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Kendal Mountain Festival: Levison Wood
Levison Wood, one of the most renowned speakers at this year’s Kendal Mountain Festival, shares stories about his incredible adventures and the people …
Read moreFrom Love Bugs to Period Taboos: Kendal Mountain Festival 2
The Kendal Mountain Festival showcases some of the most influential explorers, books, and films in the industry. One of the many documentary features …
Read moreThe Lives and Extraordinary Adventures of Fifteen Tramp Writers from the Golden Age of Vagabondage
Jim Phelan, in collection of Ian Cutler An extensive list of words for people of no fixed abode in the introduction to this book reminds us how …
Read moreTiger Girl
Tiger Girl shimmers with beauty and rage: for every exquisite description of a bird or tiger, there’s an incident of cruelty and horror, unfolded on t …
Read moreThe Distance
Great boxing matches are ‘allegories authored in blood’, wrote Budd Schulberg. It’s quoted late on in Ivan Vladislavíc’s sixth novel, which, among oth …
Read moreExpeditions Unpacked: What the Great Explorers took into the Unknown
The concept behind Ed Stafford’s Expeditions Unpacked: What the Great Explorers took into the Unknown is quite simple: what did the world’s best explo …
Read moreA Beginner’s Guide to Japan
Pico Iyer is often referred to as one of the best travel writers of the twenty-first century. I had not heard of him, I’m embarrassed to reveal. But t …
Read moreThe Rhino Conspiracy
The Rhino Conspiracy by Peter Hain is a dynamic, fast-paced thriller based in apartheid South Africa. It is emotional and compelling, educational and …
Read moreKidnapped by my Father: BBC One Wales
Yemen is one of the world’s shadowlands. We only see it on the news, usually under a pall of smoke after mortars or aerial bombings. It’s a source of …
Read morePlague Dreams of the Future City
Plagues kill citizens. They reconfigure cities. An outbreak of yellow fever in Buenos Aires in 1871 emptied the southern districts of wealthy resident …
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