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|genre=Travel|summary=Sometimes we should trust our instinctsAlastair 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. When I saw ''BabadagAs he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt '' on the Shelf to share what I knew I would love ithave learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. When I sat in my garden on a hot sunny evening Nature loss, pollution, land use and struggled my way through access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the first chapterbiggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, I had my doubts. Ohno single 'right or wrong', ye of little faith..that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099507145</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Darlington0957181167|title=Narrow Dog to Wigan PierBlue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=45|genre=TravelArt|summary=You might not realiseThere are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, but there is in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a hierarchy in publishing couple of narrowboat travelogue trilogies. At the bottom is Shane Spall, mostly for pictures on the fact her walls - and husband Timothy's boat isn't narrow, and partly for was completely taken by the fact she's only published the first volumework of Brian Lewis. With three volumes under his belt, we have Steve Haywood, but top I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the pile is Terry Darlingtonprint I wanted was ‘not available’. One example of the proof of this is that Mr Haywood was front page news in the Leicester Mercury when he wrote them Oh, dear - then a letter about the graffiti near his mooring, while Mr Darlington trended number two on the BBC news sites when his boat burned few doors down, such is from the esteem heapartment, his wife, his narrowboat I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and his narrow dog (Jim a framed print of the whippet) is held inpicture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593067673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Sprackland1785633457|title=StrandsCharging Around: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Sprackland is a poet, and a good one. At least I assume she's a good poet – I rarely read poetry these days. Her first collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, her second was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award and her third won Exploring the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. Unless all Edges of the panels harbour the same judges, that's a lot of people thinking this is someone special.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087452</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEngland by Electric Car|author=Jeremy Bullard|title=Life On The LineClive Wilkinson|rating=45
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|summary=Jeremy Bullard began his working life as Clive Wilkinson has a Chartered Accountant but eventually realised that the most exciting part history of the day was his journey to work on his moped. Next came travelling by unconventional means with a spell as a IT Consultant into which he put heart and soul and only just escaped with his sanitypreference for slow travel. A mental breakdown and a spell in The Priory convinced him that As he had to rethink neared his life choices and high on eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the list edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a long-distance trip on a motorbike. The first two trips - from London to Cape Town and the reverse - were aborted pleasant holiday for Clive and we join him as he attempts his most ambitious journey. He's heading from New York to the very south of South America. Ohwife, Joan, and heshouldn's taking in the Galapagos and Easter Island.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956968309</amazonuk>t it?
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|summary=In 1922 Agatha ChristieIt is always about the book, not the writer, already but there are times when the author of three very successful books, was happily married with a small daughter, and her heart's desire was hinterland is also the background to the book and so it is necessary to continue writing while she led a quiet life understand that context, in order to appreciate the countrybook. However her husband Archie Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was becoming increasingly restless and disenchanted with working born in Kathmandu, grew up in the City, Annapurna and Himalayan and his longing for a change was suddenly to be fulfilled now lives in Badenoch in a most unexpected wayScotland. An old friend, Major Belcher, 'blessed with great powers of bluff', presented them both with the opportunity I can think of no-one better a lifetime – combination to join him on give us a trip to several imperial outposts re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in preparation for the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition to be staged at WembleyCairngorms National Park. Archie would be his financial adviser Merryn walks, and Agatha was cordially invited for not so much in the tripshadow of Shepherd, as his wifebut in her spirit. (Two-year-old Rosalind I think the two would have to stay at home, a decision which involved some soul-searching)gotten along famously.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000744768X</amazonuk>1846975751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tessa HainsworthB0B7289HKQ|title=Home to RoostConversations 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
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|summary=Meet KarenKari (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. Expat fashion writer. French cottage owner. Devoted mother The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of Biffit - in 2015. Frustrated girlfriend 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 dashing Portuguese hunkchallenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Tout Soul is her 3rd book about a relocated life in rural France and after her previous tales of upping and leaving Blighty (book 1) Merv Loya was 75 years old and falling in love with the aforementioned dashing hunk (book 2) she’s now moved her focus to the pursuit of happinesshe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957106602</amazonuk>
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|summary= 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).
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul WatsonMonica Connell|title=Up Pohnpei: A quest to reclaim the soul of football by leading the world's ultimate underdogs to glory|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=I'm a huge fan of both football and reading, so a book about football is always likely to appeal to me as the best way of combining the two. Recently, I've read books set at the pinnacle of the game in [[Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester United by Will Tidey]] and about one man's struggle to bring football to Against a foreign land in [[Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons]]. ''Up'' ''Pohnpei'' is firmly in the latter category, treading very similar ground to Simons' book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668501X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin Thubron|title=To a Mountain in Tibet |rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=This must go down as the least apposite indefinite article in a book title yet. Yes, there are many other mountains dotting the plains of Tibet, but calling this one just 'a' mountain, when it is sacred to a fifth of the world's religious people... Hindu and Buddhist faiths alike venerate Mount Kailas, and devotees are supposed to visit and circle round it to cleanse a lifetime's sins. Thubron takes us on his own pilgrimage, from impoverished cliff-side villages in Nepal, through to Chinese-occupied Tibet and to the sacred route around the mountain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532646</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elisabeth Eaves|title=WanderlustPeacock Sky|rating=4.5
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|summary=EgyptMonica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph. AustraliaD. Papua New Guineain social anthropology. SpainI think it is important to know that. Pakistan. New Zealand. France. For some that list will be She went on a random list of placesgrant-supported trip, mixing those they know with those they’ve never considereda relatively specific objective. Others might tick off She wasn't a few and have the remainder on hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a ‘to do’ listmere tourist passing through. It’s probably only She went with a small subset who will have passed through all fundamental aim of them, learning about these people and an ever tinier one who will have spent considerable time in eachhow they lived. Canadian native Elisabeth Eaves is one of the lucky few who has been thereShe also went, done thatpresumably, and this book is essentially her travel diaries of those years wandering with the globe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1580053114</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Wilson|title=Shadow academic discipline of the Titanic|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Lesson one in writing non-fiction articles and journalism seems to be how to find these things out what is topical. April 2012 is , how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the centenary context of the sinking of the Titanicher own paradigms, and there are going how to be hoards of people finding it topical keep enough notes and files and photos to celebrate that. Lesson two seems to be to find your own unique angle on the story. Wilson approaches the Titanic disaster by sinking help her at the end create some greater sense of chapter one, for he looks more at the lives of experience after the people on boardevent. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ness and how they took the calamity curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and dealt to truly connect with itthe people of the village where she hauled up.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847377300</amazonuk>1780600429
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ed VulliamyNicolas Bouvier|title=Amexica: War Along the BorderlineThe Japanese Chronicles
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|summary=Should I trust It never does to start a review of a book that has with a typo on quote from the FRONT cover? Would I purchase a blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book that practically says, as its first wordsat some point, with the e-book version is better than this paper thing? This, despite setting up very much words ''what the wrong impression, old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is a gateway into precisely that. A masterpiece in the world sense of Sherlock Holmes - but does, the craft as well as the art of writing. I say, blatantly show itself up 'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as flawedmuch a history of Japan, while a mythology-primer for the electronic version could count Japanese culture as it is a very worthwhile app for personal response to living and travelling in the Conan Doyle buffcountry.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>1906011044
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian MathieStephen Fabes|title=Supper With The PresidentSigns of Life
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|summary=Bruce Chatwin I was best known as a travel writer – this collection both confirms his 'brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlustand curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn' but also t inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly establishes that his writing had which was far more of a creative process than the usual journalistic approach guts to travel writingsimply go out and do it. Nicholas Shakespeare’s selection I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and passages of narration makes this a mix of basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the biographical and requisite 'bottle'. In order words I'm not the autobiographical, sort of person who will get on a fascinating insight into bike outside a restless spirit, but also into the experimentation London hospital and literary reflection not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that made him outstanding amongst his peers.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224089897</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sonia FaleiroRob Baker|title=Beautiful ThingToubab Tales: Inside the Secret World The Joys and Trials of Bombay's Dance Bars|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=In 2005, there were 1,500 dance bars in Bombay, so called because they employed women to dance to popular music. Bar dancers could earn a lot of money compared to women Expat Life in other traditional female jobs outside the sex industry, such as cleaners. Many of them also slept with men for money, but because her job was dancing not sex, a bar dancer could also see herself as infinitely superior to sex workers, whether street prostitutes, those working in brothels or call girls.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857861697</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Booth|title=Eat, Pray, EatAfrica
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|summary=I really enjoyed ''Eat"Go to Mali, Pray, Love'' by Elizabeth Gilbert" they said. Initially I thought I'd picked up a ''Me too'' variant with ''Eat, Pray Eat'' and must admit to my heart sinking. But no, here "The music is a different personality with another story and writing style and after a fewamazing, doubting pages, I was away" they said. This is a story "And you get ten hours of a family adventure to India, a hard-fought encounter with yoga, and some culinary interest thrown insunshine every day. But like Elizabeth Gilbert, like most other visitors, India moved his life-view dramatically and for the better" So I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089633</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick Conefrey|title=How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Scott, 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 explorers, travel pioneers and adventurers. But give them a gold star if they can name a single female entrant to history's list. Hence this book, for while some mountains have been topped by a lady first 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 world.|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=ItSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's more than a quarter of rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a century since book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I first saw was told why. The blurb speaks of the film author considering ''Out an older, less tethered sense of Africaherself.'' and it Older. Less tethered. That's one not a bad description of the few that have stayed with me over the intervening yearswhere I am. It wasn't just Add to that my love of the storynatural world, but the personality of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape those aspects of the Ngong Hillspoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, south and substance most of Nairobiall, about connection. Of course, in Kenya's Rift Valleythis book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I remember looking for this book at the time, but being unable am pleased to find have it, fall onto my path so the opportunity to read it now was too good to missquickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951437</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Wheeler1912242052|title=Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=53|genre=TravelArt|summary=This is a great book ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to acquire if your general knowledge of historical adventurers is as haphazard as mine. Somewhere along walk the linemountains alone, I'd missed out on Scott and Shackletonnot because he had to for work, and it's very satisfying indeed to fill those gaps from such as a reliable informant. One brisk sectionminer, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for examplepleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, managed to encapsulate both Antartica's history and further outlookits literary consequences, along with sufficient atmospheric detail to ensure we mortals understood just what it feels like to sleep in Scottchanged our view of the world''s hut during a wintry gale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090712</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim ButcherWoolf_Great|title=Chasing the DevilThe Great Horizon: On Foot Through Africa's Killing Fields50 Tales of Exploration|author=Jo Woolf|rating=43.5|genre=TravelHistory|summary=Tim Butcher's day job from 1990 to 2009 was "journalist". I wonder what today's school-kids imagine when they say they want to be Jo Woolf has compiled a journalist… do they envisage writing about science, or economics, or celebrities, or do they see themselves as television reporters standing in flak jackets doing brilliant set of fifty short insights into the obligatory piece-to-camera in the latest war zone? Do they even read newspapers any more? Do they realise that there are still also lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people out there in those war zones, without . Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the glamour flak-jacket, just (if they're lucky) mysteries of the ordinary pock-marked onewildest parts of our world, that they prefer not to wear because it's way too hot? People who still ply the classic trade and also given us an understanding of actually writing what they see and trusting that they can do it well enough for the words is like to stand alone without be faced with the sound effects, without (quite often) any pictures, to make 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, most terrible conditions and still have the railway expert who's written for numerous newspapers determination and magazines grit to carry on the subject, released . This book could be viewed as a book called ''On The Slow Train'' taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some of Britain's best railway tripsthe most iconic explorers. With far too many journeys to fit into one volume, he's given us a dozen more in this sequelTheir stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848092857</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John GimletteHailstone_Berlin|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 me Berlin 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 Cold War: 1959 to go and see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682525</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1966|author=Yangzom Brauen and Katy Darbyshire|title=Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of TibetAllan Hailstone
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|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=Fleeing your home can never be easy but when you are six, your only shoes are roughly hand''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-sewn and stuffed with hay, and your route is over 1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the world's highest mountain range then it must be particularly challengingcity during this period. This was The images provide an insight into the journey that Yangzom Brauen's mother took with her parents when they fled Tibet after changing nature of the Chinese invasion of 1959. They were leaving behind all that they knew divide between East and West Berlin and travelling to India in the hope that they could find sanctuary a glimpse into life in the country where city during the Dalai Lama was in exileCold War. 'Across Many Mountains' is their story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655344X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith HernStewart_Marches|title=Zimbabwe in Pictures|rating=3|genre=Travel|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! 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>}} {{newreviewThe Marches|author=Christopher Winn|title=I Never Knew That About the River ThamesRory Stewart|rating=4.5|genre=TriviaHistory|summary=Here are The Observer quote on the remains front of the building that could be said to have sired two important British royal dynastiespaperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest. Here is the place of ill-repute'' Perhaps, where but to call it 'Rule Britanniatravel writing' was premiered, and which also bizarrely saw a death by cricket ball that inspired the most famous gardens in the worldis to totally under-sell it. Here too This is the largest lion in the worlderudition at its finest. To where am I referring? Well Stewart has the answer is either the Thames valley, or background to do this very book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roland Huntford|title=Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott he had an international upbringing and Amundsen|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=In 1910 two European ships set out for followed his father in both the Antarctic. 'Terra Nova' was carrying British explorers under Army and the leadership of Captain Robert ScottForeign Office, while 'Fram' sailed 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 then (to a herohis father's welcome, while Scott reached the same destination 35 days laterbemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and he walked 6, only to perish with his men on 000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the return journey. Their bodies were found Scottish borders should be a doddle by a search party some eight months after they had diedcomparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441169822</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aatish TaseerBristow China|title=Stranger to HistoryChina in Drag: A Son's Journey Through Islamic LandsTravels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow
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|summary=Where would you go if the love of your life, and your son, both died within Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a short few months of each other? Jim Perrin headed West - to journalist for the scraggly patches of land off IrelandBBC, closer author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the setting sunlocal language for several years, nearer to Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the further horizonlanguage teacher, beyond born in the noiseearly fifties, information and opinion offered Bristow a compelling picture of humanity. Of courselife in Communist China - but added to that, Bristow was greatly surprised to find that question could his language teacher also be answered enjoyed spending his spare time in a more metaphoric wayladies clothing. Jim went inward, before coming outward. He suffered It soon becomes clear that the tale told here is immensely personal - "involuntarily, the tears have come. Who would have thought that death would release so many.." He yet also, although he would probably hate me for saying it, went on paints a "psycho-geographical ramble" - both in life, and in making this bookfascinating portrait of one of the world's most intriguing nations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843546116</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam MillerHurst_Norfolk|title=DelhiOn My Way: 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 in-bred partisanship, but he does love the place so will make sure you do too, but mainly because 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>}} {{newreviewNorfolk Coastal Walks|author=Brian W Pugh, Paul R Spiring and Sadru Bhanji|title=Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon: A Complete Tour Guide and CompanionJohn Hurst
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|genre=HistoryArt|summary=''The Hound of It was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the Baskervilles'' is one of keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the most famous mystery novels of allchurch hall, so we went in - and also one found a display of the most famous English novels set in Devongorgeous pictures. This alone I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would probably give more or less enough material for an entire book on connections between the story and the location which inspired it. Yet the authors have found several more links between the county, and Conan Doyle alongside those associated to make do with him. The result has revealed much information a couple of which even greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I, who have lived in the county nearly all my life, was previously unawarecouldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312861</amazonuk>
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