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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo WoolfAlastair Humphreys|title= The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of ExplorationLocal|rating= 3.5|genre= HistoryTravel |summary= Jo Woolf Alastair Humphreys has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into walked and cycled all over the lives world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and achievements of then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some amazingly brave peoplebig issues from a year exploring a small map. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the mysteries joys of the wildest parts book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of our worldthese things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', and also given us an understanding of what it that every upside is like likely to be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have the determination a downside for somebody and grit to carry onthat there are some hard choices ahead. This book could |isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0957181167|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=There are few positive things which can be viewed as said about a taster which encourages us substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to seek out avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and read more about some was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewis. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the most iconic explorersprint I wanted was ‘not available’. Their stories are pretty incredible Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and Woolf does them justicea framed print of the picture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910985880</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Mourby1785633457|title=Rooms with a ViewCharging Around: The Secret Life Exploring the Edges of Great HotelsEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=45

|summary=Adrian Mourby Clive Wilkinson has given us a flying visit to each history of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the world, with the hotels edges of England in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall pictureelectric car was not totally outrageous. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and In fact, it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would should be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge pleasant holiday for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances Clive and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americashis wife, move to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. AustraliaJoan, shouldn't it seems, does not go for the grand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785782754</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rory StewartMerryn Glover|title= The MarchesHidden Fires|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary= The Observer quote on It is always about the book, not the front of writer, but there are times when the paperback edition of Stewartauthor's latest book observes ''This hinterland is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, but also the background to call the book and so it travel writing is necessary to understand that context, in order to totally under-sell itappreciate the book. This Merryn Glover is erudition at its finestof Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. Stewart has I can think of no-one better a combination to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the background to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father first Writer in Residence in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MPCairngorms National Park. Oh Merryn walks, and he walked 6not so much in the shadow of Shepherd,000 miles across Afghanistan but in 2002her spirit. A walk I think the two would have gotten along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparisonfamously.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581892</amazonuk>1846975751

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=NicholsonB0B7289HKQ|title=Mr Tambourine ManConversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating=3.54|genre=LifestyleTravel|summary=Back in 1965 we heard ''Mr Tambourine Man'' Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the Byrds on way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the radio very regularlyperiod between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. Nicholson The decision was thirteen and saw made to ride the 45rpm recording Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of the song it - in the window of the local music store and would have loved to be able to buy it but didn't have the money2015. Thirteen-year olds didn't in those They had 73 days unless to do it was a birthday or Christmas and you couldn't get a part-slightly less than the recommended time job until you - but there were fifteen. There factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be a few of those badly-paid jobs before he finished his A levels and went to New York for three monthsmost people who considered taking it on. ItMerv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being a boy into a man and allowed him to see the bigger picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524681822</amazonuk>

<!-- Bristow -->[[image:Bristow China.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985902?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985902]] ===[[China in Drag: Travels with Erligg Kagge is a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a journalist for the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided Norwegian explorer who has walked to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the local language for several yearsSouth Pole, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in North Pole and the early fiftiessummit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, offered Bristow this isn't a compelling picture travelogue about any of life in Communist China - but added to thatthose epic journeys, Bristow was greatly surprised it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies clothingwalk. It soon becomes clear that the tale told here is immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait plenitude of one of the world's most intriguing nations. [[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Jenkins -->[[image:Jenkins_100.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/024197898X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=024197898X]] ===[[Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins]]=== [[image:5starunnumbered essays about walking.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Art|Art]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] In the mid twentieth century the railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first century oil There is giving way to electricity. Itno 's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which wecontents'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored page and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations. [[BritainI haven's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Colin Thubron|title= Mirror to Damascus|rating= 4t counted.5|genre= Travel|summary= Damascus today In small format paperback, each essay is only a monument to her past, to all the people and civilisations that helped shape herfew pages long. In this enthusiastic piece of travel writingPerhaps then, Collin Thubron tells the tale better thought of as a city that has seen empires rise and fall, conquerors come and go and has lasted for over two thousand years. It's rich in impressive history and this book is rich in impressive detailmeditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099532298</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stuart MaconieMonica Connell|title= Long Road From JarrowAgainst a Peacock Sky|rating= 5|genre= Travel |summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I cancelled my think it is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn'Country Walking'' magazine subscription about t a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's columnmere tourist passing through. His down-to-earth approach She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admithow they lived. Let's be honestShe also went, thoughpresumably, I picked this one up because with the academic discipline of someone else's reviewhow to find these things out, how to organise them in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up her mind, how to "understand" them in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know the context of) her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a whole matrix sense of events reducible open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to one word like Aberfanmuck-in, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of my history too. Tangentially, at leastthe village where she hauled up.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>1780600429

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John HurstNicolas Bouvier|title=On My Way: Norfolk Coastal WalksThe Japanese Chronicles

|genre=SportTravel|summary=It was pure serendipity: after never does to start a review of a book with a five-hour drive we werequote from the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book, annoyinglyat some point, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottagewords ''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely that. There was an art exhibition A masterpiece in the church hall, so we went in - and found a display sense of the most gorgeous picturescraft as well as the art of writing. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have m going to hesitate to make do with call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a couple history of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' Japan, a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and I couldn't resist buying ittravelling in the country.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095444003X</amazonuk>1906011044

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S Morris and N GrueningerStephen Fabes|title=In the Footsteps Signs of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queensLife|rating= 5|genre= HistoryTravel|summary= It I was inevitable that each brought up on maps and first-person narratives of the six wives tales of Henry VIII would have left their mark in some way on the far away places they lived . I was birth-righted wanderlust and visitedcuriosity. This book straddles several categories; history Unfortunately, gazetteer or guide bookI didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and collection basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I'm not the sort of potted biographiesperson who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144567114X</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian MourbyRob Baker|title=Rooms Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of OneExpat Life in Africa|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=''"Go to Mali," they said. "The music is amazing," they said. "And you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So I did.'' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologist. 's Own'A what?'' I hear you cry. Well, an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation to culture, so rather like a folklorist studies the oral and written story traditions relating to a culture.|isbn=B089CSNFT7}}{{Frontpage|author=Christine Brown|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: 50 Places That Made Literary HistoryVolunteering in West Africa

|summary= Thomas H CookIn the summer of 2008, this book's author was spending her days working in an American author valued for office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in the quality of writing and compelling intrigues summer of his numerous thrillers2010, has written a collection of nearly thirty accounts of visits to this review's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''tragic shoresher'' of the title. There is no noticeable rhyme or reason to the order of presentationnights dreaming about being somewhere else, apart from the lastdoing something else, and the most personal tale which links the travel report to the author's personal loss of his wife and long-time travel companion'she'' ended up just 3 countries away, who features volunteering in many of the chaptersSierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, as does the couple's daughterwhen this book came up, but they all said reviewer was delighted to have the pertain opportunity to Cook's visits to what he describes as ''the saddest places on Earth''read and critique it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184916326X</amazonuk>171024299X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim MooreMourby_Rooms|title=Rooms with a View: The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain TrailSecret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby

|summary= One Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the results I find from travel documentariesworld, often on TV but also with the hotels in book formeach section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, is which helps to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the verdict 'beginning of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather him than me' (a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and it generally is each faced a he)different set of challenges. YesWe begin in the Americas, I'd like move to go there the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and see what he's seen, but I'm damned if I would risk the dangerTurkey then northern Africa, the potential consequences India and/or the effort the whole experience requiredAsia. This book is the epitome of thatAustralia, it seems, does not go for as much as I love most of the twenty countries it hits on – give me grand.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Surfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a chancecertain book, Ithey tell you ''this one has your name on it''ve . Mostly we take them at their word, or not quite been to , but rarely do we ask them all – I wouldnwhy they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't countenance making like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this exact and exacting tripcase, I was told why. A couple The blurb speaks of years ago, those in the know somewhere in author considering ''an office deemed the route older, less tethered sense of the entire old Iron Curtain – the fringe herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of the Soviet Union, plus Romania, Bulgaria etc – to be a pan-continental biking routewhere I am. With the news Add to that he can dismiss other attempts and still have a claim to being my love of the first person to clock natural world, of those aspects of the whole mammoth trippoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, our gutsy author undertakes it and substance most of all, and thus surveys a scar across the entire continent to see if it's still visibleabout connection. Of course, and what flesh this book had my name on it once upon a time divided. Oh and he did it on a Communist-era piddly little bike, lacking in both gears and good brakes, that It was designed written for nothing more strenuous than conveying you around a campsite, not for 6,000 miles…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100211</amazonuk>me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author= Amelia DaltonKeir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|titlesummary=Mistress ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and Commander: High Jinksadventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, High Seas and Highlanders its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Woolf_Great|title=The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration|author=Jo Woolf|rating= 3.5|genre=TravelHistory|summary= Nowadays, Amelia Dalton runs Jo Woolf has compiled a travel agency which, by brilliant set of fifty short insights into the look lives and achievements of it, is a something some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of a modern version the mysteries of how Thomas Cook began: excusive, tailor-made holidays, cruises and expeditions all around the wildest parts of our world catering to those who can afford this kind of thing. ''Mistress , and Commander''' shows how she got there: from also given us an upper-middle class wife whose life involved landed gentry, boarding schools and county hunts to scrubbing stinky goop from the cargo hold understanding of what used it is like to be a Danish Arctic trawler, running charters to St Kilda, dealing faced with doubtful mechanics, lecherous skippers, the most terrible conditions and getting her own Master's ticket, by still have the way of family tragedy, martial drama determination and what seemed like the steepest learning curve related grit to marine engines one carry on. This book could possibly imaginebe viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910985171</amazonuk>

 <!-- Foreman -->[[image:Foreman_Travel.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783704721?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783704721]] ===[[Travels With My Sketchbook by Michael Foreman]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] I guess the best children's literature can do away with complete veracity, as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a little of the spirit, heart and character of the real thing, whatever it may be. And if that's the case then it definitely applies to children's literature illustrations, such as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. This prolific artist leapt at a scholarship in the US when he'd completed his official, formal studies, and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving since, as this book takes us to all corners of the world, and back home again. [[Travels With My Sketchbook by Michael Foreman|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Biesty -->Frontpage[[image:Biesty Trains.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783704241?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCodeisbn=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783704241]] ===[[Stephen Biesty's Trains by Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty]]===Hailstone_Berlin[[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which you can see. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one Berlin in real life is quite a big ask, but the next best thing is ''Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through Cold War: 1959 to the trains of the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph and don't even run on rails. Once the train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces alone. [[Stephen Biesty's Trains by Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview1966|author= Gavin Francis|title= True NorthAllan Hailstone|rating= 54|genre= TravelHistory|summary=''True North'', while very much a travel book Berlin in the grand tradition of the best travel writing that combines the trip report with the soCold War: 1959-called background information is classified 1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by Amazon author/photographer Allan Hailstone in Cultural History and it's not as much of a mis-classification as it could initially appear. Francis, a Scottish GP who ''divides his time between writing and doctoring'', starts visits to the body proper of ''True North'' with one of city during this period. The images provide an insight into the best opening lines I have read recently: ''I began to dream changing nature of the North divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in a stinking African hospital ward''the city during the Cold War. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971306</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Peter IrvineStewart_Marches|title= Scotland the BestThe Marches|author=Rory Stewart|rating= 45|genre= TravelHistory|summary= Peter IrvineThe Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book advertises itself as observes ''The true ScotThis is travel writing at its finest.'s insider's guide Perhaps, but to the very best Scotland has to offercall it 'travel writing' and is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has throughout its many years of existence became a bit of the background to do this: he had an institution. And no wonder. It is indeed a guide like no other international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and although it's unlikely then (to completely fulfil anybodyhis father's guidebook needs, it will offer bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a unique perspective and some top-notch inspirationdoddle by comparison. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007319657</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon BennettBristow China|title= In Search of Sundance, Nessie...and ParadiseChina in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow|rating= 4|genre= Travel Autobiography|summary= Books are personal. There are three things that signal good books to me: how I feel while reading them and Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a journalist for the enforced spaces between reading themBBC, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the degree to which I bore everyone around me local language for ages afterwards by quoting them and talking about themseveral years, and whether I remember howBristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, when and where I first read them. That last criterion can only be judged laterborn in the early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of life in Communist China - but on added to that, Bristow was greatly surprised to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies clothing. It soon becomes clear that the first two ''In Search tale told here is immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait of one of Sundance…'the world' definitely qualifiess most intriguing nations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666173</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin TaylorHurst_Norfolk|title=The Life of a Scilly SergeantOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating=4.5|genre=TravelArt|summary=Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides It was pure serendipity: after a handy guide to the etiquette of their namefive-hour drive, their nature and locationwe were, etc.) For our more distant readersannoyingly, they're several chunks of granite rock out left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residentskeys to our holiday cottage. They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers There was an art exhibition in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They're so weechurch hall, and so idyllicwe went in -seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for and found a police presencedisplay of the most gorgeous pictures. But there is – at least two working at any I'd cheerfully have bought every one time. And one of and hung them in recent years has been Colin Tayloron our walls, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining but thought that I would have to make do with a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy couple of his workgreetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>