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In public spaces everywhere, one thing is true: representation matters. Filled with breathtaking photography, inspiring stories, profiles, and spotlights from Outdoor Afro group members, prominent Black leaders in outdoor spaces,...

This book chronicles the round-the-world microlight expedition that killed two pilots. The story was sensational and hit the news with its mishaps and 'tragedies', but the record-breaking flight was an...

When postgrad student Martin Plowman became fascinated by the weird world of UFOs, alien abductions and conspiracy theories, he didn't realise it would lead to an amazing seven-year journey that...

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....

In 2005, Charles Firth travelled to the US and over a period of six months invented five fictional American characters, each of whom represent a different point of view in...

A delightful colour illustrated account of a voyage around the Welsh coast visiting various islands, reflecting the magical atmosphere of the islands, their history and landscape, wildlife and peaceful corners,...

Exploring the world through travel is a vital way to shape our political views and our social awareness. These days, it's more important than ever to engage in travel as...

The Americans called it "Torpedo Junction," the Germans "Devil's George," but historians know it as the Battle of the Atlantic. Lasting from 1941-1944 it was the longest sustained campaign of...

1,500 kilometers.500,000 years of history.One crazy family. Three hundred thousand people complete the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage every year, but not many of them attempt both the French and Spanish...

Miriam Lancewood's first book Woman in the Wilderness told her story of living for seven years in the wilderness of New Zealand with her husband, hunting and gathering, and roaming...

A charmin account of the magic of escape and the possibilty of a true home away from home. Full of music, laughter, and food, it is a celebration of life...

A completely original, passionately rendered portrait of the nations of North America and their complicated relationships with one another, by a New York Times journalist who has lived in all...

Share the story of a journalist's journey round and across Australia. Ernestine Hill's The Great Australian Loneliness is the account of a remarkable journey - 100,000 miles across the Australian...

Patricia Storace begins by telling of her first day in Greece. She brings to bear on modern Greece a deep knowledge of the classics, of the Greek myths and of...

Featuring more than 80 adventures around the world, this collection tells what it is like to backpack around India with your mother, be crowned Queen Mother of an African village,...

Welcome to our village. Meet Elpida, who cures bad backs with a raw egg and spells.Ajax the death-dealing butcher.Saint John the goat-headed saint . . . beautiful Eleni yearning for...

'With a glint in his eye, Rob turns and asks me if I want to 'touch his furry puma'. we are only hours into the trip and things have already...

The stark, vast beauty of the remote Arctic Europe landscape has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history and...

"Vagabond is classic travel writing at its finest... Mark takes you on a journey through the heart of Spain which is rich in detail and bursting with life." - Sir...

Not since the fantastic story of the Kon-Tiki expedition has there appeared such as exciting saga of a primitive raft expedition across the Pacific for scientific investigation. From Raft to...

Incorporated in 1905, The Explorers Club in its earliest years met in simple rented rooms. In 1965, the Club bought a Tudor-style mansion on East 70th Street in the historic...

What happens when you take a clumsy Australian of Anglo Indian descent, a backpack, stick him on a bus in Europe and close the door? A good question, the answer...

Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin. In a journey rarely, if ever,...

Charley Boorman is back in the saddle for a brand-new, adrenaline-fuelled adventure! He begins his journey racing north from Sydney up the Gold Coast, where he hitches a ride in...

Bikes have always been Charley s first love, but he also enjoys a challenge. So when the chance comes to travel across three continents by any means , he jumps...

Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India--a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light In 1841, twenty-year-old...

LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - THE BILL ROLLINSON PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE & TRADITION RUNNER UP Join travel writer Tom Chesshyre for a Lakeland adventure like no other. Explore...

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...

It was the craziest decision I have ever made, yet I would make it a million times again. She gave me no choice - she intoxicated me. He liquorice eyes....

'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....

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...