TRAVEL WRITING

After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an inspirational UNICEF visit...

Combined in one block-buster of an omnibus now are Bryson's Down Under, an account of his memorable walk across Australia, and the irresistibly funny A Walk in the Woods, that...

What does it feel like to walk off the edge of a map? To emerge dazed, dying yet triumphant, from the Amazon? To tread upon the moon, stand on the...

Born in Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under the last years of Cold War Communism in the 1980s, emigrated after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and has loved and...

The television chat-show host Clive Anderson visits four areas of the world which have become symbols of "hell on earth". His brief is to explore this definition and to establish...

BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR"Sayarer's thoughtful, meditative travelogue feels very important . . . [An] exploration of how people persevere...

Experience New York City the local way with this insider's guideNew York City's got it all: soaring skyscrapers, world-class food joints, plus a park to beat all parks. But what's...

We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our nation, our family, our hometown or house. So how come one can...

Following on from "No Fixed Address", this book finds Jackie continuing her worldwide adventures. From revelling in the festivals of Spain, to walking the Land of the Long White Cloud,...

Keeping Afloat is a light-hearted tale of John Liley's exploits on the canals of France. John was working for a boating magazine when he was overcome with a dream of...

My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest. Everest, the mountain of my childhood dreams. A mountain that has haunted me my whole life. A...

In booming Shanghai, Mark Kitto hit the big time. "The Financial Times" called him a 'mini media mogul'. One weekend, Mark escapes to Moganshan, a dilapidated mountaintop village built by...

Beginning in Timaru, reputedly the most activity-challenged place in New Zealand, Lawson travels through Australia and Canada, where he learns to be especially wary of any place named after Queen...

In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at...

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017Winner of the 2017 Highland Book PrizeWinner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year 2017Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje...

A hilarious, true story of life-change, no going back, 40th birthdays and mid-life crisis. Follow the adventures of a husband and wife (plus two small children) as they take a...

'WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH, DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH, OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE...'When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across...

Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist.At age 17 Chris retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets...

Peter Biddlecombe has dragged his beleaguered expense account around no fewer than 170 countries of variable merit, which puts him literally miles ahead of every other travel writer. Wittily and...

In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger spent five years wandering the deserts of Arabia, producing Arabian Sands, 'a memorial to a vanished past, a tribute to a once...

Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a travel writing tour de force from one...

INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling...

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of adventure, enlightenment and...

Getting outdoors brings the whole family together. You'll learn skills, have a run-around, share laughs, and make enduring memories. This book is the perfect companion to any outdoor family adventure....

Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations? And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do they find the resources to survive?In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a...

From the very first moment she set foot in South Korea, Barbara Zitwer, literary agent to some of the most celebrated Korean authors, fell head-over-heels in love, rediscovering a vitality...

'Mick Conefrey's Fallen is a marvellously researched and written story about the enigma of George Mallory and the fulfilment of his "Because it's there!"' Peter Hillary'Mick Conefrey's gripping account explores...

Tim Cahill sleeps with grizzly bears. He also treks with llamas, inches his way through the deepest cave in America, and assesses the cuteness quotient of giant clams in the...

For many, Cusco is top of their itinerary when travelling in Peru, and this handbook aims to provide what it is the traveller can't miss. It covers everything the traveller...

The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900...

Early polar adventurers endured hardship and death as they battled fearsome odds and horrendous conditions. Cold, hunger and thirst, frostbite and scurvy were constant companions. It should not be surprising...

Jon Krakauer experiences a deadly week on Everest; Ian Frazier journeys along the flooded Mississippi; Sebastian Junger reports on the perfect storm; Jane Smiley recalls an adolescent adventure in foxhunting;...

The incredible true survival story of one man's record-breaking fourteen months lost at sea.On 17th November, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. A...

After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a...

Beautifully written, this is at once a charming and a raw account of an unusual year, which will appeal to anyone who loves Italy. Intending to write through the summer...