Ideal reads for armchair travellers
A Field Guide To Getting Lost
Taking in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, this title explores the challenges of living with uncertainty.
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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 Near and the Far: new stories from the Asia-Pacific region
From 22 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them.
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Ghost Empire
Ghost Empire is a rare treasure - an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, realised by a master storyteller.
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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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Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World
In 1991 the author rode a tank into Red Square in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the coup after Gorbachev's resignation. In 2002 he was in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban; in 2014 he travelled to...
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Walking Towards Ourselves: Indian Women Tell Their Stories
Walking Towards Ourselves gets behind the headlines and finds out what it means to be an Indian woman today. Walk in the shoes of some of India's foremost women writers and thinkers, and go on a journey into their intimate lives,...
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House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal
An anthology of the greatest literature about Nepal. All profits from the sales of the book will be donated to charities providing relief from the recent earthquakes.
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Windows On The World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views
Fifty of the world's greatest writers share their views in collaboration with the artist Matteo Pericoli, expanding our own views on place, creativity, and the meaning of home. All of us, at some point in our daily...
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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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The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for...
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Most Unusual Places
A one of a kind gift book that celebrates the world's most wondrous and unusual places, people, and things - from macabre museums to magical natural phenomena - in all corners of the globe.
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