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By boat from the source near Diyarbakir in Turkey, through Syria and Iraq to the river's mouth in the Persian Gulf.

Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation ...

Leon McCarron

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Gayford's ink flows pleasurably and eloquently on the subject of Venice, its artists and admirers. Illustrated, conversational.

Venice: City of Pictures

Martin Gayford

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Those little figures in the marginalia of medieval manuscripts are often depictions of 'wayfarers'. Barber traces a history of the word, from its origins - with its connotations of the suspi... read more

Finding the Wayfarer: Physical, Spiritual and Poetic Survival ...

Emma Rose Barber

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A facsimile of the photographer's diary of 2012 - a turning point in his life and career. It's a delightful sort of scrapbook, with glossy polaroids & photos.

Sabbatical 2012

Miguel Flores-Vianna

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£90.00

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Mercier, a French journalist, travelled to London in 1780 and began writing his account of his experiences there. (He seems to have felt about London much as we tend to about Paris!). First ... read more

Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and ...

Louis-Sebastian Mercier

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In this remarkable book, JS looks at the history, geology, languages, religions, culture and politics of a region that spans 11 countries and is home to millions; from Ancient Rome to infest... read more

Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara

Judith Scheele

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A vade mecum for the prurient? From the author of Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs (2022).

London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious

Seth Alexander Thévoz

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Following the path of a wolf who crossed the Alps from Slovenia to Verona and was tracked by GPS provides AW with a most particular view of wildness, culture, habitat and climate change - ab... read more

Lone wolf

Adam Weymouth

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Ochre, tin, iron, radium, gold: Marsden travels from Cornwall to Georgia and back, tracing the often revolutionary use of minerals, dipping into alchemy, science and ecology and fraternising... read more

Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder ...

Philip Marsden

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English Pastoral

James Rebanks

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The North Road

Rob Cowen

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£22.00

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A meeting with an elderly woman tending eider ducks on a remote Norwegian island is tinder, spark and fuel for this remarkable book. Rebanks is a thoughtful story-teller and a very congenial... read more

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

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A Coast to Coast Walk: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ...

Alfred Wainwright

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The Central Fells: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ...

Alfred Wainwright

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The Eastern Fells: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ...

Alfred Wainwright

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The Far Eastern Fells (Readers Edition): A Pictorial Guide to the Lake ...

Alfred Wainwright

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The North Western Fells: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ...

Alfred Wainwright

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The Northern Fells: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ...

Alfred Wainwright

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The Southern Fells: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ...

Alfred Wainwright

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The Western Fells (Readers Edition): A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland ...

Alfred Wainwright

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Cruises in North Africa, in two volumes: 'In the Sahara: by camel, by car, by cruise-ship' and 'Roaring Twenties Tourism Seen by Sandoz', an artist, 41 and well-established by the time he se... read more

Croisières en Afrique du Nord

Dominique Boudet

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Part autobiography, part travelogue, Mountainish is constructed with an obscure yet intuitive logic. Dizzying free association conjures a vivid panorama of the Alps.

Mountainish

Zsuzsanna Gahse

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When everyone walked: the network of footpaths and bridleways that connected rural communities and criss-crossed the land unchanged for centuries until the dominance of the internal combusti... read more

The English Path

Kim Taplin

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In this philosophical, discursive, many-layered diary, the author wanders the coastal city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu.

Intertidal: The Hidden World Between Land and Sea

Yuvan Aves

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This Carrolian pursuit of realms beyond the modern borders - lost utopias, Amazonian city-states, alternative narratives - is as much an intellectual journey as it is physical.

Patria: Lost Countries of South America

Laurence Blair

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Europe and the Middle East at the turn of the century through the eyes of Begum SJ, descendant of Mughal nobility. Translated from Urdu into English for the first time.

A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, ...

Sarbuland Jung

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An exploration through minds and feet - history, memory, meditation - by the philosopher-traveller.

The North Pole: The History of an Obsession

Erling Kagge

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The Balkans to the Amazon, Abruzzo to Ibiza, this selection of Lewis's writing is electrifying. Lewis' eye for the humorous and absurd, the tragic and unjust is, as ever, an incomparable del... read more

A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis

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Mazhar Ali Khan recorded the sprawling city's former glory in a dazzling 5-metre panorama, published in its entirety now for the first time. Two vols.

Delhi 360 Degrees | Shahjahanabad: Mapping the Panoramic Views of a Mu ...

Jerry Losty

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A chance encounter with a map sets Roberts off on another unusual and intrepid exploration: this time a story of colonial Africa, when King Leopold tried to introduce Indian elephants to the... read more

A Training School for Elephants

Sophy Roberts

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Salt desert, bazaars, dried-up river beds, neon lights, ancient ruins and bus stops: Seiland's photographs balance tradition with modernity, the sparse and the rich, luminous and varied. Lar... read more

Iran: Between the Times

Alfred Seiland

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The 1,500-mile watershed stretching from Austria to Romania is still home to a third of Europe's wildlife, including lynx, chamois, bears, and bison that roam its high alpine meadows and its... read more

Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness: A Journey through the Carpathi ...

Nick Thorpe

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A memoir of the author's clandestine explorations through the haunting nuclear wasteland of 'the Zone' that is Chernobyl is both compelling and sinister.

Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of ...

Markiyan Kamysh

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The death of the author's father brings her to Shetland and the pandemic kept her there. What follows is a powerful, nuanced tale of navigating the challenge of a big onshore windfarm that h... read more

The Shetland Way: Community and Climate Crisis on my Father’s Is ...

Marianne Brown

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The father of Neoplatonism hoped to reach India to study the Upanishads, only to be reach the Tigris. Now Mir has not only trailed him to Egypt, Italy, Greece and Turkey but completed his jo... read more

Travels with Plotinus: A Journey in Search of Unity ...

Moin Mir

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From Central America to Tierra del Fuego in the mid-1970s, by whatever means possible. Drawing on her letters and diaries of the time, Stewart writes engagingly about her adventures and the ... read more

A Long Way South: Salvaged Memories from Travels in Latin America ...

Sara Stewart

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