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From the drama of its geological wonders to its unique flora and fauna, the abundance of its birdlife and the stark beauty of its arid interior, Australia's remarkable diversity is...

A compelling journey through the heart and soul of golf, bringing the sport's history and the current state of the game to life When Sean Zak arrived in St. Andrews,...

But living this romantic dream is not always a smooth path. De Blasi is sometimes bewildered by the peculiarities of Venetian culture, and even occasionally mystified at the differences evident...

'Danticat offers an invaluable primer to the Haitian American experience in all its inherited trauma. Arguably she does for the Haitian diaspora what Junot Diaz has done for Dominican Americans'...

In The Story of Scandinavia , political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture....

The Sunday Times paperback bestseller and Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month *Featuring a brand new chapter!* 'Never have the joys of exploring the churches and cathedrals of this country...

The Sunday Times paperback bestseller and Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month *Featuring a brand new chapter!* 'Never have the joys of exploring the churches and cathedrals of this country...

Centuries ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World. Despite a clash of cultures,...

Snapshot: A Portrait of Success is a beautifully photographed book that focuses on 18 prominent Australian entertainment, business and sports personalities. It tell a key story for each person that...

Cult Francophone travel writing by an author who combines the talents of Chatwin and Kerouac. This is the story of a road journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 50s...

175 photos illustrate this account by photographer Ponting of his journey with Capt. Robert Scott to the Antarctic, a voyage from which Scott did not return.

Fascinated by her family's stories of their Sicilian homeland, Theresa Maggio decided to return to her ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice and to explore the vanishing world they had...

A tour of the world's great bathing cultures. People journey to Greece for the ruins, Turkey for the Haghi Sophia and Russia for St Peter's, but Alexia Brue travels with...

Hemingway's world was close and uncomfortable and itchy and sweaty and frequently exhausting... This stuff was too good to be wasted on school exams. I must be bold and fearless...

As a five year-old child, William Graves is taken in 1944 from England to the magical mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father, the poet Robert Graves, had...

The team behind Salute! comes together once more to pool their talents in this doggie adventure through Italy. Gail Donovan and photographer Simon Griffiths have scoured cobbled lanes, front gardens,...

Andrew Eames is an adventurous, insightful and sympathetic observer who sets out to travel from London to Baghdad by train, following the route of the old Orient Express. Interwoven through...

'Byrne comes across like a post-punk Michael Palin.' - The Times 'An engaging book; part-diary, part-manifesto.' - Observer David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a...

Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with...

This is a collection of photographs of a side to the region of Provence that is rarely seen, the lavender fields on the plateaux of the Luberon mountains. The pictures...

Love of Venice can strike anyone, not just romantic wusses. Among the toughies with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. Symptoms include: Wishing that...

A unique insider's account of the drama of Muslim women's lives from the award-winning author of AL-JAZEERA Recently installed in Cairo as a freelance journalist and expat barfly, Hugh Miles...

Inspired by the swashbuckling travelogues of Victorian diplomat Lord Dufferin, frail surburbanite Tim Moore sets out to prove his physical and spiritual worth before his sceptical Nordic in-laws by retracing...

Part history and current affairs, part travelogue, this is the story of a journey made by Alistair Horne and American politician/journalist, Bill Buckley through Colombia, Peru, Chile and Bolivia. They...

Iain Sinclair explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route. Echoing his journey in London Orbital over a decade ago, Iain Sinclair narrates his second circular...

A book that tells the story of London since the Thirties through the 26 streets and stations of the Monopoly board. Acclaimed comic writer Tim Moore travels through the best...

'Few cities,' Jan Morris observes, 'have been much more loved, loathed, and celebrated.' This book has become a classic account of the character, history, mores, buildings, climate, and people of...

From the #1 travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today's finest writers Travel writing maintains its seemingly endless popularity, and this volume offers...

This book gives an account of a small Oxford University expedition to Persia in 1950 to bring back specimens of a fish, allegedly white and sightless, which was said to...

A hilarious adventure in France from bestselling author Tony Hawks 'If you had to pick two things you wanted - if you had to - what would you pick?' I...

The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now considered to be the greatest living explorer. The Danakil Diary is the account of two journeys Thesiger made into the...

Part autobiography, part travel memoir, "Full Circle" brings us the distinctive voice of one of South America's most compelling writers. Chilean Sepulveda takes us on a "journey without itinerary", meeting...

Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its...

Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which...

On a journey that takes her from Afghanistan, to the Australian outback, to ancient caves in China, and the saffron harvest in Spain, Victoria Finlay gives an account of the...

Tim Moore, self-confessed loafer, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France....

Potent images of small-town Australia captured by northern Australia's master of photography, Peter Eve. With an introduction by Nicolas Rothwell. The Australian Photographic Gallery is a series of books that...

Since the publication of his first book, Mississippi Solo, Eddy L. Harris has been praised for his travel writing. In this exciting reissue of his classic travelogue, readers will come...

All aboard! When David Rosenfelt and his family embarked on a roadtrip across the USA to their new home in Maine, he thought he had prepared for every eventuality. They...

'Where many writers merely love France, Susan Loomis knows it.she shows that she is as natural a writer as she is a chef' - the New Yorker. the village life...