World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
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Category: Travel Literature
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania's utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter - a ...Show more
Tschiffely's Ride - Ten Thousand Miles in the Saddle from Southern Cross to Pole Star by Aimé Tschiffely
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Category: Travel Literature
From the southeast coast of South America through an expanse of Peruvian sands en route to the West Coast, then onward through Central American jungles and rainforest, and finally to New York, Tschiffely's journey was considered impossible and absurd by many newspaper writers in 1925. However, after two ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy #1) by Gerald Durrell
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell.Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Ge ...Show more
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux
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Category: Travel Literature
In this unique and hugely entertaining railway odyssey, Theroux vividly recounts his travels--and the people, places, and landscapes he encountered--on the Orient Express, the Khyber Mail, and the Trans-Siberian Express, through such countries as Turkey, Iran, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Sovie ...Show more
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train through the Americas by Paul Theroux
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Category: Travel Literature
Each time Paul Theroux takes a trip - "The Great Railway Bazaar, Riding the Iron Rooster" - the result is unmistakably Paul Theroux. And he has never been sharper than in "The Old Patagonian Express." Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chi ...Show more
The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way by Anthony Seldon
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Category: Travel Literature
In August 2021, Anthony Seldon set out on a gruelling 35-day pilgrimage from the Swissborder to the English Channel, following the historic route of the Western Front. From sumptuous towns in the east of France to the haunting trenches of the Somme and Ypres, thewalk took in many important sites from Wo ...Show more
The Well at the World's End by A.J. Mackinnon
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Category: Travel Literature
When A.J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the Well at the World's End, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth. Determined not to fly ('It would feel like cheating'), he sets out with a ruc ...Show more
A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike by Bill Bryson
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Bryson Ser.
"In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world. Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, p ...Show more
Brunetti's Venice by Toni Sepeda
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Category: Travel Literature
This book follows the Venice footsteps of Donna Leon's much loved fictional detective Guido Brunetti, allowing the reader to move through the famous city with him as he records his emotional as well as visual responses to places he has known all his life, pausing with him to reflect and observe.Presente ...Show more
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia by Paul Theroux
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Great Railway Bazaar" is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the ...Show more
Burton Holmes - Travelogues: The Greatest Traveller of His Time 1892-1952 by Burton Holmes
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Wanderlust Burton Holmes, the man who brought the world home It was the Belle poque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home. From the grand boulevards of Paris to China ...Show more
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
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Category: Travel Literature
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path. _______ 'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer 'A thrill to read. The nature writi ...Show more