Travel writing

Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire.

This first complete reprint of Boswell's book on Corsica since the eighteenth century is enhanced by comprehensive annotation, textual apparatus, and a critical introduction.

How can we think more deeply about travel?

'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner' In Domestic Manners of the Americans, Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830, describing her voyage up the Mississippi from New Orleans, a two-year stay in Cincinnati, and a subsequent tour of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.

'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner' In Domestic Manners of the Americans, Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830, describing her voyage up the Mississippi from New Orleans, a two-year stay in Cincinnati, and a subsequent tour of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.

Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it.

Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it.

'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?

'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?

'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.

'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.

In this magnificently illustrated book, Christopher Wills takes us on a series of adventures.

In this magnificently illustrated book, Christopher Wills takes us on a series of adventures.

'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

'How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!

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'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846.

'How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!

Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide textual examples of representations of oriental cultures in the early modern period drawn from a variety of genres: travel writing, histories, and fiction.

The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico.

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Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said.

'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?

'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?

The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846.

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said.

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa.

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa.

From Feydeau to Fitzgerald, from Hugo to Hemingway, the Paris locations that have influenced modern literatureA photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of Europe's favourite tourist destinationLiterary Landscapes: Paris takes this major European city and with picture perfect photography, compiles an album of memorable views linked to the words of Parisian authors, or writers who made Paris their home.

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph'On nearly every page a random passage takes one's breath away' The TimesHave you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road?

Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph'Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday'Magnificent and unusual' Viv Groskop, SpectatorSara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer.

What images come to mind when you think of Las Vegas?

The New York Times bestselling account of a thirty-six-day walk across Afghanistan, shortly after the fall of the Taliban: "e;stupendous .

'A completely unforgettable story' Afua HirschThe gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic CircleWITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORScorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which T t -Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa.

'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun.

'A memorable, oddly beautiful book' Wall Street Journal'A marvellous glimpse of the Japan that rarely peeks through the country's public image' Washington PostOne sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set out on a pilgrimage that would take him across the entire length of Japan.

The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red s Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus.

From the author of Another Kyoto and Lost Japan, a rich, personal exploration of the culture and history of Bangkok, and an essential guide for anyone visiting the cityAlex Kerr has spent over thirty years of his life living in Bangkok.

An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future.

Accidental Journeys with the Bestselling Author of The Fly TrapStories just begin.

'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light'Enraptured by a young woman's account of the landscapes of Greece, Henry Miller set off to explore the Grecian countryside with his friend Lawrence Durrell in 1939.

In Consolations of the Forest, Sylvain Tesson explains how he found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months.

In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River.

Look up into the night sky and gaze in wonder.

The story of our love affair with vanilla - the world's most versatile flavouring.

A great, innovative and restless thinker, the young Humboldt (1769-1859) went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe.