This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
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Category: REM Travel Writing
London is a global city. More than half of those who live in the UK's capital came from somewhere else - and most arrived in the last ten years. Migration is transforming London, for better and for worse. Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent. In This Is London, he turns his keen reporter's ey ...Show more
The 50 Greatest Walks of the World by Barry Stone
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Category: REM Travel Writing | Series: The 50 | Reading Level: very good
Barry Stone, author of 1,001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die, delves into some of the lesser-known aspects of the world's most famous -- and not-quite-famous-yet -- trails. The perfect accompaniment to practical guidebooks, Stone relates how slings and carabiners kept him from falling headlong ...Show more
Great Continental Railway Journeys by Rt Hon Michael Portillo
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Category: REM Travel Writing
Great Continental Railway Journeysis now a firmly established series on BBC2, following in the illustrious tracks of its predecessor - Great British Railway Journeys. Both series are fronted by ex-politician Michael Portillo and in this European odyssey he travels around continental Europe, using George ...Show more
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
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Category: REM Travel Writing
The acclaimed author of The Wild Places examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we moveIn this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography, geology, and literature, Robert Macfarlane sets off to follow the ancient routes that crisscross both ...Show more
Saga Land - The Island of Stories at the Edge of the World (HB) by Richard Fidler; Kari Gislason
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Category: REM Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey.A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author K ri G slason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who set ...Show more
Provence and the Cote d'Azur - Discover the Spirit of the South of France by Janelle McCulloch
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Category: REM Travel Writing
Take a journey through the dreamiest regions of France: the enchanting villages of Provence and the magnificent coastline of the Cote d'Azur. From the author of Paris, this gorgeous lifestyle guide steers readers away from crowded tourist destinations to reveal hidden gems at every turn: overflowing mar ...Show more
Journeys to the Other Side of the World - Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist by David Attenborough
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Category: REM Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
'a wondrous reminder of Attenborough's pioneering role . . . full of delightful tales' Daily Express 'An adventure that sparked a lifetime's commitment to the planet' The Lady Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked o ...Show more
We'll Always Have Paris - Trying and Failing to be French by Emma Beddington
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Category: REM Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
As a bored, moody teenager, Emma Beddington came across a copy of French ELLE in the library of her austere Yorkshire school. As she turned the pages, full of philosophy, sex and lipstick, she realized that her life had one purpose and one purpose only: she needed to be French. Instead of skulking in he ...Show more
Sinning Across Spain by Ailsa Piper
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Category: REM Travel Writing
Walking has been the constant in Ailsa Piper's life. Setting down one foot after the other takes her to a transformative-and transcendent-place.Her bestselling memoir Sinning Across Spainwas inspired by the tradition of medieval walkers who were paid by others to carry their sins to holy places. The car ...Show more
Elephant Complex Travels in Sri Lanka by GIMLETTE JOHN
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Category: REM Travel Writing
"Brilliant." --The Daily Telegraph No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones ...Show more
A Traveller's Year by Travis Elborough (Compiled by); Nick Rennison (Compiled by)
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Category: REM Travel Writing
A Traveller's Year is an anthology of extracts from diaries, journals and letters, two or three for each day of the year, on the subject of travel and exploration. The extracts convey men and women's experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, with an emph ...Show more
Florence: A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
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Category: REM Travel Writing | Series: Writer and the City
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so r ...Show more