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High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan,
***Shortlisted for the 2023 STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR******A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2022***"Enchanting" Independent"Fatland distinguishes herself from the stereotypes" Guardian "Fatland is a sensitive and...
The Seaside: England's Love Affair
A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of CountryEngland's seaside is...
Cross Country: A 3,700-Mile Run to Explore Unseen America
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In 2017, professional runner Rickey Gates ran 3,700 miles across the continental United States with just a small backpack and an anthropologist's curiosity to discover the divided America in which...
Airport
Airports have seen an extraordinary procession people; from Charlie Chaplin to The Beatles and even the Thunderbirds! This book provides a visual tribute to the 20th Century, with photographs from...
Spanish Steps
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Portugal
Portugal has developed a special cultural landscape due to its location between the Atlantic Ocean and neighboring Spain. North African, Moorish influences have shaped a special cultural landscape that combines...
brother. do. you. love. me.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSReuben, aged 38, was living in a home for adults...
Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting
Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance...
Far Far East: A Tribute to Faraway Asia
Far Far East is an homage to distant Asia and a love letter to the wanderlust and freedom we miss in pandemic times. From writer and author duo Alexa Schels...
Faces of Africa
"I try to read people's lives," says photographer Mario Marino. In this new photo book, the Austrian-born camera artist presents over 220 colour and black-and-white photographs from some of the...
Sacred Spaces: The Holy Sites of Buddhism
A bright white temple as if carved from ice. Statues in candlelit caves. Massive red monastery walls in the midst of majestic mountains. In this beautiful book of travel photography,...
Israel
Israel fascinates by its contrasts: unique cultural treasures, with biblical sites on the one hand and the pulsating life in metropolises like Tel Aviv or Jerusalem on the other. In...
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global events.Today, there are more borders...
Discovering King's Cross: A Pop-Up Book
King's Cross station is one of London's iconic buildings Its tough, functional exterior is a prototype of modern architecture in the 20th Century, and stands in stark opposition to the...
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global events.Today, there are more borders...
My First Coup d'Etat: Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa
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Where the Waves Turn Back: A 40-Day Pilgrimage Along the California
After the death of his mother, grief-stricken Tyson Motsenbocker retraces the forgotten footsteps of 18th century priest Father Junipero Serra along his road between the California missions. Where the Waves...
Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster Wallace, with a dash...
Why We Travel
Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping...
Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024'A powerfully delicate book of love, loss and discovery, along paths of...
Ansel Adams' Yosemite: The Special Edition Prints
This new book of Ansel Adams photographs, the first in five years, is a personal and powerful look at Ansel Adams' Yosemite - featuring a sequence of photographs assembled throughout...
We Are Experiencing A Slight Delay: (tips, tales, travels)
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICKA Town & Country Must-Read Book of Summer 2024!One of Vulture's Best New Audiobooks of 2024."A delightful and sharp-witted tour...
Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
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Bedside Companion for Travel Lovers: An anthology of intrepid journeys
Take the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology of travel writing. Travelling's never been easier. Wherever you are, find yourself...
Three Letters from the Andes
In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on...
Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey - A Memoir of Travels
"A magical and hugely captivating journey - filled with such beauty, wonder and surprise. A simply marvellous read, hugely recommended" - Stephen Fry A real-life journey through the fantastical world...
No Free Parking: The Curious History of London's Monopoly Streets
From the medieval cobbles, through Dickensian iron and fog, to the neon lights and bustle of the twenty-first century, the ever-changing streets of London map out the vibrant stories, triumphs...
Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan
I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation...
Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing
Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph'Intrepid and sparky, full...
Brazil
'Once a traveller, always a traveller, and as long as there were maps and guide books and airline schedules I was still fatally susceptible to the lure of the open...
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past
A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.Long ago a path was created...
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Shunned by the conquistadors, it was left to others to carve into colonies. Guyana, Suriname and Guyane...
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past
A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.Long ago a path was created...
New Europe
'For most of my lifetime, half of my own continent had been chilled by a Cold War and concealed behind an Iron Curtain. Now there was the prospect of being...
The Anxiety Project
"The most interesting Dutch writer of his generation" Herman Koch"Vivid and moving. A marvellous hybrid of a book about one of the major contemporary causes of sickness and unhappiness. In...
1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession
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Head Over Heel: Seduced by a Southern Italian
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Wayward: Just Another Life to Live
'Magical and transporting . . . Wayward proves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life, on her own idiosyncratic terms'Maggie O'Farrell'A gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival: a map...
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
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Walking the Americas: 'A wildly entertaining account of his epic
LONGLISTED IN THE ADVENTURE TRAVEL CATEGORY OF THE 2017 BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERBY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS, WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD...
Through Siberia by Accident
Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen - and what happened instead.Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast...
The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World
Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On his journeys he meets conspiracy theorists galore in destinations all over the world,...
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century
"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The...
Dare to Do: Taking on the planet by bike and boat
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDOn 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France....
No Free Parking: The Curious History of London's Monopoly Streets
'Highly entertaining' - The Times'A hymn book to the London street' - TLS'an artful recipe book for that most crucial of human achievements: good cities.' - Alain de BottonFrom the...
The Juice: Vinous Veritas
Jay McInerney has written unique, witty, vinous essays for over a decade. Here, with his trademark flair and expertise, McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite varieties of...
Himalaya
'A battleground of immense geological forces that is a centre of human tectonics as well, with sacred and secular, tradition and technology, all pushing up against each other . ....
All at Sea: Another Side of Paradise
"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy of his commitment to discover, observe and communicate makes for engrossing, often incandescent prose. We need writers...