 | The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems (Picador Books) by Michael Ondaatje
Buy used from: £0.01 the most exquisite book i've ever read
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 | Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman
Buy new: £4.66 / Used from: £1.49 a constant companion
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 | The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves
Buy new: £9.31 / Used from: £4.99 fabulous, deep and valuable investigation into poetic myth
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 | Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Lopez
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.72 singlehandedly changed the way I think about natural world. A lucid, intelligent, meeting of science and poetry in the arctic.
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 | Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 dazzing. bold, imaginative, wayward, everything writing should be... do your mind a favour.
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 | James Joyce's "Ulysses" by S GILBERT
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £6.15 take 10 minutes out and marvel at the last 3 pages. (So good they might even make you want to read it all)
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 | South with "Endurance": Antarctic Photographs by F.Jack Hurley
Buy used from: £54.00 Incredible photographs. Incredible story.
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 | The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.56 Step away from the work-consume-work cycle for a while. A book full of lovely, naive, unattainable , poetic Kerouacy things.
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 | Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: £2.25 / Used from: £0.01 Tired of all this meaningless consumerism? you really need to read Walden
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.19 The first book that really affected me deeply. Not an easy read but very special.
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 | Headlong by Michael Frayn
Buy new: £6.36 / Used from: £0.01 found this lying around our holiday villa in 2002 - best bit of fiction i've enjoyed all year.
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 | The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.91 / Used from: £0.01 Most books about climbing are awful This one is good because it's unflinchingly honest, it's written by Joe Simpson and it's about the 1938 route on the Eiger (shudder)
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 | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.18 dark, wicked, very sensual fairy tales. God this woman could write.
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 | The Songlines (Vintage classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.26 Wonderfully absorbing picture of the aboriginals.
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 | The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £6.50 / Used from: £2.57 beautiful book by my favourite writer.
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 | Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
Buy used from: £55.00 i'd forgotten just how marvellous it can be just putting one foot in front of the other
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 | Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times by Neil Astley
Buy new: £7.97 / Used from: £4.69 the best collection of poetry i've read.
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 | Robert Frank: The Americans by Robert Frank
Buy used from: £85.49 this book changed photography (and me). The shot of the girl in the lift will haunt me forever.
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 | The First Crossing of Greenland (Adventurers & Explorers) by Fridtjof Nansen
Buy used from: £5.50 my dream... the greenland Icecap crossing
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 | The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
Buy used from: £1.85 Perhaps one of the few books everyone really should read.
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 | Free-Heel Skiing: Telemark and Parallel Techniques for All Conditions (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert Series) by Paul Parker
Buy used from: £12.24 free your heel... free your mind.. leave the piste behind..
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 | The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £7.61 Aldous huxley on comparative religion; an absolute treat!
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