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The Magnetic North
Sara Wheeler

Following her memorable account of life and work in Antarctica, Terra Incognita, Wheeler now uncovers the beauty and brutality of the Arctic. She joins the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herds reindeer across the tundra with the Laplanders and traces the route of the trans-Siberian oil pipeline with truckers. Exploring the fabled northern lands found in myths and the writings of Chekhov, she discovers polar bears suffering on account of climate change and biotoxins, the ghosts of the Russian gulags and the explorers who survived by eating their own shoes.

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Jan Morris

Jan Morris, award-winning novelist and travel-writer, best known for her love of the lagoons of Venice, etches delightful pen portraits of the many extraordinary people she has met on her travels around the world. From the homeless of Manhattan to King Hussein of Jordan, a lascivious taxi driver to Peter O'Toole, she celebrates in vignettes and longer essays the people who have inspired her to keep on travelling.

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State by State
Sean Wilsey

50 American writers on the 50 States of America, from Alabama to West Virginia. Editors Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland have accumulated an impressive roster of authors for this anthology, including Jonathan Franzen on New York, Louise Erdrich on North Dakota, Dave Eggers on Illinois, Ann Patchett on Tennessee and Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island. Also appearing are Rick Moody and Myla Goldberg.

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Mapping New York

An illustrated history of New York, from its inception as a Dutch colonial trading post to its current position as perhaps the most vibrant and culturally diverse city in the Western world. Different perspectives are given by maps such as the 1922 Third Avenue Railways System, the New Commissioner's Plan of 1814, gang territories, a map of noise complaint densities and the radical reinterpretations of several of the city's artists.

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Charles Dickens's England
David Wilkinson

No writer is more closely associated with Victorian England than Charles Dickens. This book documents the places he lived and visited and their subsequent appearances in his celebrated novels, including Chigwell in Essex, where Dickens set Barnaby Rudge and which he described as 'the greatest place on earth', Field Lane in London EC1 where he situated Fagin's Lair and Easthorpe Hall in Malton, Yorkshire, where he wrote Martin Chuzzlewit.

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