The Best Travel Writing

The book titled Contemplating Ireland by the author James Gleason. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

A superbly illustrated and lavishly designed collector's treasure, charting an epic triumph against the odds without parallel in modern history, China's legendary Long March. History is marked by great moments...

The Royal Borough of Windsor is home to two of the UK's Top 20 Visitor Attractions (Windsor Castle and Legoland) but also boasts Eton College, The Changing of the Guard,...

With a population of nearly seventeen million, Lagos, the former capital of Nigeria, is not only the largest city in Africa but also one of the most densely populated cities...

Let's face it, there is only one Ponty. Pontypridd: birthplace of Tom Jones and the Welsh National Anthem, and home to what was once the most famous bridge in the...

Lindsay de Feliz walked away from an enviable lifestyle - marriage, successful career, expensive holidays, designer clothes, fast cars - to pursue her dream of being a SCUBA diving instructor....

It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloe is preparing to...

Following a popular, if somewhat jaded, trend of Brits to pursue the good life in sunnier climes, Deborah Fletcher and her husband John eventually came to be the proud owners...

Ian Norrie graphically depicts some of the little known places of interest in Provence concentrating primarily on the Vaucluse and the Bouches-du-Rhone.

Fifty-five piers. Two weeks. One eccentric road trip. Before the seaside of their youth disappears forever, two friends from the landlocked Midlands embark on a peculiar journey to see all...

'Brussels and all those Eurocrats on the gravy train? It's just so boring. Why, you can't even name ten famous Belgians!' Until 1993, Alec had never been to Belgium, so...

When Joe Bennett bought a five-pack of 'Made in China' underpants in his local New Zealand hypermarket for $8.59, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let...

Some, like Lady Hester Stanhope and the Hon. Jane Digby, were exiles from 19th-century high society; others were footloose adventurers, like Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence. There were distinguished literary...

When Joe and his girlfriend Joy decide to trade in their life on a cold Lancashire fish market to run a bar in the Tenerife sunshine, they anticipate a paradise...

Join travel writer Tom Chesshyre in this charming celebration of our favourite green spaces from around the world People love parks - and more than that, people need parks. We...

When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of...

When Rachael Weiss left a good job, Thelma the cat and a normal life in Sydney for the romantic dream of being a writer in Prague she intended to stay...

Getting roughed up by Islamic fundamentalists, the weekly "feline sex-fest" in Kyiv, bribing Russian police to avoid jail in Mos-cow, sheltering under the sink (with the lizards) when the ammo...

The book titled Moorlands of England by the author Adam Hopkins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A must-read reality check for anybody who has ever pondered making a new life abroad "Pure enjoyment!" "Another corker from Mr Cawley" "Couldn't put it down. Made me happy, made...

2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As...

SELECTED FOR THE BBC AND READING AGENCY'S BIG SPORTING READ 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 - CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE...

In What About Your Saucepans? Lindsay de Feliz gave up marriage and a successful career in the UK to follow her dreams as a scuba diving instructor in the Dominican...

My Pilgrim's Heart is a beautifully written story about simultaneous journeys: a woman's pilgrimage across the landscapes of Italy and Eastern Europe and a marriage on the line. At 48,...

When Colin Holden wanted to know more about Australian artist Lionel Lindsay and his trips to Spain in the middle of the last century, he went to Europe to find...

This photographic book records a cross-section of Londoners in their home environment, ranging from a single man living in a tent with two dogs to a family of 17 Lubavitch...

One life sabbatical. Two laps around the world. After being married for a year, Bob Riel and his wife, Lisa, decided to take a chance in life. They took time...

Two pensioners and a whippet sail their English narrowboat down America's 1,000 mile long Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway... Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne, you might expect pensioners Terry and Monica...

Rosemary Bailey's enthralling account of her quest to make a 21st century home out of a ruined French medieval monastery. 'I wake to the sun striking gold on a stone...

Fifteen views in England, Scotland and Wales are captured here in Paul Barker's panoramic photographs and detailed in Richard Girling's life histories. From the perpendicular thrills of the Scottish Highlands...

The book titled Londoners by the author Nicholas Shakespeare. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An obsessive walks the entire London Underground system overground The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out...

Brilliant, funny, powerfully evocative - the young English author of Duende! and his Spanish wife set out to create a magical garden high in remote Spanish mountains. Jason Webster had...

The book titled Wales: An Anthology by the author Alice Thomas Ellis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Memoirs from a Young Republic. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Arundel Castle is a great Norman and medieval fortification, built after 1067 on the same plan and at the same time as Windsor. Its revival as a country house in...

The amusing account of a landlubber's adventures on the world voyage of eight tall ships re-enacting the first journey to Australia by the convict fleet of 1787. The author chronicles...

The great 19th century boom in church building, spurred by population growth and new religious movements, was already under way whan Victoria became queen in 1837, and it continued until...

Here is the Rome of the Popes, of a poet who loathed priests - Shelley, his wife and their son - in happiness and in tragedy. Here too are the...

The book titled The Village in History. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Expectation meets Julie and Julia, The Yellow Kitchen is a brilliant exploration of food, belonging and friendship. London E17, 2019. A yellow kitchen stands as a metaphor for the lifelong...

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

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS Reuben, aged 38, was living in a home for...

A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980s Sequins for a Ragged Hem narrates Johnson's return tour...

The book titled Under a Sickle Moon: Journey Through Afghanistan by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first volume of Manchester University Press' 'Beginnings' series, which is based on Peter Barry's critically aclaimed bestseller, Beginning theory This brilliant digest offers a clear, step-by-step introduction to postmodernism...

The fabled city on the banks of the River Nile, once home to pharaohs and emperors, now forms a focal point of the Islamic faith and of the Arab world....

This expression of the pain of Burma uses novelistic techniques to weave together the patient endurance of its stricken inhabitants, together with their fragility and immense charm. Through his studies...