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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amelia DaltonAlastair Humphreys|title=Mistress and Commander: High Jinks, High Seas and Highlanders Local|rating= 3.5|genre=Travel|summary= Nowadays, Amelia Dalton runs a travel agency which, by the look of it, is a something of a modern version of how Thomas Cook began: excusive, tailor-made holidays, cruises Alastair Humphreys has walked and expeditions cycled all around over the world catering . And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to those who can afford this kind of thinghome and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''Mistress and Commander''' shows how she got there: from an upper-middle class wife whose life involved landed gentry, boarding schools and county hunts to scrubbing stinky goop share what I have learnt about some big issues from the cargo hold of what used to be a Danish Arctic trawleryear exploring a small map. Nature loss, running charters to St Kildapollution, land use and access, dealing with doubtful mechanicsagriculture, lecherous skippersthe food system, and getting her own Masterrewilding…''s ticket, by One of the way joys of family tragedythe 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', martial drama that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and what seemed like the steepest learning curve related to marine engines one could possibly imaginethat there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910985171</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Foreman0957181167|title=Travels With My SketchbookBlue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=45

|summary=I guess the best children's literature There are few positive things which can do away with complete veracitybe said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a little couple of pictures on the spirit, heart walls - and character was completely taken by the work of the real thing, whatever it may beBrian Lewis. And if that's I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the case then it definitely applies to children's literature illustrations, such as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]print I wanted was ‘not available’. This prolific artist leapt at Oh, dear - then a scholarship in few doors down from the US when he'd completed his official, formal studiesapartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving since, as this book takes us to all corners a framed print of the world, and back home againpicture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704721</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty1785633457|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre=ArtTravel|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which you can see. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with one in real life is quite a big ask, but preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the next best thing is ''Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through to idea of exploring the trains edges of the future which can reach England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a speed of 430 kph pleasant holiday for Clive and donhis wife, Joan, shouldn't even run on rails. Once the train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gavin Francis|title= True North|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary=''True North'', while very much a travel book in the grand tradition of the best travel writing that combines the trip report with the so-called background information is classified by Amazon in Cultural History and it's not as much of a mis-classification as it could initially appear. Francis, a Scottish GP who ''divides his time between writing and doctoring'', starts the body proper of ''True North'' with one of the best opening lines I have read recently: ''I began to dream of the North in a stinking African hospital ward''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971306</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Peter Irvine|title= Scotland the Best|rating= 4|genre= Travel|summary= Peter Irvine's book advertises itself as ''The true Scot's insider's guide to the very best Scotland has to offer'' and has throughout its many years of existence became a bit of an institution. And no wonder. It is indeed a guide like no other and although it's unlikely to completely fulfil anybody's guidebook needs, it will offer a unique perspective and some top-notch inspiration. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007319657</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Bennett|title= In Search of Sundance, Nessie...and Paradise|rating= 4|genre= Travel |summary= Books are personal. There are three things that signal good books to me: how I feel while reading them and in the enforced spaces between reading them, the degree to which I bore everyone around me for ages afterwards by quoting them and talking about them, and whether I remember how, when and where I first read them. That last criterion can only be judged later, but on the first two ''In Search of Sundance…'' definitely qualifies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666173</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin TaylorMerryn Glover|title=The Life of a Scilly SergeantHidden Fires|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet It is always about the book, not the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – writer, but there are times when the author provides a handy guide 's hinterland is also the background to the etiquette of their name, their nature book and locationso it is necessary to understand that context, etcin order to appreciate the book.) For our more distant readersMerryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, they're several chunks of granite rock out grew up in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residentsAnnapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. They'I can think of no-one better a combination to give us a re big on tourism, and big on growing flowers -appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within yearsCairngorms National Park. They're so wee Merryn walks, and not so idyllic-seemingmuch in the shadow of Shepherd, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presencebut in her spirit. But there is – at least I think the two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his workwould have gotten along famously.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>1846975751

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G A JonesB0B7289HKQ|title=The Cruise of NaromisConversations Across America: August in A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Baltic 1939Soul of America|author=Kari Loya

|summary=There's braveKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, and there is brave. I may well have been born in a coastal county but certainly would baulk at by the idea of setting out way) wanted to sea spend some time with four colleagues in a 37'-long boat. Boats to me are like planes – the bigger the better, his father and the safer I feel as period between two jobs seemed like a resultgood time to do it. But luckily for The decision was made to ride the purpose of this bookTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, George Jones was born with a much different pair of sea-legs Virginia to mineAstoria, and took to the waters Oregon - all 4250 miles of the English Channel, the North Sea and beyond it - in ''Naromis'' with brio2015. But – and They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this is where the further definition up as more of bravery comes in – he did a challenge that it in August 1939, knowing full well that he would be sailing full tilt into the teeth of warfor most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262334</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul ThurlbyErling Kagge|title= NY is for New YorkWalking: One Step At A Time|rating= 5|genre= Emerging ReadersLifestyle|summary= Long gone are Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the days when children didn't travelnumber of pages with corners turned, and picture books had so let me start this one with an apology to be about animals. And while the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your pre-schoolers might book not be planning solo trips to the States any time soonmine. 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 itis subtle – I's never too early ll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to get them and older siblings interested in other places and other culturesdo as soon as I have finished telling you why). ''NY is for New York''  Erligg Kagge is a themed alphabet bookNorwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, based around the city that never sleeps, North Pole and it's chock full the summit of facts and figures Everest. He knows a thing or two about a city I lovewalking. However, teaching me many new things I didnthis isn't know a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a place thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and Ihaven'm familiar with from visits and TV shows and manyt counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, many Manhattan booksbetter thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444930311</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Duncan GoughMonica Connell|title= Sketches of SpainAgainst a Peacock Sky|rating= 2.5|genre= Travel|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I salute Duncan Gough think it is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for many Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things: for his spirit of adventureout, how to organise them in her mind, his willingness how to trail "understand" them in the backroadscontext of her own paradigms, his desire and how to document these keep enough notes and share them files and encourage others photos to follow in his wheelhelp her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ruts. I love his ness and curiosity and a willingness to engage muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with locals and fellow-travellersthe people of the village where she hauled up. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785899759</amazonuk>1780600429

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Will JonesNicolas Bouvier|title= How to Read New York: A Crash Course in Big Apple ArchitectureThe Japanese Chronicles|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary=New York is home It never does to start a review of a book with a quote from the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point, with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely that. A masterpiece in the sense of the most iconic and instantly-recognisable pieces craft as well as the art of architecture in the worldwriting. The city I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a mishmash history of architectural stylesJapan, a place where Classical and Colonial meet Renaissance and Modernist. The result mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a glorious fusion that works perfectly personal response to living and upon closer inspection has a plethora of secrets just waiting to be revealed. Welcome to New York..travelling in the country.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782404104</amazonuk>1906011044

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris McIvorStephen Fabes|title=The World is ElsewhereSigns of Life

|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary=As a Country Director, Chris McIvor has worked for a number I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of years at Save the Childrenfar away places. 'The World is Elsewhere' covers his time there I was birth-righted wanderlust andcuriosity. Unfortunately, his journeys across a number of countriesI didn't inherit what Dr. It is a beautiful mix of autobiography Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and traveldo it. It I also captures his philosophical thoughts on international aid. He reflects on both didn't inherit the good kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and the bad basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with a very easy, conversational writing style that makes the book truly captivatingrequisite 'bottle'. In order words I read from cover to cover in 'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a single sitting, unusual London hospital and not come home for a reviewersix years. Such was the draw as he laid himself bare Fabes did precisely that. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910124346</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark VanhoenackerRob Baker|title= SkyfaringToubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in Africa|rating= 24|genre= Travel|summary= I didn't grow up dreaming '"Go to Mali," they said. "The music is amazing," they said. "And you get ten hours of flying planes, but sunshine every day." So I did grow up dreaming of flying .'' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologist. ''inA what?'' them on a regular basis, and I still love air travelhear you cry. There's something a little magical about itWell, and no amount of delays, go arounds, aborted landings or missing luggage will change that. And yes, I've had all of those an ethnomusicologist studies music in the last six weeks. Mark Vanhoenacker had a childhood dream relation to become a pilotculture, and though he took so rather like a detour into academia, and then another into business, that dream never left. Now on his third career (at least) he flies for BA, writing in his spare time. This book brings those two worlds together, aviation folklorist studies the oral and publishing, as he takes the reader on a journey from earth written story traditions relating to sky and back again, with the bird's eye view only a pilot can musterculture.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099589850</amazonuk>B089CSNFT7

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul JarvisChristine Brown|title=Mapping the AirwaysBucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West Africa

|genre=ArtTravel|summary=Before I startIn the summer of 2008, there is nothing wrong with this book's author was spending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being an anally retentive trainspottery typesomewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Having said thatNow coincidentally, do you see what on in the front cover summer of 2010, this first edition marks review's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, when this book out as being completely came up, said reviewer was delighted to have the opportunity to read and utterly for critique it.|isbn=171024299X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mourby_Rooms|title=Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the trainspottery type? It is world, with the fact that the foreword is both creditedhotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, and datedwhich helps to give something of an overall picture. Yes, unless So what makes a major change hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was imminent in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the Executive Chairman beginning of BA was going to a period when a hotel would be someone else within weeksa lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, this book gladly states that March 2016 was when he put finger move to laptop the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and came up with his page-long contributionAsia. Have you ever known such attention to detail? I guess Australia, it's to be expectedseems, when the book concerns such a singular entity as the visual history of charts and maps as used by does not go for the airlines that became British Airwaysgrand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654644</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cees Nooteboom and Laura Watkinson (Translator)1908745819|title= Letters to PoseidonSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 45|genre= TravelHistory|summary= A serviette, a glass of champagne taken outside Sometimes when people suggest that you read a fish restaurant in the open-air Viktualienmarkt in Munichcertain book, all taken to celebrate the first day of spring, prompt Cees Nooteboom into Proustian reveriethey tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Upon the paper napkin is written in blue capitals the Mostly we take them at their word POSEIDON, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the Greek god who has preoccupied Nooteboombook. That's thoughts for several summersa rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blue colour reminds him blurb speaks of the sea viewed from Mediterranean garden author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of his villa in Menorcaherself.'' Older. Taking this prompting as Less tethered. That's not a moment bad description of benign synchronicity, he later begins a correspondence with this sea-deitywhere I am. He seeks Add to inquire how this somewhat unreliable ancient Greek Olympian sees aeons that my love of time and sends him letters and legenda; meditations and stories to be readthe natural world, both of those aspects of the poetic and tragiclyrical that are about style not form, from the arts and the contemporary worldsubstance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. He is not expecting a reply I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782066209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Hawks1912242052|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… CountryO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson

|genre=TravelArt|summary=I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in the sticks, and the way she moved ''Oh Joy for me from an inner-city flat to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walking-and-keeping-food-hot distance, and no !'Polish' shops gives Coleridge credit for a can of beer whenever you fancy one. Things are different with Tony Hawksbeing ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, as here not because he has purposefully decided had to up sticks from London to Somewherefor work, Devon – as a tiny village where the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in themminer, quarryman, where slugs are a lot more of a problem for the wannabe lettuceshepherd or pack-grower than they are horse driver, but because he wanted to for the metropolitan commuter, pleasure and where village halls have the power to turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on adventure. His rapturous encounters with their committee natural beauty, and into a quiveringits literary consequences, bruise-inducing wreck if youchanged our view of the world''re the wrong gender at a Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris TownsendWoolf_Great|title= Out ThereThe Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration|author=Jo Woolf|rating= 43.5|genre= Animals and WildlifeHistory|summary= Chris Townsend Jo Woolf has been ''Out There'' as compiled a long distance walker for almost four decades. For most brilliant set of that time he has been equally ''out there'' as a champion fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of the outdoorssome amazingly brave people. He is Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the author mysteries of many books, many accounts the wildest parts of his treksour world, and his web site also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and blogs receive many thousands of visits. Here, for still have the first time, he gathers his thoughts determination and experience into grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a single volume, singing a hymn taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some of praise for the Wild, most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and stirring defence against human predationWoolf does them justice. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124729</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathleen WinterHailstone_Berlin|title=Boundless: Adventures Berlin in the Northwest PassageCold War: 1959 to 1966|author=Allan Hailstone

|genre=TravelHistory|summary=Luck has a lot ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to do with the city during this worldperiod. It was probably luck that let Kathleen Winter fill The images provide an insight into the post changing nature of unofficial writer-in-residence on a ship coursing through the Northwest Passage. It was doubtless luck that someone had told her to be ready divide between East and West Berlin and packed to accept any invite a glimpse into life might give you, only days beforehand. Some fortune meant she had grown up in Newfoundland, and so knew the weather, conditions and liminal locations and wildlife she might encounter. It's bad luck that between when she travelled, in 2010, and filled her pages with talk of Sir John Franklin's lost boats and lost bones, and 2016, when I read this paperback version of the results, his prime ship has been found (if not what people allege will be revealed). It's vitally fortuitous, however, that someone with her writing nous was able to travel the waters before something else, much more permanent, changed – city during the heinous climate change problems that are certainly upsetting the world up thereCold War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958719X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia BradburyStewart_Marches|title=Unforgettable WalksThe Marches|author=Rory Stewart|rating=45|genre=TravelHistory|summary=I've long been a fan The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of Julia BradburyStewart's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the news that there would shortly be another series of programmes latest book observes ''andThis is travel writing at its finest.'' a book Perhaps, but to accompany the series was music call it 'travel writing' is to my earstotally under-sell it. This time she's looking is erudition at Britain's best walks with a view its finest. Stewart has the background to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and she roams through Dorset, the CotswoldsForeign Office, Angleseyand then (to his father's, the Yorkshire Dalesbemusement, the Lakesshall we say) became an MP. Oh, Cumbriaand he walked 6, 000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the South Downs and the Peak District. Unless you're in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, with Scottish borders should be a good spread around all points of the compassdoddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784298840</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PronkoBristow China|title=Motions and MomentsChina in Drag: More Essays on TokyoTravels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow

|summary=As Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a university student at Glasgowjournalist for the BBC, Bee Rowlatt first encountered author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the protolocal language for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance -feminist Mary Wollstonecraft through her epistolary travel narrativethe language teacher, ''Letters from Norway''. This book is her homage to Wollstonecraft as well as an attempt to pinpoint why this particular work has meant so much to her over born in the years and helped her form her own ideas about feminism and motherhood. From Norway early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of life in Communist China - but added to Paris and then San Franciscothat, Rowlatt follows Bristow was greatly surprised to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in Wollstonecraftladies clothing. It soon becomes clear that the tale told here is immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait of one of the world's footsteps and asks everyone she meets how modern feminism and motherhood can coincide. By using a Dictaphone, she is able to recreate her dialogues exactly, making for lively, conversational prosemost intriguing nations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883784</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen HallidayHurst_Norfolk|title=Cathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryArt|summary=What makes a cathedral? It's not automatically the principal church of anywhere that is made was pure serendipity: after a city – St Davids is a village of 2five-hour drive,000 peoplewe were, and wasn't always a cityannoyingly, but always had a cathedral, as did Chelmsfordleft with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. It's not There was an art exhibition in the seat of a bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the personchurch hall, so we went in - and hasn't had found a bishop since 1690display of the most gorgeous pictures. ItI's not a minster – that's something completely different, d cheerfully have bought every one and if you can understand the sign in the delightful Beverley Minster describing the differencehung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I saw only the other month, you're a better man I, Gunga Din. Luckily this book doesn't touch on minsters much, and we can understand abbeys, so itOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks's only the vast majority of this book that is saddled with the definition problem. It's clearly not a real problem, and those I couldn't resist buying it does have are by-passable, for this successfully defines a cathedral as somewhere of major importance, fine trivia and greatly worthy of our attention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821047</amazonuk>