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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]]==Travel==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew MartinAlastair Humphreys|title=Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube Local|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryTravel |summary=Although he was born in Yorkshire, Andrew Martin Alastair Humphreys has long been enthralled by walked and cycled all over the London Undergroundworld. His father worked on British Rail, And then written about it. For this book he walked and Andrew himself therefore had free travel on the system as well as a Privilege Pass which entitled him cycled very close to free first-class train travel on the national rail networkhome and then wrote about it. Having lived As he says in London for twenty-five yearshis introduction, commuting the book is an attempt ''to various newspaper offices in his employment as share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a journalistsmall map. Nature loss, pollution, a job which has included writing a regular magazine columnland use and access, Tube Talkagriculture, 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 well qualified likely to write this entertaining have a downside for somebody and enlightening social history of the world's most famous underground railwaythat there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684773</amazonuk>1785633678

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Wheeler0957181167|title=Tout SoulBlue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=4.5|genre=TravelArt|summary=Meet Karen. Expat fashion writer. French cottage owner. Devoted mother of Biff. Frustrated girlfriend of a dashing Portuguese hunk. Tout Soul is her 3rd book There are few positive things which can be said about a relocated life substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in rural France trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and after her previous tales was completely taken by the work of upping Brian Lewis. I searched online and leaving Blighty (could only find ‘used’ versions of this book 1) and falling in love with the aforementioned dashing hunk (book 2) she’s now moved her focus to print I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the pursuit apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print of happinessthe picture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957106602</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donovan Hohn1785633457|title=Moby-DuckCharging Around: The True Story of 28,800 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 Exploring the USA when it was caught in a storm and two containers broke loose from the deck. They held nearly thirty thousand bath toys - yellow ducks, green frogs, red beavers and blue turtles - which were freed when the containers broke up and have circumnavigated the globe for almost twenty years. Donovan Hohn was a teacher and when one Edges of his students wrote an essay describing what had happened to the toys it caught Hohn'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 England 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 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>}} {{newreviewElectric Car|author=Colin Thubron|title=To a Mountain in Tibet Clive Wilkinson|rating=45

|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?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elisabeth EavesMerryn Glover|title=WanderlustThe Hidden Fires|rating=4.5

|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

 {{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

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ed VulliamyErling Kagge|title=AmexicaWalking: War Along the BorderlineOne Step At A Time

|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>}}

{{newreview|author=Thomas Bruce Wheeler|title=The London of Sherlock Holmes - Over 400 Computer Generated Street Level Photos|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=Should I trust Erligg Kagge is a book that Norwegian explorer who has a typo on walked to the FRONT cover? Would I purchase a book that practically says, as its first wordsSouth Pole, the e-book version is better than this paper North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing? Thisor two about walking. However, despite setting up very much the wrong impressionthis isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a gateway into the world thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of Sherlock Holmes - but does, as unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I sayhaven't counted. In small format paperback, blatantly show itself up as flawedeach essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, while the electronic version could count better thought of as a very worthwhile app for the Conan Doyle buffmeditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>0241357705

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian MathieMonica Connell|title=Supper With The PresidentAgainst a Peacock Sky

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sonia FaleiroNicolas Bouvier|title=Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance BarsThe Japanese Chronicles|rating=4.5

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael BoothStephen Fabes|title=Eat, Pray, EatSigns of Life|rating=45

|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

 {{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

|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>}}''

{{newreview|author=Jasper Rees|title=Bred of Heaven: One manRob Baker is an ethnomusicologist. ''A what?''s quest to reclaim his Welsh roots|rating=3.5|genre=Travel|summary=Jasper Rees is a Welshman in his dreamsI hear you cry. Despite his surnameWell, he was born an ethnomusicologist studies music in Englandrelation to culture, but wishes he was from Wales. Seeking to find his inner Welshman – he's sure he has one as he had Welsh grandparents – he journeys around so rather like a folklorist studies the land of his fathers trying oral and written story traditions relating to work out what it means to be Welsha culture.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846682991</amazonuk>B089CSNFT7

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Siddhartha DebChristine Brown|title=The Beautiful Bucket Showers and the DamnedBaby Goats: Life Volunteering in the New IndiaWest Africa

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PalinMourby_Rooms|title=Ox TravelsRooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Blixen1908745819|title=Out Of AfricaSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|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>

 {{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>

 {{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>

 {{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

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith HernStewart_Marches|title=Zimbabwe in PicturesThe Marches|author=Rory Stewart|rating=35|genre=TravelHistory|summary=I'm a bit The Observer quote on the front of an amateur photographer, and since the advent paperback edition of digital cameras I always come back from holidays with thousands of photosStewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, over-excited by the fact that I am no longer limited but to 24 or 36 exposure films! I enjoy, therefore, flicking through photography books, to see the images that have captured someone elsecall it 'travel writing's imagination and is to see if I can pick up any interesting framing ideas, or subject settingstotally under-sell it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685707</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Winn|title=I Never Knew That About the River Thames|rating=4This is erudition at its finest.5|genre=Trivia|summary=Here are Stewart has the remains of background to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the building that could be said to have sired two important British royal dynasties. Here is Army and the place of ill-reputeForeign Office, where and then (to his father'Rule Britannia' was premiereds, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and which also bizarrely saw a death by cricket ball that inspired the most famous gardens he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in the world2002. Here too is A walk along the largest lion in the worldScottish borders should be a doddle by comparison. To where am I referring? Well the answer is either the Thames valley, or this very book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland HuntfordBristow China|title=Race for the South PoleChina in Drag: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and AmundsenTravels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam MillerHurst_Norfolk|title=DelhiOn My Way: Adventures in a MegacityNorfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst

|genre=TravelArt|summary=Miller is probably one 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 best people keys to take you on our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and found a tour display of Delhithe most gorgeous pictures. HeI's not a native so has no in-bred partisanshipd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but he does love the place so will thought that I would have to make sure you do too, but mainly because to begin with he HATED it… so he will understand if you dona couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn'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 taxiresist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526743</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Brian W Pugh, Paul R Spiring and Sadru Bhanji|title=Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon: A Complete Tour Guide and Companion|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' is one of the most famous mystery novels of all, and also one of the most famous English novels set in Devon. This alone would probably give more or less enough material for an entire book Move 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 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 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 and singing that awful tune before the match. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently 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 with the same essence of myth as ''Shang-ri-la'' – 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, it once was. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846041511</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Booth|title=Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Japanese food has a tendency to sound a bit freakish or even controversial. Raw fish? Octopus ice cream? Whale meat? Yet it is slowly infiltrating the UK with sushi conveyor belt restaurants popping up everywhere and noodle bars offering Westernised bowls of steaming noodles. In this book Michael Booth takes his wife and two young children to experience the real thing, travelling across the whole of Japan tasting an enormous range of foods and learning about their history, how the foods have been produced and are cooked and eaten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516446</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Trivia Reviews]]