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Bill Bryson · 324 pages
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. back to the States for a while. But before leaving his much-loved Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around old Blighty, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had for so long been his home. The resulting book was a eulogy to the country that produced M
London Orbital
Iain Sinclair · 577 pages
A brilliant voyage of discovery into the deeply unfashionable fringes of London.'It isn't often that one reads a book and is convinced that it's an instant classic, but I'm sure that LONDON ORBITAL will be read 50 years from now. This account of his walk around the M25 is on one level a journey into the heart of darkness, that terrain of golf courses, retail parks and industrial estates which is B
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
Paul Theroux · 353 pages
Walk the Lines: The London Underground, Overground
Mark Mason · 376 pages
Unfamiliar Fishes
Sarah Vowell · 256 pages
From the bestselling author of *The Wordy Shipmates*, comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self-government. In *Unfamiliar Fishes*, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperial
101 Places Not to See Before You Die
Catherine Price · 260 pages
"A spirited, ingenious, tongue-in-cheek guide to some of the least appealing destinations and experiences in the world"--
Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
Rosecrans Baldwin · 304 pages
Motorworld
Jeremy Clarkson · 208 pages
Jeremy Clarkson gets under the skin of 12 countries by looking at the cars people drive and how they drive them. Hilarious travel writing.
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Michael Booth · 406 pages
The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: Why are the Danes the happiest people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? This book deals with these questions.
The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
Louis Theroux · 280 pages
A book that chronicles the author's travels among subcultures in america, including a man who claims to have killed 10 aliens, and a neo-Nazi whose daughters have formed a white power folk singing group.
Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North
Stuart Maconie · 352 pages
A hilarious journey in search of the real North, northerners and northernness, from the bestselling author of Cider With RoadiesA Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul,
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut
Nigel Barley · 192 pages
The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
Mark Twain · 1,027 pages
Contains "The innocents abroad, a travel guide and stinging satire of his fellow American travelers," and "Roughing it, the old Western frontier adventures of Mark Twain."
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
Sarah Lyall · 304 pages
Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century.
Burma Chronicles
Guy Delisle · 272 pages
Guy Delisle uses a graphic novel format to reflect on the experiences he had while working in a Burma--Myanmar--where his wife's career allowed him to explore Burma's rural and impoverished regions.
Toujours Provence
Peter Mayle · 241 pages
Peter Mayle's love affair with the south of France continues and deepens. Now he's got most of the building work organized, he's had time for a few trips - to the Cannes Film Festival, the Menerbes dog show and the wine caves at Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
Visit Sunny Chernobyl - Adventures in the world's most polluted places
Andrew Blackwell · 320 pages
Stephen Fry in America
Stephen Fry · 320 pages
Britain's best-loved comic genius, Stephen Fry, turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his chariot of Englishness, a black London cab.Stephen Fry has always loved America. In fact, he came very close to being born here. His fascination for the country and its people sees him embarking on an epic journey across America, visiting eac