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Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing
'A soaring gift of a book' Owen Sheers 'Remarkable' Mark
Vanhoenacker, author of Skyfaring 'Stunning . . . a love letter to
nature' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love The day
she flew in a glider for the first time, Rebecca Loncraine fell in
love. Months of gruelling treatment for breast cancer meant she had
lost touch with the world around her, but in that engineless plane,
soaring 3,000 feet over the landscape of her childhood, with only
the rising thermals to take her higher and the birds to lead the
way, she felt ready to face life again. And so Rebecca flew,
travelling from her home in the Black Mountains of Wales to New
Zealand's Southern Alps and the Nepalese Himalayas as she chased
her new-found passion: her need to soar with the birds, to push
herself to the boundary of her own fear. Taking in the history of
unpowered flight, and with extraordinary descriptions of flying in
some of the world's most dangerous and dramatic locations, Skybound
is a nature memoir with a unique perspective; it is about the land
we know and the sky we know so little of, it is about memory and
self-discovery. Rebecca became ill again just as she was finishing
Skybound, and she died in September 2016. Though her death is
tragic, it does not change what Skybound is: a book full of hope.
Deeply moving, thrilling and euphoric, Skybound is for anyone who
has ever looked up and longed to take flight. Shortlisted for the
Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award 2018.
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Heartfelt and heartening ... a
full-throated paean to the fundamental importance of nature in all
its glory, fury and impermanence." -Wall Street Journal The
incredible follow-up to the international bestseller The Salt Path,
a story of finding your way back home. Nature holds the answers for
Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along
The Salt Path, living on the windswept and wild English coastline;
the cliffs, the sky and the chalky earth now feel like their home.
Moth has a terminal diagnosis, but together on the wild coastal
path, with their feet firmly rooted outdoors, they discover that
anything is possible. Now, life beyond The Salt Path awaits and
they come back to four walls, but the sense of home is illusive and
returning to normality is proving difficult - until an incredible
gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything. A
chance to breathe life back into a beautiful farmhouse nestled deep
in the Cornish hills; rewilding the land and returning nature to
its hedgerows becomes their saving grace and their new path to
follow. The Wild Silence is a story of hope triumphing over
despair, of lifelong love prevailing over everything. It is a
luminous account of the human spirit's connection to nature, and
how vital it is for us all.
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Along with his companions from nine nations, Heyerdahl set sail in
a boat made of reeds in search of the sea routes which he was sure
must have been used by the Sumerians in vessels like his own, 5000
years ago. Heyerdahl recounts the many discoveries and hazards that
occurred on his journey down the Tigris, through the Gulf and on to
the Indian Ocean - tales of modern shipping, bandits, reefs and the
political dispute which finally led to the ceremonial burning of
the boat.
In this unique book, part eulogy, part history, part travelogue,
Charlie English goes in search of the best snow on the planet.
Along the way he explains the extraordinary hold this commonplace
phenomenon has over us, and reveals the ongoing drama of our
relationship with it. Combining on-the-slopes experience with
off-piste research, Charlie English's journey begins with the
magical moment when his two-year-old son sees snow for the first
time, before setting off in the footsteps of the Romantic poets
over the Alps, following the sled-tracks of the Inuit across
Greenland, and meeting up with a flurry of fellow enthusiasts, from
snow-making scientists in Japan and global warming experts in
California to plough drivers in Alaska.This is a book for anyone
who reaches for their mittens at the sight of the first flake.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling
account of her return to the land in which she grew up. In 1956,
some seven years after departed for England, Doris Lessing returned
home to Southern Rhodesia. It was a journey that was both personal
- a revisiting of a land and people she knew - and, inevitably,
political: Southern Rhodesia was now part of the Central African
Federation, where the tensions between colonialism and
self-determination were at their most deeply felt. 'Going Home' is
a book that combines journalism, reportage and memoir, humour,
farce and tragedy; a book fired by the love of one of the twentieth
century's greatest writers for a country and a continent that she
felt compelled to leave.
'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel
and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I
have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier.'
Paul Theroux 'For Love and Money ... is as good a book as there is
about the writing life. Delighted that it will be safeguarded in
print by Eland.' Tim Hannigan This collection of writing undertaken
for love and money is about books and travel, and makes for an
engrossing and candid exploration of what it means to live from
writing. Jonathan Raban weighs up the advantages of maintaining an
independent spirit against problems of insolvency and self-worth,
confesses to travel as an escape from the blank page, ponders the
true art of the book review, admires the role of the literary
editor and remembers with affection and hilarity events from his
eccentric life at the heart of literary London. Reading it is like
embarking on a humane, rigorous and witty conversation.
Met kaarte en geografiese grense sal mens wel kan bepaal waar le
die Tankwa-Karoo. maar vir Adriaan Oosthuizen kry jy die streek
wanneer jy die langste grondpad tussen twee dorpe in Suid-Afrika
aanpak: die pad tussen Ceres en Calvinia. Saam met Adriaan se
foto’s vertel Leti Kleyn van haar besoek aan hierdie geliefde stuk
land en dit word aangevul deur Dawid Slinger se vertellings en
skrywes. ’n Fees vir die oog, lekkerleesboek en ’n inligtinggids
ineen oor die geliefde streek wat die Tankwa-Karoo heet.
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