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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

 {{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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Mitchell1785633457|title=Up In The Old HotelCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|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?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrzej StasiukMerryn Glover|title=On The Road to BabadagHidden Fires

|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

 {{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

|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>

{{newreview|author=Jean Sprackland|title=Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Sprackland Erligg Kagge is a poetNorwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a good onething or two about walking. At least I assume sheHowever, this isn's t a good poet – travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I rarely read poetry these dayshaven't counted. Her first collection was shortlisted for the Forward PrizeIn small format paperback, her second was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award and her third won the 2007 Costa Poetry Awardeach essay is only a few pages long. Unless all Perhaps then, better thought of the panels harbour the same judges, that's as a lot of people thinking this is someone specialmeditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224087452</amazonuk>0241357705

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy BullardMonica Connell|title=Life On The LineAgainst a Peacock Sky|rating=45

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean-Paul KauffmannNicolas Bouvier|title=A Journey to Nowhere: Among the Lands and History of CourlandThe Japanese Chronicles|rating=4.5

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Agatha Christie and Mathew Prichard (editor)Stephen Fabes|title=The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire expeditionSigns of Life

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tessa HainsworthRob Baker|title=Home to RoostToubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in Africa

|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>}}''

{{newreview|author=Andrew Martin|title=Underground Overground: Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologist. ''A Passengerwhat?''s History of the Tube |rating=4I hear you cry.5|genre=History|summary=Although he was born Well, an ethnomusicologist studies music in Yorkshirerelation to culture, Andrew Martin has long been enthralled by so rather like a folklorist studies the London Underground. His father worked on British Rail, oral and Andrew himself therefore had free travel on the system as well as a Privilege Pass which entitled him to free first-class train travel on the national rail network. Having lived in London for twenty-five years, commuting written story traditions relating to various newspaper offices in his employment as a journalist, a job which has included writing a regular magazine column, Tube Talk, he is well qualified to write this entertaining and enlightening social history of the world's most famous underground railwayculture.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684773</amazonuk>B089CSNFT7

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen WheelerChristine Brown|title=Tout SoulBucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West Africa

|summary=Meet KarenIn the summer of 2008, this book's author was spending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Expat fashion writerLong story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. French cottage owner. Devoted mother Now coincidentally, in the summer of Biff. Frustrated girlfriend of a dashing Portuguese hunk. Tout Soul is 2010, this review'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 an office job (book 1albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and falling ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in love with the aforementioned dashing hunk (Sierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, when this book 2) she’s now moved her focus came up, said reviewer was delighted to have the pursuit of happinessopportunity to read and critique it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957106602</amazonuk>171024299X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donovan HohnMourby_Rooms|title=Moby-DuckRooms with a View: 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 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 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 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 [[Secret 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>}} {{newreviewGreat Hotels|author=Colin Thubron|title=To a Mountain in Tibet Adrian Mourby

|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>

 {{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

|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>

 {{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

|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 miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack- horse driver, but doesbecause he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, as I sayand its literary consequences, blatantly show itself up as flawed, while changed our view of the electronic version could count as a very worthwhile app for the Conan Doyle buffworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian MathieWoolf_Great|title=Supper With The PresidentGreat Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration|author=Jo Woolf|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=It's such Jo Woolf has compiled a pleasure to read an Ian Mathie book, so I really looked forward to 'Supper with brilliant set of fifty short insights into the President'lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. No surprises, then, to find this book every bit as delightfulTheir fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, intriguing and informative as his others. Ian Mathie knows exactly how also given us an understanding of what it is like to stitch up a good story; be faced with the occasional photographs - proving most terrible conditions and still have the stories are not fiction – come almost determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a surprise. The books are helpfully illustrated with simple maps placing the stories in geographical context. To me, Ian Mathie is simply the best taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some of the relatively unknown writers I have come across as a reviewermost iconic explorers. Interestingly, the two men in my household grab and devour Ian Mathie's books, and I imagine anyone interested in development issues Their stories are pretty incredible and/or Africa would welcome one or two of his titles for ChristmasWoolf does them justice. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906852103</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (ed)Hailstone_Berlin|title=Under Berlin in the Sun. The Letters of Bruce ChatwinCold War: 1959 to 1966|author=Allan Hailstone

|genre=TravelHistory|summary=Bruce Chatwin was best known as a travel writer – this collection both confirms his 'wanderlust' but also clearly establishes that Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his writing was far more of a creative process than visits to the usual journalistic approach to travel writingcity during this period. Nicholas Shakespeare’s selection and passages of narration makes this a mix The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the biographical divide between East and West Berlin and the autobiographical, a fascinating insight into a restless spirit, but also glimpse into life in the city during the experimentation and literary reflection that made him outstanding amongst his peersCold War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089897</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sonia FaleiroStewart_Marches|title=Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance BarsThe Marches|author=Rory Stewart|rating=4.5|genre=TravelHistory|summary=In 2005The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, there were 1,500 dance bars in Bombay, so called because they employed women but to dance call it 'travel writing' is to popular musictotally under-sell it. Bar dancers could earn a lot of money compared This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background to women do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in other traditional female jobs outside both the Army and the sex industryForeign Office, such as cleaners. Many of them also slept with men for moneyand then (to his father's, but because her job was dancing not sexbemusement, a bar dancer could also see herself as infinitely superior to sex workersshall we say) became an MP. Oh, whether street prostitutesand he walked 6, those working 000 miles across Afghanistan in brothels or call girls2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857861697</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BoothBristow China|title=Eat, Pray, EatChina in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow

|genre=TravelAutobiography|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 Having worked for the better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089633</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick Conefrey|title=How to Climb Mont Blanc nine years in Bejing as a Skirt: A Handbook journalist for the Lady Adventurer|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=ScottBBC, 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 author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history's list. Hence this bookHaving been learning the local language for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for while some mountains have been topped by a lady first of all, and some landmark achievements by guidance - the guys have been quickly followed by the galslanguage teacher, there is just too much ground to be made up born in recognising what the fairer sex have done in the world ofearly fifties, well, going round our world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jasper Rees|title=Bred offered Bristow a compelling picture of Heaven: One man's quest life in Communist China - but added to reclaim his Welsh roots|rating=3.5|genre=Travel|summary=Jasper Rees is a Welshman in his dreams. Despite his surname, he was born in Englandthat, but wishes he Bristow was from Wales. Seeking greatly surprised to find that his inner Welshman – he's sure he has one as he had Welsh grandparents – he journeys around the land of language teacher also enjoyed spending his fathers trying to work out what it means to be Welsh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682991</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Siddhartha Deb|title=The Beautiful and the Damned: Life spare time in the New India|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=This book immediately caught my eye with its terrific front coverladies clothing. A picture says more than a thousand words ... But I was conscious It soon becomes clear 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 tale told here is the intriguing contents page. As Deb is going to concentrate on immensely personal - yet also paints a mere handful fascinating portrait of individuals I'm not going to feel bombarded by hundreds one of different stories vying for space on the page. Good start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917303</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Bond|title=Paddingtonworld's Guide to London|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Some things are just a brilliant ideamost intriguing nations. Young Paddington Bear has written a guide book to his adopted home 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 mustn't forget Paddington's old friend Mr Gruber who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of London. So, where is Paddington planning to take you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007415915</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PalinHurst_Norfolk|title=Ox TravelsOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst

|genre=TravelArt|summary=Ox Travels is an anthology of travel writing compiled to raise funds for OxfamIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, but it is well worth buying and reading in its own right. Its generous 432 pages offer the chance to meet 36 writerswe were, including travel writers, journalists and novelistsannoyingly, left with an introduction by Michael Palin and an afterword by Barbara Stocking, Oxfam's Chief Executive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668496X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Blixen|title=Out Of Africa|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's more than a quarter of a century since I first saw the film ''Out of Africa'' and it's one of the few that hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have stayed with me over the intervening yearskeys to our holiday cottage. It wasn't just the story, but the personality of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape of the Ngong Hills, south of Nairobi, There was an art exhibition in Kenya's Rift Valley. I remember looking for this book at the time, but being unable to find itchurch hall, so the opportunity to read it now was too good to miss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951437</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sara Wheeler|title=Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990we went in -2010|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=This is and found a great book to acquire if your general knowledge display of historical adventurers is as haphazard as minethe most gorgeous pictures. Somewhere along the line, I'd missed out cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on Scott and Shackletonour walls, and it's very satisfying indeed but thought that I would have to fill those gaps from such make do with a reliable informant. One brisk section, for example, managed to encapsulate both Antarticacouple of greetings cards when I saw 's history and further outlook, along with sufficient atmospheric detail to ensure we mortals understood just what it feels like to sleep in Scott's hut during a wintry gale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090712</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Butcher|title=Chasing the DevilOn My Way: On Foot Through AfricaNorfolk Coastal Walks's Killing Fields|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Tim Butcher's day job from 1990 to 2009 was "journalist".  and I wonder what todaycouldn's school-kids imagine when they say they want to be 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 pock-marked one, that they prefer not to wear because t resist buying 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>.

{{newreview|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 Move 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 Tibet|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Fleeing your home can never be easy but when you are six, your only shoes are roughly hand-sewn and stuffed with hay, and your route is over the world's highest mountain range then it must be particularly challenging. This was the journey that Yangzom Brauen's mother took with her parents when they fled Tibet after the Chinese invasion of 1959. They were leaving behind all that they knew and travelling to India in the hope that they could find sanctuary in the country where the Dalai Lama was in exile. 'Across Many Mountains' is their story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655344X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Trivia Reviews]]