Ideal reads for armchair travellers
Brilliant Maps: An Atlas for Curious Minds
See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas.
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.
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Around the World in 80 Trees
Trees are one of humanity's most constant and most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration - not to mention the raw materials for everything from...
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Literary Paris: A Photographic Tour
Paris as seen through the eyes of a bibliophile: the ultimate eye candy for fans of Paris and all things bookish.
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Only In Tokyo
A compelling and rare window on this exciting food city through the lens of chefs and Japanophiles Michael Ryan and Luke Burgess.
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Booked: A Traveler’s Guide to Literary Locations Around the World
This practical armchair travel guide explores eighty of the most iconic literary locations from all over the globe that you can actually visit.
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The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations
Bestselling author of Modernists & Mavericks Martin Gayford recounts some of the extraordinary journeys he has made in the name of art.
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Vogue on Location: People, Places, Portraits
Travel around the globe with Vogue's most exotic fashion, travel, and lifestyle stories
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Perfect Motion: How walking makes us wiser
Since our first ancestor rose up to place one foot in front of another, our desire to walk has produced fundamental changes in our bodies and minds.
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The Odyssey
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer's nimble gallop and brings an ancient epic to new life.
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The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art
A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bjoerk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod
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Ghost Empire
A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, invasion and decay that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvellous book.' - Simon Winchester In 2014, Richard Fidler and...
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Beautiful Ruins
Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white,...
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The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
A book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits. Combining travel writing with history, recipes, horticulture and art, it takes the reader on a unique and rich journey through Italy's cultural, moral,...
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The Art of Travel
Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.
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