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“mark l salter”

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  • Travellers All

    by Mark L Salter ...
    An attractive, personal, superbly curated evocation of the golden age of travel right up to the present day. Travellers All is a meticulously researched work on the history of travel writing and travel writers, and seeks to rekindle a love (and hate occasionally) of the works of our finest writers. There is a thematic approach which includes twenty-seven chapters of commentary on the experiences ... Read more

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  • The Final Curtsey

    A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin

    by Margaret Rhodes ...
    The bestselling behind-the-scenes memoir of the royal family by a cousin who served in MI5—and as one of the Queen's bridesmaids. Includes photos!A Sunday Times number one bestseller in the United Kingdom, this is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Old Ways

    A Journey on Foot

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    Series Book 3 - Landscapes
    From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland, an exploration of walking and thinkingIn this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of ... Read more

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  • The Gifts of Reading

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the author, the recipient), an exchange of intellectual and psychological currency, that ... Read more

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  • The Tao of Travel

    Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The acclaimed author explores the greatest travel writing by literary adventurers from Freya Stark and James Baldwin to Nabokov and Hemmingway.Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe with this meditative journey through the books that shaped him as a reader and traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates "The Contents of ... Read more

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  • Shadows on the Grass. Illustrated

    by Karen Blixen ...
    Shadows on the Grass by Karen Blixen is a reflective memoir that returns to the author’s years in East Africa, revisiting the landscape and relationships first described in her earlier writings. Composed later in life, the book carries a quieter, more contemplative tone, shaped by memory, distance, and a deep sense of longing for a world that has disappeared. Through a series of connected essays, ... Read more

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  • A Writer's House in Wales

    by Jan Morris ...
    Series series Directions
    Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block of her former family house nearby. Surrounding it are the fields and outbuildings, the mud, sheep, and ... Read more

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  • The Clouded Mirror

    by L.T.C Rolt ...
    In these evocative and elegiac writings L. T. C. Rolt meditates on landscape, history, poetry, steam railways, vintage cars and the endless summer days of his childhood. He also recalls his many happy boating voyages on Britain's canals: the peace and tranquillity, the wildlife and people, the changing scenery as he travelled from county to county, and the role he played in preserving the ... Read more

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  • A Factotum in the Book Trade

    by Marius Kociejowski ...
    The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • 101 Amazing Facts About England

    by Jack Goldstein ...
    Series Book 11 - Countries of the World
    In this amazing eBook you will find more than one hundred facts about England. Who are the ten greatest English historical figures? What are the top landmarks to visit? Separated into sections covering these topics and more (such as its geography and its people), you will learn some fascinating information!Whether you are planning on visiting England, working on a geography project or just want to ... Read more

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  • Under the Sun

    The Letters of Bruce Chatwin

    by Bruce Chatwin ...
    "Wonderful...the closest we are ever going to get to a Chatwin autobiography."-William Dalrymple, The Times Literary Supplement (London)The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose desire for adventure and enlightenment was made wholly evident by his writing. This marvelous selection of letters-to his wife, to his parents, and to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The West Country: A Cultural History

    by John Payne ...
    The English West Country is a land of exceptional landscapes: many miles of wild, unspoilt coastline and vast expanses of wild moorland; great cities such as Exeter, Plymouth, Bath and Bristol; and market towns, villages and hamlets. Farming, mining, quarrying, fishing and trade are the traditional industries of the counties of Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.On one level, the West ... Read more

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