The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans
By: Jim Perrin
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A fascinating, thought-provoking biography of a climbing legend.Don Whillans has been an icon for g…
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By: Louis de Bernières
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli's Mandolin is set in an impo… read more
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2. After Dark
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.74
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychologica… read more
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"With luck, it might even snow for us."-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
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"Is it against the law for me to know it?"-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
"Are you asking because you really want an answer?"-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
3. The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
By: Rory Stewart
4.08
Format: 348 pages, ebook
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Places in Between, an exploration of the landsca… read more
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4. Conquistadors Of The Useless
By: Lionel Terray
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
An engagingly written portrait of the times and climbs of premier French Mountainerer, Lionel Terra… read more
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5. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
By: Robert M. Pirsig
3.78
Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more
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"This forest silence improves anyone."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"The more you read, the more you calm down."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
6. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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7. Shuggie Bain
By: Douglas Stuart
4.31
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who sp… read more
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"Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial."-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
"Opposite the gates was a low concrete building. Dozens of men were spilling out of its windowless structure and stood in dark clumps on the Pit Road. At first it looked like they were leaving chapel,…"-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
8. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
9. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
10. Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch
By: Bob Mortimer
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
TWO COMEDY GREATS TALK LIFE, FRIENDSHIP AND THE JOYS OF FISHING... Bob Mortimer and Paul Whiteho… read more
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11. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
12. Things in Jars
By: Jess Kidd
3.70
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
Bridie Devine, female detective extraordinaire, is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: th… read more
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"Stories, particularly the bad ones, are told in their own time."-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars
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13. Training for the Uphill Athlete: A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers
By: Steve House
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Dovetailing on the success of Training for the New Alpinism and Patagonia’s own emphasis on all mou… read more
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14. The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans
By: Jim Perrin
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A fascinating, thought-provoking biography of a climbing legend.Don Whillans has been an icon for g… read more
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15. The Fox of Glencoe
By: Hamish MacInnes
4.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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16. Millstone grit
By: Glyn Hughes
3.81
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
"...a fifty mile walk through the industrial towns and moors of West Riding and East Lancashire...a… read more
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