Tag: Travel
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London Fog: the Biography, by Christine L. Corton
Hardback, Harvard University Press, £22.95, out now This very readable history of London fog was a surprise hit this winter. Beautifully illustrated, with colour pictures well integrated into the text, Corton provides not only a good summary of why fogs happened and why they stopped but also gives an erudite account of how they affected…
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The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: a Polar Journey, by Wendy Trusler and Carol Devine
Hardback £25, HarperCollins, out now Wendy Trusler and Carol Devine have created a beautiful visual and written record of a 1995-96 volunteer expedition to clean up rubbish on the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. The book is illustrated with photographs both from the trip and from previous historic outings by Scott and Shackleton, among others.…