Category: Books
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NEITHER HERE NOR THERE – Book Review
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE: TRAVELS IN EUROPE Bill Bryson (1991) If you have any interest at all in travel writing then Bill Bryson will already be familiar to you. He is one of the most popular and recognisable authors in the genre, and in Neither Here Nor There he turns his eye towards continental…
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THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD – Book Review
“The weirdest bird’s-nesting expedition that has ever been or ever will be.” Apsley Cherry-Garrard The “worst journey” referred to in the title was a kind of side quest to Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated 1910-1913 voyage to the South Pole aboard the Terra Nova. Published in 1922, it was written by the wonderfully named…
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