Travel

A family of 5, a dog, and a cat move onto a sailboat. Hilarious true story! Did you know that the remora fish will try to swim up a whale...

A Guide to the City and Its Writers. Much of Russian literature is St. Petersburg literature: set in the city, about the city, or written by writers who lived there....

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...

Robert Byron, who died young in the War, was the foremost travel writer of his age, acclaimed especially for 'The Road to Oxiana'. He was also a pioneer of Byzantine...

Gaze toward the Nile from the desert hills of Mukattam, and the vast city of Cairo unfolds before you, with its monumental architecture, teeming populace, and thousands of years of...

After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story...

The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction. Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600...

Brodsky's curious, quirky, and brilliant account of his love affair with Venice, new to Penguin Modern Classics 'Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining...

First Modern Classics publication of this landmark work of social anthropology Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from...

"An extraordinary story of bravery and insanity on the high seas. . . . One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read." - Sebastian Junger, author of...

Edwardian Rambles portrays Henry Atty''s tale nt as an artist and observer of the countryside and towns he visited during his leisure time, alone or with his wife and friends,...

The book titled The Dark Room at Longwood: A Voyage to St.Helena by the author Jean-Paul Kauffmann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

This guide to St Petersburg features 144 pages of itineraries, as well as having a practical section covering how to get there, where to stop, where to eat, daily life...

A collection of beautiful photographs that invites you to immerse yourself and revisit the cool, quirky, glamorous, exciting, menacing, and wonderful times of Retro Sydney. This collection of photographs celebrates...

There's nowhere quite like Australia. Travels celebrates all that makes the country special, from its natural beauty and ancient culture to its creative cities. Discover remote thermal springs, luxe tropical...

The book titled Time among the Maya by the author Wright. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Paris: The City and Its Photographers by the author Patrick Deedes-Vincke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Miami has been fashioned by many different groups of people and the author traces this aspect, from the time when real-estate hucksters invented it and architects made it into a...

Prague, ancient capital of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, now of Czechoslovakia, is one of the most intensely beautiful and unspoilt of European cities. For centuries one of the most important...

The book titled Puligny-Montrachet: Journal of a Village in Burgundy by the author Simon Loftus. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

All writers of fiction should be required by law to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real...

Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements. Using the ancient...

Some of the most famous names in the history of literature written in English were born and lived in Dublin or had close connections with the city, from Jonathan Swift...

An overview of the adventures of Eric Newby during his time as a commercial traveller working in the world of haute couture for the family firm of Lane and Newby,...

How did Tin Pan Alley get its name? Which structure in New York City contains debris from the bombing of London during World War II? Who was the last Republican...

From the author of Cider with Rosie, a look at a lost age of travel and the English countryside 'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably...

With his expert knowledge of the history and culture of Europe, and his keen eye for the bizarre, Sacheveral Sitwell was the ideal guide to the people and places of...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for this compilation of epic memoirs from mountaineer Walter Bonatti The Mountains of My Life collects Walter Bonatti's classic writings detailing his exploits on...

New to Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Chris Stewart Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts...

New Modern Classics edition with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning...

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune....

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The...

For anyone who loves Barcelona-whether you're a first-time tourist or a lifetime local-this is the book for you. From museums and markets to bakeries and boutiques, artist Cierra Block unlocks...

Whether you're kayaking through mangroves, bodysurfing with manta rays, or sunbathing with a pina colada in hand, soak up the Sunshine State with Moon Florida Gulf Coast . Inside you'll...

A gorgeous cookbook about living well the French way from the founders of the Cook's Atelier, a cooking school in Burgundy, France French at Heart shows how to create simple,...

Is there really a new Europe? Have the extraordinary transformations of the last half century - the rise and fall of the Eastern Bloc, Germany's reunification, ethnic warfare, even the...

The book titled Borderlands: Nation and Empire by the author Scott Malcolmson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Discover Monocle's favourite places to stay, eat, shop and visit across France. Following Spain: The Monocle Handbook is the third title in premium series of country-focused guides. France: The Monocle...

The book titled A Little Tour in France by the author Henry James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

In Albania, under the long dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, each Albanian citizen had a biografi - literally an account of their suitability as good socialists which was registered by the...

Forge your way through forests, across mountain peaks, past geysers, and more with Moon Yellowstone & Grand Teton . Inside you'll find: - Flexible itineraries: Adventure-packed ideas ranging from one...

What if the path to success isn't what you expect it to be? For Ian, it was a magic carpet ride. What began as a passion for fashion and life...

London is full of things to do with kids. The problem is many of them are a high-stress, plastic-filled, over-priced parents' nightmare. That's where our highly opinionated guide comes in....

Yes, we know that the best thing we could all do for the environment is buy nothing at all, ever. But we're just not sure that's realistic. This opinionated guide...

The Most Glorious Prospect reveals the historic gardens of Wales as experienced by contemporary travelers and tourists. Endlessly fascinating, intricately detailed, and delightfully humorous, it relates how the great gardens...

The next most popular mountain region in Peru after the Inca Trails near Cusco, the Cordilleras Blanca and Huayhuash boast some of the most spectacular scenery in the Andes, and...