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The long way to Vladivostok : a journey through Scandinavia and the Silk Road to Siberia
by Shirley Hardy-Rix & Brian Hardy-Rix
Riding a motorbike in howling high winds and freezing temperatures to reach Nordkapp, the northern-most point of Europe could have been disastrous. But for Shirley Hardy-Rix and Brian Rix it was one of the best days of their lives. This is what the well-travelled retired couple had hoped for when they planned to fill a gap in their riding experience and take on Scandinavia, the old Silk Road in Central Asia and the world's largest country, Russia. Experience their travels from the comfort of your armchair.
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Silly Isles
by Eric Campbell
No man is an island. But lots of strange men live on them. In the Kurils, off northern Japan, World War II is still being fought between Japan and Russia, both hell-bent on claiming this tiny island group as their territory. The Galapagos Islands may be home to some of the world's most astonishing flora and fauna but it's also home to Ecuador's gerrymander ambitions and has the tear gas, riots and police barricades to prove it. Wry, witty and clever, with a wonderful eye for the absurd, Eric Campbell is the Bill Bryson of the small, odd forgotten places around the world and what they tell us about the human condition.
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Walking to listen : 4,000 miles across America, one story at a time
by Andrew Forsthoefel
At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. Ultimately, it's the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself on the most human level.
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The End of All Our Exploring
by Catherine Anderson
Catherine Anderson and Angus McDonald are both restless souls - inveterate travellers, at home everywhere and nowhere. When they first meet, in a small hill town in the Himalayas, she thinks he is rude, mistaking his shyness for arrogance. He thinks she is idealistic and naive, and unlikely to remain past the next monsoon. After years without contact, Catherine dreams of Angus and within a few days receive a message from him. Though he is in Melbourne and she in London, Catherine feels a profound certainty that their lives are about to converge.
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The Airbnb story : how three guys disrupted an industry, made billions of dollars .. and plenty of enemies
by Leigh Gallagher
This is the inside, behind-the-scenes story of airbnb - the company reshaping how we travel. Two broke art school graduates set up a platform that - in six short years - became the largest provider of accommodation in the world. Now valued at $25.5 billion, it is in the very top tier of Silicon Valley 'unicorn' startups. Yet Airbnb has been controversial - disrupting a $500 billion hotel industry makes you a few enemies - and many regulators and politicians want to shut it down. Airbnb has changed the terms of travel for a whole generation.
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A land without borders : my journey around East Jerusalem and the West Bank
by Nir Baram
Award-winning journalist and author Nir Baram spent a year and a half travelling around the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In this fascinating recount of that journey, Baram navigates the conflict-ridden regions and hostile terrain to speak with a wide range of people, among them Palestinian–Israeli citizens trapped behind the separation wall in Jerusalem and Jewish settlers determined to forge new lives on the West Bank.
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Grape, olive, pig : deep travels through Spain's food culture
by Matt Goulding
The author of Rice, Noodle, Fish presents a celebration of the culture and cuisine of Spain that contextualizes sensuous meals with the stories behind them, offering an evocative tour of everything from Barcelona's tapas bars and modernist culinary temples to the coastal Cadiz Bluefin tuna hunts and the small-plate flavors of Madrid. 25,000 first printing.
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Revolutionary ride : on the road in search of the real Iran
by Lois Pryce
In 2011, at the height of tension between the British and Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy in London: ...I wish that you will visit Iran so you will see for yourself about my country. WE ARE NOT TERRORISTS!!! Please come to my city, Shiraz. It is very famous as the friendliest city in Iran, it is the city of poetry and gardens and wine!!! Your Persian friend, Habib. Intrigued, Lois decides to ignore the official warnings against travel (and the warnings of her friends and family) and sets off alone on a 3,000 mile ride from Tabriz to Shiraz, to try to uncover the heart of this most complex and incongruous country.
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