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Funny, personal, completely unexpected travel writing, and an incisive view into Australian life away from the big cities-Mango Country explores the notion that the further you venture from a nation's...

This is a description of England by the novelist Peter Vansittart, beginning with the mythical land of Albion, of Jack the Giant Killer, Arthur and Merlin. This idealized view of...

The Reluctant Mariner is the story of a couple's circumnavigation of the world in a 12.2 meter yacht, told from the wife's perspective. Far from simply stopping off in each...

Rooted in ancient Hawaiian teachings, Island Wisdom takes readers beyond the surface of beautiful beaches and vacation living to gain a deeper understanding of the Hawaiian Islands. Native Hawaiian and...

'It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils were placed on top of clocks, under floorboards, over stable doors... But there...

A return to Gray Malin's famed aerial beach photography, Coastal celebrates the beaches of the United States, from the East Coast to the West and Hawaii, as well as some...

While the Hamptons has stolen all the attention as the chic summer spot, a secret society of tastemakers and creatives have chosen the lower-key island of Martha's Vineyard to hone...

While the Hamptons has stolen all the attention as the chic summer spot, a secret society of tastemakers and creatives have chosen the lower-key island of Martha's Vineyard to hone...

Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ox, plus...

After being dumped, it's the authors decision to go ahead with the prepaid honeymoon trip, taking his younger brother that changes his life and their luck forever. They hit the...

Jane Cornelius lived and worked in Bali, until she met and fell in love with the wrong man, who abandoned her in the UK, leaving her five months' pregnant and...

Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana is the ninth book in the best-selling Travelers' Tales humor series, which began with There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled and...

From internationally popular design blogger SF Girl By Bay comes the ultimate love letter to San Francisco. This gorgeously photographed lifestyle guide gives readers an insider's tour of the City...

For every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within... Despite what appeared to be a glamorous...

In search of literary history and adventure, Tony Perrottet leaves behind the chaotic crowds of Manhattan for the far reaches of Europeon settlements where he explores the secret histories and...

In Danube the author sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam....

This is the story of an extraordinary adventure. But the ordinary qualities of love and courage that inspired it will resonate with parents everywhere. When his son Rowan was diagnosed...

For six years Tom Rodwell ran cricketing programmes from Cuba to Zimbabwe, attempting to soothe the world's ills with the curiously English balm known as cricket. Touching, amusing and imbued...

Hold onto your sombreros, amigos! THE FULL MONTEZUMA is the latest hilarious adventure from Peter Moore, author of the bestselling NO SHITTING IN THE TOILET and THE WRONG WAY HOME...

In June 1989 Margi Moss and her husband took off from Rio de Janeiro in a single-engined aeroplane to embark on a journey around the world. In a haphazard route,...

From deep winter to late autumn, from east to west, Adrift takes the reader on a tour of the people, politics, history and wildlife of London's canals and rivers. Blending...

In a journey that took five years to complete, property magnate Richard Buxton circumnavigated Australia by air and sea in an effort to raise public awareness and funds for research...

Accompanying the BBC series, COAST is not only a superbly illustrated celebration of Britain's coastal areas but a practical guide to all that they have to offer.The first part of...

Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to...

This is television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it,...

A beautiful tour of Britain's greatest gardens, classic and modern. Inspiration and escapism for every gardener. A unique tour of thirty of Britain's most beautiful gardens, classic and modern. A...

Under the Ottomans, who ruled the eastern Mediterranean for 500 years, cosmopolitan life in Istanbul took a particularly vigorous and productive form, creating a web of connection and identity that...

Of all the great powers of the Mediterranean past, Venice was the most commercially ambitious. Her great wealth and sophisticated culture were products of a commercial empire that stretched from...

The Liquid Continent, whose three volumes can be read independently, combines travel narrative, history and reflection on the contemporary Mediterranean. Beginning in Alexandria, the author travels overland around the eastern...

For decades Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous for the outsider to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which have sprung many of...

Africa is a source of amazing bio-diversity and home to some of the planet's most spectacular landscapes. The sights of this awe-inspiring continent are captured with consummate skill and sensitivity...

This book tells the story of the painted towns of Shekhawati in rural Rajasthan, India. For centuries the painted buildings served the towns as trading houses, pleasure palaces, temples, caravansaries,...

A merger in Anna's PR agency gives her more time to explore the culture and history of the island that she calls home (along with her 40 hens and cockerels,...

What does winter look like in the far north? According to the cliches: as dark and cold as a refrigerator. And yet it is precisely in these wintertime months that...

There's a slogan that Glaswegians use when talking about Edinburgh's world-famous joie de vivre: 'Edinburgh! A castle, a smile and a song...One out of three isn't bad.' Edinburghers retaliate by...

Three weeks into our hen ownership and there wasn't a single egg, there was nothing. Natalie's theory for this was that they were bored. Can hens be bored? Really? They're...

You are a journalist. You should be writing on one of our great Indian papers, then you will really be starting to understand us.A chance conversation with her greengrocer about...

Did you know that Kakadu National Park in Australia boasts some of the oldest exposed rock on the planet and is known to have been inhabited continuously for over 40,000...

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