10 Best travel books like Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach (Field Notes) by Horatio Clare

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Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach (Field Notes)

By: Horatio Clare

3.93

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Something of his Art is Horatio Clare’s recreation of the long walk that J. S. Bach took in the dep…

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1. The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit

By: Helena Attlee

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Land Where Lemons Grow uses the colourful past of six different kinds of Italian citrus to tell… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of In Search Of England by Jan Morris, H.V. Morton

2. In Search Of England

By: Jan Morris , H.V. Morton

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Currently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one Bri… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
"There comes a moment in all travel when you know that you have really started. It may be weeks before you start or weeks after you have started; it is a spiritual emotion, a turning towards the futur…"

-Jan Morris, In Search Of England

"I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood, and at this distance, to put into words the longing that shook me. I have forg…"

-Jan Morris, In Search Of England

"All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full …"

-Jan Morris, In Search Of England

"What an amazing thing is the coming of spring to London. The very pavements seem ready to crack and lift under the denied earth; in the air is a consciousness of life which tells you that if traffic …"

-Jan Morris, In Search Of England

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3. The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By: Natalie Livingstone

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Sunday Times bestseller, The Mistresses of Cliveden is the extraordinary story of how five women … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

By: W.B. Yeats , Richard J. Finneran

4.15

Format: 333 pages,

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsincludes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in hi… read more

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5. Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for 29 years and cove… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history

6. The Agony and the Ecstasy

By: Irving Stone , None

4.40

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, New American Library releases a special … read more

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7. After You'd Gone

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she… read more

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8. The Words in My Hand

By: Guinevere Glasfurd

3.68

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Words in My Handis the re-imagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amst… read more

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9. The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World

By: Marti Olsen Laney

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Do you "zone out" if too much is going on? Are you energised by spending time alone? In meetings, d… read more

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10. Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory

By: Francis Pryor

3.75

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster… read more

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11. The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh #13)

By: None

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling serie… read more

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12. The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

By: Graham Robb

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and … read more

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13. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more

Similar categories in Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot book and Horatio Clare's Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach (Field Notes)

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • walking
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

14. One Man and His Narrowboat: Slowing Down Time on England's Waterways

By: Steve Haywood

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Escaping a mid-life crisis, Steve Haywood celebrates his birthday with a trip through England's can… read more

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15. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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16. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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17. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

By: Adam Nicolson

3.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."

-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

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18. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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19. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

By: Matthew Green

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

By: Violet Moller

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledg… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The history of ideas is not constrained by boundaries of culture, religion or politics and, in order to fully appreciate it, a more far-reaching approach is needed."

-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

"In 771, a traveller arrived in the city [Baghdad] with a copy of a work of Hindu astronomy called the Siddhanta (The Opening of the Universe), by the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598-668). Unlik…"

-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

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21. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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22. Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings

By: Thomas Williams

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolk… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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23. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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24. The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

By: Christopher Hadley

3.66

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? The Romans built thousands of mi… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. English

By: Ben Fogle

3.42

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. The Drop & The List

By: Mick Herron

4.16

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

Two Slough House Novellas**THE DROP**'It is time Mick Herron was recognised in his own right as the… read more

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27. The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There

By: Jack Cornish

4.10

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Pre-order now to discover the rich history of Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, and it w… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach (Field Notes)

By: Horatio Clare

3.93

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Something of his Art is Horatio Clare’s recreation of the long walk that J. S. Bach took in the dep… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • travel
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • walking
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29. Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths

By: Charlotte Higgins

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins by Caroline Taggart

30. Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins

By: Caroline Taggart

3.25

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining and informative look at the words and phrases we use most often – and the stories o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past

By: Gail Simmons

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An old map. A lost pilgrimage route. A journey in search of our walking heritage. When Henry VII… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • walking

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2.84

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