 | Fortune-teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.22 Great example of personal travel journalism. Fantastic read!
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 | The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.58 If you plan on going to Africa, this is a must read.
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 | Leo the African by Amin Maalouf
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.96 A great introduction to the african Marco Polo
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 | Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.34 Maalouf has a great talent for writing remarkable history through fiction
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 | The Man Whom Women Loved: The Life of Bror Blixen by Ulf Aschan
Buy used from: £4.85 Men like Bror Blixen do not exist anymore. I fell in love with this character!
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 | West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Buy used from: £0.01 A fabulous woman, with a remarkable life and a pen that made Hemingway fell to his knees...
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 | The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy by Noreena Hertz
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £2.27 Gives a great overview of the forces shaping our lives and societies
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 | The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy used from: £2.47 Maybe the best book ever written about globalisation
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 | Plato's "Symposium" (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature) by Richard Hunter
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £5.50 Maybe the best book ever written about love
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 | Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers by Leonard Koren
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £8.68 In times of lifeless imperfection surrounding us, this rare japanese philosophy is important
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 | The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £1.19 The greatest man living today gives the greatest words of wisdom
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 | The Little Prince: Sixtieth-Anniversary Gift Edition by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Buy used from: £39.67 Maybe the most beautiful piece of literature ever written
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 | Victoria (Condor Books) by Knut Hamsun
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.32 Since I am norwegian, Hamsun has to be on my list, with a moving love story
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 | How to Travel with a Salmon: And Other Essays by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £2.07 Great fun!!
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 | Invisible Cities (Vintage Classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £4.20 An author that writers love for his fine art, intelligence and descriptions
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 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £5.00 Politics, comedy, psychology...Kundera is the master
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 | I Have Seen the World Begin (Panther) by Carsten Jensen
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.15 Very intellectual travel journalism, food for thought
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 | Karaoke Capitalism: Managing for Mankind by Kjell Nordstrom
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £2.21 If you are both creative and entrepeneurial, this is your bible
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 | Zorba the Greek by N. Kazantzakis
Buy new: £10.80 / Used from: £3.13 Greece is like my second country, and no one has captured the greek soul as Kazantzakis
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 | The Turkish Labyrinth by James Pettifer
Buy used from: £0.36 The best about this book is how he describes the political, geografical, cultural and religious meeting of west and east through describing Turkey
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 | Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature by Thor Heyerdahl
Buy used from: £0.04 This is the greatest book by the great explorer Thor Heyerdahl. His first journey as one of the worlds first environmentalists.
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 | A House in Bali by Colin McPhee
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £10.59 For a few months, my family lived on the same spot as this book is about. It is a remarkable story of how a canadian composer and musician collected and saved a rare musical heritage, the gamelan
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 | Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £1.75 Paul Auster is one of my favorite modern authors, with his strange atmosphere and great literary style
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.33 I love Marques' rich, fabulous, imaginative and musical writing
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 | The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again (Harbrace Paperbound Library ; Hpl 75) by Andy Warhol
Buy used from: £5.94 Well, I have not read this, but I love his quotes!
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