1 OxTravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers
by Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory Maclean
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| Published: | 19/05/2011 |
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A collection of travel writing, which will act as a focus for the Oxfam Bookfest in 2011. It features stories from twenty-five travel writers,... Read more
2 Tibetan Foothold
| Format: | Paperback 240 pages |
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| Published: | 26/09/2011 |
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Describes day-to-day life in the camps where hundreds of children are living in squalor while a handful of dedicated volunteers do their best to... Read more
3 Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan
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| Published: | 20/09/2011 |
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One winter, the author, the four-footed Hallam (the mule) and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the... Read more
4 Through Siberia by Accident: A Small Slice of Autobiography
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| Published: | 16/01/2006 |
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A new adventure from an unconventional and much loved traveller and writer. Read more
5 Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals
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| Published: | 15/11/2007 |
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Dervla's journey takes her beyond Siberia to the furthest corners of Russia. She discovers a world of lynx and elks, indigenous tribes and... Read more
6 The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba
| Format: | Paperback 421 pages |
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| Published: | 18/01/2010 |
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Features a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. This book also builds a complex picture of a people struggling to retain their identity in the... Read more
7 Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru
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| Published: | 18/09/2003 |
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A fascinating tale of extreme travelling on foot and by mule in the high Andes. Read more
8 Wheels within Wheels: The Makings of a Traveller
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| Published: | 18/01/2010 |
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9 In Ethiopia with a Mule
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| Published: | 07/03/2012 |
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In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a... Read more
10 The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal
| Format: | Paperback 256 pages |
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| Published: | 23/09/2011 |
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Describes the author's various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet. Read more
