The Best Travel Writing

Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer Travel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and...

Survivors provides a unique eye-witness record of some of the greatest feats of human endurance: being lost in a vast ocean in a small boat and overcoming the greatest of...

The problem started, as problems often do, with a penguin. From Kings and Emperors to Macaronis and Rockhoppers, penguins are one of the most immediately recognisable animals on Earth. Yet...

" A joyous rallying cry for middle-aged couch potatoes everywhere " - Mike Parker, author of All the Wide Border " Steve's adventure reminds us all that wildness and countryside...

Victoria's landscape is second to none, from the rugged coastline of the Great Ocean Road to the rolling peaks and fresh alpine air of the High Country, from the Warburton...

The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and...

An inspirational story about life on an Arctic island where polar bears roam free and northern lights shine Join Cecilia Blomdahl in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the world's northernmost town. Located in...

Artist Virginia Ryan and her family came to regret the impulsive decision to purchase an abandoned olive mill in the hill-town of Trevi, Umbria, as they lived through the massive...

Since the 19th century, Westerners have laid siege to the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet. The colonial British saw it as a strategic prize, 1920s botanist Frank Kingdon-Ward saw it as...

"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure." - Mark Twain At the age...

Hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, the authors included are as diverse as Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ernest Shackleton and Alfred Russel Wallace. Every title has been reset in...

If you think that London is the greatest city in the world but could do with some evidence to back you up, this is the book you need. Within these...

The complete autobiography of the great adventurer Sir Francis Chichester, the first and fastest man to singlehandedly circumnavigate the globe. Aged 18 and with a taste for adventure, Francis Chichester...

______________ 'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book' - Sunday Telegraph 'An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris' - Guardian 'White's genius as a flaneur is revealed in his...

A sumptuous picture book of style and design inspiration from award-winning Australian stylist Sibella Court. Imaginarium is a glorious large-format book of images that reflect the things that inspire and...

The book titled I Once Met a Man by the author R.M. Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The "old Patagonian Express" was the last train Paul Theroux took in his journey from Boston to Patagonia. Some of the trains were superb, but most were deplorable and the...

The book titled Blast the Bush by the author Len Beadell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Together with Hans Thomas,the reader finds out his past, on a glorious magical mystery tour which sets the mind whirring and the imagination flying.

This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices,...

In 1999, twenty-two-year-old Brian Winter packed his bags and headed for Buenos Aires. He learnt the language, got to know the people and suffered with them as the peso bottomed...

The book titled Journey into Russia by the author Laurens Van der Post. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Thurston Clarke needed twelve visas to travel along the equator and this book is the culmination of the journey. The countries he travelled through include Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Nairobi, Quito,...

The homes of the British Royal Family have a unique appeal. Each has enjoyed a rich history of royal patronage and they remain important centres for royal life today. Earl...

In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to...

A family of 5, a dog, and a cat move onto a sailboat. Hilarious true story! Did you know that the remora fish will try to swim up a whale...

BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE , WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR "Sayarer's thoughtful, meditative travelogue feels very important . . . [An] exploration of how...

The book titled Jerusalem by the author Colin Thubron. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Bill and Laurel Cooper have lived on boats of various kinds for more than fifteen years. One year they decided to spend the winter in the South of France, so...

After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story...

The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction. Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600...

This selection of travel writing from "The Spectator" covers diversity of experience and is arranged in geographical sections (Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Far East and Australia, North...

A Superficial Journey is the result of a year spent in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Peking. "A kind of travel film, a sequence in which image suggests image," it describes, in...

"An extraordinary story of bravery and insanity on the high seas. . . . One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read." - Sebastian Junger, author of...

The book titled Inside Passage: Living with Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl by the author Michael Modzelewski. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

A collection of beautiful photographs that invites you to immerse yourself and revisit the cool, quirky, glamorous, exciting, menacing, and wonderful times of Retro Sydney. This collection of photographs celebrates...

The book titled Paris: The City and Its Photographers by the author Patrick Deedes-Vincke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Miami has been fashioned by many different groups of people and the author traces this aspect, from the time when real-estate hucksters invented it and architects made it into a...

All writers of fiction should be required by law to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real...

Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements. Using the ancient...

An overview of the adventures of Eric Newby during his time as a commercial traveller working in the world of haute couture for the family firm of Lane and Newby,...

How did Tin Pan Alley get its name? Which structure in New York City contains debris from the bombing of London during World War II? Who was the last Republican...

From the author of Cider with Rosie, a look at a lost age of travel and the English countryside 'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably...

With his expert knowledge of the history and culture of Europe, and his keen eye for the bizarre, Sacheveral Sitwell was the ideal guide to the people and places of...