The happy ant-heap and other pieces

The happy ant-heap and other pieces

1998 • 196 pages

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115 books

Italy

Who Wanders Alone
Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Islands Ahead
Ghosts of the Rialto

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768 books

4 Star

Sea of Poppies
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
The Return of the King
Slumdog Millionaire
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Across the Nightingale Floor

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1,372 books

Uk Author

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
City of Djinns
In Xanadu: A Quest
The Age of Kali
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
The Baker's Boy

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1,507 books

Travel

City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Red Dust: A Path Through China
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Travelling: An Entertainment
The Wrong Way Home
On The Road To Damascus

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2,142 books

Non Fiction

Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work

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81 books

Spain

Death In The Afternoon
Silk Hats and No Breakfast
Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
The Sun Also Rises
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Islands Ahead

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343 books

India

Days and Nights in Calcutta
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Losing Gemma
Sea of Poppies
The Vine Of Desire
Travels Through Sacred India

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74 books

Greece

The Lost Empire of Atlantis: An Ancient Mystery Revealed
Who Wanders Alone
Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
Corner Seat
Greece and the Islands
Islands Ahead
Captive Kiwi

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70 books

Myanmar

Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder
With My Back to the East
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Song of India
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
In Quest of a Mermaid
First Overland

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85 books

Indonesia

My Life with the Headhunters
Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes
The Surgeon's Log
We Ended in Bali
The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea
The Five Pound Look
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers

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14 books

Nicaragua

Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Empire of the Blue Water
The Jaguar Smile
New Worlds to Conquer
The Accidental Adventurer
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?"
Southern Cross to Pole Star: Tschiffely's Ride

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24 books

Honduras

The Five Pound Look
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
From the Cam to the Cays: The Story of the Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras 1959-60
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
The Ancient Maya
Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure

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28 books

Cuba

The Winds of December
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Blue Cuban Nights
A Walk Around the West Indies
Empire of the Blue Water
Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

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2,746 books

Owned

Two Under the Indian Sun
Sailing with Mohammed
Beowulf
Slowly Down the Ganges
One Lonely Night
Killer Mine
The Snake

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35 books

Guatemala

A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution: United Fruit and the Invention of Twentieth-century Greed
Round Trip from Poptun: A Journey in Search of the Maya
Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization
Guatemala, Land of the Mayas
The Ancient Maya
Press on Regardless

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346 books

Uk

Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Love & Peace with Melody Paradise
Vurt
Falling Out of Cars
Man and Boy
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary