 | The English: A Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman
Buy used from: £0.01 Paxman is a natural. Full of humour and wry observations!.
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 | Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming
Buy new: £1.88 / Used from: £0.01 Gripping!. Fleming captures the early days of Alpine climbing, superbly told and well paced.
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 | Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £0.45 Genius!. Unputdownable!. Huntford describes in detail the amazing race to the South Pole!.
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 | South (Penguin Modern Classics) by Sir Ernest Shackleton
Buy used from: £3.45 An amazing tale of exploration.Superbly told by Britains greatest Antarctic explorer
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 | Loyalists by Peter Taylor
Buy used from: £5.33 Grim,preplexing and slightly depressing. Peter Taylor is the finest writer about the Troubles....
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 | No Logo by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £0.47 If you're young, READ THIS. The evils of the corporate world laid bare,branding your souls!.Choose life but not the corporate one!
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 | Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £1.10 A tragic tale of an Everest climb that went horribly wrong!.
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 | Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Gets inside pre-Tianamen Square China. Theroux describes the political and social scene brilliantly.
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 | Seven Years in Tibet (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Heinrich Harrer
Buy used from: £2.84 Fascinating story of a young austrian mountineer lost in the unknown wastes of Tibet. Captures the life and times before the Chinese invaded....
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 | The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
Buy used from: £0.01 Topical with the troubles in the Middle East. Thubron looks at post-communist russian asia and finds that extremism is far less popular amid the crumbling post-soviet infastruccture
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