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Greetings from Amazon.co.uk Delivers Travel & Holiday
Editor, Tamsin Todd

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* What We're Reading
"Park and Ride"
by Miranda Sawyer
"A Tall Man in a Low Land"
by Harry Pearson
"Between Extremes"
by Brian Keenan and John McCarthy
* Interview with Rosie Thomas
* Interview with John Hare
* Article by Gary Younge
* Bestsellers:
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
by Hunter S. Thompson
"The Age of Kali"
by William Dalrymple
"Driving over Lemons"
by Chris Stewart
* Not Yet Published

***WHAT WE'RE READING***
"Park and Ride"
by Miranda Sawyer
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316645753/entertainments08
Everyone loves to hate suburbia--but if it's that bad why do
so many of us live there? In "Park and Ride", award-winning
journalist Miranda Sawyer investigates the pleasures of
living in suburbs from Wilmslow to Whitby. So put on your pink
jumper, white stilettos and fake tan, and let Sawyer take you
on a suburban sojourn.

"Between Extremes"
by Brian Keenan and John McCarthy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593042646/entertainments08
Throughout their long captivity as hostages in Beirut, John
McCarthy and Brian Keenan would often retreat to the lost
paradises of their imagination--particularly Chile. Five
years after their return from Beirut, Keenan and MacCarthy
travelled there to realise their dream. The resulting book
gives a penetrating glimpse of a society recovering from a
traumatic regime--and of two men redefining their own
friendship, this time in open spaces.

"A Tall Man in a Low Land"
by Harry Pearson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0349112061/entertainments08
British travel writers like their destinations hot, exotic,
or dangerous. In "A Tall Man in a Low Land" Harry Pearson
chooses a country that's legendarily damp, safe and banal.
But can a nation whose most famous monument is a statue of a
small boy urinating really be so dull? Curmudgeonly comic
Harry Pearson growls through the lowlands asking: "What the
bloody hell am I doing here?" and finding some curiously
sympathetic observers--the Belgians themselves.

***INTERVIEW WITH ROSIE THOMAS***
Rosie Thomas, mother of two and bestselling novelist pushing
50, doesn't exactly fit the typical profile of the young,
male, danger-loving rally driver--a fact that didn't stop her
from driving half way around the world in an antique Volvo
Amazon. In an interview with Amazon.co.uk, Thomas discusses
her book about that rally, "Border Crossing", and the complex
relations between women, men and their cars.
Travel & Holiday

***INTERVIEW WITH JOHN HARE***
The wild Bactrian camel of Central Asia has lived in peace
since the days of Genghis Khan and Marco Polo. Now it is
under threat from Chinese mining and nuclear tests. In "The
Lost Camels of Tartary" adventurer John Hare rides to the
rescue, travelling into the Gobi desert, one of the most
desolate places on earth, to save the endangered camel. Along
the way he rediscovers ancient cities and battles with the
Chinese authorities.
Travel & Holiday

***ARTICLE BY GARY YOUNGE***
In 1997 Gary Younge, a black British journalist, travelled
through the racially fraught Deep South. He followed the
route taken in 1961 by the Freedom, a racially mixed group of
civil rights workers who tested segregation by travelling
together by bus from Washington to New Orleans. In an
exclusive article for Amazon.co.uk, Younge writes about the
literature, film and food that fed his fascination with the
American south.
Travel & Holiday

***BESTSELLERS***
A selection of the most popular travel titles that
Amazon.co.uk customers bought this week.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
by Hunter S. Thompson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/000655136X/entertainments08

"The Age of Kali"
by William Dalrymple
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006547753/entertainments08

"Driving over Lemons"
by Chris Stewart
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0953522709/entertainments08

***NOT YET PUBLISHED***

"An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan"
by Jason Elliot
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330371614/entertainments08

"In Siberia"
by Colin Thubron
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1856197980/entertainments08

"Passage to Juneau: a Sea and its Meanings"
by Jonathan Raban
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330346288/entertainments08

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