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Editor, Tamsin Todd

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* What We're Reading
"Passage to Juneau"
by Jonathan Raban
"Sacred India"
by Lonely Planet Publications
"In Search of Moby Dick"
by Tim Severin
* Interview with Jochen Hemmleb
* Excerpt from "Claudius & I"
* Not Yet Published
* Bestsellers:
"England's Thousand Best Churches"
by Simon Jenkins
"Notes from a Big Country"
by Bill Bryson
"The "Which?" Good Food Guide 2000"
by Jim Ainsworth

***WHAT WE'RE READING***
"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.

"Sacred India"
by Lonely Planet Publications
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1864500638/entertainments08
"To Hindus, as also to many Indian Buddhists, Muslims,
Christians and Sikhs, India is a Holy Land", writes William
Dalrymple in his foreword to "Sacred India." "Her landscape
is not dead but alive, dense with sacred significance."
Blending vibrant photos and text, this luscious coffee-table
title takes a close-focus look at India's vast array of
religious life, discovering the magic of the sacred in the
everyday.

"In Search of Moby Dick"
by Tim Severin
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316645958/entertainments08
Is truth stranger than fiction? Following in Herman "Moby
Dick" Melville's footsteps, Tim Severin pursues his own
great white whale as he pieces together the stories and
reports of surviving whalers. He discovers that tales about
whales--like their protagonists--have a habit of
mysteriously disappearing.

***INTERVIEW WITH JOCHEN HEMMLEB***
In 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine went missing on
Mount Everest. Did they ever make it to the top? In May,
1999, a team found the remains of George Mallory and they
unravel the 75-year-old mystery in "The Ghosts of Everest".
Co-author and Team Historian Jochen Hemmleb tells
Amazon.co.uk how it was done.
Travel & Holiday

***EXCERPT FROM I & CLAUDIUS***
Talkative 19-year-old Burmese Claudius and his Gucci-clad
28-year-old owner bare their souls to each other in this
1990s voyage of self-discovery. Armed with little more than
a stars-and-stripes bikini, de Vries hotfoots it from New
York to San Francisco, flirting with beautiful cowboys and
exorcising personal demons. But she almost doesn't make it
past Las Vegas--as she tells in this excerpt.
Travel & Holiday

***NOT YET PUBLISHED***
"Along the Wall and Watchtowers"
by Oliver August
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0002570432/entertainments08

"Holy Rome"
by Fodor's
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679004548/entertainments08

"Reflections on Blue Water"
by Alan Ross
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1860466915/entertainments08

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

"England's Thousand Best Churches"
by Simon Jenkins
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713992816/entertainments08

"Notes from a Big Country"
by Bill Bryson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0552997862/entertainments08

"The "Which?" Good Food Guide 2000"
by Jim Ainsworth
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/085202777X/entertainments08

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