 | Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of the Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Buy used from: £1.74 A marvellous expedition tour of the Mediterranean Muslim world, in the footsteps and footnotes of 14th century explorer Ibn Battutah
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 | Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land by Tim MacKintosh-Smith
Buy new: £6.07 / Used from: £2.98 More MacKintosh-Smith, who this time shares his experiences gained in 17 years of living in Yemen
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 | From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.99 Another great example of modern travelogue in the footsteps of ancient travellers: William Dalrymple travels from Turkey through the Levant and into Egypt telling the tale of Eastern Christianity
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 | The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £7.25 An Antipodean recommendation for getting to grips with the history and politics of this part of the world - now on my wishlist
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 | The Crossing Place: Journey Among the Armenians by Philip Marsden
Buy new: £5.65 / Used from: £0.01 Another travelogue! This time, through the Armenian diaspora
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 | Difficult and Dangerous Roads: Hugh Clapperton's Travels in Sahara and Fezzan 1822-1825 by H. Clapperton
Buy used from: £16.00 Journals of a 19th century British expedition to the Sahara, and my Libyan Explorer reading
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 | Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £0.01 An Antipodean recommendation for crime fiction with engaging characters led by Tempe Brennan
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 | Postmortem (Dr Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 A mutual favourite, but we prefer the early years!
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 | Knots And Crosses by Ian Rankin
Buy used from: £0.01 My recommendation for crime fiction with a Scottish flavour
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 | Ratking (Zen) by Michael Dibdin
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.01 .... Italian crime fiction featuring Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen - a personal favourite
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 | Death at La Fenice: A Novel of Suspense by Donna Leon
Buy used from: £0.01 .... Italian crime fiction featuring Police Commissioner Guido Brunetti (how come he and Zen never meet?!)
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 | Death of an Englishman by Magdalen Nabb
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £0.01 The last recommendation for Italian crime fiction, this one featuring Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Florentine carabinieri
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 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Buy new: £3.95 / Used from: £2.49 An Antipodean recommendation for the first in Stieg Larsson's Swedish saga, Millenium
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 | The Gates of Rome (Emperor) by Conn Iggulden
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 An Antipodean recommendation for strong series of historical novels
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 | The Game of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
Buy used from: £4.50 The first of the marvellous Lymond Chronicles, set in the 16th century Europe with a leading man to swoon over
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 | Niccolo Rising: The House of Noccolo v. 1: The House of Niccolo by Dorothy Dunnett
Buy used from: £0.01 The second great saga by Dorothy Dunnett, set in the 15th century and following the fortunes of Nicholas vander Poele
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 | Red Mars: Mars Trilogy Bk. 1 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Science fiction sneaks in! The colonisation of Mars focusing on the social and political developments that surround and affect the initial expedition both on Mars and back on Earth
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 | Libya (Lonely Planet Country Guide) by Anthony Ham
Buy new: £9.37 / Used from: £7.46 .... and of course, the Lonely Planet guide to Libya. We would have been (literally) lost without it. The maps and walking routes for Tripoli proved a real boon.
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