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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{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__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Watson0957181167|title=Up PohnpeiBlue Skies and Boat Trips: A quest to reclaim the soul The Norfolk of football by leading the world's ultimate underdogs to gloryBrian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=45|genre=SportArt|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'm found myself looking more closely at a huge fan couple of both football pictures on the walls - and reading, so a book about football is always likely to appeal to me as was completely taken by the best way work of Brian Lewis. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of combining this book and the twoprint I wanted was ‘not available’. RecentlyOh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I've read books set at the pinnacle of the game in [[Life found a gift shop with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story a stack of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester United by Will Tidey]] brand new books - and about one man's struggle to bring football to a foreign land in [[Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons]]. ''Up'' ''Pohnpei'' is firmly in framed print of the latter category, treading very similar ground to Simons' bookpicture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668501X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Thubron1785633457|title=To a Mountain in Tibet Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=45
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|summary=This must go down as the least apposite indefinite article in Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a book title yetpreference for slow travel. Yes, there are many other mountains dotting As he neared his eightieth birthday the plains idea of Tibet, but calling this one just 'a' mountain, when it is sacred to a fifth exploring the edges of the world's religious people..England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. Hindu and Buddhist faiths alike venerate Mount KailasIn fact, and devotees are supposed to visit and circle round it to cleanse should be a lifetime's sins. Thubron takes us on pleasant holiday for Clive and his own pilgrimagewife, from impoverished cliff-side villages in NepalJoan, through to Chinese-occupied Tibet and to the sacred route around the mountain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532646</amazonuk>shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elisabeth EavesMerryn Glover|title=WanderlustThe Hidden Fires|rating=4.5
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|summary=Egypt. Australia. Papua New Guinea. Spain. Pakistan. New Zealand. France. For some 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 list will be a random list of placescontext, mixing those they know with those they’ve never considered. Others might tick off a few and have in order to appreciate the remainder on a ‘to do’ listbook. It’s probably only a small subset who will have passed through all Merryn Glover is of themAustralian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and an ever tinier one who will have spent considerable time now lives in Badenoch in eachScotland. Canadian native Elisabeth Eaves is 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 lucky few who has been thereCairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, done thatnot so much in the shadow of Shepherd, and this book is essentially but in her travel diaries of those years wandering spirit. I think the globetwo would have gotten along famously.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1580053114</amazonuk>1846975751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew WilsonB0B7289HKQ|title=Shadow Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of the TitanicAmerica|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=Lesson one in writing non-fiction articles Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and journalism seems the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to be to find out what is topicaldo it. April 2012 is the centenary of The decision was made to ride the sinking of the TitanicTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, and there are going Virginia to be hoards Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of people finding it topical to celebrate that- in 2015. Lesson two seems They had 73 days to be to find your own unique angle on do it - slightly less than the story. Wilson approaches the Titanic disaster by sinking her at the end recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of chapter one, a challenge that it would be for he looks more at the lives of the most people who considered taking it on board, . Merv Loya was 75 years old and how they took the calamity and dealt with ithe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377300</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ed VulliamyErling Kagge|title=AmexicaWalking: War Along the BorderlineOne Step At A Time
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=More than 38,000 people Those who have been killed in the last 3 years in what Ed Vulliamy argues read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is an unacknowledged war, on evidenced by the long border (2number of pages with corners turned,100 miles) between Mexico and the United States. The war is between drug trafficking gangs over control of the lucrative drugs trade from Mexico so let me start this one with an apology to the USNorfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this compelling and disturbing work type of reportage Vulliamy travels through 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 borderlands meeting some of the people affectedlatter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546566</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian MathieMonica Connell|title=Supper With The PresidentAgainst a Peacock Sky
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|summary=Bruce Chatwin was best known as 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 grant-supported trip, with a travel writer – this collection both confirms his relatively specific objective. She wasn'wanderlustt a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn' but t a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also clearly establishes that his writing was far more went, presumably, with the academic discipline of a creative process than how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the usual journalistic approach context of her own paradigms, and how to travel writing. Nicholas Shakespeare’s selection keep enough notes and files and passages of narration makes this a mix photos to help her create some greater sense of the biographical and experience after the autobiographicalevent. Fortunately, she also went with a fascinating insight into sense of open-ness and curiosity and a restless spiritwillingness to muck-in, but also into to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the experimentation and literary reflection that made him outstanding amongst his peersvillage where she hauled up.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089897</amazonuk>1780600429
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sonia FaleiroNicolas Bouvier|title=Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance BarsThe Japanese Chronicles|rating=4.5
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|summary=In 2005It never does to start a review of a book with a quote from the blurb, there were 1but sometimes it's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book,500 dance bars in Bombayat some point, so called because they employed women to dance to popular musicwith the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely that. Bar dancers could earn a lot A masterpiece in the sense of money compared to women in other traditional female jobs outside the sex industry, such craft as well as cleanersthe art of writing. Many I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a history of them also slept with men for money, but because her job was dancing not sexJapan, a bar dancer could also see herself mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as infinitely superior it is a personal response to sex workers, whether street prostitutes, those working living and travelling in brothels or call girlsthe country.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857861697</amazonuk>1906011044
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael BoothStephen Fabes|title=Eat, Pray, EatSigns of Life|rating=45
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|summary=I really enjoyed was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn'Eatt inherit the kind of steady nerve, Pray, Love'' by Elizabeth Gilbert. Initially ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I thought would have survived if I'd picked up a ''Me too'' variant had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'Eat, Pray Eat'' and must admit to my heart sinking. But no, here is a different personality with another story and writing style and after a few, doubting pages, In order words I was away. This is a story 'm not the sort of person who will get on a family adventure to India, bike outside a hard-fought encounter with yoga, London hospital and some culinary interest thrown innot come home for six years. But like Elizabeth Gilbert, like most other visitors, India moved his life-view dramatically and for the better Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089633</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mick ConefreyRob Baker|title=How to Climb Mont Blanc Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady AdventurerAfrica
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|summary=Scott''"Go to Mali, Amundsen, Bleriot, Stanley and Livingstone, John Glenn, et all - any child should be drummed out of school if " they can't name half a dozen explorerssaid. "The music is amazing, travel pioneers and adventurers. But give them a gold star if " they can name a single female entrant to history's listsaid. Hence this book, for while some mountains have been topped by a lady first "And you get ten hours of all, and some landmark achievements by the guys have been quickly followed by the gals, there is just too much ground to be made up in recognising what the fairer sex have done in the world of, well, going round our worldsunshine every day." So I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688412</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Siddhartha DebChristine Brown|title=The Beautiful Bucket Showers and the DamnedBaby Goats: Life Volunteering in the New IndiaWest Africa
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|summary=This In the summer of 2008, this book immediately caught my eye with its terrific front cover. A picture says more than a thousand words ... But I 's author was conscious that, as a work of non-fictionspending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, it may be full of rather dry facts and figures that I was going to have to plough through with grace and patiencedoing something else. Couple that withLong story short, she ended up volunteering in my opinionGhana, most of the Indian writers that I have readWest Africa. Now coincidentally, have in my experience been unnecessarily wordy and flowery (and exasperating) choosing to use fifteen words when one or two would be nicely. So, a little bit of trepidation as I open the book. The first thing to strike me is the intriguing contents page. As Deb is going to concentrate on a mere handful summer of individuals I2010, this review'm not going to feel bombarded by hundreds of different stories vying for space on the page. Good start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917303</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|s author=Michael Bond|title=Paddingtonwas spending ''her's Guide to London|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Some things are just a brilliant idea. Young Paddington Bear has written a guide book to his adopted home days working in an office job (albeit in the way that only he could do it. All his old friends are there – Mr UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and Mrs Brown and their children Jonathan and Judy along with their housekeeper Mrs Bird and of course we mustn't forget Paddington's old friend Mr Gruber who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Londonshe'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Soyou can see why, when this book came up, where is Paddington planning said reviewer was delighted to take you?have the opportunity to read and critique it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007415915</amazonuk>171024299X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PalinMourby_Rooms|title=Ox TravelsRooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby
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|summary=Ox Travels is Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each 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 to give something of an anthology 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 beginning of travel writing compiled to raise funds a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for Oxfam, but it is well worth buying those without friends and reading family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in its own rightdifferent circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. Its generous 432 pages offer We begin in the chance Americas, move to meet 36 writersthe United Kingdom, including travel writerscircumnavigate Europe, journalists briefly visit Russia and novelistsTurkey then northern Africa, with an introduction by Michael Palin India and an afterword by Barbara StockingAsia. Australia, it seems, Oxfam's Chief Executivedoes not go for the grand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668496X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Blixen1908745819|title=Out Of AfricaSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie
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|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=It's more than Sometimes when people suggest that you read a quarter of a century since I first saw the film certain book, they tell you ''Out of Africathis one has your name on it'' and . Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it's one of the few turns out that have stayed with me over the intervening years. It wasnwe didn't just like the story, but the personality of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape of the Ngong Hills, south of Nairobi, in Kenyabook. That's Rift Valleya rare experience. I remember looking for this People who are sensitive to hearing a book at the timecalling your name, but being unable to find rarely get itwrong. In this case, so the opportunity to read it now I was too good to misstold why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951437</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sara Wheeler|title=Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=This is a great book to acquire if your general knowledge The blurb speaks of historical adventurers is as haphazard as mine. Somewhere along the line, Iauthor considering ''d missed out on Scott and Shackletonan older, and it's very satisfying indeed to fill those gaps from such a reliable informantless tethered sense of herself. One brisk section, for example, managed to encapsulate both Antartica's history and further outlook, along with sufficient atmospheric detail to ensure we mortals understood just what it feels like to sleep in Scott's hut during a wintry gale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090712</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Butcher|title=Chasing the Devil: On Foot Through Africa's Killing Fields|rating=4 Older.5|genre=Travel|summary=Tim Butcher's day job from 1990 to 2009 was "journalist"Less tethered. I wonder what todayThat's school-kids imagine when they say they want to be not a journalist… bad description of where I am. do they envisage writing about science, or economics, or celebrities, or do they see themselves as television reporters standing in flak jackets doing the obligatory piece-Add to-camera in the latest war zone? Do they even read newspapers any more? Do they realise that there are still also people out there in those war zones, without my love of the glamour flak-jacketnatural world, just (if they're lucky) of those aspects of the ordinary pock-marked one, poetic and lyrical that they prefer are about style not to wear because it's way too hot? People who still ply the classic trade form, and substance most of actually writing what they see and trusting that they can do it well enough for the words to stand alone without the sound effectsall, without (quite often) any picturesabout connection. Of course, to make this book had my name on it "real"?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532069</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Williams|title=On The Slow Train Again|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=A few years ago Michael Williams, the railway expert who's . It was written for numerous newspapers and magazines on the subject, released a book called ''On The Slow Train'' about some of Britain's best railway tripsme. It would have found its way to me eventually. With far too many journeys I am pleased to fit into one volume, he's given us a dozen more in this sequelhave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848092857</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Gimlette1912242052|title=Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Apart from knowing that it borders Venezuela, Brazil and Suriname, a fact hammered into O Joy for me in Year 8 Geography, I know very little about Guiana. And while you may think that's understandable, I'm not sure that it is, seeing as I read this book while living just two countries over. The thing is, it's a sort of tiny, forgotten country, isn't it? Over the years it has been involved in border disputes, has come under various nations' rule, and has changed names more often the P Diddy, and even after you take all that into account, I bet you can't think of a single thing there to go and see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682525</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Yangzom Brauen and Katy Darbyshire|title=Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Fleeing your home can never be easy but when you are six, your only shoes are roughly hand-sewn and stuffed with hay, and your route is over the world's highest mountain range then it must be particularly challenging. This was the journey that Yangzom Brauen's mother took with her parents when they fled Tibet after the Chinese invasion of 1959. They were leaving behind all that they knew and travelling to India in the hope that they could find sanctuary in the country where the Dalai Lama was in exile. 'Across Many Mountains' is their story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655344X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview!|author=Keith Hern|title=Zimbabwe in PicturesKeir Davidson
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|genre=TravelArt|summary=I'm a bit of an amateur photographer, and since the advent of digital cameras I always come back from holidays with thousands of photos, over-excited by the fact that I am no longer limited to 24 or 36 exposure films'Oh Joy for me! I enjoy, therefore, flicking through photography books, to see the images that have captured someone else's imagination and to see if I can pick up any interesting framing ideas, or subject settings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685707</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Winn|title=I Never Knew That About the River Thames|rating=4.5|genre=Trivia|summary=Here are ' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the remains of the building that could be said first person to have sired two important British royal dynasties. Here is walk the place of ill-reputemountains alone, where 'Rule Britannia' was premierednot because he had to for work, and which also bizarrely saw as a death by cricket ball that inspired the most famous gardens in the world. Here too is the largest lion in the world. To where am I referring? Well the answer is either the Thames valleyminer, quarryman, shepherd or this very book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roland Huntford|title=Race pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott pleasure and Amundsen|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=In 1910 two European ships set out for the Antarcticadventure. 'Terra Nova' was carrying British explorers under the leadership of Captain Robert Scott, while 'Fram' sailed His rapturous encounters with a rival Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen. The basic facts can be briefly summarized. Amundsen arrived at the South Pole on 14 December 1911 and returned home to a hero's welcometheir natural beauty, while Scott reached the same destination 35 days later, only to perish with his men on the return journey. Their bodies were found by a search party some eight months after they had died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441169822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aatish Taseer|title=Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Aatish Taseer was born of out of a short week of passion between a Sikh Indian mother and a Pakistani Muslim father. The mother was a journalist; the father a politician. That week of passion was to be all it was, despite subsequent attempts at hushing up the pregnancyits literary consequences, then pretending a marriage until finally a clean break was made when the boy was about 18 months old. Ah, but such breaks never are clean are they? There's always a certain amount changed our view of meddling from the side-lines, and then thereworld's a child's longing to know who he is, where he is really from.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847671314</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim PerrinWoolf_Great|title=WestThe Great Horizon: A Journey Through the Landscapes 50 Tales of LossExploration|author=Jo Woolf
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|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=Where would you go if Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the love lives and achievements of your life, and your son, both died within a short few months some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of each other? Jim Perrin headed West - to the scraggly patches mysteries of land off Ireland, closer to the setting sunwildest parts of our world, nearer and also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the further horizon, beyond most terrible conditions and still have the noise, information determination and opinion of humanitygrit to carry on. Of course, that question This book could also be answered in viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more metaphoric way. Jim went inward, before coming outward. He suffered - "involuntarily, about some of the tears have comemost iconic explorers. Who would have thought that death would release so many.." He also, although he would probably hate me for saying it, went on a "psycho-geographical ramble" - both in life, Their stories are pretty incredible and in making this bookWoolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843546116</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam MillerHailstone_Berlin|title=Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Miller is probably one of the best people to take you on a tour of Delhi. He's not a native so has no Berlin in-bred partisanship, but he does love the place so will make sure you do too, but mainly because Cold War: 1959 to begin with he HATED it… so he will understand if you don't share his ironic good humour about the shit squirter or the fact that sometimes the only way to cross the road is to take a rickshaw taxi.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526743</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1966|author=Brian W Pugh, Paul R Spiring and Sadru Bhanji|title=Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon: A Complete Tour Guide and CompanionAllan Hailstone
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|summary=''The Hound of Berlin in the BaskervillesCold War: 1959-1966'' is one of contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the most famous mystery novels of all, and also one of the most famous English novels set in Devoncity during this period. This alone would probably give more or less enough material for The images provide an entire book on connections between insight into the story and changing nature of the location which inspired it. Yet the authors have found several more links divide between the county, East and West Berlin and Conan Doyle alongside those associated with him. The result has revealed much information of which even I, who have lived in the county nearly all my life, was previously unaware.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312861</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Lane|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration of England's amazing supporters|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summary=To start with, an admission. I am an English fan of football, but I am not a fan of England’s football squad. Hardly ever would I prefer to see the Three Lions triumphant. I never got glimpse into life in the habit, partly because I never saw the singularly English habit of supporting the underdog as making any sense. Plus you'll never get me standing up and singing that awful tune before city during the matchCold War. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently to me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906796505</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justine HardyStewart_Marches|title=In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir's Long War - One Family's Extraordinary StoryThe Marches|author=Rory Stewart
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|genre=TravelHistory|summary=Kashmir. Is that not The Observer quote on the most romantic front of names? To those the paperback edition of us entranced by tales from the EastStewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, but to call it echoes with the same essence of myth as 'travel writing'Shangis to totally under-ri-la'' – sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background to do this: he had an international upbringing and for good reason. Geographically situated followed his father in both the Himalaya but with Army and the abundant fertility of the valleyForeign Office, and then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, lakes and meadowshe walked 6, it 000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a kind of paradisedoddle by comparison. To the people who live there, it once was. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846041511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BoothBristow China|title=Sushi and BeyondChina in Drag: What the Japanese Know About CookingTravels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow
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|summary=Ian Mathie's association with Africa began when his father was posted to what was then Northern Rhodesia when Mathie was just four Having worked for nine years old. School was in Bejing as a convent and was run by German and Italian nuns and journalist for a while he was the only white child amongst a couple of hundred AfricansBBC, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Even when he was joined by others he was still part of an ethnic minority although he didn't realise it! He was taught in Having been learning the local language and grew up with for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the local children. It was his home and was to be language teacher, born in the centre early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of his life for decades in Communist China - but added to that, Bristow was greatly surprised to comefind that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies clothing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955312418</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Blackwood|title=The Great Race: The Amazing Round-TheIt soon becomes clear that the tale told here is immensely personal -World Auto Race Of 1908|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In 1908, Henry Ford's Model T hadn't yet brought cars to the masses. The pioneers also paints a fascinating portrait of the world one of automobiles were experimenting and discovering just what the car could do, by driving right round the world. Except they didn't want to be pioneerss most intriguing nations. One of the competitors, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said 'We had set out to perpetuate an act of splendid folly, not to open up a new way for men. We wished to be madmen, not pioneers.' Isn't that about the best quote you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dervla MurphyHurst_Norfolk|title=The Island That DaredOn My Way: Journeys in CubaNorfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst
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|genre=TravelArt|summary=In her latest literary outingIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the now elderly and increasingly opinionated travel writer and veteran cyclist Dervla Murphy describes a series of trips keys to Cubaour holiday cottage. The opening section deals with a family trip There was an art exhibition in late 2005. Readers who have followed Dervla's books from the beginning will have grown up with Rachelchurch hall, the author's daughter, who accompanied her on so we went in - and found a number display of trips between the ages of five and eighteenmost gorgeous pictures. Now Dervla travels with Rachel and Rachel I's three young daughters, Clodagh, Rose d cheerfully have bought every one and Zeahung them on our walls, known for ease throughout the book as but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I saw ''the TrioOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks''. The middle section sees Dervla return alone to spend several months trekking in places such as the Sierra del Escambray mountains, and in the final third of the book, Dervla returns to the city of Santa Clara for the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the death of Ernesto ''Che'I couldn' Guevarat resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190601146X</amazonuk>
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