London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour.
Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.
The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos'A happy, hilarious book' Daily ExpressNancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the 50s and 60s.
INTRODUCED BY MONISHA RAJESH, award-winning author of Around the World in 80 Trains'If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them - that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature.
En la primavera de 1916 Ramón del Valle-Inclán visitó el frente francés mientras se desarrollaba la batalla de Verdún, un enfrentamiento de proporciones colosales que habría de determinar el curso de la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Typhoon and Other Stories Joseph Conrad - In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century.
Lady Anne Isabella Noel Blunt (1837-1917) es sin duda una mujer fascinante que parece más pronto un personaje de novela de Virginia Wolf que no un personaje real.
The record of personal observations gathered by the Chinese priest Fa-hien during the travels he made at the beginning of the fifth century in Central Asia, the Punjab, India, Ceylon and thence back by sea to China, were repeatedly published, apparently under different titles, in the course of the fifth and following centuries and when the Buddhist canon was authoritatively fixed by the Sung dynasty, this record was included in the Tripitaka with the sanction of the Sung and subsequently the King dynasties.
A large part of Howell's time in Venice was given up to a critical study of life in that city, and in his "e;Venetian Life,"e; which appeared in 1866, he has given to the world the result of his observation and study.
Los viajes de los portugueses en ultramar merecieron numerosos textos en diversos géneros literarios, cuya expresión más eminente la constituye Os Lusíadas de Luís de Camões.
Del prólogo de Rosa María Rodríguez Magda: "Este no es un libro de viajes escrito por un novelista, pero es un libro de viajes escrito por un novelista.
Dieses kleine Bändchen, das zweifellos auf Hermann Bahrs fast schon klassischer Balkanreise beruht, ist erklärtermaßen eine bloße Aufzeichnung flüchtiger Eindrücke: nach den Worten seines Autors ist es "im Grunde kein Baedeker, sondern ein Bekenntnis".
Del prólogo de Germán Gullón: "La literatura de viajes de Benito Pérez Galdós representa las sensaciones del viajero y las ideas sobre lo visto, mezclado con sus percepciones individuales, en una prosa de carácter impresionista.
A fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.
