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A Woman in the Polar Night - by Christiane Ritter

£12.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781805330899 | ISBN 10: 1805330896

‘Conjures the rasp of the ski runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights’ Sara Wheeler ‘[An] astonishing, haunting memoir’ Isabella Tree The rediscovered classic memoir – the m ... more
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The Girl Explorers - by Jayne Zanglein

£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781728239583 | ISBN 10: 1728239583

The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World. Never tell a woman where she doesn't belong. In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hund ... more
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Waymaking: An Anthology of Women's Adventure Writing, Poetry and Art - by Helen Mort, Claire Carter, Heather Dawe and Camilla Barnard (Editors)

£17.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910240755 | ISBN 10: 1910240753

Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape. Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat’s Space Below My Feet tells the story of a woman who shirked the conventions of societ ... more
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Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey - by Madeleine Bunting

£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781847085184 | ISBN 10: 1847085180

The Hebrides hold a remarkable place in the imaginations of Scotland and England. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, these iconic islands form part of Europe's boundary. Because of their unique position, they have b ... more
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In Search of Mary: The Mother of All Journeys - by Bee Rowlatt

£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846883781 | ISBN 10: 1846883784

Toddler in tow, Bee Rowlatt embarks on an extraordinary journey in search of the life and legacy of the first celebrity feminist: Mary Wollstonecraft. � From the wild coasts of Norway to a naked re-birthing in California, via the blood-soaked stre ... more
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A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen - by Freya Stark

£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848851924 | ISBN 10: 1848851928

Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored its vast hinterlands. In 1934, she made her first journey to the Hadhramaut in what is now Yemen - the first woman to do so alone. E ... more
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Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas - by Sienna Craig

£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780861715176 | ISBN 10: 0861715179

At just 19, Sienna Craig made her first venture deep into Mustang, an ethnically Tibetan area of Nepal, in the rainshadow of the Himalayas. �As an equestrian and a buddhing anthropologist, she sought not only to understand what it was like to rely on ... more
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Nobody's Home - by Dubravka Ugresic

£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846590191 | ISBN 10: 1846590191

A whole world seems to orbit within Nobody's Home. It's a world that looks familiar but strange. Dubravka Ugresic takes us on her whirligig travels through Europe, and across to the US, offering her insightful and unique perspectives on lit ... more
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Marrakesh: Through Writer's Eyes - by Edited by Barnaby Rogerson and Stephen Lavington

£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780907871996 | ISBN 10: 0907871992

There has never been a more fashionable nor a more instantly exotic destination than Marrakesh. � It is a dream landscape, with the steel-blue backdrop of the High Atlas mountains, a hint of the desert, vast, weathered, red earth ramparts, tall ta ... more
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A Writer's World: Travels 1950-2000 - by Jan Morris

£12.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571215256 | ISBN 10: 0571215254

In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris has produced a unique portrait of the late twentieth century - from New York to Venice, from the first ascent of Everest to the fall of the B ... more
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