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Norwegian adventurer, philosopher and acclaimed author Erling Kagge ventured to the North Pole in 1990. Blending memoir from that intrepid journey, along with history, philosophy and a stark warning about melting ice, comes a profound meditation about nature and our place within it. The North Pole is for anyone who’s gazed out at the horizon – and wondered what happens if you keep walking.

When dark, sinister clouds loom, Victoria and Joe find themselves facing life-changing decisions. Happily, silver linings also abound in this, the fifth Old Fools chronicle. A fresh new face joins the cast of familiar characters but the return of a bad penny may be more than some can handle. What does the future hold for the Spanish village of El Hoyo and the two old fools?

In From the Rising of the Sun, you'll explore eleven locations spanning the globe, witnessing different expressions of Christian worship that are consistent with Scripture but faithful to the local language, customs, and culture. Each chapter begins with a travelogue narrative that unfolds the experience of worship in a country or region and concludes with a biblical study on a particular aspect of worship or cross-cultural engagement, showing how each worship service is unique yet distinctly biblical.

On 14 August 1943, a specially adapted Halifax bomber took off from RAF Tempsford, an SOE airbase in rural England. Their secret mission was to drop vital supplies to the French Resistance, deep in occupied France. But their plane crashed into a village near Annecy, killing all six of the crew and five civilians. Only Adam Hart's great-grandfather, Frank Griffiths, survived. Seventy-nine years later, Adam retraced that journey so that he could re-tell the story of the great escape and his emotional encounters with descendants of people who'd risked their lives to save Frank.

In 2011, a young wolf named Slavc set out from Slovenia. Tracked by GPS, he travelled a thousand miles through the Alps, arriving four months later on the Lessinian plateau, north of Verona. There had been no wolves in northern Italy for a century, but here he crossed paths with a female wolf on a walkabout of her own. A decade later and there are more than a hundred wolves back in the area, the result of their remarkable meeting. In Lone Wolf, Weymouth walks Slavc's path, examining the changes facing these wild corners of Europe.

Mama, ich und 713 Kilometer Tobias Schlegl geht den Jakobsweg, zusammen mit seiner 73-jährigen Mutter. Obwohl er kein Wanderfreund ist, nimmt er diese Reise auf sich, um ihr einen lang gehegten Wunsch zu erfüllen. Abseits von ihrer Mutterrolle weiß er wenig von ihr. Auf dem Camino stellt er Fragen, die ihm schon lange auf der Zunge liegen, und lernt sie ganz neu kennen. Schlegl erzählt von neu gewonnener Verbundenheit, der Aufarbeitung von Trauer – und Nächten in hellhörigen Schlafsälen und mit geteilter Bettdecke.

Mit Bestsellerautor und Italienkenner Andreas Englisch auf den Spuren alter Pilgerrouten in die Heilige Stadt: packend erzählte Einblicke in die Geschichte Norditaliens und Abstecher zu den wichtigsten kulturellen Highlights sowie wenig bekannten Geheimtipps Ob Pilger oder Plünderer, Kaiser oder Bettelmönche, ob die Suche nach Macht, Reichtum, Erlösung oder Liebe – seit Jahrtausenden zieht es Menschen nach Rom. Viele ihrer Spuren finden sich noch heute an zahlreichen Orten in der Region zwischen den Alpen und dem Tiber.

From Kings and Emperors to Macaronis and Rockhoppers, penguins are one of the most immediately recognisable animals Earth. Yet for all that familiarity, what do we really know about them? An Inconvenience of Penguins follows award-winning travel writer Jamie Lafferty as he visits all 18 species in a bid to understand the birds and their extraordinarily varied habitats a little better.

On the 200th birthday of the world’s first passenger-carrying railway, Nige Tassell sets out to ride Britain’s railway network all the way to its lesser-travelled-to corners, its seldom-visited outposts. From Wick to Penzance and many points in between, he stays on until the end of the line. He is the last man sitting. The sixteen final destinations he visits offer sixteen different stories. So grab yourself a window seat for an odyssey that tells us much about Britain today. All aboard, all aboard.

The Canadian North is a vast and lonely land where bears roam free, fires rage unchecked, and storms blast every living thing on the tundra. When Stephan Kesting, already no stranger to pushing his own physical limits, was faced with a rare illness, he knew the only way for him to recover in both body and mind was to dig even deeper. Despite the dangers inherent in the sub-arctic, Kesting sets out on an unimaginably difficult journey.

Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, Fresh Air Fiend touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet of a solitary week spent in the snowbound Maine woods to the expectant chaos of Hong Kong on the eve of the Hand-over, Theroux demonstrates how the traveling life and the writing life are intimately connected.

Walking from Bluff, at the bottom edge of the South Island, to Cape Reinga, at the top of the North Island, award-winning journalist Naomi Arnold goes in search of New Zealand. Along her multi-month journey, she speaks to people from all walks of life and discover stories of people's hopes, dreams, worries and fears. An upbeat, fascinating and inspiring picture of who we are as a nation.

The official celebration of All Creatures Great & Small and its incredible setting: the Yorkshire Dales. Featuring an in-depth look at the characters and real-life inspiration for the show, this book tells the fascinating story of the program’s main character: the Yorkshire Dales.

Atlantis – from its first account by Plato, to the explorers who searched in vain and the discovery that might finally solve its mystery – takes on a new shape in Damian’s quest. At once a spellbinding love letter to diving, The Drowned Places is also a profound examination of the power that myth has over us, and what happens when it crosses over into reality.

Deep in the forest, in places you would never think to look, are some of the most remarkable creatures. Overlooked and unsung, this is the forgotten forest: a world of glow-in-the-dark mushrooms and giant mosses, where slime moulds travel the forest in search of prey and ancient lichens live for thousands of years.

Following open heart surgery, poet and writer Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - 'Walk, if you want to stay on this planet'. And so when his hero and inspiration David Bowie died in 2016, he knew what he had to do. The man who was to so many a companion and guide had left no shrine, no focal point of understanding. To reconnect with Bowie, he would take a walk into the past, to the streets, towns and places where David Jones became something more.

We all share a desire to belong. There's reassurance and safety in knowing who we are and where we fit in. But at significant moments in our lives - a new job, new school or an unexpected change of circumstances - or just in the ruts and routines of everyday life, we can experience a sense of not belonging, of dislocation, of being lost in a forest. But, there is another way to approach these uneasy moments. Rather than fearing the forest, Colin discovers great value and creativity there.

As the travel industry rebounds, prices fluctuate, and more and more people long for travel experiences that go beyond packaged tours and overpriced hotels, all readers can benefit from Matt’s practical, detailed, exhaustively researched travel advice. Travel expert Matt Kepnes has been a world traveler for over a decade, sharing his expertise and insights with countless globetrotters on his blog and in print. But the travel world has changed so much in recent years that this new, updated edition of How To Travel the World couldn’t be more timely.

When novelist and experienced hiker Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of the river that has so influenced his life, he hopes that by walking its banks - from its source to where it empties into the bay - he will better understand the power and impact of this immense waterway on the environment and communities which rely on it.

Steve Nicholls makes an epic journey along the River Tees in north-east England, from the industrial complexes near its estuary to its source high in the Pennine Hills. The Tees estuary was where Steve’s life-long passion for nature was born, launching a long career as a documentary maker. As he travels the length of the eighty-mile river, he uses his years of travelling the world and his work on nature films to place the fauna and flora he encounters along the Tees in a wider context.