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Yoga School Dropout - Lucy Edge |
| You don’t have to be
a travel or a yoga enthusiast to enjoy reading this book. In
fact as soon as you read the synopsis you know you’re
in for a treat, the ironic self-deprecating, dare-I-say-it very
British sense of humour comes across straight away. Lucy’s
plan was to travel to India and “find a guru and return
a yoga goddess – a magnetic babe attracting strong and
sweaty yet emotionally vulnerable men with my pretzel-like body
and compassionate grace.” Puts a smile on your face straight
away! Read
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Living and Working in Hong Kong
- How To Books |
| In
the expat fantasy, every day is an adventure, and dealing with
a new language and culture a joy. After living in Hong Kong
for five years, Rachel Wright begins with a reality check for
those tempted by exotic dreams and seemingly generous expat
packages. “Foreign talent and expertise is still in demand,
but the extravagant salaries of the 1980s and 1990s are no longer
common and many expats are now being offered ‘local’
contracts.”
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past - Giles Tremlett |
Synopsis:
The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves
containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what
Spaniards call 'the pact of forgetting'. At this charged moment, Giles
Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish
history. Spaniards, he found, had tried to wipe both the Civil War
and Franco from their memory. The graves were 'secretos a voces' -
whispered secrets everyone knew about but did not discuss. History,
Tremlett discovered, was a tinder-box of disagreements for Spaniards.
Who caused the Civil War? Why do Basque terrorists kill? Why do Catalans
hate Madrid? Did the islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004
dream of a return to Spain's Moorish past? The ghosts of the past
were everywhere.. |
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Bollocks
to Alton Towers: Uncommonly British Days Out
Jason Hazeley, Robin Halstead, Joel Morris, Alex Morris |
Synopsis:
The British Lawnmower Museum, Keith Harding's World of Mechanical
Music, and Mad Jack's Sugar Loaf. In a world of theme parks, interactive
exhibits, over-priced merchandise and queues, don't worry, these are
names to stir the soul. Reassuring evidence that there's still somewhere
to turn in search of the small, fascinating, unique and, dammit, British.
In a stumbling journey across the country, in search of the best,
we have to offer our intrepid heroes discovered dinosaurs in South
London, a cold war castle in Essex, grown men pretending to be warships
in Scarborough, unexplained tunnels under Liverpool and a terraced
house in Bedford being kept warm for Jesus's return.. |
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The
Cities Book (Lonely Planet Pictorial S.) |
Synopsis:
A pictorial coffee-table book that illustrates 200 cities in the world
as voted by Lonely Planet travelers, authors and staff. This book
includes topics, which contain statistics such as population, the
age of the city and its local name, urban myths, city origins and
the things to see, do, eat and drink. |
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Cool
Camping: England - Jonathan Knight |
Book Description:
It’s official. Camping is cool. With designer floral-print tents,
self-inflating air mattresses and state-of-the-art campsite facilities,
it’s no longer a chore to head for the hills at the weekend.
A generation raised on summer festivals and gap-year backpacking has
rediscovered the great outdoors as a tonic to high-density urban life.
And there’s no better way to enjoy a wilderness experience than
with a sleeping bag and tent, to sleep under the stars and to wake
with the sun. This book features a hand-picked selection of campsites
and camping experiences in England, each with something very special.. |
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Unforgettable
Places to See Before You Die |
| Synopsis:
We only get one life so we owe it to ourselves to see as much of this
beautiful world as possible. As we work longer hours our leisure time
becomes more and more valuable and increasingly it's how we spend
it that gives meaning and value to our lives. That's not to say that
we are unhappy with our lot but, in the absence of religion, personal
fulfilment is the new god and for growing numbers of people this comes
from new experiences and sights. |
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Narrow
Dog to Carcassonne - Terry Darlington |
| Synopsis:
Terry and Monica Darlington are intrepid pensioners who made the surprising
decision to sail their canal narrowboat Phillis May, sixteen hundred
miles across France and down to the Mediterranean, accompanied only
by their whippet Jim. They took advise from nautical experts, who
told them they would lose their boat and their lives (and, indeed,
their whippet Jim). |
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The
Travel Book |
| Synopsis:
A pictorial guide to travel around the world features 1,200 full-color
photographs and descriptions of more than two hundred countries, all
organized alphabetically for easy access, along with key facts, maps,
cultural insights, and travel tips for each nation. |
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Findings
- Kathleen Jamie |
| Reviews:
The Daily Telegraph, June 4 2005
'a book of unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy,
strength of vision and rare exactness of language'
The Independent, 14 June 2005
'the vivid catching of the fleeting aspects of the world around
us.. . Jamie does with remarkable skill' |
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Long
Way Round - Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman |
| Synopsis:
From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through
Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific
to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles
slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started.
Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous
roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their
stamina. |
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