Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider by Mohammad Chowdhury
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Category: Travel Vicarious
Whether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury’s life travelling the world brings daily challenges.Border Crossings takes you on a thrilling ride from the city of minarets to the heights of picture-perfect skyscrapers. A jo ...Show more
In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
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Category: Travel Vicarious
WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her strength and courage' - Selena Gomez'An incredibly powerful story' Sunday Independent'In the Shadow of the Mountain has all the elements a great memoir requires - a strong voice, cinematic p ...Show more
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
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Category: Travel Vicarious
The classic bestseller of British nature writing Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
Across a Waking Land - A 1,000-Mile Walk Through a British Spring by Roger Morgan-Grenville
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A veteran nature writer walks the length of Britain in pursuit of spring, and of hopeFed up with bleak headlines of biodiversity loss, acclaimed nature writer Roger Morgan-Grenville sets out on a 1,000-mile walk through a British spring to see whether there are reasons to be hopeful about the natural wo ...Show more
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
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Category: Travel Vicarious
'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' - CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL HOUSE 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' - PETINA GAPPAH, AUTHOR OF OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean, the ...Show more
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
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Category: Travel Vicarious
'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. ...Show more
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century by Jessica Vincent
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Category: Travel Vicarious
Travel writing mattersExplore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the most respected travel writers in the world: Levison Wood, Monisha Rajesh, Jessica Vincent and Simon WillmoreThe world has chang ...Show more
The Voyage of the Beagle (Stanfords Travel Classics) by Charles Darwin
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Category: Travel Vicarious | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
Charles Darwin joined HMS Beagle when he was just 22 at the request of Captain FitzRoy, who wanted to have a naturalist on board. The ship set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 and returned nearly five years later on 2 October 1836. The journey took Darwin from the Cape de Verde Islands to Ma ...Show more
The Road to Angkor by Christopher Pym; Philip Coggan (Foreword by)
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Category: Travel Vicarious | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
The Road to Angkor describes a journey through Indo-China from the ancient capital of Champa (now south Vietnam) to Angkor, capital of the old Khmer empire in Cambodia. Christopher Pym originally went to Indo-China in 1956. He stayed 20 months and during 1957 made the seven-week journey described in thi ...Show more
Where My Feet Fall Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull
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Category: Travel Vicarious
Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this beautiful collection, twenty outstanding writers set out ...Show more
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World by Pico Iyer
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'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul' Elizabeth Gilbert 'In elegant and ecstatic prose, Pico Iyer uncovers our wonderful capacity for hope' Katherine May One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we might find paradise on ...Show more
Inuit Way: A Journey across Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago by E. A. S. COOPER
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Category: Travel Vicarious | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
Living and hunting with the Inuit in northwest Greenland in the summer, winter and spring months, Edward Cooper journeys to the Arctic islands with his travel companion in search of a note left by the little-known explorer, David Haig-Thomas. Suffering from snow blindness and frostbite, fighting off hun ...Show more