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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Woolf INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->*[[image{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0957181167|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips:Woolf_GreatThe Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewis.jpg I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wanted.}}{{Frontpage|leftisbn=1785633457|linktitle=httpsCharging Around://wwwExploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel.amazonAs he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous.coIn fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author=Merryn Glover|title=The Hidden Fires|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= 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 context, in order to appreciate the book.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. 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 Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famously.|isbn=1846975751}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B7289HKQ|title=Conversations 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|rating=4|genre=UTF8&tagTravel|summary=thebookbagKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon -21&linkCodeall 4250 miles of it - in 2015. They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.}}{{Frontpage|author=as2&campErling Kagge|title=1634&creativeWalking: One Step At A Time|rating=6738&creativeASIN5|genre= Lifestyle|summary=1910985880]]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).

===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of walked to the wildest parts of our worldSouth Pole, and also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions North Pole and still have the determination and grit to carry onsummit of Everest. This book could be viewed as He knows a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more thing or two about some of the most iconic explorerswalking. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Mourby -->*[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]] ===[[Rooms with However, this isn't a View: The Secret Life travelogue about any of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]those epic journeys, [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us it is instead 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 thoughtful exploration of an 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 a period when a hotel would be a 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, move means to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asiawalk. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand. [[Rooms with It is a View: The Secret Life plenitude of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Stewart -->*[[image:Stewart_Marchesunnumbered essays about walking.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]] ===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of StewartThere is no 's latest book observes contents'page and I haven'This is travel writing at its finestt counted.'' PerhapsIn small format paperback, but to call it travel writing each essay is to totally under-sell itonly a few pages long. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and Perhaps then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became better thought of as a meditation rather than an MPessay. Oh, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]]<br>isbn=0241357705}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=NicholsonMonica Connell|title=Mr Tambourine ManAgainst a Peacock Sky|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleTravel|summary=Back in 1965 we heard ''Mr Tambourine Man'' by Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the Byrds on the radio very regularlyfieldwork for her Ph.D. Nicholson was thirteen and saw the 45rpm recording of the song in the window of the local music store and would have loved to be able social anthropology. I think it is important to buy it but didn't have the moneyknow that. ThirteenShe went on a grant-year olds didnsupported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't in those days unless it was a birthday or Christmas and you couldnhippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't get a part-time job until you were fifteenmere tourist passing through. There would be She went with a few fundamental aim of those badly-paid jobs before he finished his A levels learning about these people and 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 New York for three months"understand" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. It's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being Fortunately, she also went with a boy into sense of open-ness and curiosity and a man willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and allowed him to see truly connect with the people of the bigger picturevillage where she hauled up.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524681822</amazonuk>1780600429

{{Frontpage<!-- Bristow -->|author=Nicolas Bouvier[[image:Bristow China.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985902?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985902]]The Japanese Chronicles|rating===[[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow]]===5[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a journalist for the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided summary= It never does to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the local language for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in the early fifties, offered Bristow start a compelling picture review of life in Communist China - but added to that, Bristow was greatly surprised to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies 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 most intriguing nations. [[China in Drag: Travels book with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Jenkins -->[[image:Jenkins_100.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/024197898X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=024197898X]] ===[[Britainquote from the blurb, but sometimes it's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins]]=== [[image:5starunavoidable.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]]Le Monde reviewed this book, [[:Category:Art|Art]]at some point, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] In the mid twentieth century the railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first century oil is giving way to electricity. Itwords 's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations. [[Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview<!-- Hailstone -->*[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]] ===[[Berlin in what the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4starold master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] ''Berlin It is precisely that. A masterpiece in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to sense of the city during this period. The images provide an insight into craft as well as the changing nature art of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold Warwriting. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Stuart Maconie|title= Long Road From Jarrow|rating= 5|genre= Travel |summary= I cancelled my 'm going to hesitate to call it 'Country Walkingtravel writing'' magazine subscription about because this is as much a history of Japan, a year ago and mythology-primer for the only thing I miss Japanese culture as it is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing personal response to admit. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill living and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up travelling in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at leastcountry.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>1906011044

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John HurstStephen Fabes|title=On My Way: Norfolk Coastal WalksSigns of Life

|genre=SportTravel|summary=It I was pure serendipity: after a fivebrought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-hour drive we wererighted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottageI didn't inherit what Dr. There Stephen Fabes clearly had which was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - guts to simply go out and found a display of the most gorgeous picturesdo it. Ialso didn'd cheerfully t inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought meant that I would have to make do survived if I had been gifted with a couple of greetings cards when I saw the requisite 'bottle'On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'. In order words I' m not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and I couldn't resist buying itnot come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095444003X</amazonuk>1788161211

<!-- Morris -->[[image:Morris_FootstepsRob Baker is an ethnomusicologist.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/144567114X''A what?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=144567114X]] ===[[In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by S Morris and N Grueninger]]=== [[image:5starI hear you cry.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]Well, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation to culture, [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] It was inevitable that each of so rather like a folklorist studies the six wives of Henry VIII would have left their mark in some way on the places they lived oral and visited. This book straddles several categories; it is part history, part gazetteer or guide book, and also written story traditions relating to a collection of potted biographiesculture. [[In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by S Morris and N Grueninger|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br>isbn=B089CSNFT7}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian MourbyChristine Brown|title=Rooms of One's OwnBucket Showers and Baby Goats: 50 Places That Made Literary HistoryVolunteering in West Africa

|summary= Thomas H CookIn the summer of 2008, this book's author was spending her days working in an American author valued for office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in the quality of writing and compelling intrigues summer of his numerous thrillers2010, has written a collection of nearly thirty accounts of visits to this review's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''tragic shoresher'' of the title. There is no noticeable rhyme or reason to the order of presentationnights dreaming about being somewhere else, apart from the lastdoing something else, and the most personal tale which links the travel report to the author's personal loss of his wife and long-time travel companion'she'' ended up just 3 countries away, who features volunteering in many of the chaptersSierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, as does the couple's daughterwhen this book came up, but they all said reviewer was delighted to have the pertain opportunity to Cook's visits to what he describes as ''the saddest places on Earth''read and critique it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184916326X</amazonuk>171024299X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim MooreMourby_Rooms|title=Rooms with a View: The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain TrailSecret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby

|summary= One Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the results I find from travel documentariesworld, often on TV but also with the hotels in book form, is the verdict 'each section being arranged chronologically rather him than me' (and it generally is a he). Yesby region, I'd like which helps to go there and see give something of an overall picture. So what hemakes a hotel 's seen, but Igrand'm damned if I would risk the danger, the potential consequences and/or the effort the whole experience required. This book is the epitome of that, for as much as I love most of the twenty countries it hits on – give me a chance, I? The first hotel to call itself 've not quite been to them all – I wouldngrand't countenance making this exact was in Covent Garden in 1774 and exacting trip. A couple of years ago, those in the know somewhere it ushered in an office deemed the route beginning of the entire old Iron Curtain – the fringe of the Soviet Union, plus Romania, Bulgaria etc – to a period when a hotel would be a pan-continental biking routelifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. With the news that he can dismiss other attempts The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and still have each faced a claim to being different set of challenges. We begin in the first person Americas, move to clock the whole mammoth tripUnited Kingdom, our gutsy author undertakes it allcircumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and thus surveys a scar across the entire continent to see if it's still visibleTurkey then northern Africa, India and what flesh it once upon a time dividedAsia. Oh and he did Australia, it on a Communist-era piddly little bike, lacking in both gears and good brakes, that was designed for nothing more strenuous than conveying you around a campsiteseems, does not go for 6,000 miles…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100211</amazonuk>the grand.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amelia Dalton1908745819|title=Mistress and Commander: High Jinks, High Seas and Highlanders Surfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 3.5|genre=TravelHistory|summary= NowadaysSometimes 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, Amelia Dalton runs 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 hearing a travel agency whichbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, by I was told why. The blurb speaks of the look author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of it, is herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a something bad description of a modern version where I am. Add to that my love of how Thomas Cook began: excusivethe natural world, tailor-made holidaysof those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, cruises and expeditions substance most of all around the world catering , 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. I am pleased to those who can afford this kind of thinghave it fall onto my path so quickly. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary=''Mistress and CommanderOh Joy for me!''gives Coleridge credit for being '' shows how she got there: from an upper-middle class wife whose life involved landed gentry, boarding schools and county hunts the first person to scrubbing stinky goop from walk the cargo hold of what used mountains alone, not because he had to be for work, as a Danish Arctic trawlerminer, running charters quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to St Kilda, dealing for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with doubtful mechanicstheir natural beauty, lecherous skippersand its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Woolf_Great|title=The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration|author=Jo Woolf|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and getting her own Master's ticket, by achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the way wildest parts of family tragedyour world, martial drama and also given us an understanding of what seemed it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have the steepest learning curve related determination and grit to marine engines one carry on. This book could possibly imaginebe 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hailstone_Berlin|title=Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966|author=Allan Hailstone|amazonukrating=<amazonuk>1910985171<4|genre=History|summary=''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/amazonuk>photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War.

{{Frontpage<!-- Foreman -->|isbn=Stewart_Marches[[image:Foreman_Travel.jpg|lefttitle=The Marches|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783704721?ieRory Stewart|rating=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783704721]]5|genre===[[Travels With My Sketchbook by Michael Foreman]]===History [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] I guess The Observer quote on the best children's literature can do away with complete veracity, as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a little front of the spirit, heart and character paperback edition of the real thing, whatever it may be. And if thatStewart's the case then it definitely applies to childrenlatest book observes ''s literature illustrations, such as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. This prolific artist leapt is travel writing at a scholarship in the US when heits finest.'d completed his official, formal studies, and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving sincePerhaps, as this book takes us but to all corners of the world, and back home again. [[Travels With My Sketchbook by Michael Foreman|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Biesty -->[[image:Biesty Trains.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783704241?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783704241]] ===[[Stephen Biestycall it 's Trains by Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Childrentravel writing's Nonis to totally under-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] 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 sell it works. Getting to grips with one in real life This is quite a big ask, but erudition at its finest. Stewart has 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 background to the trains of the future which can reach a speed of 430 kph do this: he had an international upbringing and don't even run on rails. Once followed his father in both the train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised Army and the train is held up by magnetic forces alone. [[Stephen Biesty's Trains by Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Gavin Francis|title= True North|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary=''True North''Foreign Office, 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 itthen (to his father's not as much of a mis-classification as it could initially appear, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. FrancisOh, a Scottish GP who ''divides his time between writing and doctoring''he walked 6, starts 000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along 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 Scottish borders should be a stinking African hospital ward''doddle by comparison. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971306</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Peter IrvineBristow China|title= Scotland the BestChina in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow|rating= 4|genre= TravelAutobiography|summary= Peter Irvine's book advertises itself Having worked for nine years in Bejing as ''The true Scot's insider's guide a journalist for the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the very best Scotland has to offer'' and has throughout its many local language for several years of existence became , Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in the early fifties, offered Bristow a bit compelling picture of an institution. And no wonderlife in Communist China - but added to that, Bristow was greatly surprised to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies clothing. It soon becomes clear that the tale told here is indeed immensely personal - yet also paints a guide like no other and although it's unlikely to completely fulfil anybodyfascinating portrait of one of the world's guidebook needs, it will offer a unique perspective and some top-notch inspirationmost intriguing nations. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007319657</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon BennettHurst_Norfolk|title= In Search of Sundance, Nessie...and ParadiseOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating= 4|genre= Travel Art|summary= Books are personalIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. There are three things that signal good books to me: how I feel while reading them and was an art exhibition in the enforced spaces between reading themchurch hall, so we went in - and found a display of the degree to which most gorgeous pictures. I bore everyone around me for ages afterwards by quoting them 'd cheerfully have bought every one and talking about hung themon our walls, and whether but thought that I remember how, would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when and where I first read them. That last criterion can only be judged later, but on the first two saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'In Search of Sundance…'and I couldn' definitely qualifiest resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666173</amazonuk>