|summary=Fleeing your home can never be easy but when you are six, your only shoes are roughly hand-sewn and stuffed with hay, and your route is over the world's highest mountain range then it must be particularly challenging. This was the journey that Yangzom Brauen's mother took with her parents when they fled Tibet after the Chinese invasion of 1959. They were leaving behind all that they knew and travelling to India in the hope that they could find sanctuary in the country where the Dalai Lama was in exile. 'Across Many Mountains' is their story.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655344X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Keith Hern
|title=Zimbabwe in Pictures
|rating=3
|genre=Travel
|summary=I'm a bit of an amateur photographer, and since the advent of digital cameras I always come back from holidays with thousands of photos, over-excited by the fact that I am no longer limited to 24 or 36 exposure films! I enjoy, therefore, flicking through photography books, to see the images that have captured someone else's imagination and to see if I can pick up any interesting framing ideas, or subject settings.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685707</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christopher Winn
|title=I Never Knew That About the River Thames
|rating=4.5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Here are the remains of the building that could be said to have sired two important British royal dynasties. Here is the place of ill-repute, where 'Rule Britannia' was premiered, and which also bizarrely saw a death by cricket ball that inspired the most famous gardens in the world. Here too is the largest lion in the world. To where am I referring? Well the answer is either the Thames valley, or this very book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Roland Huntford
|title=Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=In 1910 two European ships set out for the Antarctic. 'Terra Nova' was carrying British explorers under the leadership of Captain Robert Scott, while 'Fram' sailed with a rival Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen. The basic facts can be briefly summarized. Amundsen arrived at the South Pole on 14 December 1911 and returned home to a hero's welcome, while Scott reached the same destination 35 days later, only to perish with his men on the return journey. Their bodies were found by a search party some eight months after they had died.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441169822</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aatish Taseer
|title=Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=Aatish Taseer was born of out of a short week of passion between a Sikh Indian mother and a Pakistani Muslim father. The mother was a journalist; the father a politician.
That week of passion was to be all it was, despite subsequent attempts at hushing up the pregnancy, then pretending a marriage until finally a clean break was made when the boy was about 18 months old. Ah, but such breaks never are clean are they? There's always a certain amount of meddling from the side-lines, and then there's a child's longing to know who he is, where he is really from.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847671314</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jim Perrin
|title=West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Where would you go if the love of your life, and your son, both died within a short few months of each other? Jim Perrin headed West - to the scraggly patches of land off Ireland, closer to the setting sun, nearer to the further horizon, beyond the noise, information and opinion of humanity. Of course, that question could also be answered in a more metaphoric way. Jim went inward, before coming outward. He suffered - "involuntarily, the tears have come. Who would have thought that death would release so many.." He also, although he would probably hate me for saying it, went on a "psycho-geographical ramble" - both in life, and in making this book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843546116</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Miller
|title=Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=Miller is probably one of the best people to take you on a tour of Delhi. He's not a native so has no in-bred partisanship, but he does love the place so will make sure you do too, but mainly because to begin with he HATED it… so he will understand if you don't share his ironic good humour about the shit squirter or the fact that sometimes the only way to cross the road is to take a rickshaw taxi.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526743</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brian W Pugh, Paul R Spiring and Sadru Bhanji
|title=Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon: A Complete Tour Guide and Companion
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' is one of the most famous mystery novels of all, and also one of the most famous English novels set in Devon. This alone would probably give more or less enough material for an entire book on connections between the story and the location which inspired it. Yet the authors have found several more links between the county, and Conan Doyle alongside those associated with him. The result has revealed much information of which even I, who have lived in the county nearly all my life, was previously unaware.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312861</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Lane
|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration of England's amazing supporters
|rating=3.5
|genre=Sport
|summary=To start with, an admission. I am an English fan of football, but I am not a fan of England’s football squad. Hardly ever would I prefer to see the Three Lions triumphant. I never got into the habit, partly because I never saw the singularly English habit of supporting the underdog as making any sense. Plus you'll never get me standing up and singing that awful tune before the match. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently to me.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906796505</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Justine Hardy
|title=In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir's Long War - One Family's Extraordinary Story
|rating=5
|genre=Travel
|summary=Kashmir. Is that not the most romantic of names? To those of us entranced by tales from the East, it echoes with the same essence of myth as ''Shang-ri-la'' – and for good reason. Geographically situated in the Himalaya but with the abundant fertility of the valley, lakes and meadows, it should be a kind of paradise. To the people who live there, it once was.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846041511</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Booth
|title=Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking
|rating=4
|genre=Cookery
|summary=Japanese food has a tendency to sound a bit freakish or even controversial. Raw fish? Octopus ice cream? Whale meat? Yet it is slowly infiltrating the UK with sushi conveyor belt restaurants popping up everywhere and noodle bars offering Westernised bowls of steaming noodles. In this book Michael Booth takes his wife and two young children to experience the real thing, travelling across the whole of Japan tasting an enormous range of foods and learning about their history, how the foods have been produced and are cooked and eaten.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516446</amazonuk>
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