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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Woolf INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->*[[image{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. 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.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0957181167|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips:Woolf_GreatThe Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewis.jpg I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wanted.}}{{Frontpage|leftisbn=1785633457|linktitle=httpsCharging Around://wwwExploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel.amazonAs he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous.coIn fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author=Merryn Glover|title=The Hidden Fires|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background to the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the book.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think of no-one better a combination to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famously.|isbn=1846975751}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B7289HKQ|title=Conversations 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=4|genre=UTF8&tagTravel|summary=thebookbagKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon -21&linkCodeall 4250 miles of it - in 2015. They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.}}{{Frontpage|author=as2&campErling Kagge|title=1634&creativeWalking: One Step At A Time|rating=6738&creativeASIN5|genre= Lifestyle|summary=1910985880]]Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why).

===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of walked to the mysteries of the wildest parts of our worldSouth Pole, and also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions North Pole and still have the determination and grit to carry onsummit of Everest. This book could be viewed as He knows a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more thing or two about some of the most iconic explorerswalking. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Mourby -->*[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]] ===[[Rooms with However, this isn't a View: The Secret Life travelogue about any of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]those epic journeys, [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us it is instead a flying visit to each thoughtful exploration of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps what it means to give something walk. It is a plenitude of an overall pictureunnumbered essays about walking. So what makes a hotel There is no 'grandcontents'? The first hotel to call itself page and I haven'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearbyt counted. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and In small format paperback, each faced essay is only a different set of challengesfew pages long. We begin in the Americas, move to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey Perhaps then northern Africa, India and Asiabetter thought of as a meditation rather than an essay. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]]isbn=0241357705<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Stewart -->|author=Monica Connell*[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]]Against a Peacock Sky|rating===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]===5 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, but summary= Monica Connell went to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background Nepal to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his father's, 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 doddle by comparisonfieldwork for her Ph. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Nicholson -->*[[image:Nicholson_TambourineD.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524681822?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524681822]] ===[[Mr Tambourine Man by Nicholson]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Back in 1965 we heard ''Mr Tambourine Man'' by the Byrds on the radio very regularlysocial anthropology. Nicholson was thirteen and saw the 45rpm recording of the song in the window of the local music store and would have loved I think it is important to be able to buy it but didn't have the moneyknow that. ThirteenShe went on a grant-year olds didn't in those days unless it was supported trip, with a birthday or Christmas and you couldnrelatively specific objective. She wasn't get a parthippy wanderer looking for Shangri-time job until you were fifteenla. There would be a few of those badly-paid jobs before he finished his A levels and went to New York for three months. ItShe wasn's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being t a boy into a man and allowed him to see the bigger picturemere tourist passing through.<br> <!-- 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 She went with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics fundamental aim of learning about these people and Society]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a journalist for the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese historyhow they lived. Having been learning the local language for several yearsShe also went, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacherpresumably, born in with the early fiftiesacademic discipline of how to find these things out, offered Bristow a compelling picture of life how to organise them in Communist China - but added to thather mind, Bristow was greatly surprised how to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time "understand" them in ladies clothing. It soon becomes clear that the tale told here is immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait context of one her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the world's most intriguing nationsexperience after the event. [[China in Drag: Travels Fortunately, she also went with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow|Full Review]]<br> <!-sense of open- 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:5star.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 ness and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then curiosity and a willingness to muck-in the twenty-first century oil is giving way to electricity. It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored break her own rules and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stationstruly connect with the people of the village where she hauled up. [[Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Hailstone -->*[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]1780600429 ===[[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]]<br> {{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 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 understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and county hunts to scrubbing stinky goop from still have the cargo hold of what used determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a Danish Arctic trawler, running charters taster which encourages us to St Kilda, dealing with doubtful mechanics, lecherous skippers, seek out and getting her own Master's ticket, by read more about some of the way of family tragedy, martial drama most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and what seemed like Woolf does them justice.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hailstone_Berlin|title=Berlin in the steepest learning curve related Cold War: 1959 to marine engines one could possibly imagine.1966|author=Allan Hailstone|rating=4|genre=History|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1910985171<''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/amazonuk>photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War.

{{Frontpage<!-- Foreman -->|isbn=Stewart_Marches[[image:Foreman_Travel.jpg|lefttitle=The Marches|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783704721?ieRory Stewart|rating=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783704721]]5|genre===[[Travels With My Sketchbook by Michael Foreman]]===History [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] I guess The Observer quote on the best children's literature can do away with complete veracity, as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a little front of the spirit, heart and character paperback edition of the real thing, whatever it may be. And if thatStewart's the case then it definitely applies to childrenlatest book observes ''s literature illustrations, such as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. This prolific artist leapt is travel writing at a scholarship in the US when heits finest.'d completed his official, formal studies, and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving sincePerhaps, as this book takes us but to all corners of the world, and back home again. [[Travels With My Sketchbook by Michael Foreman|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Biesty -->[[image:Biesty Trains.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783704241?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783704241]] ===[[Stephen Biestycall it 's Trains by Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Childrentravel writing's Nonis to totally under-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 sell it works. Getting to grips with one in real life This is quite a big ask, but erudition at its finest. Stewart has 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 background to the trains of the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph do this: he had an international upbringing and don't even run on rails. Once followed his father in both the train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised Army and the train is held up by magnetic forces alone. [[Stephen Biesty's Trains by Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Gavin Francis|title= True North|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary=''True North''Foreign Office, while very much a travel book in the grand tradition of the best travel writing that combines the trip report with the so-called background information is classified by Amazon in Cultural History and itthen (to his father's not as much of a mis-classification as it could initially appear, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. FrancisOh, a Scottish GP who ''divides his time between writing and doctoring''he walked 6, starts 000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the body proper of ''True North'' with one of the best opening lines I have read recently: ''I began to dream of the North in Scottish borders should be a stinking African hospital ward''doddle by comparison. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971306</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Peter IrvineBristow China|title= Scotland the BestChina in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow|rating= 4|genre= TravelAutobiography|summary= Peter Irvine's book advertises itself Having worked for nine years in Bejing as ''The true Scot's insider's guide a journalist for the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the very best Scotland has to offer'' and has throughout its many local language for several years of existence became , Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in the early fifties, offered Bristow a bit compelling picture of an institution. And no wonderlife in Communist China - but 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 tale told here is indeed immensely personal - yet also paints a guide like no other and although it's unlikely to completely fulfil anybodyfascinating portrait of one of the world's guidebook needs, it will offer a unique perspective and some top-notch inspirationmost intriguing nations. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007319657</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon BennettHurst_Norfolk|title= In Search of Sundance, Nessie...and ParadiseOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating= 4|genre= Travel Art|summary= Books are personalIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. There are three things that signal good books to me: how I feel while reading them and was an art exhibition in the enforced spaces between reading themchurch hall, so we went in - and found a display of the degree to which most gorgeous pictures. I bore everyone around me for ages afterwards by quoting them 'd cheerfully have bought every one and talking about hung themon our walls, and whether but thought that I remember how, would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when and where I first read them. That last criterion can only be judged later, but on the first two saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'In Search of Sundance…'and I couldn' definitely qualifiest resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666173</amazonuk>