Billy Connolly's Route 66: The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip by Billy Connolly
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Category: Travel Literature
Britain's best-loved comedian hits the most famous highway in the world on an unforgettable journey. Billy Connolly, music-lover, biker, and scourge of the beige and bland the world over, has dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66 since he heard Chuck Berry belting out one of the greatest ...Show more
The Forgotten Islands by Michael Veitch
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Category: Travel Literature
Bass Strait has over fifty cold, dark islands that are regularly pounded by atrocious weather and hardly visited. These islands are rich in atypical Australian history: sealers, lighthouse keepers, feuds, Aboriginal 'resettlements', deadly encounters with nature and people who have vanished. Michael Vei ...Show more
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones
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Category: Travel Literature
In 1999, Tobias Jones emigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment. "The Dark Heart o ...Show more
Adventures of a Compulsive Traveller by Dominic Dunne
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Category: Travel Literature
Journalist Dominic Dunnes travels have rarely been ordinary, despite his best intentions. He has been travelling all his life, from the time his parents started their annual pilgrimage to the opal fields of Lightning Ridge. Since then he has trekked all over Australia and to some 60 countries, spending ...Show more
Retire and Live the Dream: Our Long Journey to La Dolce Vita by Annette Edis
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Category: Travel Literature
Retirement. What images does the word conjure up for you? Time. Lots of time with no work to fill it. How will you spend that time? More games of golf? More visits to the Club? Looking after the grandkids? For Annette Edis and her husband Ray, retirement has meant a whole new adventure. Fulfilling a lif ...Show more
Paris, Paris - Journey into the city of light by David Downie
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Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
"Beautifully written and refreshingly original... makes us see [Paris] in a different light." -- "San Francisco Chronicle""Book Review" Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Cur ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin
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Category: Travel Literature
'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are certainly no high-speed rail links yet across India, China or the USA. Passenger services have practically disappeared from the world's shipping lanes ...Recourse to air travel, ...Show more
Himalaya by Michael Palin
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Category: Travel Literature
See other edition. <b>Michael Palin travels through all countries and civilisations bordering the Himalayan mountains, by boat, bus, train, camel, yak and foot.</b><br><br>Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest ...Show more
Catfish and Mandala: A 2 Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham
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Category: Travel Literature
"Catfish and Mandala" is the story of an American odyssey--a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam--made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. Andrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. His father had bee ...Show more
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna
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Category: Travel Literature
A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic purity. In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna wanders in search of Thule, to Shetland, Iceland, ...Show more
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
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Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other sid ...Show more
Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel Literature
The Freya Stark Collection Freya Stark first journeyed to Iraq in 1927. Seven years after the establishment of the British Mandate, the modern state was in its infancy and worlds apart from the country it has since become. During her many years in Iraq, Freya Stark was witness to the rise and fall of th ...Show more