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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 16 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Kindness of Strangers: Travel Stories That Make Your Heart Grow by Fearghal O
    The Kindness of Strangers: Travel Stories That Make Your Heart Grow - by Fearghal O'Nuallain (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786855312 | ISBN 10: 1786855313

    Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer.  Travel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visit. But what happens whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sky is on Fire by Magsie Hamilton Little
    The Sky is on Fire - by Magsie Hamilton Little

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781906251765 | ISBN 10: 1906251762

    One Woman. One camel. Two nomads.   Three years ago Magsie Hamilton Little gave up her home and travelled to the Hoggar Mountains in central Saharan Africa to rethink her life. There, to everyone’s surprise – not least her own – she fo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Morocco: In the Labyrinth of Dreams and Bazaars by Walter M Weiss
    Morocco: In the Labyrinth of Dreams and Bazaars - by Walter M Weiss

    £10.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909961258 | ISBN 10: 1909961256

    Morocco has been influenced by an incredible variety of peoples. Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Berbers, Muslims, Jews, and most of Europe’s colonisers have played a part. Modern Moroccan society is no less rich and varied. In Berber villages in the m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ethiopia Through Writers Eyes by Various authors, selected by Yves-Marie Stranger
    Ethiopia Through Writers Eyes - by Various authors, selected by Yves-Marie Stranger

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780600772 | ISBN 10: 1780600771

    Hand-picked extracts chosen by Yves-Marie Stranger, a long time Ethiopia resident, trilingual interpreter and writer.   There are only a handful of destinations left in the world that have retained their ability to surprise the traveller and E ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stringer: A Reporter
    Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo - by Anjan Sundaram

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782392491 | ISBN 10: 1782392491

    Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom rung of the Associated Press.  It was an intense period that would take him deep into the shadowy city ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa
    Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War - by Ben Rawlence

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689651 | ISBN 10: 1851689656

    In this compelling debut, Ben Rawlence sets out to gather the news that never travels far – the news of the uneasy peace being made in the towns of Congo’s silent quarter. Rather than taking the direct flight suggested by aid workers and mercenaries, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Indigo: In Search of the Colour That Seduced the World by Catherine E. McKinley
    Indigo: In Search of the Colour That Seduced the World - by Catherine E. McKinley

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408822364 | ISBN 10: 1408822369

    Indigo is the rich, electrifying history of a precious dye: its relationship to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, its profound influence on fashion, and its spiritual significance - all very much alive today.  But it is also the story of a persona ... more

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  • Cover image of book Karama! Journeys Through the Arab Spring by Johnny West
    Karama! Journeys Through the Arab Spring - by Johnny West

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857389947 | ISBN 10: 0857389947

    Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and so has the skills and ability to talk to everyone from security guards to revolutionaries, from families of protestors, some of whom have been killed, to oil workers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tales from Nowhere by Don George (Editor)
    Tales from Nowhere - by Don George (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781741795202 | ISBN 10: 1741795206

    Unexpected stories from unexpected places.  Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even themiddle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Single Swallow: Following the Migration from South Africa to South Wales by Horatio Clare
    A Single Swallow: Following the Migration from South Africa to South Wales - by Horatio Clare

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099526315 | ISBN 10: 009952631x

    A magical, thrilling journey and a hugely seductive book which combines the best travel and nature writing.  From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where ... more

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  • Cover image of book Long Way Down: An African Adventure by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
    Long Way Down: An African Adventure - by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780751538953 | ISBN 10: 0751538957

    Eighteen countries. Fifteen thousand miles. Two bikers. One amazing adventure. After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an insp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marrakesh: Through Writer
    Marrakesh: Through Writer's Eyes - by Edited by Barnaby Rogerson and Stephen Lavington

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780907871996 | ISBN 10: 0907871992

    There has never been a more fashionable nor a more instantly exotic destination than Marrakesh.   It is a dream landscape, with the steel-blue backdrop of the High Atlas mountains, a hint of the desert, vast, weathered, red earth ramparts, tall ta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Geldof in Africa by Bob Geldof
    Geldof in Africa - by Bob Geldof

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099497967 | ISBN 10: 0099497964

    Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984. The following year, Live Aid inspired a generation to raise millions for the starving in Africa. Over twenty years on, passion undiminished, Geldof returns to what he calls the Luminous Continent. This is his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Botswana Time by Will Randall
    Botswana Time - by Will Randall

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780349117782 | ISBN 10: 0349117780

    Through a series of serendipitous encounters, Will Randall found himself in Botswana, resuming the career as a teacher than had already taken him from an inner-London comprehensive to Poona in India.  And now, in Botswana Time, that career veers ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Writer
    A Writer's World: Travels 1950-2000 - by Jan Morris

    £12.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571215256 | ISBN 10: 0571215254

    In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris has produced a unique portrait of the late twentieth century - from New York to Venice, from the first ascent of Everest to the fall of the B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bay of Tigers: A Journey Through War-Torn Angola by Pedro Rosa Medes
    Bay of Tigers: A Journey Through War-Torn Angola - by Pedro Rosa Medes

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781862076488 | ISBN 10: 1862076480

    Pedro Rosa Medes, a prizewinning journalist, decides to travel across Africa, from Angola to Mozambique. His journey through these two former Portuguese colonies - devastated by twenty years of civil war - is fraught with danger and obstacles. Along ... more

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