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Antarctic Pioneer The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne by Joanna Kafarowski

Jackie Ronne reclaims her rightful place in polar history as the first American woman in Antarctica. The aim of this book is clearly to set the record straight and to…

By Deborah Gray April 26, 2022BooksNo Comments

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A Moroccan Trilogy: Rabat, Marrakesh and Fez by Jerome and Jean Tharaud

I'd been wanting to read A Moroccan Trilogy: Rabat, Marrakesh and Fez by Jerome and Jean Tharaud for quite a while, Morocco is not a country I know very much…

By Tom Stanger April 23, 2022BooksNo Comments

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Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia by Shafik Meghji

An almost certainly apocryphal story about Queen Victoria’s defacement of a map of South America which gives the superb Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia its title. According to the legend…

By Ian Tattum April 18, 2022BooksNo Comments

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Woman, Watching – Louise de Kirilene Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay by Merilyn Simonds

Woman, Watching - Louise de Kirilene Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay is a remarkable title, but I now understand that Mrs Lawrence was quite a remarkable woman. Biographies…

By Emma Russell April 1, 2022BooksNo Comments

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The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century

The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century delivers what it promises and more. Like so many other recent publications it has its genesis in the Covid crisis. At…

By Ian Tattum March 5, 2022BooksNo Comments

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Riding Jane Crow by Miriam Thaggert

Everyone loves a good train story. Not only do they merge the limitless feeling of traveling by locomotive with the very real anxieties that can pervade a closed cabin, but they…

By Lake Markham March 1, 2022BooksNo Comments

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Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

The Yucatan jungle is on either side of the road as I finish reading Finding the Mother Tree. Throughout my four-hour journey through the Mexican south, I’ve been idly looking…

By Deborah Gray February 18, 2022BooksNo Comments

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A Winter Walk Around St Ives

My eyes lighted on something dark, in the distance, on the beach. Coming closer, I saw it was a dead porpoise. Mouth frozen in a smile, skin radiating a silvery…

By Gayle Wood February 15, 2022WordsNo Comments

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Deliverance

For days there had been no signs of human life. Pine forests shrouded in snow and half-frozen lakes glittering in the sun stretched into an unspoilt Canadian wilderness. It was…

By Gayle Wood January 15, 2022WordsNo Comments

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The Turkish Embassy Letters

To say these are a collection of the best letter writing of the eighteenth century really would be understating the importance and brilliance of The Turkish Embassy Letters. A collection…

By Tom Stanger December 10, 2021BooksNo Comments