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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing, translated into English by Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a...
The Motorcycle Diaries
An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycle 'All we could see was the dust on the road ahead and ourselves...
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from
A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years Shortlisted for the NSW Translation Prize Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West...
A New Voyage Round the World
A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round...
The Story of the World in 100 Moments: Discover the stories that
Massmarket edition of the hardback bestseller- In The Story of the World in 100 Moments Oliver presents a remarkable journey through time, curating one hundred moments that shaped our world,...
The Colossus of Maroussi
Henry Miller's landmark travel book, ready to be stuffed into any backpack In 1939 Miller left Paris and headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside,...
The Gentleman In The Parlour
A fantastic portrait of 1920s Burma and Thailand by the neglected 20th century master WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge...