Norman Lewis führt Tagebuch über seine Zeit als Nachrichtenoffizier in Neapel, von Herbst 1943, d...

Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her 'best horror journeys'. She bum...

Here, like a treasure chest, are Norman Lewis's most powerful pieces of writing, chosen by John H...

Nigel Macfarlane has worked alongside artisan papermakers in India, Nepal and Bhutan for more tha...

Penelope Chetwode's middle-aged companion on her ride over the mule tracks and goat paths of Anda...

A heart-rending account of a Spanish village torn apart by the coming of the Civil War - A rare h...

With both a native s intimacy and the fresh-eye of an outsider, Simeti celebrates the Mediterrane...

For centuries this account, the first joyful description of India by a British woman, remained un...

From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-ce...

Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Sibe...

Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It ...

Life at Full Tilt is a whirlwind tour of Dervla Murphy's travels. It begins in Spain in 1956, bef...

In 1716 Mary Montagu traveled across Europe to take up residence in Istanbul as the wife of the B...

This is the patriot's song book, which includes such rollicking word-smiths as Hilaire Belloc, G....

From his birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London, Willia...

The Tharaud brothers became unique eyewitnesses to history when summoned in 1917 from the Western...

Presents a portrait of the Greece the author came to know through a lifetime of exploration. This...

Far Away and Long Ago

In little more than a century, Fiji islanders have made the transition from cannibalism to Christ...

'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Chris...

This superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fierce...

For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. A...

A title, in which, the millennia of mercantile and cultural exchange along the Silk Route are cel...

A combination of two journeys, Scotsman Mungo Park's story of his first trip in 1795 as a 24-year...

Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous,...

Welcome to Paradise opens a window into the hearts and minds of a small group of African would-be...

Chronicles his journey through southern India, capturing vibrant encounters, personal growth, and...

'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple

The story of Koestler's imprisonment in France in 1940, his escape and his extraordinary and adve...

This collection explores the never-ending historical interest and rich and fascinating literary c...

When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-o...

Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the mus...

Weldon was mapping the deserts of Egypt when war broke out. Working from out of a steam yacht bas...

One winter, Dervla Murphy, the four-footed Hallam and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored `...

The Duke of Pirajno arrived in North Africa in 1924. For the next eighteen years his experiences ...

A collection of three novellas about Europeans in East Africa written by journalist and former wi...

A triumph of a travel book, describing modern travels through Egypt in search of its past.

There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scot...

Here are the vanished days of the unfettered Sultanate in all their dark, melodramatic splendor-a...

This collection On Travel is clever, funny, provoking and confrontational by turn. In a pyrotechn...

Travels in Thailand and Burma in 1986, learning about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism.

A history of Crete, uniting ancient myths and history with first-had observations to give a compl...

'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a sub...

Find yourself plunged straight back into Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, feel the frozen gro...

An account of the day-to-day life in an orphanage for Tibetan children in the refugee camps of No...

The land of the Iranians, known to European travelers for centuries as Persia, is a land of mount...

This collection of travel writing explores Syria, the tourism capital of the Middle East. It is d...