The Best Travel Writing

Sharp, funny and unflinchingly honest, Jayne Tuttle's story lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards. This new edition of Paris or Die is a...

Silo Art will take you on a picturesque journey from epic painted silos to grand murals that transform towns and outdoor art festivals. In this richly illustrated coffee table book,...

Alistair McAlpine has conducted a lifelong love affair with Australia. He's bought large chunks of it, developed some and turned others into a zoo and nature parks, and has travelled...

Going to Extremes is a four-part series in which writer, presenter and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton visits the world's hottest, coldest, wettest and driest inhabited places. He will visit...

The Great North Road is Britain's Route 66 - we've just forgotten how to sing its praises In 1921, Britain's most illustrious highway, the Great North Road, ceased to exist...

In "Eagle Dreams", Bodio gives life to the people, landscapes and animals of Mongolia that have become part of his soul.

The forty-five tales in Man Against Nature cover an extraordinary range of time and terrain.

These two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the bohemian life that she and her husband, writer George Johnston, and their family, led in Greece in the 1950's are...

A journey through Italian culture, past and present.Following his enormously successful TV series and book, Venice, Francesco da Mosto extends his exploration, this time taking in the whole country.He celebrates...

From Kauia to Key West, Alaska's tundra to the Rio Grande, a rollicking year-long search for American butterflies With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with...

TV comedian Tony Hawks tries to win a bet by hitch-hiking around the circumference of Ireland in one calendar month. With a fridge. 'I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum...

On a vast plateau high in the Bolivian Andes live the "Sons of the Moon", the Aymara. This great pre-Columbian empire, the first in South America, was a peaceful nation...

Part autobiography, part travelogue and part reflection, this is a book of wonderful variety and range. There's humour, drama, anecdote and heart-searching. Every spread is illustrated by Ken's superb images:...

Table Mountain National park extends from Cape Town's trademark table-top mountain all the way to Cape Point, where craggy cliffs drop spectacularly into a boiling sea. The Park's slogan, 'accessible...

In 1894, Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn Expedition, the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank Gillen set off from Oodnadatta...

This visually stunning tour of unique homes--including tiny houses, shipping containers, yurts, and boathouses from all around the world--invites you to slow down and consider a new lifestyle where you...

Jason Webster originally travelled to Spain to play the flamenco guitar. A qualified Arabist, he now embarks on a quest for Spain's forgotten Arab legacy, and gets embroiled with characters...

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Gerald Brenan returned to Spain in 1949 for the first time since the Civil War. He was determined to see what had become of the country he loved, to speak...

This is a book that infuses the zest of jogging into the adventure of travel. A wonderful world full of vitality emerges in Terry Henderson's account of his jogging journeys...

As Sergeant Jim Bergerac on BBC TV, John Nettles has helped to make the island of Jersey familiar to over 14 million viewers. Here he offers a personal view of...

With his sixtieth birthday looming, Colin Renton decides that it's time to escape office life and focus on achieving some of his unfulfilled goals. He embarks on a year-long adventure...

In P.J. O'Rourke's classic best-seller, "Parliament of Whores," he attempted to explain the entire United States government. Now, in his most ambitious book since, he takes on an even broader...

The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going. Enter the world...

A witty, affectionate and beautifully written account of Johnston's travels in 1990s Australia. After a long sojourn in China, Brian Johnston arrived in Cairns to join his sister on a...

The new book from the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House. In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born....

From the siesta to fiesta, the lifeblood of the Caribbean is in the rhythms of the salsa, calypso and zouk. The author of this book left London for Trinidad seeking...

Beginning with her first food memory - the greyish-pink fuzz of her grandmother's strawberry jam - M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a voyage of gastronomical discovery, from her childhood in...

Delivering two 38-year-old Mississippi river tugboats halfway around the world from Bahrain to Trinidad would not be every ship master's dream employment. However, for Captain David Creamer, the seven-week voyage...

When Christopher Koch sets out on a journey through Ireland with his friend the folksinger Brian Mooney, each is seeking an aspect of the past. Mooney is returning to a...

Kate Llewellyn is the author of 20 books. These comprise eight of poetry, four of travel and the others are memoir, nature writing and essays. Her book The Waterlily; A...

He has walked along the Great Wall in China, communed with a sign-language-speaking orang-utan in Borneo and taken psychoactive pharmaceuticals with a witch doctor in the depths of the Amazon...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher A collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania,...

The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle - a rare gem of travel writing which has inspired a...

The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond...

A moving and funny testament to a friendship born out of adversity. In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next...