses and revealing beauty in the smallest details. ]]> http://www.lovereading.co.uk//book/7321/Nightwalk-A-Journey-to-the-Heart-of-Nature-by-Chris-Yates.html