The Best Travel Writing

This is the lively and highly entertaining travel diary of a youthful Che Guevara, when as a medical student in 1951 he sets out from Argentina on an unreliable motorcycle...

In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains--and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity. In this...

The astonishing adventure classic about life in Tibet just before the Chinese Communist takeover is now repackaged for a new generation of readers. In this vivid memoir that has sold...

The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of...

Before Thesiger, T.E.Lawrence and Richard Burton, there was an even greater traveller in the heroic British tradition of the recklessly adventurous, amateur scholar - Alexander Burnes. This slightly built, wiry...

In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable...

This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling companion. Together Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel with little...

After the war was over, Norman Lewis, settled in a remote fishing village on the Catalan coast. A place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring...

Afghanistan has been both a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads from time immemorial. Through its high valleys merchants traded Chinese porcelains, bundles of indigo cloth, sacks of lapis...

Braving hunger, heat exhaustion, unbearable terrain and cultures largely untouched by civilization, Dervla Murphy chronicles her determined trip through nine countries, through snow and ice in the mountains and miles...

This book is a record of the people who visited Lebanon from between 1800 BC to the last summer; and of the Lebanese themselves, writing about their homeland, their religions,...

A delightful journey through time and through the streets of one of the greatest cultural capitals in Europe. A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish,...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 'A discursive, funny, moving portrait of Pakistan, one of the most opaque and difficult and complex of countries, but...

Not for Norman Lewis the tourist sights of Delhi and Rajasthan. His travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar, scene of a brutal caste...

Gavin Maxwell was a romantic, self-destructive, aristocratic adventurer who worked as secret agent, shark fisherman, racing driver, poet and travel writer. His fame rested on the bestselling story of the...

Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when in 1991 he embarked on a series of three arduous journeys into the most contentious corners of Indonesia: into the extreme western edge...

The narrator arrives in his 117th rented room at the end of an epic journey, abandoned by his lover, almost broke and certainly feverish. His obsession with the insects he...

Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year living with a local peasant family in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 km east of Ankara. The hospitality,...

A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics. Created by a southern Irishwoman, cycling into the mayhem of Northern Ireland...

In Sicily is a loving take on an extraordinary island, based on Norman Lewis's sixty-yearlong fascination with all things Sicilian! Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The beloved New York Times -bestselling guide to inspiring girls to pursue a life of adventure and excitement-updated and at last in paperback. Why should girls...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS 2024 'As epic as it is engaging' Tom Holland 'Jaunty, highly informative and ultimately sobering' New York Review of Books 'A fine...

'A wonderfully entertaining and deeply inspirational adventure by one of life's great enthusiasts' - Tim Moore, travel writer A slow, low-carbon journey by bike through Europe's western fringes. Part personal...

Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breath-taking natural beauty peopled by the gentle Burmese. This is a country where Buddhist beliefs spare even the...

The book titled Inside Japan by the author Peter Tasker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025 A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024Travel Book of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards...

Perfect lawn stripes Crisps in sandwiches Barbeques in the rain Not making a fuss Cold pints in a beer garden These are a few of Fred Sirieix's favourite things about...

In 1993 Miranda France moved to South America, drawn to Buenos Airesas the intellectual hub of the continent, with its wealth of writers and its romantic, passionate and tragic history....

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING A BBC WILDLIFE BEST BOOK OF 2025 A thrilling exploration of nature's symbiotic relationships by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING A BBC WILDLIFE BEST BOOK OF 2025 A thrilling exploration of nature's symbiotic relationships by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not...

*** A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR *** "Excellent...immensely well-researched and playful. Smith has written something special." -- Patrick Galbraith, The Times "Imaginative and engaging" -- Country Life Acclaimed...

The book titled Japan by the author Professor Peter Kornicki. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A brilliant and beautiful travel book about love, escape, and that most mesmerising of animals: the tiger. When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she...

Evelyn Waugh chose the name \"Labels\" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already \"fully labelled\" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned...

EXTREME FRONTIERS: CANADA is Charley Boorman's brand-new adventure/travel book. Travelling mainly on his much-loved bike, Charley will explore the world's second largest country - home to some of the most...

The sequel to No Full Stops in India, Mark Tully's most popular book so far Since the Indian economy was liberated from bureaucratic, socialist controls in 1991, it has developed...

The Land; Flora and Fauna; The People, Culture and Society; The Rise of the Tibetan Nation; A Golden Age; Religion; The Exploration of Tibet; Plunder and Destruction; Tibet and Its...

A journey along the Great Wall in the past and present, this landmark volume offers an extraordinary portrait of perhaps the world's most famous structure. The Great Wall Revisited presents...

' Beautifully illustrated with photos of retro vans and their owners, this collection is from the creator of the hashtag #vanlife, and is as much about exploring nature as it...

The Dry Valleys of Antarctica are one of the last truly remote places left on earth. With no cover of ice or snow and no rainfall, these dry valleys are...

The book titled Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by the author Bill Bryson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

It is a story full of incident: voyages to islands where forgotten Portugese forts lie covered in jungle, places where some have tried to shoot their way to paradise, and...

Eric Newby escapes throug a hospital window to become a POW on the run in Italy in 1943. With the Nazis moving in from the north and no certain way...

The Man Who Ate The World is a journey through the great cities of the world. It's about extraordinary restaurants and the people who visit them. It's about the globalisation...

The book titled The English Lakes by the author Robin Whiteman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Ryszard Kapuscinski has always displayed an aptitude for being in the right place at the right time. During his career as a foreign correspondent, he has witnessed 27 revolutions and...