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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Woolf INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->*[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|leftgenre=Travel |linksummary=https://wwwAlastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it.amazon For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it.co As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]]1785633678}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0957181167|title==[[Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Great Horizon: 50 Tales Norfolk of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=5|genre=Art [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a brilliant set couple of fifty short insights into pictures on the lives walls - and achievements was completely taken by the work of some amazingly brave peopleBrian Lewis. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the mysteries of print I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the wildest parts of our worldapartment, and also given us an understanding I found a gift shop with a stack of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions brand new books - and still have the determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some framed print of the most iconic explorerspicture I wanted. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]]<br>}}{{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 worldunnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents'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]] ===[[Britainpage and I haven's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins]]=== [[image:5start counted.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 planessmall format paperback, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first century oil each essay is giving way to electricityonly a few pages long. It's cleanerPerhaps then, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we'd all rushed through better thought of as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered ina meditation rather than an essay. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations. [[Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins|Full Review]]<br>isbn=0241357705}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Colin ThubronMonica Connell|title= Mirror to DamascusAgainst a Peacock Sky|rating= 4.5|genre= Travel|summary= Damascus today Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went on a monument grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her pastmind, how to all "understand" them in the people context of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes and files and civilisations that helped shape photos to help hercreate some greater sense of the experience after the event. In this enthusiastic piece of travel writingFortunately, Collin Thubron tells the tale she also went with a sense of a city that has seen empires rise open-ness and fall, conquerors come curiosity and go and has lasted for over two thousand years. It's rich a willingness to muck-in impressive history , to break her own rules and this book is rich in impressive detailto truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled up.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099532298</amazonuk>1780600429

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stuart MaconieNicolas Bouvier|title= Long Road From JarrowThe Japanese Chronicles|rating= 5|genre= Travel |summary= I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about It never does to start a review of a book with a year ago and quote from the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconieblurb, but sometimes it's columnunavoidable. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point, with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admitmasterpiece. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton AycliffeIt is precisely that. Places I grew up A masterpiece inthe sense of the craft as well as the art of writing. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) 'm going to hesitate to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about call it being 'travel writing'because this is as much a whole matrix history of events reducible to one word like AberfanJapan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at leastis a personal response to living and travelling in the country.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>1906011044

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John HurstStephen Fabes|title=On My Way: Norfolk Coastal WalksSigns of Life

|genre=SportTravel|summary=It I was pure serendipity: after a fivebrought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-hour drive we wererighted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottageI didn't inherit what Dr. There Stephen Fabes clearly had which was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - guts to simply go out and found a display of the most gorgeous picturesdo it. Ialso didn'd cheerfully t inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought meant that I would have to make do survived if I had been gifted with a couple of greetings cards when I saw the requisite 'bottle'On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'. In order words I' m not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and I couldn't resist buying itnot come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095444003X</amazonuk>1788161211

<!-- Morris -->[[image:Morris_FootstepsRob Baker is an ethnomusicologist.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/144567114X''A what?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=144567114X]] ===[[In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by S Morris and N Grueninger]]=== [[image:5starI hear you cry.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]Well, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation to culture, [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] It was inevitable that each of so rather like a folklorist studies the six wives of Henry VIII would have left their mark in some way on the places they lived oral and visited. This book straddles several categories; it is part history, part gazetteer or guide book, and also written story traditions relating to a collection of potted biographiesculture. [[In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by S Morris and N Grueninger|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br>isbn=B089CSNFT7}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian MourbyChristine Brown|title=Rooms of One's OwnBucket 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 the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go there and see what hefor the grand.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Surfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''s seen. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but Irarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn'm damned if I would risk t like the danger, the potential consequences and/or the effort the whole book. That's a rare experience required. This People who are sensitive to hearing a book is the epitome of thatcalling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, for as much as I love most was told why. The blurb speaks of the twenty countries it hits on – give me a chanceauthor considering ''an older, Iless tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That've s not quite been to them all – a bad description of where I wouldn't countenance making this exact and exacting tripam. A couple Add to that my love of years agothe natural world, of those in the know somewhere in an office deemed the route aspects of the entire old Iron Curtain – the fringe poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of the Soviet Unionall, plus Romaniaabout connection. Of course, Bulgaria etc – this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to be a pan-continental biking routeme eventually. With the news that he can dismiss other attempts and still I am pleased to have a claim to it fall onto my path so quickly.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary=''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to clock walk the whole mammoth tripmountains alone, our gutsy author undertakes it allnot because he had to for work, and thus surveys as a scar across the entire continent miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to see if it's still visible, for pleasure and what flesh it once upon a time dividedadventure. Oh and he did it on a Communist-era piddly little bikeHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, lacking in both gears and good brakesits literary consequences, that was designed for nothing more strenuous than conveying you around a campsite, not for 6,000 miles…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100211</amazonuk>changed our view of the world''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amelia DaltonWoolf_Great|title=Mistress and CommanderThe Great Horizon: High Jinks, High Seas and Highlanders 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>