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That Certain Age
Author: Elizabeth Buchan
ISBN: 0141009802

With gentle but penetrating wit and insight, Elizabeth Buchan tells the story of two women whose lives are separated by fifty years, but linked in a variety of subtle and surprising ways as they try... [view more]

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The Wild Places
Author: Robert Macfarlane
ISBN: 9781847080189

Macfarlane embarks on a series of journeys in search of the wildness that remains in the British Isles. At once a wonder voyage, an adventure story and a work of natural history, this text also tells... [view more]

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Author: ARON RALSTON
ISBN: 9780743495806

On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old outdoorsman and adventurer, set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck, he found himself in the middle of a deep... [view more]

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In Transit
Author: Various
ISBN: 0001000006808

In much contemporary travel writing the emphasis is on the author, usually as entertainer or victim of comical foreigners. In Transit returns to the tradition of travel as an attempt to engage... [view more]

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The Valkyries
Author: Paulo Coelho
ISBN: 9788172235406

This is a novel about Paulo's journey to find his guardian angel as advised by the master of his secret order. His wife joins him on this one and the story is told in the third person. It starts in... [view more]

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To a Mountain in Tibet
Author: Colin Thubron
ISBN: 9780701183806

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, it is claimed by myth to be the source of the universe created from... [view more]

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Cape Town the Fairest Cape
Author: Peter Schirmer
ISBN: 0869771868

In 'Cape Town - The Fairest Cape', evocative colour photographs and well-researched, sensitively written text explore and uncover, layer by layer, the special magic of the Peninsula, its history and... [view more]

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In Tuscany
Author: Frances Mayes; Edward Mayes; Bob Krist (Photographer)
ISBN: 9781864710595

In her usual style, Frances Mayes conveys the sense of the country and the people. Celebrations range from a country wedding to the start of the mushroom season; the life of the village square... [view more]

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Southeast Asia on a Shoestring
Author: Lonely Planet Staff; China Williams
ISBN: 9781741792331

For 35 years Lonely Planet's Southeast Asia on a Shoe string has been the backpacker's bible. Discover Cambodia's ancient temples, Thailand's island paradises and the best in Vietnam. We help you... [view more]

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Spirit of Noosa
Author: H. Rosemary Allan
ISBN: 9780867861907

This wonderfully evocative book is an eloquent celebration of the unique beauty of Noosa National Park in coastal south photographer and writer, three years spent photographing the Park in all... [view more]

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The Lost Continent
Author: Bill Bryson
ISBN: 9780349100562

After ten years in England, Bill Bryson returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the films... [view more]

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Australian family
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ISBN: 0001000006778

a compliation of photos of the Australian family in photographs.... [view more]

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Under the Tuscan Sun
Author: Frances Mayes
ISBN: 9780767900386

Frances Mayes opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In sensuous and evocative language she brings the reader... [view more]

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The West Highland Railway
Author: John Thomas
ISBN: 9780946537228

The west highland railwy is an acknowledged classic history of a great railway route. Solid history and rich anecdote combine to make this an enthralling account of the 165 miles of line comprised... [view more]

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The Perfect Storm
Author: Sebastian Junger
ISBN: 9781857027303

October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"-a tempest that may happen only once in a century-a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating... [view more]

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Is This the Way to Madagascar?
Author: Lydia Laube
ISBN: 9781862547551

In all her travels across the globe, Lydia Laube had always wanted to visit the intriguing island of Madagascar and meet its famous residents, the lemurs. So she hops aboard a French cargo ship,... [view more]

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Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya
Author: Stan Armington
ISBN: 9780864425119

Everest, Annapurna, Kanchenjunga, Machhapuchhare, Makalu - a roll call of inspiration awaits trekkers in the Nepal Himalaya. Discover its famous peaks and unique culture in this authoritative guide... [view more]

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Oceana
Author: Geoffrey Blainey (ed)
ISBN: 0001000006762

Edited and abridged by Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey, this travel description was originally published as 'Oceana: Or England and her Colonies', Author, 1886. At the time of publication it... [view more]

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Neither Here nor There
Author: Bill Bryson
ISBN: 9780380713806

In paperback, 254 pp. Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace... [view more]

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The Picador Book of Journeys
Author: Robyn Davidson
ISBN: 9780330368636

Robyn Davidson's fascinating book is an anthology in its truest sense - it is a treasure trove of writing that challenges what we define as travel writing: moving effortlessly from Flaubert in... [view more]

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