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  The English Heritage Guide to...

  English Heritage

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  The official, illustrated English Heritage guide, with over 950 of London's most interesting inhabitants and their former homes brought to life.'If people want to find out about our London history, they can go and stand for a minute outside and look at a house where we know that person has lived - I think that's just wonderful.' Dame Judi Dench
  Blue plaques, bearing names both familiar and intriguing, can be found all across the capital. From BOB MARLEY to ALAN TURING, VIRGINIA WOOLF to VINCENT VAN GOGH, MAHATMA GANDHI to EMMELINE PANKHURST, the plaques celebrate an incredible range of London's past residents.
  Whether they be scientists, sports stars, artists, actors, inventors or politicians this revised and updated English Heritage guide reveals, with wit and insight, the stories of London's most extraordinary men and women and the homes in which they lived.
  'The blue plaque helps us make poetry from the everyday, infusing the hard materials of the city with the feeling of lives lived: a memory of the past making the present richer.' Antony Gormley, Guardian

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  The Expedition - Two Parents...

  Chris Fagan

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  Meet married couple Chris and Marty. At midlife, they unexpectedly find themselves weighing the responsibility of parenthood against the possibility of one more grand adventure. After securing care for their twelve-year-old son, they set off to undertake one of the hardest challenges on the planet: Ski 570 miles from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole. With no guide or resupply. 
  Experience a boundless white wonderland. Feel the intensity of 220-pound sleds, 40-below temperatures, and mind-numbing isolation. Chris and Marty stretch their bodies, minds, and marriage to the limit in the process of making history. Riveting and inspiring, The Expedition is about the power of family and community, the adventurous spirit that dwells within us all, and breaking through to feel fully alive. 

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  Tales from the Big Trails - A...

  Martyn Howe

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  'I am already planning the next adventure. The wanderlust that infected me has no cure.'
  It all started in Fishguard in the mid-1970s when, aged fifteen, Martyn Howe and a friend set off on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path armed with big rucksacks, borrowed boots, a Primus stove and a pint of paraffin, and a thirst for adventure. After repeating the route almost thirty years later, Martyn was inspired to walk every National Trail in England and Wales, plus the four Long-Distance Routes (now among the Great Trails) in Scotland. His 3,000-mile journey included treks along the South West Coast Path, the Pennine Way, the Cotswold Way and the West Highland Way. He finally achieved his ambition in 2016 when he arrived in Cromer in Norfolk, only to set a new goal of walking the England and Wales Coast Paths and the Scottish National Trail.
  In Tales from the Big Trails, Martyn vividly describes the diverse landscapes, wildlife, culture and heritage he encounters around the British Isles, and the physical and mental health benefits he derives from walking. He also celebrates the people who enrich his travels, including fellow long-distance hikers, tourists discovering Britain's charm, farmers working the land, and the friendly and eccentric owners of hostels, campsites and B&Bs.
  And when he is asked 'Why do you do it?', the answer is as simple as placing one foot in front of the other: 'It makes me happy.'

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  National Geographic Magazine Vol 06

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  National Geographic Magazine Volume 6, articles published from January, 1894, to May, 1895. Geographic Progress of Civilization - Annual Address by the President Honorable Gardiner G. HubbardShawangunk Mountain, by N. H. DartonWeather Making, Ancient and Modern, by Mark W. HarringtonGeomorphology of the Southern Appalachians, by Charles Willard Hayes and Marius R. CampbellThe Battle of the Forest, by B. E. FernowSurveys and Maps of the District of Columbia, by Marcus BakerThe first Landfall of Columbus, by Jacques W. Redway, F. R. G. S.Japan, by D.W. StevensGeography of the Air, Annual Address by the Vice-President, General A. W. GreelySir Francis Drake's Anchorage, by Edward L. BerthoudNote on the Height of Mount Saint Elias, by Professor Israel C. RussellGeographic Notes, by Cyrus C. Babb (The Antarctic Continent - Magnetic Observation in Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen in 1892 - A New Light on the Discovery of America - Monographs of the National Geographic Sociaty - Important Announcement Concerning Essays)Laws of the Temperature Control of the Geographic Distribution of Terrestrial Animals and Plants. Annual Address by Vice-President Dr. C. Hart Merriam.Oregon: Its History, Geography, and Resources, by John H. Mitchell.

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  Secret Bus to Paradise - It's...

  Bradley Charbonneau

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  What if paradise weren't a physical place? 
  But a state of mind. 
  A "place" we all had access to if only... 
  ...we knew which bus to take.  
  ...we could figure out when it departed the station. 
  ...we knew which seat to sit in.  
  What if the map to get there was a secret? 
  That we all knew. That we all had.  
  If only we knew how to access it.  
  Where to get tickets.  
  Here's your ticket.

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  Love With a Chance of Drowning -...

  Torre DeRoche

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  New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong? 
   
  City girl Torre DeRoche isn't looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He's just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that's as exhilarating as it is terrifying. 
   
  This sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and always poignant memoir is set against a backdrop of the world's most beautiful and remote destinations. Equal parts love story and travel memoir, Love with a Chance of Drowning is witty, charming, and proof positive that there are some risks worth taking. 
   
  "A funny, irresistibly offbeat tale about the risks and rewards of living, and loving, with an open heart." -Kirkus Reviews

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