 | To the Ends of the Earth by William Golding
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.35 Golding's seafaring trilogy 'Rites of Passage', 'Close Quarters' & 'Fire Down Below' - recently filmed by the BBC.
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 | The 8.55 to Baghdad by Andrew Eames
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 In my massive 'to read' list- traces a journey Agatha Christie made & is pertinent thanks to Bush's war on Iraq....
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 | Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Penguin Modern Classics) by T.E. Lawrence
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £2.19 Lawrence's classic tome that takes you back in time and to the desert....
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 | Himalaya by Michael Palin
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 Paperback edition of book which ties in with the excellent TV series! More expansive than the expanded DVD edition!
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 | The Innocents Abroad (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £4.93 Twain's classic focusing on new worlders tour of the old world...
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 | Green Hills of Africa (Vintage Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £1.64 avoiding bullfighting....
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 | Lonesome Traveler (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.00 One of Kerouac's better works, along with 'The Dharma Bums' this deserves to eclipse 'On the Road'
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 | Invisible Cities (Vintage Classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.95 Marco Polo's travels via Calvino and the most magical cities drift across - a tour of the imagination....
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 | Out of Africa (Penguin Modern Classics) by Isak Dinesen
Buy new: £6.55 / Used from: £0.01 .......................
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 | In Patagonia (Vintage classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.93 Chatwin's best known work and a definite classic- don't know much else of his stuff...
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 | Megalithic European: The 21st Century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe by Julian Cope
Buy new: £20.75 / Used from: £9.99 OK, perhaps too big to put in your bag, but takes in stone-circles, history and the European continent!!!!
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £0.01 Classic account of nightmare scenario mountaineering in Peru....
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 | Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.65 This book really came alive when I was on valium!
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 | A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £3.00 Forster's Indian-novel that was a bit of an influence on 'The Raj Quartet' & was the last film by David Lean.
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 | The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.04 Account of Che's motorcycle tour that later became an acclaimed film....
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 | Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.67 Another one on my 'to read' list - Greene is one of those authors I'd happilly restrict myself to if every other name vanished from the shelf....
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 | The Sheltering Sky (Penguin Modern Classics) by Paul Bowles
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.98 Another perfect book that I have read several times and will happily read again and again. Made into a bad film by Bertolucci....
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 | The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £8.51 Cities, locale, people, places, a certain time....
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 | Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Voyages Promotion) by Alfred Lansing
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.88 .....................
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 | Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £2.24 A history of Alexander the Great's epic journey and life....
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 | The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes" by Olivia Manning
Buy new: £11.58 / Used from: £7.99 The first sequence....
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 | The Levant Trilogy: The Danger Tree; The Battle Lost and Won; The Sum of Things: "Danger Tree", "Battle Lost and Won" and "Sum of Things" by Olivia Manning
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.65 & the second ; is it the place, or the history it is set against?
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 | The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus
Buy used from: £4.48 Can you sense the classical in the now?
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 | Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books) by Heinrich Harrer
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.01 Made into a very bad film indeed.
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 | Tales of the Pacific (Twentieth Century Classics) by Jack London
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 This needs to be reissued....
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