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"Lost at Sea" features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and...

'A glorious freewheel through the culinary quirks and delights of the USA - an unmissable treat!' - Tim Spector When the nation's 'taster-in-chief' Felicity Cloake announced her dream to cycle...

Washington, D.C. Then and Now presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution and history of America's capital city, from the dawn of photography in the mid-nineteenth century through to the...

The book titled Steinbeck Country by the author Steve Crouch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'This volume is the most comprehensive overview to date of sociologically orientated approaches to text and discourse analysis and is worth reading even for those who are interested only in...

This book tells the story of one man's adventures with an elephant. There is no better way to see India than on the back of an elephant, which is exactly...

For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the...

Burkhard Bilger's beautifully written, wonderfully funny and movingly nostalgic book explores the surviving (and often dying) folk traditions of the American South, from the eating of squirrel brains in Kentucky,...

Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the...

Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the...

Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding...

'A magician.' - The Times Despite decades spent poetically chronicling Mediterranean life in Rhodes, Cyprus and Corfu, celebrated travel writer Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the largest island:...

Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home...

Espresso chronicles Melbourne's coffee history and the personal desires and fortunes of many of the city's coffee industry pioneers. This updated edition includes exciting new stories from more of Melbourne's...

Absorb yourself in the colourful surroundings of Latin America! The stunning photography and illustrative text take you on a journey through history, from the Aztecs and Incas, the explorers and...

Rob and Rosemary Peterswald, the authors of the bestselling titles From the Sea and Beyond the Shore, explore the Western Mediterranean on their yacht Sea Dreams. The Mediterranean Sea has...

More than three decades after Route 66 went by the wayside, so to speak, it remains a nostalgic signifier of a 50-year period when cross-country travel was synonomous with meeting...

An account of the perilous 3600-mile journey - without compass or map - across the vast Amazonian Basin, from the Andes of north-west South America through the tropical jungles of...

Rediscover the world through some of the earliest travel photographs ever taken in this unrivaled collection of images that capture the excitement of travel and chart the evolution of photography....

When Tania McCartney discovered she'd be moving her husband, self and two kids under the age of five to China for four years, she was 95 per cent horrified. What...

On the day after the death of Franco, Bernard Loughlin made his first visit to Farrera, a village in the Catalan Pyrenees. There, in a chilly seventeenth-century church, he and...

Thirty-two writers share their observations and revelations about the world's most seductive city. "Whether you have lived in Paris or not, this captivating collection will transport you there." National Geographic...

A story about dirt and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till....

'The Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to transform it . . .' Of all Michael Palin's epic...

With a quick Google search, she finds him, and both are quick to realize that the passion they felt 20 years prior hasn't faded with time and distance. Samantha knows...

Introduced by Stephen Clarke, bestselling author of 'A Year in the Merde'. 'Paris City-lit' is the perfect city break guide to la vie parisienne. From Joanne Harris, Julian Barnes, Kate...

When should you mention a person's family name in a greeting? Should you pay immediately when you are served in a cafe? This guide combines an appreciation of France's rich...

Home and Dry in Normandy is the first of two books following the adventures of George and Donella East as they try to realise their dream of surviving a year...

Tells the true story of Lady Hester Stanhope, who, at the turn of the 18th-century left her homeland and travelled through Cairo, Jaffa, Damascus, Palmyra. This biography explores the incredible...

Love in deepest France ...After the romantic encounter in the Loire Valley bathroom at the end of AN ENGLISHMAN A LA CAMPAGNE Sadler dumps the University of Swindon and returns...

A wonderfully warm and witty love letter to one of the world's great cities. Michael Sadler is a Frenchman manque. As Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence, writes...

The book titled Turkestan Solo by the author Ella Maillart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world. BUT do you know ... Which is the most romantic spot to say 'je't'aime'? And the sexiest? Where to...

Keen to discover some of France s lesser-known attractions, Susie Kelly and her husband Terry embarked with their two dogs on a 10,000 kilometre journey, where they encountered exploding gherkins,...

Susie Kelly and her husband Terry had long dreamed of owning a home in France, but ironically it wasn't until they were facing homeless penury in England that they realized...

During the 1970s, Harriet Welty Rochefort moved from Shenandoah, Iowa, to Paris, where she met and married her husband, Philippe. In this book, she offers her reflections on what it's...

The Israeli security wall is going to be some 700 miles long when completed and will surround most of the West Bank. Seen by some as a cynical land grab...

From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Fatty Batter and The Last Flanelled Fool comes this hilarious tale of a Brit abroad. Though happy enough with his lot, Michael...

As readers of The Luberon Garden will know Alex Dingwall-Main has come across some very odd garden desires in his time. ut none so odd as the Frenchman who asked...

Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six year old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at an Antarctic research station. As the physician for...

This work takes the reader on a literary tour of Russia from the streets of Bulgakov's Moscow to the country estates of Tolstoy which can be read as an overview...

The book titled The Best of Granta Travel by the author Bill Buford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'[A] delightful hymn of praise to the most extraordinary of all the world's bird families - hummingbirds' STEPHEN MOSS 'A brilliant read' MARK AVERY 'Ever thoughtful and engaging, Jon Dunn...

Donna Leon has won a huge number of passionate fans and a tremendous amount of critical acclaim for her international bestselling mystery series featuring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti. These accolades...

These four interlinked stories encapsulate Martha Gellhorn's first-hand observation of the Great Depression. Fiction crafted with documentary accuracy, they vividly render the gradual spiritual collapse of the simple, homely sufficiency...

A wryly told, delightful melange of footloose chronicles by a sometimes anxious wanderer. Maxwell (I Don't Know Why I Swallowed the Fly, 1997) is rather like the rest of us:...