==Travel==
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{{newreview
|author=Elisabeth Eaves
|title=Wanderlust
|rating=4.5
|genre=Travel
|summary=Egypt. Australia. Papua New Guinea. Spain. Pakistan. New Zealand. France. For some that list will be a random list of places, mixing those they know with those they’ve never considered. Others might tick off a few and have the remainder on a ‘to do’ list. It’s probably only a small subset who will have passed through all of them, and an ever tinier one who will have spent considerable time in each. Canadian native Elisabeth Eaves is one of the lucky few who has been there, done that, and this book is essentially her travel diaries of those years wandering the globe.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1580053114</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrew Wilson
|summary=Meet Guy. He's a French-Canadian animator, leaving home for a short stay in the capital of one of the world's most intriguing, unknown and alien cultures - Pyongyang, North Korea - so he can work on a TV cartoon co-production. Forced to stay in one of the three official hotels designed for foreigners, so 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.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079905</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charley Boorman
|title=Right to the Edge: Sydney to Tokyo by Any Means
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=Forgive me if I'm wrong, but there seems a ever-diminishing sense of surprise with Charley Boorman's continuing adventures. One hopes at least they started with very daring, courageous, envelope-pushing exploits, where we might have doubted his success. 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 of an ordeal, or doubt concerning a failure. And, as he admits, this does feel much like an add-on for his Ireland-to-Sydney trek.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443516</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rolf Potts
|title=Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=Rolf Potts 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''. The operative word here is ''uncommon'', as ''Vagabonding'' is not really a guide as we know them, more of a pep-talk combined with a resource list.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0812992180</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marika McAdam
|title=Western Balkans (Lonely Planet Multi Country Guide)
|rating=3.5
|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>
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{{newreview
|author=Thomas Cook Publishing
|title=European Rail Timetable Summer 2009
|rating=5
|genre=Travel
|summary=This volume is an absolutely essential resource for anybody travelling in Europe by train. A compilation of all major train routes, it allows not only for checking train times but also planning pretty much every conceivable major journey. Theoretically, the train timetables change twice yearly, so it's worth getting an up to date book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848481322</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Johnstone
|title=Europe on a Shoestring: Big Trips on Small Budgets (Lonely Planet Shoestring Guides)
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=''Europe on a Shoestring'' comes from the vast stable of Lonely Planet's travel guides and is very much aimed at the budget end of the market. Comparable to its nearest competitor, Let's Go Europe, it's a one-volume backpacker bible which attempts to provide the overview of a whole continent, every single country and the main destinations in each of the countries.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1741045916</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pete Brown
|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>
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{{newreview
|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>
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{{newreview
|author=Alistair Duncan
|title=Close to Holmes: A Look at the Connections Between Historical London, Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Even today, London is a remarkable compromise of the old and the new. As Alistair Duncan shows in this volume, the city of Conan Doyle and Holmes has changed – yet not changed. There have been a handful of books in the past on 'Holmes's London', but this is the first of its kind to place equal emphasis on places associated with the detective and his creator.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312500</amazonuk>
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