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The whistling thorns: A story of adventures by Bill Langridge

A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube - At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor's book explores a remarkable moment by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century by Charles Allen

Up the Country; Letters From India - Emily Eden was born in 1797 into the charmed inner circle of the English upper class who conducted the country's political life. In 1836 this prominent member of Whig society joined her brother George in India where he was Governor-General. She stayed there for six years, during which time she embarked on a two-year-long tour of the country. With an unfailing eye for the eccentric and picturesque, Emily Eden describes in her delightful letters the extraordinary experienc by Emily Eden

Enchanted Cornwall: Her Pictorial Memoir by Daphne Du Maurier

No Life for a Lady - Mrs. Cleaveland has a friendly style of writing that makes it seem as if she is talking to you across a cup of coffee. This is an honest rendition of ranch life before the fence and automobile. The book explains why and how ranchers did what they did. It describes the wiles of cow and horse which were the constant focus of the rancher and all ranch hands. Growing up on a ranch was a job for everone regardless of age or sex, and if you earned respect, you got it. I recommend this book to by Agnes Morley Cleaveland

Lovely Is the Lee - Not so definitely a 'river book' as Sweet Thames Run Softly, but rather is it a regional book, of the countryside through which the River Lee runs in part, in Southern and Western Eire. Again Mr. Gibbings has given us an enchantingly lovely book, a warmly human reflection of the Irish scene, that people, nature at its most beguiling, and legend and history, fact and fiction, past and present interwoven, as in dialogue and narrative, he tells the story of his journeyings and the stories t by Robert Gibbings

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