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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]]==Travel==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon ArmitageAlastair Humphreys|title=Walking HomeLocal|rating=45|genre=Travel|summary=Poet Simon Armitage decided 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 2010 to walk his introduction, the Pennine Way book is an attempt 'in reverse' - instead of heading to Scotlandshare what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, hepollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…''d start just across One of the border and walk in joys of the book for me was that the direction biggest thing he learned about all of his native Yorkshire. As if doing it this waythese things was that there are no easy answers, with the sun, wind and rain in his face wasnno single 'right or wrong't hard enough, he also challenged himself that every upside is likely to do it without have a penny to his name, earning cash downside for the journey by giving poetry readings in pubs, village halls somebody and living roomsthat there are some hard choices ahead. Could he make a 256-mile journey supported only by the kindness of strangers and his own willpower?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571249884</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Birchall and Bernard Smith0957181167|title=Touching Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The World: A Blind Woman, Two Wheels and 25,000 MilesNorfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=4.5|genre=TravelArt|summary=Consider the world. There might not are few positive things which can be enough of it to go around in some over-crowded placessaid about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, but there is enough variety in it trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and us - for us all to have our own version was completely taken by the work of it; our own perceptions, experiences and expectationsBrian Lewis. Those are drastically altered from those I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of you this book and the print I if one is blind, as Cathy Birchall iswanted was ‘not available’. But that simple fact did not stop her taking Oh, dear - then a year outfew doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and starting in August 2008, perch herself on her husband's pillion seat and be taken from one end a framed print of the earth to the other and back againpicture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956497586</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Mitchell1785633457|title=Up In The Old HotelCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson
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|summary=One Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the joys edges of reviewing books is when you stumble across somethingEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, know you are going to love it, ask should be a pleasant holiday for it, have it delivered Clive and then spend a week or so being absolutely entranced. It could so easily have been a disappointment. Joseph Mitchell is one of those menhis wife, one feels one should have heard ofJoan, should know about. Not just that, he is one of those, one wishes one could have known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956159X</amazonuk>shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrzej StasiukMerryn Glover|title=On The Road to BabadagHidden Fires
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|summary=Sometimes we should trust our instinctsIt 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. When I saw ''Babadag'' on Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Shelf I knew I would love itAnnapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. When I sat in my garden on can think of no-one better a combination to give us a hot sunny evening and struggled my way through re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first chapter, I had my doubtsWriter in Residence in the Cairngorms National Park. Oh Merryn walks, ye not so much in the shadow of little faith.Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famously.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099507145</amazonuk>1846975751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DarlingtonB0B7289HKQ|title=Narrow Dog to Wigan PierConversations 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=You might not realiseKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, but there is a hierarchy in publishing of narrowboat travelogue trilogies. At by the bottom is Shane Spall, mostly for the fact her and husband Timothy's boat isn't narrow, way) wanted to spend some time with his father and partly for the fact she's only published the first volumeperiod between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. With three volumes under his beltThe decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, we have Steve HaywoodVirginia to Astoria, but top Oregon - all 4250 miles of the pile is Terry Darlingtonit - in 2015. One example of They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the proof recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of this is a challenge that Mr Haywood it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was front page news in the Leicester Mercury when 75 years old and he wrote them a letter about the graffiti near his mooring, while Mr Darlington trended number two on the BBC news sites when his boat burned down, such is the esteem he, his wife, his narrowboat and his narrow dog (Jim the whippet) is held inwas suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593067673</amazonuk>
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|title=Walking: One Step At A Time
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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=Jeremy BullardMonica Connell|title=Life On The LineAgainst a Peacock Sky|rating=45
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|summary=Jeremy Bullard began his working life as a Chartered Accountant but eventually realised that Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the most exciting part of the day was his journey fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to work know that. She went on his mopeda grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. Next came She wasn't a spell as hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a IT Consultant into which he put heart and soul and only just escaped with his sanitymere tourist passing through. A mental breakdown She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and a spell how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in The Priory convinced him that he had the context of her own paradigms, and how to rethink his life choices keep enough notes and high on files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the list was event. Fortunately, she also went with a longsense of open-distance trip on ness and curiosity and a motorbike. The first two trips willingness to muck- from London in, to Cape Town break her own rules and the reverse - were aborted and we join him as he attempts his most ambitious journey. He's heading from New York to truly connect with the very south people of South America. Oh, and he's taking in the Galapagos and Easter Islandvillage where she hauled up.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956968309</amazonuk>1780600429
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean-Paul KauffmannNicolas Bouvier|title=A Journey to Nowhere: Among the Lands and History of CourlandThe Japanese Chronicles|rating=4.5
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|summary=When I turn It never does to travel writing, it is start a healthy balance review of that about places I have been toa book with a quote from the blurb, and places Ibut sometimes it've nots unavoidable. But without sounding too big-headed it is seldom places I have never heard of in any context - especially those I have passed throughLe Monde reviewed this book, at some point, with the words ''what's morethe old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece. The 'nowhere' It is precisely that. A masterpiece in focus here is Courland, which was more-or-less the coastal slither sense of the top craft as well as the art of Latvia, and was once an independent Duchywriting. In one fell swoop Kauffmann seems I'm going to become the only hesitate to call it 'travel writer to have written writing' because this is as much a book about the placehistory of Japan, at least a mythology-primer for many the Japanese culture as it is a generation, personal response to living and, it's pleasant to say, probably travelling in the best one could have hoped forcountry.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050362</amazonuk>1906011044
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Agatha Christie and Mathew Prichard (editor)Stephen Fabes|title=The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire expeditionSigns of Life
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|summary=In 1922 Agatha Christie, already the author I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of three very successful books, far away places. I was happily married with a small daughterbirth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, and her heartI didn's desire t inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to continue writing while she led a quiet life in the countrysimply go out and do it. However her husband Archie was becoming increasingly restless I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and disenchanted basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with working in the City, and his longing for a change was suddenly to be fulfilled in a most unexpected wayrequisite 'bottle'. An old friend, Major Belcher, In order words I'blessed with great powers of bluff', presented them both with m not the opportunity sort of person who will get on a lifetime – to join him on bike outside a trip to several imperial outposts in preparation for the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition to be staged at Wembley. Archie would be his financial adviser, London hospital and Agatha was cordially invited not come home for the trip, as his wifesix years. (Two-year-old Rosalind would have to stay at home, a decision which involved some soul-searching)Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000744768X</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tessa HainsworthRob Baker|title=Home to RoostToubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in Africa
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|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary=There seems ''"Go to be a plethora of books about people who have moved to unusual placesMali," they said. "The music is amazing, or changed lifestyle in middle age for a variety " they said. "And you get ten hours of reasonssunshine every day. This book features a London family who have moved to Cornwall, and is the third (so far) in a series about their transition" So I did. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848093756</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen WheelerChristine Brown|title=Tout SoulBucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West Africa
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|summary=Meet Karen. Expat fashion writer. French cottage owner. Devoted mother In the summer of Biff. Frustrated girlfriend of a dashing Portuguese hunk. Tout Soul is 2008, this book's author was spending her 3rd book about a relocated life days working in rural France and after her previous tales of upping and leaving Blighty (book 1) and falling an office job in love with the aforementioned dashing hunk (book 2) she’s now moved USA while spending her focus to the pursuit of happinessnights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957106602</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Donovan Hohn|title=Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28Long story short,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In January 1992 a container ship was on its way from China to the USA when it was caught she ended up volunteering in a storm and two containers broke loose from the deckGhana, West Africa. They held nearly thirty thousand bath toys - yellow ducksNow coincidentally, green frogs, red beavers and blue turtles - which were freed when the containers broke up and have circumnavigated in the globe for almost twenty years. Donovan Hohn was a teacher and when one summer of his students wrote an essay describing what had happened to the toys it caught Hohn2010, this review's imagination. The rest is - as they say - history and a very good book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908526009</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Watson|title=Up Pohnpei: A quest to reclaim the soul of football by leading the worldwas spending ''s ultimate underdogs to glory|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=Iher'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 days working 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 a foreign land an office job (albeit in [[Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons]]. the UK) while spending ''Upher'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''Pohnpeishe'' is firmly ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, when this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to have the latter category, treading very similar ground opportunity to Simons' bookread and critique it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184668501X</amazonuk>171024299X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin ThubronMourby_Rooms|title=To Rooms with a Mountain in Tibet View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby
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|summary=This must go down as Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the least apposite indefinite article hotels in a book title yet. Yeseach section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, there are many other mountains dotting the plains which helps to give something of Tibet, but calling this one just an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'agrand' mountain, when it is sacred ? The first hotel to a fifth of the worldcall itself 'grand's religious people... Hindu was in Covent Garden in 1774 and Buddhist faiths alike venerate Mount Kailas, 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 devotees are supposed to family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and circle round it to cleanse each faced a lifetime's sinsdifferent set of challenges. Thubron takes us on his own pilgrimage, from impoverished cliff-side villages We begin in Nepalthe Americas, through move to Chinese-occupied Tibet the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and to the sacred route around Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the mountaingrand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532646</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabeth Eaves1908745819|title=Wanderlust|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Egypt. Australia. Papua New Guinea. Spain. Pakistan. New Zealand. France. For some that list will be a random list of places, mixing those they know with those they’ve never considered. Others might tick off a few and have the remainder on a ‘to do’ list. It’s probably only a small subset who will have passed through all of them, and an ever tinier one who will have spent considerable time in each. Canadian native Elisabeth Eaves is one of the lucky few who has been there, done that, and this book is essentially her travel diaries of those years wandering the globe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1580053114</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSurfacing|author=Andrew Wilson|title=Shadow of the TitanicKathleen Jamie|rating=45
|genre=History
|summary=Lesson Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one in writing non-fiction articles and journalism seems 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 a rare experience. People who are sensitive to be to find out what is topicalhearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. April 2012 is The blurb speaks of the centenary author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the sinking natural world, of those aspects of the Titanicpoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and there are going to be hoards substance most of people finding all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it topical to celebrate that. Lesson two seems It was written for me. It would have found its way to be to find your own unique angle on the storyme eventually. Wilson approaches the Titanic disaster by sinking her at the end of chapter one, for he looks more at the lives of the people on board, and how they took the calamity and dealt with I am pleased to have itfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377300</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed Vulliamy1912242052|title=Amexica: War Along the Borderline|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=More than 38,000 people have been killed in the last 3 years in what Ed Vulliamy argues is an unacknowledged war, on the long border (2,100 miles) between Mexico and the United States. The war is between drug trafficking gangs over control of the lucrative drugs trade from Mexico to the US. In this compelling and disturbing work of reportage Vulliamy travels through the borderlands meeting some of the people affected. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546566</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewO Joy for me!|author=Thomas Bruce Wheeler|title=The London of Sherlock Holmes - Over 400 Computer Generated Street Level PhotosKeir Davidson
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|genre=TravelArt|summary=Should I trust a book that has a typo on ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the FRONT cover? Would I purchase a book that practically says, as its first words, person to walk the e-book version is better than this paper thing? Thismountains alone, despite setting up very much the wrong impressionnot because he had to for work, is as a gateway into the world of Sherlock Holmes - but doesminer, as I sayquarryman, blatantly show itself up as flawedshepherd or pack-horse driver, while the electronic version could count as a very worthwhile app but because he wanted to for the Conan Doyle buffpleasure and adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Mathie|title=Supper With The President|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's such a pleasure to read an Ian Mathie book, so I really looked forward to 'Supper His rapturous encounters with the President'. No surprises, then, to find this book every bit as delightfultheir natural beauty, intriguing and informative as his others. Ian Mathie knows exactly how to stitch up a good story; the occasional photographs - proving the stories are not fiction – come almost as a surprise. The books are helpfully illustrated with simple maps placing the stories in geographical context. To meits literary consequences, Ian Mathie is simply the best changed our view of the relatively unknown writers I have come across as a reviewer. Interestingly, the two men in my household grab and devour Ian Mathieworld''s books, and I imagine anyone interested in development issues and/or Africa would welcome one or two of his titles for Christmas. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906852103</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (ed)Woolf_Great|title=Under the Sun. The Letters of Bruce Chatwin|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Bruce Chatwin was best known as a travel writer – this collection both confirms his 'wanderlust' but also clearly establishes that his writing was far more of a creative process than the usual journalistic approach to travel writing. Nicholas Shakespeare’s selection and passages of narration makes this a mix of the biographical and the autobiographical, a fascinating insight into a restless spirit, but also into the experimentation and literary reflection that made him outstanding amongst his peers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089897</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sonia Faleiro|title=Beautiful ThingGreat Horizon: Inside the Secret World 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 in other traditional female jobs outside the sex industry, such as cleaners. Many 50 Tales 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>}} {{newreviewExploration|author=Michael Booth|title=Eat, Pray, Eat|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=I really enjoyed ''Eat, Pray, Love'' by Elizabeth Gilbert. 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 is a different personality with another story and writing style and after a few, doubting pages, I was away. This is a story of a family adventure to India, a hard-fought encounter with yoga, and some culinary interest thrown in. But like Elizabeth Gilbert, like most other visitors, India moved his life-view dramatically and for the better.|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>}} {{newreview|author=Jasper Rees|title=Bred of Heaven: One man's quest to reclaim his Welsh rootsJo Woolf
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|genre=TravelHistory|summary=Jasper Rees is Jo Woolf has compiled a Welshman in his dreamsbrilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Despite his surname, he was born in England, but wishes he was from Wales. Seeking to find his inner Welshman – he's sure he has one as he had Welsh grandparents – he Their fearless journeys around have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the land wildest parts of our world, and also given us an understanding of his fathers trying to work out what it means is like to be Welshfaced with the most terrible conditions and still have the determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682991</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siddhartha DebHailstone_Berlin|title=The Beautiful and Berlin in the DamnedCold War: Life in the New India|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=This book immediately caught my eye with its terrific front cover. A picture says more than a thousand words ... But I was conscious that, as a work of non-fiction, it may be full of rather dry facts and figures that I was going to have to plough through with grace and patience. Couple that with, in my opinion, most of the Indian writers that I have read, 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 of individuals I'm not going 1959 to feel bombarded by hundreds of different stories vying for space on the page. Good start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917303</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1966|author=Michael Bond|title=Paddington's Guide to LondonAllan Hailstone
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-FictionHistory|summary=Some things are just a brilliant idea. Young Paddington Bear has written a guide book to his adopted home ''Berlin in the way that only he could do it. All his old friends are there – Mr and Mrs Brown and their children Jonathan and Judy along with their housekeeper Mrs Bird and of course we mustnCold War: 1959-1966't forget Paddington's old friend Mr Gruber who has contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The images provide an encyclopaedic knowledge insight into the changing nature of Londonthe divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War. So, where is Paddington planning to take you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007415915</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PalinStewart_Marches|title=Ox Travels|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Ox Travels is an anthology of travel writing compiled to raise funds for Oxfam, but it is well worth buying and reading in its own right. Its generous 432 pages offer the chance to meet 36 writers, including travel writers, journalists and novelists, with an introduction by Michael Palin and an afterword by Barbara Stocking, Oxfam's Chief Executive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668496X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Marches|author=Karen Blixen|title=Out Of AfricaRory Stewart
|rating=5
|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=It's more than a quarter The Observer quote on the front of a century since I first saw the film ''Out paperback edition of AfricaStewart's latest book observes ' and it's one of the few that have stayed with me over the intervening yearsThis is travel writing at its finest. It wasn't just the story, but the personality of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape of the Ngong Hills, south of Nairobi, in Kenya's Rift Valley. I remember looking for this book at the timePerhaps, but being unable to find call it, so the opportunity 'travel writing' is to read totally under-sell it now was too good to miss.|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 erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background to acquire if your general knowledge of historical adventurers is as haphazard as mine. Somewhere along do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the line, I'd missed out on Scott Army and Shackletonthe Foreign Office, and itthen (to his father's very satisfying indeed to fill those gaps from such a reliable informant, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. One brisk sectionOh, for example, managed to encapsulate both Antartica's history and further outlookhe walked 6, 000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along with sufficient atmospheric detail to ensure we mortals understood just what it feels like to sleep in Scott's hut during the Scottish borders should be a wintry galedoddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090712</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim ButcherBristow China|title=Chasing the DevilChina in Drag: On Foot Through Africa's Killing Fields|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|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 Travels with 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 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 people out there in those war zones, without the glamour flak-jacket, just (if they're lucky) the ordinary pockCross-marked one, that they prefer not to wear because it's way too hot? People who still ply the classic trade of actually writing what they see and trusting that they can do it well enough for the words to stand alone without the sound effects, without (quite often) any pictures, to make it "real"?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532069</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewdresser|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 written for numerous newspapers and magazines on the subject, released a book called ''On The Slow Train'' about some of Britain's best railway trips. With far too many journeys to fit into one volume, he's given us a dozen more in this sequel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848092857</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Gimlette|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 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 TibetBristow
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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 book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843546116</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Miller|title=Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Miller is probably fascinating portrait of one of the best people to take you on a tour of Delhi. Heworld'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 taximost intriguing nations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526743</amazonuk>
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|genre=HistoryArt|summary=''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' is one of the most famous mystery novels of allIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, and also one of the most famous English novels set left with an hour to fill in Devon. This alone 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 Blakeney before we could have found several more links between the county, and Conan Doyle alongside those associated with himkeys to our holiday cottage. The result has revealed much information of which even I, who have lived There was an art exhibition in the county nearly all my lifechurch hall, was previously unaware.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312861</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Lane|title=England 'Til I Die so we went in - 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 and found a fan display of England’s football squad. Hardly ever would I prefer to see the Three Lions triumphantmost gorgeous pictures. I never got into 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 d cheerfully have bought every one and singing hung them on our walls, but thought that awful tune before the match. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently I would have to me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906796505</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Justine Hardy|title=In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir's Long War - One Family's Extraordinary Story|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Kashmir. Is that not the most romantic of names? To those of us entranced by tales from the East, it echoes make do with the same essence a couple of myth as greetings cards when I saw ''Shang-ri-laOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' – and for good reason. Geographically situated in the Himalaya but with the abundant fertility of the valley, lakes and meadows, it should be a kind of paradise. To the people who live there, I couldn't resist buying it once was. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846041511</amazonuk>
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