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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 moreTough Women: Kendal Mountain Festival
The Kendal Mountain Festival is on now and on demand until 31 December 2020. Tickets from £5.50, with some free events. On Friday 20 November at the …
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 moreBarry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground c1790–1965
Some British seaside resorts double as lazy jokes. Skegness, Blackpool and Clacton-on-Sea are names that trip off the tongue when there’s chatter abou …
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 moreReturn Journey
‘Hullo?’ the call connects as a child screams through the funnel of the carriage. ‘It’s me,’ I say. a man pulls the armrest down ‘I got your message. …
Read moreThe Price of the Picturesque
The Emptying of Covid-19. It sounds like the title of a Thomas Pynchon novel. But for three long months, the skies cleared, the beaches were clean and …
Read moreThinking Again
A national treasure, Jan Morris can do no wrong. As she approaches her mid nineties, each new book is offered as the last. With more than sixty alread …
Read morePravda Ha Ha
Jemma L King is intrigued by this exploration, comic in parts, in which a return to Russia 30 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, reveals the r …
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