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		<title>DK Eyewitness Travel Guide India</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/travel-books/9119/dk-eyewitness-travel-guide-india</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first few holidays I had in India were organised by tour companies. I vaguely picked a part of the country I liked the look of or a tour that matched our available holiday dates and just turned up, generally without too much idea of what we were going to do or where we were going to go. Then after four trips where we paid over the odds for the convenience of someone else making all the arrangements, I realised that we didn't need to do that any more. By then I knew enough about how the country 'worked' to just get stuck in and do it myself. I also realised I didn't want the sanitised and buffered protection of a tour company – I we could do it ourselves and that we might well get to see a different side of life in India. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Frontiers: Racing Across Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8794/extreme-frontiers-racing-across-canada-charley-boorman</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charley Boorman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2004, I saw some adverts on TV for a new show called Long Way Round, featuring Ewan McGregor and his best friend Charley Boorman travelling around the world on motorcycles. I decided to give it a go – after all, I’ve been a fan of Ewan’s for year. Within minutes I was hooked, on the adventure, the fun and the camaraderie between the pair. Since then the intrepid duo have travelled through Africa in Long Way Down, and Charley has branched into solo projects, with Race to Dakar, By Any Means and Right to the Edge (By Any Means 2). Now he’s back with a new adventure, Extreme Frontiers: Racing Across Canada. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Breaks</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8760/clean-breaks-richard-hammond-jeremy-smith</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Hammond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clean Breaks by Richard Hammond and Jeremy Smith is a guide to 500 things you could do around the world without a high environmental impact. The green aspirations of the book make it pretty clear that it's not going to be the Richard Hammond of Top Gear fame that wrote it – I can't somehow see him and his co-presenters offsetting their carbon when they head off to burn up the road in the latest super car. This is the kind of book that's ideal for friends and relatives who love to travel and love to dream about where they might go next. If they suffer at least a basic level of environnmental 'guilt' about their travel, this is a nice choice to help them feel better about themselves. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Walkover</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8754/fourteen-historic-walks-in-delhi-swapna-liddle</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swapna Liddle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They say the best way to get to know a city is to walk through it and there are many Delhis to walk through since it is like an onion, city within city, with the hallmarks of different conquerors, culminating in Lutyen’s city. A hundred years ago, Delhi had not spread beyond the protecting walls of Shahjahanabad, the city Shahjahan built as his capital in 1638 and the population was just about one lakh. Now that area is known as Old Delhi and lacks the grandeur of the city that the British built but it had its own quirky character, tastes and alleyways. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Hit the Road</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8738/hot-tea-across-india-rishad-saam-mehta</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cookbooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rishad Saam Mehta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The book is an accumulation of the columns that Mehta wrote for various papers, including HT Brunch. A compendium of some of the road trips that he took across India. Mehta’s chosen to group them according to all the chai stalls that he met on the road. ‘There’s not a highway, road or dirt track in India where you can’t find a cup of chai whenever you want it’ he writes and so he sets out to write about travelling down India’s rickety or mountainous roads fuelled by a passion for seeing new places and cups of tea. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing The Devil</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8662/chasing-the-devil-tim-butcher</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Butcher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I read and reviewed Tim Butcher’s Blood River, about his journey along the Congo River, and I’m afraid to say I wasn’t terribly complementary about it. I didn’t like his style or attitude, and thought I would rather find other books on Africa. Yet when I learnt about his recent book, Chasing The Devil: The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit, I found myself keen to give it a go. Perhaps it was the African journey again which drew me in, but I have to admit there was also a hope that I might enjoy Butcher’s writing more second time round.

Chasing The Devil is Butcher’s account of a journey across Sierra Leone and Liberia. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Camping</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/essays/8647/the-art-of-camping-matthew-de-abaitua</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/essays/8647/the-art-of-camping-matthew-de-abaitua#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew de Abaitua]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Father Ted presented her with a machine that would ‘take the misery out of tea-making’ TV’s most aesthetically challenged housekeeper Mrs. Doyle lamented ‘some people enjoy the misery’. It’s more or less the way I feel about camping; I certainly don’t camp for any pleasure I derive from it, rather a belief that it’s somehow character building and morally robust. I’m certainly not the first to think so and in The Art of Camping Matthew de Abaitua takes us on a trip back in (fairly recent) history to look at those people for whom camping was a means to rehabilitation or a way of instilling certain values, using socialist in principle. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Connolly&#8217;s Route 66</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8377/billy-connolly-route-66</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8377/billy-connolly-route-66#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Connolly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Get your kicks on Route 66” goes the song. As someone who grew up on rock and roll and dreamt of the wide spaces of America from Glasgow, Billy Connolly has always had a fascination with the iconic Route 66. In Billy Connolly’s Route 66, he travels the famous Mother Road, and invites us all along for the ride. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Big Earth: 101 Amazing Adventures</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8105/big-earth-101-amazing-adventures-russ-malkin</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8105/big-earth-101-amazing-adventures-russ-malkin#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russ Malkin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am what you might call a vicarious traveller. I would love to travel the world but am not able to at this point in my life, so I travel from my living room, watching TV and reading books. Among my favourites are the Long Way Round and Long Way Down shows by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, along with Charley’s solo shows. Russ Malkin was an integral part of the team for these adventures, both as producer and as a member of the support team, so you can understand I was quite excited to hear about his book, Big Earth: 101 Amazing Adventures. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Cow</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8066/holy-cow-sarah-macdonald</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8066/holy-cow-sarah-macdonald#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Macdonald]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting to like Holy Cow by Sarah Macdonald. She got off to a bad start for me with some glaring geographic and historical errors (claiming Rishikesh was 200 km from Dehradun – it's about 40 minutes in a taxi) and a lot of moaning and whining about how filthy and smoggy Delhi was. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Thumbs Up Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8054/thumbs-up-australia-hitchhiking-the-outback-tom-parry</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/8054/thumbs-up-australia-hitchhiking-the-outback-tom-parry#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Parry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback by Tom Parry is the first travel book I have read about Australia however, and hopefully it won’t be the last. Parry sets off to Australia with his rather reluctant French girlfriend Katia, to re-explore the Outback which he hitched through when young and single. He has spent the intervening years lost in daydreams about Australia, and after much effort he managed to persuade Katia to join him in his journey. from www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/sport-and-leisure/7989/its-all-about-the-bike-the-pursuit-of-happiness-on-two-wheels-robert-penn</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/sport-and-leisure/7989/its-all-about-the-bike-the-pursuit-of-happiness-on-two-wheels-robert-penn#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>collingwood21</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport and leisure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Penn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roy H Williams once wrote, "lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?". This is a question that many of us will struggle to answer coherently, I suspect, but not Robert Penn. For Penn is a man with enthusiasm for all things pedal-powered; he has ridden a bike for thirty-six years, on nearly every day of his adult life, including one 40,000km, three-year, round the world trip as an apparent reaction to having been a pin-striped solicitor for too long. As his book "it's all about the bike" - a cheeky riposte to Lance Armstrong's best-selling biography about recovering from cancer to win the Tour de France - opens, Penn owns five bikes in various states of repair, but has decided he needs a new one. "I could go online right now with a credit card and spend £3000 on a mass-produced carbon or titanium racing bike" he writes. "It's tempting, very tempting. But it's not right. Like many people, I'm frustrated at the round of buying stuff that is designed to be replaced quickly...I want the best bike I can afford, and I want to grow old with it...I want MY bike." From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>I and Claudius &#8211; Travels with My Cat</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/7837/i-and-claudius-travels-with-my-cat-clare-de-vries</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/7837/i-and-claudius-travels-with-my-cat-clare-de-vries#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clare de Vries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bereavement is a great catalyst for change. It makes us stop and reconsider what we want from life and in the case of a sudden loss, that sense of 'do it now' urgency is enhanced. Clare de Vries lost her mother very suddenly to pancreatic cancer, looked at her job and her life in London and wanted out of both. The problem is that sometimes when you want a change, you need someone to keep you company and your friends and relatives don't want the same things you want or aren't available when you need them. How could she find the perfect travel companion? Enter Claudius – the perfect loyal friend to take on a road trip across the USA. 'I and Claudius' is the story of their road trip – and it's fantastic.

De Vries describes what she was aiming for as a Thelma and Louise experience – without the rape and the killings of course. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Cycled the Americas</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/sport-and-leisure/7777/the-man-who-cycled-the-americas-mark-beaumont</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autobiography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport and leisure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Beaumont]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The blogosphere is well suited to the coverage of extended journeys or endurance achievements; there have, in recent years, been several excellent blogs written by cyclists (Tom Kevill-Davies’s The Hungry Cyclist and currently Alastair Humphreys’s terrifically entertaining blog covering his round the world cycle ride are just two of them) and a few of these have been the catalyst for full length books, proving not only the enduring popularity of cycling but just how much the public’s imagination is fired by tales of such feats of strength, daring and will to succeed.

Following on from “The Man Who Cycled the World”, an account of his record breaking trip of 2008, “The Man Who Cycled the Americas” is Mark Beaumont’s next major undertaking, cycling down the back bone of the continents of North and South America. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>To Prussia with Love</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/7527/to-prussia-with-love-misadventures-in-rural-east-germany-roger-boyes</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Boyes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alarm bells should have sounded when I picked up Roger Boyes’s “To Prussia with Love” in a bookstore and I thought to myself “this sounds a bit contrived”. Call me naïve but when I browse the travel writing section in Waterstones, I tend to believe that those books are based on the writers’ real life experiences. Not so, it seems; at least not if this book is anything to go by.

It all starts off quite reasonably. Boyes is a British journalist living in Berlin and submitting stories about German life to his editor back in Blighty; rather fortuitously, just as he’s yearning to do something different with his life, his German interior designer girlfriend informs him that she’s inherited a country house, not, as he hopes in rural Italy, but in Brandenburg ( in eastern Germany to most people these days but, as luck would have it for those looking for a catchy title for a book, it used to go by the name of Prussia). From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Laikonik Express</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/7315/laikonik-express-nick-sweeney</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nick Sweeney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a subject for a novel the road trip – or rail trip in the case of “Laikonik Express” – but in his full length debut Nick Sweeney has injected new life into the genre. I’ve tended to avoid road trip writing of late: somehow the trips are never nearly as interesting or exciting as my own. In “Laikonik Express”, though, I found a setting almost tailor-made for my own travel predilections, characters that I found both credible and engaging and more than its fair share of wry humour. 

The story is simple yet as multi-layered as you want it to be. Nolan Kennedy, a young American teacher of English living and working in Istanbul has to find his friend (and alcoholic) Don Darius, a writer of sorts. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Of Cats and Kings</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/7276/of-cats-and-kings-clare-de-vries</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/7276/of-cats-and-kings-clare-de-vries#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clare de Vries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Tina always claimed that the only relationship in her life which hadn't been dysfunctional was with a Jack Russell Terrier. Exasperated by men both specifically and generally, she went searching for loving company in the shape of a large grey rescue Siamese by the name of Claude. They made the perfect couple. He was clean, polite and affectionate and didn't shed too much fluff around the house. All he asked in return was food and cuddles.

With a friend like Tina, when I heard that writer Clare de Vries had taken her Burmese cat Claudius travelling with her for a year, it all made complete sense to me. And when Claudius died, Clare decided to hit the road again and go in search of perfect feline love. Since she would only consider a Burmese or a Siamese, she decided to go – not so surprisingly – to Burma and Thailand. 'Of Cats and Kings' is her account of her search for the perfect cat and all the weird stuff she learned along the way about travelling, other people, cats and love. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>You’ve Gone Too Far This Time, Sir!</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/sport-and-leisure/7228/you%e2%80%99ve-gone-too-far-this-time-sir-danny-bent</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport and leisure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Bent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve Gone Too Far This Time, Sir! is the true account of Danny Bent’s journey from the UK to India...by bike. Inspired by teaching his class about underprivileged children in a village in India, he decided to go there to teach and help the children. When one of the children in his class in the UK asked how he planned to get there, his first thought was to reply “Plane, of course”, but he realised that by doing that he could undo a lot of the good work he had done in teaching the class about environmental issues. So he said he would cycle...

The journey is nothing short of epic. India is far away – even by plane. To travel there by a non-motorised form of transport is a huge undertaking, through Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Pakistan among other place. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Crusader: By Horse to Jerusalem</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/history/7219/crusader-by-horse-to-jerusalem-tim-severin</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>collingwood21</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Severin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1095, Byzantium was an empire under threat. From his seat in Constantinople, Emperor Alexius saw his territories across the Bosphorus in Anatolia coming under intense pressure from the Seljuk Turks, a Muslim people originating in central Asia who were steadily overrunning provinces that has been in the empire since Roman times. The Seljuks were not intruders to be taken lightly, and had succeeded not just in taking control of many Byzantine towns, but had also met the cream of the imperial army in combat and cut it to shreds. Faced with potentially catastrophic losses of land and power, he issued a plea for help to the Christians of the West to supply soldiers to come to his aid. Alexius asked for a military intervention to help protect his lands from invaders, but the papal conference in Piacenza which received his request interpreted it rather differently – as a call to launch a crusade to the Holy Lands, taking back Jerusalem and other holy places from the Muslims who had held them for some 450 years. It was a misunderstanding which was to have momentous consequences for both Europe and the Middle East. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Pound Pom</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/6827/ten-pound-pom-niall-griffiths</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/6827/ten-pound-pom-niall-griffiths#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autobiography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niall Griffiths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve read very little travel writing on Australia, but then very little has grabbed my attention. We feel like we know Australia even if we haven’t been there ourselves; from Ramsey Street to the late Steve Irwin and the Australia Zoo we’re familiar with Aussie culture without having to spend twenty-four hours stuck on a plane to experience it. In his book “Ten Pound Pom”, however, Welshman Niall Griffiths turns all that on its head and makes sure that, in no uncertain terms, we learn the truth about what this faraway bastion of equality and opportunity is really like.

Back in 1976, Griffiths was, along with his family a “Ten Pound Pom”, emigrating to Brisbane under a scheme sponsored by the Australian government. Griffiths was nine at the time, twelve when the family returned to Liverpool. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/6617/wild-coast-john-gimlette</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Gimlette]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having thoroughly enjoyed John Gimlette’s At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig I was looking forward with relish to reading Wild Coast, an account to his visit to the Guianas; I was not disappointed. A lawyer by profession, Gimlette is a charming and cheerful travelling companion whose enthusiasm for his subject never fails to please.

There are few places in the world so remote and uncharted as the Guianas; vast as its geographical area is most of the inhabitants cram into a narrow strip adjacent to the coast and the rest is wild, and often dangerous, swamp and rainforest, hardly likely source material for such a comprehensive, colourful and diverse travelogue. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Wide Angle National Geographic Greatest Places</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/6013/wide-angle-national-geographic-greatest-places</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ferdinand Protzman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not generally fond of what are often called 'Coffee Table Books' – those large books of artfully lit photographs that serve to sit around on coffee tables for your guests to browse and think how clever and cultured you are. I have a friend who always has arty books and magazines daintily arranged about the house and whilst I'll pick one up and flick through, it's not often I'd go looking for such a thing. The one exception I'd make to that are the photographic publications of the National Geographic – big, lush volumes stuffed full of eye-wateringly gorgeous and mentally-stimulating photographs. I was strolling past the Age Concern book shop in my local town and this book – Wide Angle National Geographic Greatest Places – lured me off my course and into the shop.
From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Takeaway</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/5863/indian-takeaway-hardeep-singh-kohli</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/5863/indian-takeaway-hardeep-singh-kohli#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardeep Singh Kohli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I first became aware of Hardeep Singh Kohli though the Channel 4 television series 'Meet the Magoons' which was set in a Glaswegian curry house and starred a bunch of great British Asian comic actors. These included his brother Sanjeev Kohli (the writer of the equally fabulous radio 4 comedy 'Fags, Mags and Bags'), the guy who plays the postman in East Enders and the father from The Kumars at No. 42. I thought the series was hilarious and I loved the weirdly eccentric turban-wearing kilted Kohli. Unfortunately it seems that only I, my husband and another three viewers who were probably Kohli relatives thought it was funny and the show was pulled after just one series. I never have been good at finding humour where others look for it.
From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Bed in a Tree and Other Amazing Hotels from Around the World</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/travel-books/5650/bed-in-a-tree-and-other-amazing-hotels-from-around-the-world-bettina-kowalewski</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bettina Kowalewski]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When planning a holiday or a short break most people choose a destination, book the flights or train tickets and then go looking for accommodation that fits in with their plans. In Bettina Kowalewski's book “Bed in a Tree” the author has turned this 'destination-led' approach to travel on its head.Bed in a Tree and Other Amazing Hotels from Around the World by Bettina Kowalewski, book review She introduces us to 27 unique hotels and other types of accommodation and then tells us what else there is to do in the area if you go to them. It's an 'accommodation-led' approach that puts the place you'll sleep in at the heart of the holiday and creates a sense of 'Hotel as Destination' that may well get readers to stop and think about the nature of holiday.
From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Dadgum Road</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/travel-books/5174/east-of-the-sun-siddhartha-sarma</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/travel-books/5174/east-of-the-sun-siddhartha-sarma#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sidhartha Sarma, a journalist by profession, born in Assam, set out in the spring of 2008 to walk through the troubled north east and take a look at life there. He started most naturally with his home state and then went on to Meghalaya, Arunachal, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, finally crossing the border into Moreh in Myanmar. What he has is an incredible fund of tall traveller’s – though not tourists’ – tales. He’ll tell you about being chased by stinky soup in Manipur, or about the ‘waves of badass anger on Lachit’s face’ – Lachit being the heroic nephew of an ancient Ahom ruler. He’ll also tell you that one of the favourite sports in Guwahati is falling into storm drains, or that the Dimapur city sport is ‘the Great Crappy Restaurant Food Game’.
From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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