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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian HollandAlastair Humphreys|title=Railways (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)Local|rating=35|genre=Travel|summary=How Alastair Humphreys has walked and when did Laurel and Hardy replace cycled all over the Duke of York (George VI)? world. They reopened the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, at whose launch the latter had officiated before the WarAnd then written about it. What's the worst that can happen when you travel internationally For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and arrive on a London goods train with no further destination documents? then wrote about it. WellAs he says in his introduction, if youthe book is an attempt ''re an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before the invoice turns up to prove you were wanted in Belgiumshare what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. After so many miles Nature loss, pollution, land use and so much dramaaccess, agriculture, itthe food system, rewilding…''s One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no surprise odd facts and fun trivia derive from our countryeasy answers, no single 'right or wrong's trains. This book , that every upside is designed likely to be an ideal source of quick articles have a downside for somebody and fun mini-essays for use in the smallest roomthat there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910821004</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob Temple0957181167|title=Very British Problems AbroadBlue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=45|genre=HumourArt|summary=MeetThere are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, if you haven't already, the phenomenon in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the Very British Problem. In this format they're in pithy little comments (of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) walls - and detail was completely taken by the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor work of lifeBrian Lewis. They can involve manners, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the fact that nobody apart from you and print I know how to queue properlywanted was ‘not available’. And if the idea hits the world outside our shoresOh, dear - then – wella few doors down from the apartment, you certainly have I found a book full gift shop with a stack of content regarding our attitude brand new books - and ineptitude abroada framed print of the picture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Coates1785633457|title= Why the Dutch are DifferentCharging Around: A Journey into Exploring the Hidden Heart Edges of the Netherlands England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 45|genre= Travel|summary= I know Holland Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in the way everyone doesan electric car was not totally outrageous. Pancakes and windmills and PotIn fact, oh my. But it's one of the few European countries I've never lived in should be a pleasant holiday for any period of timeClive and his wife, Joan, and so I was intrigued to know more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom Sperlinger|title= Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation|rating= 4.5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Towards the end of Tom Sperlinger's first book, he says education can open people's eyes, making them aware 'that we make assumptions all of the time, without even knowing they are assumptions.' ''Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation'' is a fine example of this belief in learning, an assumption-shattering book that offers a new perspective on Palestinian life not seen on the news or in the papers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782796371</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Keith PartridgeMerryn Glover|title=The Adventure Game: A Cameraman's Tales from Films at the Edge|rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=Keith Partridge has been one of the world’s leading adventure cameramen for over twenty years. The award winning Touching the Void, Beckoning Silence and Human Planet are just some of the films that have taken him all over the earth, from the caves of Papua New Guinea to the summit of Mount Everest. No location has been too dangerous, no environment too wild, and if you have ever seen a climber or explorer in some outrageous position, chances are that Keith Partridge was there with his camera. Here Keith discusses the challenges that have faced him in the daring adventures has taken part in, with personalities such as [[:Category:Steve Backshall|Steve Backshall]], [[:Category:Joe Simpson|Joe Simpson]] and Stephen Venables.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Simon Wilcox|title=Mudlark River: Down the Thames with a Victorian Map Hidden Fires|rating=4.5
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|summary=Do you It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background to the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think finding of no-one better a 19th century map would inspire you combination to walk give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the entire length shadow of the Thames? Because that's what Simon Wilcox didShepherd, but in her spirit. I think there's something impossibly romantic about that, don't you?the two would have gotten along famously.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993016308</amazonuk>1846975751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John George Freeman and Ronnie Scott (editor)B0B7289HKQ|title=Three Men Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and a Bradshaw300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya
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|summary=This book is quite the very time machine, and because of Kari (that some of its own history is needed in summary. A year or two agorhymes with ‘sorry’, our presenter Shaun Sewell was buying some private documents from by the descendants of John George Freeman, way) wanted to complete a set of illustrated travel journals he'd met spend some time with when risking his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a punt on the first few at auctiongood time to do it. He The decision was intent on getting them published since finding themmade to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, and seemed Virginia to be the first person with that desire since they were first written Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in the 1870s2015. Back then they were wellThey had 73 days to do it -written, educative and entertaining looks at slightly less than the early days recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of the travel industry, when for example piers were novel(ty) ways a challenge that it would be for the rail companies to justify sending most people to the ends of the country where previously there had been little for them to dowho considered taking it on. Here then is railwayana, travel Merv Loya was 75 years old and social history, all between two covers. So even if this doesnhe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer't find the perfectly huge audience of some books, it will certainly raise interest in many householdss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947441</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Owen JonesErling Kagge|title=PathlandsWalking: One Step At A Time|rating=5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705}}{{Frontpage|author=Monica Connell|title=Against a Peacock Sky
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|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I have lots of walking booksthink it is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. All of them have been bought She went with a half-baked intention fundamental aim of actually doing learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the walks described within them… which academic discipline of coursehow to find these things out, I've only partially succeeded how to organise them in. I do have some books which I have fully ticked-offher mind, but most how to "understand" them in the context of themher own paradigms, especially most and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the later ones have (at best) been inspiration enough experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to get truly connect with the boots on, but rarely more than once or twice. So many unfinished planspeople of the village where she hauled up.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184604443X</amazonuk>1780600429
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael PronkoNicolas Bouvier|title=Beauty and Chaos: Slices and Morsels of Tokyo LifeThe Japanese Chronicles|rating=45
|genre=Travel
|summary=Adapting It never does to start a review of a book with a Buddhist metaphorquote from the blurb, Michael Pronko declares that but sometimes it'writing about [Tokyo] is like catching fish s unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point, with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a hollow gourdmasterpiece.' In other words, it ' It is an elusive and contradictory place precisely that resists easy conclusions. Anyone who has seen A masterpiece in the sense of the craft as well as the Bill Murray film art of writing. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'Lost in Translationtravel writing'' will retain the sense because this is as much a history of a glitteringJapan, bewildering place that Westerners wander through in a daze. A longmythology-term resident but still primer for the Japanese culture as it is a perpetual outsider, Pronko is perfectly placed personal response to notice living and travelling in the many odd and wonderful aspects of Tokyo lifecountry.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00PDH4KVA</amazonuk>1906011044
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GreeneStephen Fabes|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart Signs of RussiaLife|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=It's no mistake that the cover I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of my edition tales of this book is a photo where the Transfar away places. I was birth-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the framerighted wanderlust and curiosity. ItUnfortunately, I didn's well known for going east-west, left to right across t inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the map of the largest country by far in the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow guts to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is in our imagination of simply go out and do it as a form of transport and a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it as I also didn't inherit the spine or backbone of Russia a couple kind of timessteady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant thatI would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle's got to be of a prone Russia – one lying down, not upright or active. David Greene, a stalwart In order words I'm not the sort of northern American radio journalism, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite person who will get on a definite verdict, as well as bike outside a slight indictmentLondon hospital and not come home for six years. It's no mistake either for this cover to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the pieceFabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Horatio ClareRob Baker|title=Down to the Sea Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in ShipsAfrica
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|genre=Travel
|summary=Inspired by a chance read ''"Go to Mali," they said. "The music is amazing," they said. "And you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So I did.''Moby Dick Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologist. ''A what?'' I hear you cry. Well, the aptly named Horatio Clare applies to be a writer an ethnomusicologist studies music in residence for a shipping company. They accept, and he travels with them on two voyages - one from Felixstowe relation to Los Angelesculture, so rather like a folklorist studies the oral and the other from Antwerp written story traditions relating to Montreala culture.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099526298</amazonuk>B089CSNFT7
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)Christine Brown|title=The Kindness of StrangersBucket Showers and Baby Goats: Penniless Across AmericaVolunteering in West Africa
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|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre the summer of 2008, this book's author was a thirty-seven-year-old journalist with a secret: he was frightenedspending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. There were specific fearsNow coincidentally, but what it boiled down to was that he was frightened in the summer of life - and then there 2010, this review's author was a memory. He remembered - with some shame - not stopping for a hitchhiker with a gas can spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the desert. It was almost on a whim that he decided to cross AmericaUK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, from San Francisco volunteering in California to Cape Fear in North CarolinaSierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, which might sound like a great adventurewhen this book came up, but McIntyre decides said reviewer was delighted to do have the opportunity to read and critique it without money - to be completely reliant on the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>171024299X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithMourby_Rooms|title=A Work Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's EdinburghGreat Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby|rating=54
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|summary=It might be simplest if I begin by telling you what this book is ''not''. It's not Adrian Mourby has given us a book flying visit to each of beautiful photographs (fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with some supporting text) of the places you'll almost certainly want hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to visit if you're visiting Edinburgh as a touristgive something of an overall picture. If that's So what you want then there are dozens of such books available all over the city at makes a fraction of the cost of hotel 'grand'A Work of Beauty? The first hotel to call itself 'grand'. This might have was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the look beginning of a coffee table book (and it period when a hotel would certainly look impressive there) but it has be a lifestyle choice rather than a lot more depth refuge for those without friends and interest than you might expectfamily conveniently nearby. This is The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a book different set of Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburghchallenges. We begin in the Americas, move to the city he walks around every dayUnited Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, constantly seeing something newit seems, something else with a story to telldoes not go for the grand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1902419863</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela O'Cuneen1908745819|title=Hummingbirds in My Hair: Adventures of a Diplomatic Wife in the Caribbean|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Pamela O'Cuneen was what is known in the business as a 'diplomatic wife': the spouse of a diplomat sent abroad to represent his country. It's generally unpaid and extremely hard work - I've always thought of it as one of the original BOGOF deals. When we first meet Pamela she and her husband, KJ, have been transferred from their beloved Africa to Suriname, or ''Suri-where?'' as people always responded when it was mentioned to them. It ''used'' to be Dutch Guyana on the Caribbean coast of South America and there are few people who would think of it in terms of a holiday destination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373637</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSurfacing|author=Matthew Engel|title=Engel's England: Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one manKathleen Jamie
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|genre=TravelHistory|summary=Matthew Engel Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has spent some considerable time travelling around your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the thirty nine historic counties of Englandbook. That's a rare experience. On the face of People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this is a rather strange task given that some case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the counties (anyone remember Middlesex? Cumberland?) no longer exist and that they are - or were - situated in a country which you canauthor considering ''t reliably find on a drop-down internet menuan older, less tethered sense of herself. '' EngelOlder. Less tethered. That's attempts to explain to his eight-year-old son which country we live in produced mixed resultsnot a bad description of where I am. His son grasped Add to that my love of the outlines but as he explained natural world, of those aspects of the concepts Engels found himself getting more poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and more confusedsubstance most of all, particularly when you add in the counties: reorganisation in 1974 changed bordersabout connection. Of course, created new counties and abolished some old onesthis book had my name on it. Some were renamed, It was written for me. It would have found its way to subsequently revert me eventually. I am pleased to the old name whilst others faded away unremarkedhave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685710</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Gentleman1912242052|title=In the CountryO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=53
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|summary=I had no intention of reading ''In The CountryOh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''. I opened it simply the first person to see what it was likewalk the mountains alone, but by the time that I shut it again I was nearly halfway through and I not because he had no intention of giving the book to anyone else. Now in his eighties David Gentleman is well known for work, as watercolourista miner, quarryman, specialising in landscapesshepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. He's based in London but also has a home in Suffolk in the village of Huntingfield His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and it's this houseits literary consequences, changed our view of the village and the surrounding area which is the location for ''In The Countryworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095715285X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Woolf_Great|title=Four FieldsThe Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration|author=Tim DeeJo Woolf
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeHistory|summary=If asked to name, or even think Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of, four fields, fifty short insights into the common man might well struggle, such is the chance lives and achievements of him living in a citysome amazingly brave people. He might not think Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the local park as a field, and he may turn to the field mysteries of the cloth wildest parts of gold if a historianour world, the field and also given us an understanding of dreams perhaps, or he might at least have something looking what it is like a football pitch in his mind's eye. Tim Dee, not a nature scientist as such but so in tune to be faced with the outside world he really doesn't seem to most terrible conditions and still have stopped indoors but the determination and grit to write this carry on. This book in the past decade, seems like the sort of person who could hardly name four buildings, but would relish the chance to itemise his favourite fields. He is very doubtful any two in Britain are the same. Like snowflakes, then, they can bear be viewed as a closer examination taster which encourages us to show their full picture – seek out and Dee picks on four, across read more about some of the world and noted for events across the last few thousand years, to focus onmost iconic explorers. The result is a rich – if at times over-rich – summation of the birdlife above the fields, Their stories are pretty incredible and everything Dee knows and loves about Woolf does themjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541378</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hailstone_Berlin|title=Like a Tramp, Like A PilgrimBerlin in the Cold War: On Foot, Across Europe 1959 to Rome1966|author=Harry BucknallAllan Hailstone
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|genre=TravelHistory|summary=What links London and Rome? Their capital city status for one, of course. One has a St Paul's cathedral, 'Berlin in the other a St PeterCold War: 1959-1966''s (although pedants will say not). They both have a football team who wear red and whitecontains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. Oh, and The images provide an insight into the ancient pilgrim route called changing nature of the Via Francigena – although the pedant will again say that that strictly starts at that other pilgrimage site, Canterbury. As for Harry Bucknall, the Via starts at St Paul's divide between East and West Berlin and should end at St Peter's. Whether or not Harry himself will connect a glimpse into life in the two cities – and entirely on foot – is city during the subject of this travel bookCold War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408187248</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stewart_Marches|title=One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon RainforestThe Marches|author=Wade DavisRory Stewart|rating=4.5|genre=TravelHistory|summary=As someone who has always enjoyed learning about The Observer quote on the front of the Amazonpaperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, and with plans but to call it 'travel writing' is to South America next year, this book practically screamed totally under-sell it. This is erudition at me its finest. Stewart has the background to be reviewed. And, although a little tough going do this: he had an international upbringing and long-winded followed his father in partsboth the Army and the Foreign Office, I'm glad I had the opportunity and then (to get lost in Davishis father' incredible work of non-fiction. Difficult to describe in terms of genres, this book combines historybemusement, politicsshall we say) became an MP. Oh, science, botany and culture. It is delivered through a biographical account of Davis' own travels and as a memoir to Richard Evans Schulteshe walked 6, an ethnobotanist well known for his work and travels 000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Amazon and Wade Davis' highly regarded mentorScottish borders should be a doddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592967</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Bristow China|title=Last Days of the Bus ClubChina in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser|author=Chris StewartMichael Bristow
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|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=I could well have been Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a near-neighbour of Chris Stewartjournalist for the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Not, of courseHaving been learning the local language for several years, near Bristow asked his current primary occupancylanguage teacher for guidance - the language teacher, an ecological farmstead just beyond the turning off from the back end of nowhere born in the most rural of corners early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of southern Spain, but back when he lived life in the southCommunist China -east of Englandbut added to that, being Genesis' first ever drummer, and building bridges Bristow was greatly surprised to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in the North Downsladies clothing. The fact I learnt It soon becomes clear that the latter from this book shows up several of the features of this warmtale told here is immensely personal -hearted 'travelogue' – the fact that Stewart is never shy about portraying family details and history – given yet also paints a good map and a prevailing wind one could find where he lives and descend on the farm, if fascinating portrait of one wished; and that while this might be on the travel shelves, the narrative is so fragmented it actually moves a lot more than any of the characters doworld's most intriguing nations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745436</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynne MartinHurst_Norfolk|title=Home Sweet AnywhereOn My Way: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the WorldNorfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst
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|genre=TravelArt|summary=Lynne and Tim Martin had known each other decades ago but when we meet them they've only been married for It was pure serendipity: after a short time. There's just one thing though five- they're not ready hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to settle down, despite the fact that they're what might be called 'upper middle aged'. Their roots are fill in the US - both Blakeney before we could have adult children there and the Martins have a house in California - but they want keys to travel and not just as touristsour holiday cottage. They want to see the world as There was an art exhibition in the locals see it and to experience what it's like to live there. Lynne describes them as not being wealthychurch hall, but they decide to sell their home, invest the money and become 'home-free'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00J0CRNKE</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Francis Russell|title=101 Places so we went in Italy : A Private Grand Tour|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Initially I struggled to describe this book. It's not a guide book: maps are intended only to give you a rough idea of where the towns, cities and villages are - even major rivers are not shown. There are no opening times of museums or other details which the visitor might need and whilst it's found a tremendous help to the tourist there's a sense throughout the book display of their being people who are best avoided if at all possible. November and February seem to be the best months for your visit in many casesmost gorgeous pictures. The 101 places youI'll visit in the book are given no wider importance than the works of art within d cheerfully have bought every one and hung them. Finally on our walls, but thought that I accepted that the subtitle would have to make do with a couple of the book - greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'A Private Grand Tour'and I couldn' was the most appropriatet resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524324</amazonuk>
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