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Editor, Tamsin Todd

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* Bestsellers of 1999
"Between Extremes"
by John McCarthy and Brian Keenan
"England's Thousand Best Churches"
by Simon Jenkins
"Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure"
by Michael Palin
"Encore Provence"
by Peter Mayle
"Frost on my Moustache"
by Tim Moore
* Editor's choice: Best of 1999
"Park and Ride"
by Miranda Sawyer
"Saddled With Darwin"
by Toby Green
"Passage to Juneau"
by Jonathan Raban
* Up and Coming in 2000
"Corsairville"
by Graham Coster
"Let's Get Lost"
by Craig Nelson
"I Have Seen the World Begin"
by Carsten Jensen

Travel was serious business in 1999. From Tim Moore's
hilarious "Frost on my Moustache" to Jonathan Raban's
contemplative "Passage to Juneau", travel writers tackled
new challenges in far-flung destinations, and it made for
great writing. At Amazon.co.uk we've put together a list of
the best travel books published this year, as chosen by you
our customers through your purchases and by our expert
editors. Finally we preview three books we predict will
transport you in 2000. Happy reading.

***BESTSELLERS OF 1999***
"Between Extremes"
by John McCarthy and Brian Keenan
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593042646/entertainments08
During their long captivity as hostages in Beirut, John
McCarthy and Brian Keenan imagined visiting Chile. Five
years after their release, they realise their dream and
rediscover their friendship, this time in open spaces.

"England's Thousand Best Churches"
by Simon Jenkins
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713992816/entertainments08
Simon Jenkins selects England's 1000 best churches in a
fascinating historical and photographic compendium of the
places of worship, from Cornwall to Cambridgeshire, that
"embody England's other story".

"Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure"
by Michael Palin
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0297825283/entertainments08
Macho scribe Ernest Hemingway was famous for womanizing,
shooting and drinking--but was there more to the man behind
the legend? The intrepid ex-Python tracks the Nobel Laureate
from the bull-runs of Pamplona to the wilds of Montana,
gaining insight into the man and his work.

"Encore Provence"
by Peter Mayle
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0241134706/entertainments08
The author of "A Year in Provence" returns to France after a
less than ideal sojourn in America and finds even more to say
about the sunny south of France.

"Frost on my Moustache"
by Tim Moore
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0349111537/entertainments08
Tim Moore follows in the footsteps of Victorian diplomat
Marquess Dufferin, who sailed his private yacht to Iceland
and the Arctic Circle and back in 1856. But Moore, seasick
and saddle-sore, proves less than a gentleman-adventurer.

***EDITOR'S CHOICE: BEST OF 1999***
"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? Award-winning journalist
Miranda Sawyer gets into the swing of living in the suburbs
from Wilmslow to Whitby.

"Saddled with Darwin"
by Toby Green
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0297819011/entertainments08
After completing his degree in philosophy, Toby Green rode
out from the academy and onto the pampas of South America,
hot on the trail of Charles Darwin, who traveled through
the area in the 1830s, collecting evidence to support his
revolutionary ideas.

"Passage to Juneau"
by Jonathan Raban
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330346288/entertainments08
Self-professed "timid, weedy, cerebral" landlubber Jonathan
Raban sets off to sail a 35-foot ketch from Seattle up the
Inside Passage to Alaska. "Passage to Juneau: A Sea & Its
Meanings" tells the story of that vivid trip through
uncharted waters historical, anthropological, natural and
personal.

***UP AND COMING IN 2000***
"Corsairville"
by Graham Coster
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670866539/entertainments08
Coster travels from Southampton through Africa in search of
the legendary flying boat Corsair in this paean to a
vanished age when air travel was a life-changing adventure.

"Let's Get Lost"
by Craig Nelson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747274665/entertainments08
Veteran traveler Nelson endures bad beds, bugs and
bureaucrats in order to feed his travel habit in this
punchy collection.

"I Have Seen the World Begin"
by Carsten Jensen
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1860465846/entertainments08
The author gains insight into private lives as he travels
through Russia, China, Cambodia and Vietnam and Hong Kong.

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