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Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in...

After eight years working in Japan, immersing herself in its language and literature, Lesley Chan Downer set off in the footsteps of Matsuo Basho, Japan's most cherished poet, to explore...

The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman was a hermit state until 1970, preserving in every detail the poverty, personality and picturesque reality of a medieval kingdom. For forty years, Sultan...

Eothen , which means 'news from the east' started out asa few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advicefor his own...

'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years,...

'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a subtle and imaginative brilliance.' Colin Thubron 'One of the most humane and visionary of all travel...

'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman 'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian...

Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy temperament: to get to know the...

There are only a handful of destinations left in the world that have retained their ability to shock the traveller with their unique perspective. These places still awaken a sense...

Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She developed an acute eye for the way in which isolation has shaped this society, meeting...

The author describes her experiences living in St. Petersburg, Russia, between 1991 and 1995, as she experiences life after the collaspe of the Soviet Union.

The book titled The Passionate Nomad: The Journals of Isabelle Eberhardt by the author Isabelle Eberhardt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Tamara: Memoirs of St.Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium by the author T.Talbot Rice. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...

The British links with St Petersburg date back to the very year of its foundation and have continued almost unbroken to the present day. Anthony Cross narrates the story of...

The book titled Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Cities by the author Peter Conrad. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the...

Art-loving armchair travellers, as well as the more devoted kind, will delight in this book as much for its intelligence and sensitivity as its detailed descriptions both of the travails...

The book titled The Spaniards: A Portrait of the New Spain by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Return to the Marshes: Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq by the author Gavin Young. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

At the peak of his literary powers, Robert Louis Stevenson, age 37, sailed on a small hired schooner into the almost uncharted vastness of the Pacific Ocean. There, the ailing...

When Pico Iyer began his travels, he wanted to know how Rambo conquered Asia. Why did Dire Straits blast out over Hiroshima, Bruce Springsteen over Bali and Madonna over all?...

West's narrative takes on all of Mexican history, from the conquest by Spain and the Mexican Revolution, to the muralist movement, and explores the inner lives of such figures as...

The book titled Peregrinations of a Pariah by the author Jean Hawkes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Travels Through the Third World by the author Brian Schwartz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Secret Life of the Seine by the author Rosenblum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Originally published in 1929, this is Stein's account of the expeditions he mounted following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great during the triumphant invasion that, interestingly, left no trace...

Barry Stone, author of 1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die , delves into some of the lesser-known aspects of the world's most famous - and not-quite- famous-yet -...

Identifies with the city's style, engages your visual palate, highlighting the city's differences and uniqueness. On the back of his successful inaugural exhibition, Australia's upcoming photographer Con Hionis, showcases a...

The book titled Above Sydney by the author N. Brash. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Stranger in Tibet: Adventures of a Zen Monk - Life of Kawaguchi Ekai by the author Scott Berry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...

In the early 1920s, the last great age of world explorers, a remarkable young woman, Janet Elliott Wulsin, set out with her husband, Frederick Wulsin, for the far reaches of...

Harry Walker has traveled throughout Alaska, photographing these seemingly ordinary yet fascinating objects that help define the state and its people.

In 1997, inveterate Asia travellers Tony Wheeler and Richard I'Anson chased rickshaws through twelve Asian cities. Rickshaws, their riders and their customers have been studied by engineers, evaluated by transport...

The book titled Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon: Journey into Bhutan by the author Katie Hickman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Pilgrimage: Painter's Journey from Mount Athos to Tibet by the author Paul Osborne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Journey into Spain with some of the world's best writers, and discover a country of heightened senses, bougainvillea blossoming in crimson and orange, and air pungent with sizzling olive oil....

Mother's World illuminates what it means to be a mother on the road, and aims to dispels the notion that motherhood and travel are incompatible. '

England's views are remarkable for their beauty and variety. With his usual insight and authority, bestselling author Simon Jenkins picks one hundred of the very best from the white cliffs...

New South Wales The Premier State showcases all of New South Wales from coast to outback .Starting at Tweed Heads, down to the coast of Eden with some of Australia...

The book titled The Social Climbers by the author Chris Darwin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Relax, take a coffee-table trip back into ancient history. Unlike the sweating, impatient tourist who wants to do the pyramids and the sphinx in order to catch the next plane...

Mike Allsop is a dynamo, an airline pilot and mountaineer who ran seven peaks in seven days on seven continents. He's also a motivational speaker, author of bestseller High Altitude...

From George Washington to Bill Clinton, this book contains a collection of portraits and potted biographies of 42 of America's Presidents. The pictures have all been taken from the National...

The Galapagos form Ecuador's best-known national park, and this is a comprehensive guide to the wildlife of the islands. A geological, climatic, and historical introduction to the islands is followed...