Travel and Holiday
Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains: Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award
Travel and Holiday
The final installment of the popular travel memoirs series set in France’s Auvergne region. ‘I doubt my life has any vast sea changes ahead,’ Tottie wrote in Book 4 of the Sell the Pig travel memoirs series. Biff the Useless Mention was intended to be the end of the extended trilogy. But then, one day, [...]
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Alone in his tiny kayak, Brian Wilson set off on an 1800-mile adventure around Scotland’s grand cliffscapes, unspoiled shorelines, fearsome sea passages and Hebridean islands. The story of this journey is told in Blazing Paddles: A Scottish Coastal Odyssey,
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This pocket sized book describes, in detail, routes to all 56 Trig Points on the Isle of Skye and Raasay. The routes vary from serious undertakings into the Cuillin to a range of “family friendly” hill and coastal walks, identified by a useful icon throughout the book, all leading to what is claimed to be [...]
Travel and Holiday
Don’t Offer Papaya: 101 Tips for Your First Time Around the World
In August 2014, author Kia Abdullah and photographer Peter Watson quit their jobs and left London for their first trip around the world. With years of exploring behind them already, they thought they knew everything there was to know about long-term travel. Yet, somehow, they still “offered papaya” in Colombia, got a funny tummy in [...]
