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|genre=Travel|summary=A few years ago Michael Williams, Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the railway expert who's world. And then written for numerous newspapers about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and magazines on then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the subject, released a book called is an attempt ''On The Slow Trainto share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about some all of Britainthese things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong's best railway trips. With far too many journeys , that every upside is likely to fit into one volume, he's given us have a dozen more in this sequeldownside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848092857</amazonuk>1785633678

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Gimlette0957181167|title=Wild CoastBlue Skies and Boat Trips: Travels on South America's Untamed EdgeThe Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=4.5|genre=TravelArt|summary=Apart from knowing that it borders Venezuela, Brazil and SurinameThere are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to avoid looking at a fact hammered into me in Year 8 Geography, problem I know very little about Guianafound myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewis. And while you may think that's understandable, I'm not sure that it is, seeing as I read searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book while living just two countries overand the print I wanted was ‘not available’. The thing is Oh, it's dear - then a sort of tiny, forgotten country, isn't it? Over few doors down from the years it has been involved in border disputes, has come under various nations' ruleapartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and has changed names more often a framed print of the P Diddy, and even after you take all that into account, picture I bet you can't think of a single thing there to go and seewanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682525</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yangzom Brauen and Katy Darbyshire1785633457|title=Across Many MountainsCharging Around: Three Daughters of Tibet|rating=4|genre=Biography|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 Exploring the Chinese invasion Edges 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>}} {{newreviewEngland by Electric Car|author=Keith Hern|title=Zimbabwe in PicturesClive Wilkinson|rating=35

|summary=I'm Clive Wilkinson has a bit history of an amateur photographer, and since travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the advent idea of digital cameras I always come back from holidays with thousands exploring the edges of photos, over-excited by the England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact that I am no longer limited to 24 or 36 exposure films! I enjoy, thereforeit should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, flicking through photography booksJoan, to see the images that have captured someone elseshouldn's imagination and to see if I can pick up any interesting framing ideas, or subject settings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685707</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher WinnMerryn Glover|title=I Never Knew That About the River ThamesThe Hidden Fires|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>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Aatish Taseer|title=Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands|rating=4

|summary=Aatish Taseer was born of out of a short week of passion between a Sikh Indian mother 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 a Pakistani Muslim father. The mother was a journalist; so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the father a politicianbook.  That week Merryn Glover is of passion was to be all it Australian parentage, wasborn in Kathmandu, despite subsequent attempts at hushing grew up in the pregnancy, then pretending Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think of no-one better a marriage until finally combination to give us a clean break was made when re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the boy was about 18 months oldCairngorms National Park. Ah Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but such breaks never are clean are they? in her spirit. There's always a certain amount of meddling from I think the side-lines, and then there's a child's longing to know who he is, where he is really fromtwo would have gotten along famously.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847671314</amazonuk>1846975751

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim PerrinB0B7289HKQ|title=WestConversations Across America: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Where would you go if the love of your life, Father and your son, both died within a short few months of each other? Jim Perrin headed West - to the scraggly patches of land off IrelandSon, closer to the setting sunAlzheimer's, nearer to and 300 Conversations Along the further horizon, beyond TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the noise, information and opinion Soul 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>}} {{newreviewAmerica|author=Sam Miller|title=Delhi: Adventures in a MegacityKari Loya

|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 partisanshipKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, but he does love by the place so will make sure you do too, but mainly because way) wanted to begin spend some time with he HATED it… so he will understand if you don't share his ironic father and the period between two jobs seemed like a good humour about the shit squirter or the fact that sometimes the only way time to do it. The decision was made to cross ride the road is Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to take a rickshaw taxi.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526743</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brian W PughAstoria, 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 Oregon - all, and also one 4250 miles of the most famous English novels set it - in Devon2015. This alone would probably give more or They had 73 days to do it - slightly less enough material for an entire book on connections between than the story and the location recommended time - but there were factors which inspired pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking iton. Yet the authors have found several more links between the county, Merv Loya was 75 years old 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, he was previously unawaresuffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312861</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=David Lane|title=England 'Til I Die - A celebration Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of England's amazing supporters|rating=3Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking.5|genre=Sport|summary=To start withHowever, an admission. I am an English fan this isn't a travelogue about any of footballthose epic journeys, but I am not it is instead a fan thoughtful exploration of England’s football squad. Hardly ever would I prefer what it means to see the Three Lions triumphantwalk. I never got into the habit, partly because I never saw the singularly English habit It is a plenitude of supporting the underdog as making any senseunnumbered essays about walking. Plus youThere is no 'contents'll never get me standing up page and singing that awful tune before the matchI haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. But here are testimonies from twenty or so people who see things completely differently to mePerhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906796505</amazonuk>0241357705

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justine HardyMonica Connell|title=In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir's Long War - One Family's Extraordinary StoryAgainst a Peacock Sky

|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>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Booth|title=Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Japanese food has a tendency Monica Connell went 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 Nepal to experience do 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>}} {{newreview|author=Sara Wheeler|title=The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=The title of this book suggests another travel book about adventure in the frozen north, but Sara Wheeler mixes her tales of fieldwork for her own travels with some history of polar exploration and a serious examination of the impact of visitors and of those who wish to exploit the Arctic’s natural resources on the region and its peoplePh. Rather than setting off on another expedition to reach the North Pole, she travels around bits of the Arctic divided between different countries and governments, including Chukotka (Russia), Alaska (USA), Canada, Greenland, Svalbard (Norway) and Lapland (Russia and Scandinavia)D. There is a huge amount of material in the book but Wheeler organises and presents it in a very readable, accessible stylesocial anthropology.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516888</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Griffiths|title=The Lotus Quest|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Mark Griffiths is one of Britain's leading plant experts. I know this because his brief biog in the front of The Lotus Quest tells me so; just as think it tells me that he is the editor of The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening 'the largest work on horticulture ever published'. His prior works list includes five other plant book credits, three of them for the RHS. I shall take all of this on trust, since attempts important to find out more about the author and his background through the usual internet search mechanisms has failed miserably. He remains as elusive as the sacred flower know that is the subject of this latest work: the lotus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184595100X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jason Webster|title=Sacred Sierra: A Year She went on a Spanish Mountain|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Jason Webster and his partnergrant-supported trip, Salud searched and bought forty acres of valley and mountainside halfway up the Penyagolosa Ridge in Southern Spain, complete with two derelict sets of farm buildingsa relatively specific objective. These She wasn''mas'', or smallholdings, formed the backbone of Spanish agriculture until young people abandoned rural life t a hippy wanderer looking for towns in the midShangri-twentieth centuryla. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. The agro-economics She went with a fundamental aim of the EEC enforced obsolescence of the ''mas'' systemlearning about these people and how they lived. As old timers retired or diedShe also went, their farms were abandonedpresumably, leaving most with the academic discipline of the land returning how to wild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512947</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lawrence Osborne|title=Bangkok Days|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Laurence Osborne has hit upon a bizarre way find these things out, how to save money on dentistry – pay for a month's rent organise them in Bangkok and get his fillings done thereher mind, which works out cheaper than dental insurance how to "understand" them in America. During the course context of many visits to Thailand, he meanders around Bangkok, along with various other motley foreigners, passing through hospitalsher own paradigms, brothels and mobile restaurants selling waterbugs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535971</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicholas Jubber|title=Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard |rating=3.5|genre=Travel|summary=closed doors how to keep enough notes and how people really think, challenging the idea that both countries are defined only by a religious fervour files and fundamentalism that is the accepted way photos to help her create some greater sense of life. At the heart of Jubber's quest is experience after the epic poem event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of Persian culture, the ''Shahnameh'' which he soon learns all Iranians know open-ness and love curiosity and a willingness to muck-in doing so he unearths a vibrant culture that preceded the conversion of Persia , to Islam break her own rules and to truly connect with it the transformation of Persia into Iran. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818841</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Mathie|title=The Man of Passage|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Ian Mathie's association with Africa began when his father was posted to what was then Northern Rhodesia when Mathie was just four years old. School was in a convent and was run by German and Italian nuns and for a while he was the only white child amongst a couple people of hundred Africans. Even when he was joined by others he was still part of an ethnic minority although he didn't realise it! He was taught in the local language and grew village where she hauled up with the local children. It was his home and was to be the centre of his life for decades to come.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955312418</amazonuk>1780600429

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary BlackwoodNicolas Bouvier|title=The Great Race: The Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race Of 1908Japanese Chronicles

|summary=In her latest literary outing, the now elderly and increasingly opinionated travel writer and veteran cyclist Dervla Murphy describes It never does to start a series review of trips to Cuba. The opening section deals a book with a family trip in late 2005. Readers who have followed Dervla's books quote from the beginning will have grown up with Rachelblurb, the authorbut sometimes it's daughter, who accompanied her on a number of trips between the ages of five and eighteenunavoidable. Now Dervla travels with Rachel and Rachel's three young daughtersLe Monde reviewed this book, Clodaghat some point, Rose and Zea, known for ease throughout with the book as words ''what the Trioold master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.''It is precisely that. The middle section sees Dervla return alone to spend several months trekking A masterpiece in places such the sense of the craft as well as the Sierra del Escambray mountains, and in the final third art of the book, Dervla returns writing. I'm going to hesitate to the city call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a history of Santa Clara Japan, a mythology-primer for the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling in the death of Ernesto ''Che'' Guevaracountry.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190601146X</amazonuk>1906011044

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Buckley, Mark Ellingham and Tim JepsonStephen Fabes|title=The Rough Guide to Tuscany and UmbriaSigns of Life

|summary=There's a general Rough Guide to Italy, but revisiting again this regional guide in the process of writing up our trip to Tuscany two years ago, I was reminded brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of how good indeed this particular Rough Guide isfar away places. I bought it because was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I wanted to supplement didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the general Rough Guide guts to Italy simply go out and do it. I had with more detailed coverage also didn't inherit the kind of the region in which we were going steady nerve, ability to talk to spend the whole trip - strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I was extremely happy had been gifted with the result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843530554</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Guy Delisle|title=Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Guyrequisite 'bottle'. HeIn order words I's a French-Canadian animator, leaving home for a short stay in m not the capital sort of one of the world's most intriguing, unknown and alien cultures - Pyongyang, North Korea - so he can work person who will get on a TV cartoon co-productionbike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Forced to stay in one of the three official hotels designed for foreigners, so Fabes did precisely that the locals and people such as he do not have to mix, he see glimpses of the unique socialist dictatorship, stunning views of the buildings forced through the poverty, and thousands of unreadable faces.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224079905</amazonuk>1788161211

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charley Boorman Rob Baker|title=Right to the EdgeToubab Tales: Sydney to Tokyo by Any MeansThe Joys and Trials of Expat Life in Africa

|summary=Forgive me if I'm wrong'"Go to Mali, but there seems a ever-diminishing sense of surprise with Charley Boorman's continuing adventures" they said. One hopes at least "The music is amazing," they started with very daring, courageous, envelope-pushing exploits, where we might have doubted his successsaid. Now he's on his fifth trip in as many years, BBC TV crew in hand as always, and we can hardly hope for much in the way "And you get ten hours of an ordeal, or doubt concerning a failuresunshine every day. And, as he admits, this does feel much like an add-on for his Ireland-to-Sydney trek" So I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443516</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Rolf Potts|title=Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Rolf Potts Rob Baker is a travel writer as well as a bit of a backpacker guru and his book distils his experiences in, exactly as the title suggests, ''an uncommon guide to long-term travel''ethnomusicologist. The operative word here is ''uncommonA what?''I hear you cry. Well, as ''Vagabonding'' is not really a guide as we know theman ethnomusicologist studies music in relation to culture, more of so rather like a pep-talk combined with folklorist studies the oral and written story traditions relating to a resource listculture.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0812992180</amazonuk>B089CSNFT7

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marika McAdamChristine Brown|title=Western Balkans (Lonely Planet Multi Country Guide) Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West Africa|rating=34.5|genre=Travel|summary=Lonely Planet does well from its multi-country guides as members of its peripatetic, Inter-railing, backpacker audience often 'do' more than one country (and sometimes a whole continent or region at least) within one trip.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1741047293</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Cook Publishing |title=European Rail Timetable Summer 2009|rating=5

|summary=This volume is In the summer of 2008, this book's author was spending her days working in an absolutely essential resource for anybody travelling office job in Europe by trainthe USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. A compilation of all major train routesLong story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, it allows not only for checking train times but also planning pretty much every conceivable major journeyWest Africa. TheoreticallyNow coincidentally, in the train timetables change twice yearlysummer of 2010, so itthis review's worth getting author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, when this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to date bookhave the opportunity to read and critique it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848481322</amazonuk>171024299X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Johnstone Mourby_Rooms|title=Europe on Rooms with a ShoestringView: Big Trips on Small Budgets (Lonely Planet Shoestring Guides)The Secret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby

|summary=''Europe on Adrian Mourby has given us a Shoestring'' comes flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the vast stable of Lonely Planet's travel guides and is very much aimed at world, with the budget end hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of the marketan overall picture. Comparable So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to its nearest competitor, Letcall itself 'grand's Go Europe, was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it's a one-volume backpacker bible which attempts to provide ushered in the overview beginning of a whole continent, every single country period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and the main destinations family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, move to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the countriesgrand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1741045916</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pete Brown 1908745819|title=Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Being a beer writer can't be the easiest route to respect in journalism. But with this book Pete Brown has done much to counter the sceptical, even dismissive, attitudes which must surround his trade and its subject matter. He has attempted to combine a history of British imperialism and the brewing industry with the comic 'quest' genre of travel writing. Against all the odds, he has largely succeeded.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706355</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSurfacing|author=Rough Guides |title=The Rough Guide to Amsterdam|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=This Rough Guide is as comprehensive, up to date and well researched as most if not all Rough Guides seem to be. I have used numerous examples of their guides and I found them to be among the best if not the best ones there are. They do seem to have moved upmarket a bit since I first started to use them in the early 90s - but they still provide the best balance in descriptions covering practicalities, context, history, sightseeing, entertainment, drinking, clubbing and even (in Amsterdam at least) dope smoking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843538091</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alistair Duncan |title=Close to Holmes: A Look at the Connections Between Historical London, Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan DoyleKathleen Jamie

|summary=It is huge: Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not only in space , but in time and structure; and in rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the non-material sphere book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the complex interplay author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of meanings, symbols and significancesherself.'' Older. Less tethered. MillerThat's booknot a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, intentionally combining cultural of those aspects of the poetic and political historylyrical that are about style not form, art criticism and travel writingsubstance most of all, about connection. Of course, manages this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to reflect that hugeness without weighting the reader down with too much austere detailme eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861979088</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Delisle1912242052|title=Burma ChroniclesO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=Graphic NovelsArt|summary=What we have here are a male househusband and artist, and his MSF doctor wife, and their life in Burma or Myanmar ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for roughly a year. We get being ''the first person to see the life in walk the country, from the racks of bootleg softwaremountains alone, not because he had to the animation class he leadsfor work, to their efforts to get into the lush country clubsas a miner, to their baby being adored by every passing girl. We see the state of the countryquarryman, with its horrid drugsshepherd or pack-horse driver, HIV/AIDS but because he wanted to for pleasure and malaria problems, hidden beyond the gentle Buddhist retreatsadventure. We see the Delisles' interaction His rapturous encounters with this singular country - the censored presstheir natural beauty, and the fact that their road is only made more busy because its literary consequences, changed our view of the roadblock diverting everyone away from Aung San Suu Kyiworld''s house a block away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087711</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain McCalmanWoolf_Great|title=Darwin's ArmadaThe Great Horizon: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory 50 Tales of EvolutionExploration|author=Jo Woolf

|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=A look at Darwin's journey on The Beagle, as well as Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys by Joseph Hookerhave helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallacealso given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have the determination and grit to carry on. Darwin's Armada provides a broad overview that strikes This book could be viewed as a different tone taster which encourages us to other books in a crowded marketseek out and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Casual readers who usually steer clear of non-fiction will enjoy itTheir stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737266X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick WrightHailstone_Berlin|title=A Journey Through RuinsBerlin in the Cold War: The Last Days of London 1959 to 1966|author=Allan Hailstone

|genre=Politics and SocietyHistory|summary=My good mood evaporated when Sue, my Bookbag partner, asked me if I'd read and review A Journey Through Ruins. She was right to ask because Thatcher's Britain is certainly an area of interest to me. The thing is, times are depressing enough. Margaret HildaBerlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966's neo-liberal legacy is crashing around us. Jobless queues are lengthening. Roofs are disappearing from over people's headscontains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The rampant cronyism and venal images provide an insight into the changing nature of our economic the divide between East and political elites are slowly exposing themselves West Berlin and a glimpse into life in ways likely to send my blood pressure soaringthe city during the Cold War. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199541949</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David GrannStewart_Marches|title=The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the AmazonMarches|author=Rory Stewart

|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=For Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Fawcett there was more to The Observer quote on the front of the Amazonian jungle than El Doradopaperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest. His target was a treasure of a different nature – a lost city '' Perhaps, but to be discovered because call it was a city, not for any spurious material wealth 'travel writing' is to totally under-sell it might hold. Could This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background to do this: he had an entire civilisation have been founded international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the inhospitable tracks of rain forestForeign Office, and then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and left remains he might find fame walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in locating? As this brilliant biography shows, Fawcett was 2002. A walk along the best man around to find itScottish borders should be a doddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847374360</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel CuskBristow China|title=The Last SupperChina in Drag: A Summer in ItalyTravels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow

|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary=So, there's this family, right, and Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a journalist for the parents have itchy feetBBC, so they pack everything up and say goodbye author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the doglocal language for several years, and leave CliftonBristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, Bristolborn in the early fifties, and drive down to Italy and live offered Bristow a fine and different compelling picture of lifein Communist China - but added to that, and the plumbing might not be the best but the neighbours and the scrumping and the wine are all Bristow was greatly surprised to die for and it all comes right find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies clothing. It soon becomes clear that the end with lifetale told here is immensely personal -affirming brilliance.  There will be many people shuddering at that completely false description yet also paints a fascinating portrait of one of this bookthe world's most intriguing nations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571242561</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip Cheshire and Patrick ReynoldsHurst_Norfolk|title=Architecture UncookedOn My Way: An Architect Looks Around New Zealand Holiday HousesNorfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating=54|genre=TravelArt|summary=This book immediately impresses by its clearly writtenIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, yet intelligent writingleft with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and its photography that captures both found a display of the structure most gorgeous pictures. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and the spirit hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of the holiday homes scattered around the New Zealand countrysidegreetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1869621549</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Dean Starnes|title=Roam|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Languages, customs, rituals, fascinating things Move on to do, places to see, people to visit – all in the one book, covering almost every nook and cranny throughout the world. This is a travel book covering, well, pretty well everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1869507118</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Trivia Reviews]]