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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor

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-Signed by the author to the title page in blue ink. Red boards with gold lettering to the spine and gold mermaid decoration to the front board. Lightly bumped at the top of the spine. Tanning to the top of the closed page edges. Book Society book plate to the front paste down with "Billie Spiers" in blue ink. Original illustrated dust jacket by John Craxton. Unclipped with some creasing to the top of the spine and further minor shelf wear to the edges. Now in a removable protective clear sleeve. No further inscriptions, 320pp, clean and bright pages with black and white images throughout. (Any digital image available on request).
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Walking the Bones of Britain
Author: Christopher Somerville

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Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walking correspondent of The Times and author of Coast, The January Man and Ships of Heaven) sets out to interrogate the land beneath our feet, and how it has affected every aspect of human history from farming to house construction, the Industrial Revolution to the current climate crisis. In his thousand-mile journey, Somerville follows the story of Britain's unique geology...
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1923 : The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession
Author: Ned Boulting

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The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film featuring a stage of the Tour de France from 1923 he set about learning everything he could about it - taking him on an intriguing journey that encompasses travelogue, history and detective story.Join him as he explores the history of cycling and France just five years after WWI. 
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Steeple Chasing : Around Britain by Church
Author: Peter Ross

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Steeple Chasing, though it sometimes strikes an elegiac note, is a song of praise. It celebrates churches for their beauty and meaning, and for the tales they tell. It is about people as much as place, flesh and bone not just flint and stone. From the painted hells of Surrey to the holy wells of Wales, consider this a travel book . . . with bells on.
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The Great British Bucket List
Author: Richard Madden

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The 60 mini adventures included are graded in difficulty from comically easy to mildly challenging, making them suitable for a wide range of ages and abilities. They include the most beautiful place to go for a stroll, the easiest place for a wild swim and, more importantly, the most spectacular place to have a cup of tea. Not to mention flying in a Spitfire and finding delicious food among the hedgerows.
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The Flow : Rivers , Water and Wildness
Author: Amy-Jane Beer

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On New Year's Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer's beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored. Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration.
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Beyond Possible
Author: Nimsdai Purja

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Welcome to The Death Zone....Fourteen mountains on Earth tower over 8,000 metres above sea level, an altitude where the brain and body withers and dies. Until recently, the world record for climbing them all stood at nearly eight years. So I announced I was summiting them in under seven months.
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Moderate Becoming Good Later : Sea Kayaking the Shipping Forecast
Author: Katie Carr , Toby Carr

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The Shipping Forecast has been described as the UK's national lullaby: a source of dependability and calm in our often chaotic world, it has charmed millions of listeners and aided generations of seafarers across the decades. No stranger to weathering a storm after living with a rare life-limiting condition and facing the death of his brother, avid kayaker Toby Carr set out to explore the areas of the Forecast.
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One Man and His Bike
Author: Mike Carter

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What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling? Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London to Calcutta. He encountered drunken priests, drag queens and gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers and people building for a different type of future.
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The Old Ways : A Journey on Foot
Author: Robert Macfarlane

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Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.
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Into Thin Air
Author: Jon Krakauer

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n March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of summit day, eight people were dead. Krakauer's book is at once the story of the ill-fated adventure and an analysis of the factors leading up to its tragic end.
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Marching Powder
Author: Rusty Young

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Marching Powder is the story of how Thomas McFadden navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top. He found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that is wrong with South American society. Prisoners have to pay an entrance fee and buy their own cells (the alternative is to sleep outside and die of exposure), prisoners' wives and children often live inside too, high quality cocaine is manufactured and sold from the prison.
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