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john micklewright

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  • Family Background and University Success

    Differences in Higher Education Access and Outcomes in England

    Why do fewer teenagers in England from disadvantaged backgrounds go to university than young people from better-off families? Once at university, how well do poorer students fare compared with other students - who drops out from university and who gets the best degrees? After university - who secures better jobs and higher pay? What really has been the impact on university entry of the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Opening Country

    A Walk Through France

    In this journey of discovery, John Micklewright travels the slow way, on foot, on paths, tracks and byways from the Channel to the Alps – from the coast of Normandy to the flanks of Mont Blanc.The Opening Country is a beautifully written account of his progress through the French countryside, an evocative patchwork of landscape, nature, history, literature, film, and – drawing on his father’s ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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    This true and very funny story involving six colleagues, some retired, proves the saying that we never really grow up - we just learn how to behave in public.On a sudden whim six men, mostly writers, decided to embark on a 1 000 kilometre cycle ride down the River Danube believing it would be downhill all the way. This was the first of many assumptions that proved to be not terribly correct.None ... Read more

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  • Paris, Paris

    Journey into the City of Light

    by David Downie ...
    “Beautifully written and refreshingly original . . . makes us see [Paris] in a different light.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewSwapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor ... Read more

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  • Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

    An Adventure History of Paris

    by Graham Robb ...
    The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and ... Read more

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  • Lycra, Lattes and the Long Way Round

    by Mark Krieger ...
    As I drew closer to the town of Pont-de- Vaux... I found myself thinking of some of the places Id passed through. There were so many tiny hamlets, villages and larger towns, some vibrant and fine-looking, others lifeless, run down and in dire need of repair. Then there were, of course, the countless numbers of French people who had helped me piece together the jigsaw of roads along my way. The ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Night Trains

    The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on ... Read more

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  • Paris Revealed

    The Secret Life of a City

    A hilarious insider's guide to Paris by the author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French: "Clarke's eye for detail is terrific" ( The Washington Post).Stephen Clarke may have adopted Paris as his home, but he still has an Englishman's eye for the people, cafés, art, sidewalks, food, fashion, and romance that make Paris a one-of-a-kind city. This irreverent outsider-turned-insider guide shares local ... Read more

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  • France

    An Adventure History

    by Graham Robb ...
    A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime’s knowledge and passion—by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians.Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb’s France ... Read more

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  • Slow Train to Switzerland

    One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart

    by Diccon Bewes ...
    "Bewes' breezy prose makes him a pleasant traveling companion ... he clearly knows Switzerland inside and out." - The SpectatorIn June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and a half later, travel writer Diccon Bewes, author of the bestselling Swiss Watching, decided to go where she went and see what she saw ... Read more

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  • 1923

    The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

    by Ned Boulting ...
    WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: SPORTNOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'An absorbing mix of historical sleuthing and travel writing' -The Telegraph'[a] fascinating and often touching book… Wonderful' -The TimesWhen cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a ... ... Read more

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  • A Long Walk South

    by Sean Rothery ...
    Patronising advice by a doctor at a retirement course to 'walk a couple of miles a day' challenges architect Sean Rothery to take a proper walk and so, at the age of sixty-five, he sets out to walk the GR5, the Grande Randonée Cinq. From the steely grey North Sea to the intense blue Mediterranean, Sean's 2,300km-long route follows a network of old trails, forest paths, canal banks, Alpine valleys ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus