'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland.
At the age of 45 Miles Morland resigned from his highly paid job as head of the UK division of a major American bank and went for a walk with his wife in France.
Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award for fiction and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Caroline Adderson's short fiction collection travels far and wide.
Remarkable Treks is a compendium of exhilarating long-distance walks from around the planet - some lasting weeks, some lasting just a few days, but all of them set against spectacular backdrops.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties.
A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged, and typically rather cautious, journalist Mike Carter to take off on a life-changing six month motorcycle trip around Europe.
When an American woman and her British husband decide to buy a two-hundred-year-old cottage in the heart of the Cotswolds, they’re hoping for an escape from their London lives.
Thilo Mischke unterwegs zu den Rändern der Welt: Mit eindrücklichen Reisereportagen begibt sich Mischke auf die Suche nach Antworten auf einige große Fragen.
Dieser Reiseführer wendet sich an alle, die Lust auf Bewegung haben, auf abwechslungsreiche Tagestouren, auf neue Perspektiven, auf eine sportliche und gesunde Aktivität, auf Natur, verbunden mit einem Gefühl von Freiheit und Entdeckung.
In a series of remarkable books - Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry Garrard, Too Close to the Sun and The Magnetic North - Sara Wheeler has shown that she is not only one of the finest travel writers of her generation but a very fine biographer too.
A classic for our times MONIQUE ROFFEY Haunting, beautiful Anima will live with me for a long time CAL FLYN'A book that mesmerises with its sense of adventure and epic sweep, this is creative non-fiction at its best' GUARDIANOver the course of one summer, Kapka Kassabova lives with perhaps the last true pastoralists in Europe.
Bestsellerautorin Margot Flügel-Anhalt hält es nach ihrem Motorradtrip um die halbe Welt nicht lange in Deutschland: Mit 65 Jahren, einem 24 Jahre alten Benz und ohne Reisepass macht sie sich auf, um 15 Länder über 18.
When her two daughters were approaching the finish of their education Marie Herbert felt the need to mark the end of the child-rearing phase of her life by a rite of passage, a way to find herself a new place in the grand scheme of things.
Charley Boorman is back on his bike exploring the world's second largest country - home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning AuthorIn recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself“Annie Dillard's books are like comets, like celestial events that remind us that the reality we inhabit is itself a celestial event.
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries.
CLICK HERE to download the first two chapters from The Seventymile Kid* A true and complete account of the first successful ascent of Mount McKinleysetting the record straight* The summer of 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the McKinley's first ascent* Features archival photographs, including rare and never-before-published imagesThe Seventymile Kid tells the remarkable account of Harry Karstens, who was the actualif unheraldedleader of the Hudson Stuck Expedition that was the first to summit Mount McKinley in Alaska.
Viele Bilder und persönliche Eindrücke nehmen den Leser mit auf zwei faszinierende Reisen in die facettenreiche Umgebung der beiden Wohnorte von Bernadette Soubirous, der Heiligen, die durch ihre Marienerscheinungen in Lourdes weltbekannt ist.
One man's real-life experience of motorcycling solo around the globe - no back-up teams, no spare bikes, no film crews - just him and his Yamaha Tenere XT660, travelling 42,000 miles through 6 continents and 35 countries, seeing amazing things; meeting fascinating people; experiencing different cultures, and coping with extremely challenging conditions.
Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe is an edited collection with contributions by leading scholars brought together by a prolific author with expertise in eighteenth-century culture.
This is the story of a Englishman who gave up a job in journalism to spend fourteen years with the controversial Indian mystic Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and frequently referred to as 'the sex guru'.
When Jerome K Jerome and his friend decide to attend the Oberammergau Passion Play, an Easter pageant that is performed in Oberlin, Germany once every decade, they turn the trip into a vacation.
Hailed as among the most important books of the twentieth century, Rebecca West’s magnum opus is a history, a travelogue, and a sociological study of Yugoslavia that examines how the past shapes the present In a breathtakingly wide-ranging journalistic work, West richly chronicles her travels throughout Yugoslavia in the 1930s, introducing vivid characters and illuminating details.
Taken for Wonder focuses on nineteenth-century travelogues authored by Iranians in Europe and argues for a methodological shift in the way scholars interpret travel writing.
From Sumatra to East Timor and beyond, An Empire of the East is a fascinating look at a rapidly changing island nationIn An Empire of the East, renowned travel essayist Norman Lewis takes readers to Indonesia, where some thirteen thousand islands in the South Pacific are each colored with their own unique cultures and histories.
Eigentlich als Sprachreise nach Argentinien und Chile geplant, trampen Morten und Rochssare von den Gletschern Patagoniens bis an die karibischen Traumstrände Kolumbiens und Venezuelas.
