Alison Lear
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‘Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.’
- Henry David Thoreau
My top, top reads of 2025 🙌
All different. All brilliant! Still so many to go too !!
If they are not on your reading list, I highly recommend you add them
❤️📚
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social
- Henry David Thoreau
My top, top reads of 2025 🙌
All different. All brilliant! Still so many to go too !!
If they are not on your reading list, I highly recommend you add them
❤️📚
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social
‘The earth has its music for those who will listen.’
- Reginald Holmes
Essential reading … 📖
💚🌳📗🌲🌱💚
- Reginald Holmes
Essential reading … 📖
💚🌳📗🌲🌱💚
December 31, 2025 at 12:58 AM
‘The earth has its music for those who will listen.’
- Reginald Holmes
Essential reading … 📖
💚🌳📗🌲🌱💚
- Reginald Holmes
Essential reading … 📖
💚🌳📗🌲🌱💚
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Something exciting is coming!🌿
Wild London, presented by Sir David Attenborough, co-produced by London Wildlife Trust, will broadcast on New Year's Day, 6:30pm on BBC One!
👉 Click the link below to learn more
www.wildlondon.org.uk/keep-london-...
Wild London, presented by Sir David Attenborough, co-produced by London Wildlife Trust, will broadcast on New Year's Day, 6:30pm on BBC One!
👉 Click the link below to learn more
www.wildlondon.org.uk/keep-london-...
Keep London Wild | London Wildlife Trust
In his upcoming BBC documentary Wild London, co-produced by London Wildlife Trust, Sir David Attenborough explores the hidden world of the capital’s wildlife - revealing the extraordinary species that...
www.wildlondon.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Something exciting is coming!🌿
Wild London, presented by Sir David Attenborough, co-produced by London Wildlife Trust, will broadcast on New Year's Day, 6:30pm on BBC One!
👉 Click the link below to learn more
www.wildlondon.org.uk/keep-london-...
Wild London, presented by Sir David Attenborough, co-produced by London Wildlife Trust, will broadcast on New Year's Day, 6:30pm on BBC One!
👉 Click the link below to learn more
www.wildlondon.org.uk/keep-london-...
‘The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.’
- Marcel Proust
Books 🌏🗺️📚📖
- Marcel Proust
Books 🌏🗺️📚📖
December 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
‘The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.’
- Marcel Proust
Books 🌏🗺️📚📖
- Marcel Proust
Books 🌏🗺️📚📖
Keep reading! 📖
So many brilliant books out there! 📚
Keep supporting our amazing independent booksellers where you can too 🙏
So many brilliant books out there! 📚
Keep supporting our amazing independent booksellers where you can too 🙏
December 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Keep reading! 📖
So many brilliant books out there! 📚
Keep supporting our amazing independent booksellers where you can too 🙏
So many brilliant books out there! 📚
Keep supporting our amazing independent booksellers where you can too 🙏
Wishing everyone a very, very Merry Christmas !! 🎄❤️
Thank you so much for following along 🙏
Keep reading 📖
Keep supporting the amazing authors out there ✍️
Keep supporting our independent booksellers 📚
#choosebooks #choosebookshops
Thank you so much for following along 🙏
Keep reading 📖
Keep supporting the amazing authors out there ✍️
Keep supporting our independent booksellers 📚
#choosebooks #choosebookshops
December 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Wishing everyone a very, very Merry Christmas !! 🎄❤️
Thank you so much for following along 🙏
Keep reading 📖
Keep supporting the amazing authors out there ✍️
Keep supporting our independent booksellers 📚
#choosebooks #choosebookshops
Thank you so much for following along 🙏
Keep reading 📖
Keep supporting the amazing authors out there ✍️
Keep supporting our independent booksellers 📚
#choosebooks #choosebookshops
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THE MAKING OF A RENOWNED EXPLORER: Mr. Croc recalls his early years:
"The magical sound of jingle bells in the night... and then we woke to see that - at least for one of us - all our dreams had come true."
(Your cheery sandwich wrapper for Christmas. Have a joyous time 👍🏼🎄)
"The magical sound of jingle bells in the night... and then we woke to see that - at least for one of us - all our dreams had come true."
(Your cheery sandwich wrapper for Christmas. Have a joyous time 👍🏼🎄)
December 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
THE MAKING OF A RENOWNED EXPLORER: Mr. Croc recalls his early years:
"The magical sound of jingle bells in the night... and then we woke to see that - at least for one of us - all our dreams had come true."
(Your cheery sandwich wrapper for Christmas. Have a joyous time 👍🏼🎄)
"The magical sound of jingle bells in the night... and then we woke to see that - at least for one of us - all our dreams had come true."
(Your cheery sandwich wrapper for Christmas. Have a joyous time 👍🏼🎄)
Last minute shopping?
Bookshops are open until Christmas Eve !! ❤️📕📖🎄
THE best gifts!!
Bookshops are open until Christmas Eve !! ❤️📕📖🎄
THE best gifts!!
December 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Last minute shopping?
Bookshops are open until Christmas Eve !! ❤️📕📖🎄
THE best gifts!!
Bookshops are open until Christmas Eve !! ❤️📕📖🎄
THE best gifts!!
Just finished this fascinating, and utterly absorbing, one …
Michael Palin
‘In Venezuela’
If you think you know Venezuela, think again 📗📖🇻🇪
Copies @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
Michael Palin
‘In Venezuela’
If you think you know Venezuela, think again 📗📖🇻🇪
Copies @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Just finished this fascinating, and utterly absorbing, one …
Michael Palin
‘In Venezuela’
If you think you know Venezuela, think again 📗📖🇻🇪
Copies @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
Michael Palin
‘In Venezuela’
If you think you know Venezuela, think again 📗📖🇻🇪
Copies @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
Reposted by Alison Lear
THE MAKING OF A RENOWNED EXPLORER: Mr. Croc recalls his early years...
"Yet in truth, there was always something a little different about me. I seemed to need a little more... well, ADVENTURE."
(Your cheery sandwich wrapper of the day to help you on your way.👍🏼😃)
"Yet in truth, there was always something a little different about me. I seemed to need a little more... well, ADVENTURE."
(Your cheery sandwich wrapper of the day to help you on your way.👍🏼😃)
December 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
THE MAKING OF A RENOWNED EXPLORER: Mr. Croc recalls his early years...
"Yet in truth, there was always something a little different about me. I seemed to need a little more... well, ADVENTURE."
(Your cheery sandwich wrapper of the day to help you on your way.👍🏼😃)
"Yet in truth, there was always something a little different about me. I seemed to need a little more... well, ADVENTURE."
(Your cheery sandwich wrapper of the day to help you on your way.👍🏼😃)
Love Books ❤️📚
Perfect Gifts 🎄🎁
Perfect Gifts 🎄🎁
December 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Love Books ❤️📚
Perfect Gifts 🎄🎁
Perfect Gifts 🎄🎁
‘Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.’
- Henry David Thoreau
My top, top reads of 2025 🙌
All different. All brilliant! Still so many to go too !!
If they are not on your reading list, I highly recommend you add them
❤️📚
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social
- Henry David Thoreau
My top, top reads of 2025 🙌
All different. All brilliant! Still so many to go too !!
If they are not on your reading list, I highly recommend you add them
❤️📚
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
‘Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.’
- Henry David Thoreau
My top, top reads of 2025 🙌
All different. All brilliant! Still so many to go too !!
If they are not on your reading list, I highly recommend you add them
❤️📚
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social
- Henry David Thoreau
My top, top reads of 2025 🙌
All different. All brilliant! Still so many to go too !!
If they are not on your reading list, I highly recommend you add them
❤️📚
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social
Reposted by Alison Lear
Ghost Town & Wild Twin, for the wanderers in your life...
Wild Twin: ‘This exceptional memoir…’ Adelle Stripe, Tribune
‘A surging heart-song.’ Iain Sinclair
Ghost Town: ‘A book of beauty and longing.’ Anthony Quinn, Observer
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Wild Twin: ‘This exceptional memoir…’ Adelle Stripe, Tribune
‘A surging heart-song.’ Iain Sinclair
Ghost Town: ‘A book of beauty and longing.’ Anthony Quinn, Observer
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
December 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Ghost Town & Wild Twin, for the wanderers in your life...
Wild Twin: ‘This exceptional memoir…’ Adelle Stripe, Tribune
‘A surging heart-song.’ Iain Sinclair
Ghost Town: ‘A book of beauty and longing.’ Anthony Quinn, Observer
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Wild Twin: ‘This exceptional memoir…’ Adelle Stripe, Tribune
‘A surging heart-song.’ Iain Sinclair
Ghost Town: ‘A book of beauty and longing.’ Anthony Quinn, Observer
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
New Book !! 🙌📙
I have been looking forward to this one for a while, so delighted to get my copy today.
‘Muslim Europe
A Journey In Search Of A Fourteen Hundred Year History’
By @tharikhussain.bsky.social
Can’t wait to read! 📖
Make sure you take a look too.
I have been looking forward to this one for a while, so delighted to get my copy today.
‘Muslim Europe
A Journey In Search Of A Fourteen Hundred Year History’
By @tharikhussain.bsky.social
Can’t wait to read! 📖
Make sure you take a look too.
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New Book !! 🙌📙
I have been looking forward to this one for a while, so delighted to get my copy today.
‘Muslim Europe
A Journey In Search Of A Fourteen Hundred Year History’
By @tharikhussain.bsky.social
Can’t wait to read! 📖
Make sure you take a look too.
I have been looking forward to this one for a while, so delighted to get my copy today.
‘Muslim Europe
A Journey In Search Of A Fourteen Hundred Year History’
By @tharikhussain.bsky.social
Can’t wait to read! 📖
Make sure you take a look too.
For the travel, tree, photography and wildlife fan in your life 🌏🌳📷🐘
Christmas is sorted !! 🎄📚
Brilliant books by Levison Wood
Make sure you head to @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
Christmas is sorted !! 🎄📚
Brilliant books by Levison Wood
Make sure you head to @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
For the travel, tree, photography and wildlife fan in your life 🌏🌳📷🐘
Christmas is sorted !! 🎄📚
Brilliant books by Levison Wood
Make sure you head to @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
Christmas is sorted !! 🎄📚
Brilliant books by Levison Wood
Make sure you head to @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
Christmas gifts sorted !!
📚🎁🎄
Who doesn’t love a book? 📖
These are brilliant!!
📚🎁🎄
Who doesn’t love a book? 📖
These are brilliant!!
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Christmas gifts sorted !!
📚🎁🎄
Who doesn’t love a book? 📖
These are brilliant!!
📚🎁🎄
Who doesn’t love a book? 📖
These are brilliant!!
‘Tis the season to buy books!! 🎄📚
You know what to do 🤗📖
Please support our lovely independent booksellers where you can. They need us !!
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social ❤️
You know what to do 🤗📖
Please support our lovely independent booksellers where you can. They need us !!
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
‘Tis the season to buy books!! 🎄📚
You know what to do 🤗📖
Please support our lovely independent booksellers where you can. They need us !!
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social ❤️
You know what to do 🤗📖
Please support our lovely independent booksellers where you can. They need us !!
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Reposted by Alison Lear
Join us for an evening of celebrations and Christmas shopping.
Wed 10th December, celebrating the shortlisted titles for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards and start your Christmas shopping for the festive season with 10% off all purchases from 7pm – 9pm *
Wed 10th December, celebrating the shortlisted titles for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards and start your Christmas shopping for the festive season with 10% off all purchases from 7pm – 9pm *
Stanfords Christmas shopping evening
This is a Stanfords, London event
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Join us for an evening of celebrations and Christmas shopping.
Wed 10th December, celebrating the shortlisted titles for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards and start your Christmas shopping for the festive season with 10% off all purchases from 7pm – 9pm *
Wed 10th December, celebrating the shortlisted titles for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards and start your Christmas shopping for the festive season with 10% off all purchases from 7pm – 9pm *
My Next Read … 📖🇻🇪
‘Michael Palin
In Venezuela’
I have absolutely loved following Michael’s travels over the decades, and all of his brilliant books, so really looking forward to this one 📗
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social have copies !! 🤗📚
‘Michael Palin
In Venezuela’
I have absolutely loved following Michael’s travels over the decades, and all of his brilliant books, so really looking forward to this one 📗
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social have copies !! 🤗📚
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
My Next Read … 📖🇻🇪
‘Michael Palin
In Venezuela’
I have absolutely loved following Michael’s travels over the decades, and all of his brilliant books, so really looking forward to this one 📗
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social have copies !! 🤗📚
‘Michael Palin
In Venezuela’
I have absolutely loved following Michael’s travels over the decades, and all of his brilliant books, so really looking forward to this one 📗
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social have copies !! 🤗📚
If you are looking for your next read, look no further 📖
‘The Finest Hotel In Kabul’
By Lyse Doucet
Beautiful, powerful, compassionate, courageous and utterly compelling.
An absolute must read 🙏
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social have signed copies 🖋️📕
‘The Finest Hotel In Kabul’
By Lyse Doucet
Beautiful, powerful, compassionate, courageous and utterly compelling.
An absolute must read 🙏
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social have signed copies 🖋️📕
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you are looking for your next read, look no further 📖
‘The Finest Hotel In Kabul’
By Lyse Doucet
Beautiful, powerful, compassionate, courageous and utterly compelling.
An absolute must read 🙏
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social have signed copies 🖋️📕
‘The Finest Hotel In Kabul’
By Lyse Doucet
Beautiful, powerful, compassionate, courageous and utterly compelling.
An absolute must read 🙏
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social have signed copies 🖋️📕
Reposted by Alison Lear
Thank you so much @lyse.doucet for visiting Stanfords and signing copies of The Finest Hotel in Kabul, A People's History of Afghanistan ✍️ Our customers were absolutely thrilled to meet you in person and get their copies signed.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thank you so much @lyse.doucet for visiting Stanfords and signing copies of The Finest Hotel in Kabul, A People's History of Afghanistan ✍️ Our customers were absolutely thrilled to meet you in person and get their copies signed.
The weekend is here - at last !! 🙌
Some lovely books, with lovely covers, to brighten up your day and your reading 🤗📚
Some lovely books, with lovely covers, to brighten up your day and your reading 🤗📚
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The weekend is here - at last !! 🙌
Some lovely books, with lovely covers, to brighten up your day and your reading 🤗📚
Some lovely books, with lovely covers, to brighten up your day and your reading 🤗📚
‘Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.’
- Steve Maraboli
It’s #InternationalMensDay 💙
Shout out to these amazing authors!
📘📖
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social 📚
- Steve Maraboli
It’s #InternationalMensDay 💙
Shout out to these amazing authors!
📘📖
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social 📚
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
‘Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.’
- Steve Maraboli
It’s #InternationalMensDay 💙
Shout out to these amazing authors!
📘📖
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social 📚
- Steve Maraboli
It’s #InternationalMensDay 💙
Shout out to these amazing authors!
📘📖
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social 📚
For the tree lovers out there 💚🌳📗
Let’s face it, they can definitely teach us a thing or two.
Fascinating reads … 📖🌲🎄
Let’s face it, they can definitely teach us a thing or two.
Fascinating reads … 📖🌲🎄
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
For the tree lovers out there 💚🌳📗
Let’s face it, they can definitely teach us a thing or two.
Fascinating reads … 📖🌲🎄
Let’s face it, they can definitely teach us a thing or two.
Fascinating reads … 📖🌲🎄
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM