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A Carpet Ride to KhivaChristopher Aslan Alexander
When Chris Alexander visited the walled city of Khiva, a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan, he found its glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets so alluring that he decided to stay. Rediscovering the lost art of traditional weaving and dyeing, he set up his own carpet workshop, in a world with a dual and often contradictory allegiance to Mohammed and Marx, to veils and to vodka. His business took him to northern Afghanistan where he tried to distinguish between sacks of dye and of opium, and to the British Museum as he exposed designs not used for 500 years. He also found himself corralled into singing 'My Heart Will Go On' on Uzbek television. His story is one of adventure and unlikely friendships, and of a life largely unknown to the West.
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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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The Spiders of Allah
James Hider
The 'crack cocaine of fanatical fundamentalism' is nowhere more apparent than the Middle East: the Zionists of the West Bank, the Shi'ite death squads of post-Saddam Iraq, military activity under the leadership of a US President acting on the orders of God. James Hider meets terrorists, clerics, soldiers and ordinary citizens from across the region to understand how such deeply held beliefs can result in such mayhem and death.
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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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Even the small islands of the British Isles contain remote oases of nature at its most untamed, areas that remain largely untouched by civilisation. This anthology of essays brings together the observations of 18 writers, including Margaret Elphinstone's treks across the Scottish landscape, Sara Maitland on the geological treasures of the South Coast and Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh's first glimpse of the Scottish moorlands.
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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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This brings together the thoughts of some of Europe's finest writers on a city around which so much of Europe's history has revolved. Joseph Roth recalls Jewish cabaret before the Nazis, John Simpson sees the Wall fall in 1989 and there are extracts from novels by writers as diverse as W G Sebald, Len Deighton, Chrisopther Isherwood and Elias Canetti. Also available in the City-Lit series are London , Paris and Prague.
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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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Since 1992 Candida Lycett-Green's columns in The Oldie magazine have introduced their readers to the precious few remaining idyllic backwaters and nooks of England. This is a fully illustrated anthology of 100 of them, including the enormous thirteenth-century Great Coxwell Barn in Oxfordshire, the lush Lune Valley in Lancashire, the shabby elegance of Southend-on-Sea and the awe-inspiring High Force waterfall in County Durham.
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