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"a stunningly written travel book..."

"An information-packed analysis of Asia’s regional tensions..."

"A poet’s watchful gaze on the natural world..."

"an engaging blend of memoir, history and surreal imaginings..."

"I loved The Summer Isles from page one..."

"a lively if impressionistic account of an interesting collection of countries..."

"it is exquisitely constructed and the use of language is precise and delicately nuanced without pretension..."

"a refreshing counterpoint to the macho foreign correspondent genre..."

"This wonderfully mad book makes me ever so glad that the French exist. ..."

"This engaging book describes the Norwegian author’s travels round the five Central Asian Stans..."

"one can’t discuss mass tourism in politically-correct language. As a powerfully polluting progeny of the consumer society, it can only be condemned..."

"how we’re learning to live underwater..."

"this is a remarkable work filled with wonderful vignettes of Japanese life and sensibility..."

"An exploration into Putin’s Russia asks what happened to the dream of a united, liberal Europe..."

"the remarkable and poetically written account of how Gange followed the west coast of the British Isles in a sea kayak from Shetland to the English Channel..."

"a warm and insightful account of contemporary Mexican culture, politics and everyday life..."

"Darley’s personal exploration is the ideal antidote to platitudes and prejudice; it is the celebration that the Essex diaspora has been waiting for..."

"When the material world is brought forth for us so beautifully, with such rapt attention and illuminating insight, we are reminded of how lucky we are to be part of it..."

"[An] entertaining book [that] is comprehensively balanced, fair, lucid and subtly witty..."

"Palin’s writing lacks the vigour of his presenting; it isn’t as evocative or inspiring as it should be..."

"some glorious passages of natural history..."

"commendably honest in [its] self-appraisal..."

"his story reads like a fast-paced thriller..."

"A new account relates the rise of regional music scenes to the UK’s loss of heavy industry..."