Travel writing

**Out now: the hilarious and heartfelt book from Scottish footballing legend, Ally McCoist**__________The Tartan Army.

For millennia, the land now called Turkey has been at the crossroads of history.

The Best Travel Writing Volume 9 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writingfrom Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers.

Christopher Howse has spent more than two decades exploring Spain.

Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious.

Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future.

The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Who doesn't fantasize about reuniting with their unrequited teenage love?

Winner of the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts for Literature, the ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) Award for non-fiction and the kykNet/Rapport Award for non-fiction.

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Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fiction writer at work in Ireland, for his vast, polymathic accounts of nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connemara, Tim Robinson is also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range across the globe.

»Eine zutiefst faszinierende Meditation über jene Pfade, die wir in unserer Umwelt und im Leben beschreiten.

Parcourant la cité, s’établissant de manière prolongée sur les places publiques, les skaters animent, jouent, mettent en scène ou perturbent l’animation des centres urbains.

In einer Welt voll Geschwindigkeit und Leistungsdruck zerbrechen immer mehr Menschen an ihrer Lebenssituation.

From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking.

THE SHOCKING STORY OF A DESERT ISLAND DREAM THAT WENT SOUR'Writer seeks "e;wife"e; for a year on tropical island.

Eine Reise nach Tel Aviv verändert Sarah Levys Blick auf Israel – aus dem Urlaubsort ihrer Kindheit, Heimat ihrer jüdischen Familie und Konfliktschauplatz wird ein Sehnsuchtsort voller Wärme und inspirierender Begegnungen.

An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times–bestselling author of South and West.

One of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly 'massacre', drink drivers play chicken and kidnap stories pass for dinner party conversation; nine times more dangerous than the United States, Columbia is no place for the nervous traveller.

'WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH, DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH, OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE.

'Jenny Tough writes with the same talent, imagination, and sheer courage that she displays in her athletic endeavours.

I am taking a few months off to travel and wander, drinking my way across the Islamic world to see whether I can dry myself out, cure myself of a bout of alcoholic excess.

Warum heißt es: "Wo sehen Sie sich in zehn Jahren?

Where We Are, the hotly anticipated official 1D book, now combined for the first time in a single eBook volume with One Direction's first ever official book, Dare to Dream.

An essay collection that delves into the untold stories of this historic Rust Belt city.

A whimsical, hilarious, heartbreaking tour of the world--a book of immense range and depth, the record of a world-class traveller's many discoveries and insightsSince making his first voyage as a sailor -- to earn his passage from his native Holland to South America -- Cees Nooteboom has been captivated by foreign countries and cultures and has never stopped travelling.

Follow much-loved Scottish comedian Billy Connolly across Route 66 on this unforgettable journey, filled with music, modern history and hilarious stories.

CLICK HERE to download a sample chapter from The Tecate Journals* More than a man-against-nature adventure-the author floats us along the border of political furor, cultural limbo, and dangerous human encounters*Touches on environmental issues, adrenalin-spiked action, and the author's ambivalence with his own cultural identity* A first work from a new voice that is parts gritty, elegant, and contemporaryThe Rio Grande is a national border, a water source, a dangerous rapid with house-sized boulders, a nature refuge, a garbage dump, and a playground, depending on where you are on its 1885-mile course.

As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family’s adventure around the world—seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way—she discovers what it truly means to be at home.

Kathrin Heckmann ist "Fräulein Draußen", Deutschlands bekannteste wandernde Bloggerin.

A sharply funny travelogue from a fantastic travel writer.

Ein historischer Roadtrip von den Karawanken bis zur AdriaHat der Teufel seine Hände im Spiel?

Get Your Travel Writing Published will give those of you who love to travel and long to write about it the essential tools to turn it into a profession.

The bestselling book from two prizewinning, critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco-a rich, illustrated, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city.

A Child of the Sea is the true story of Jimmy Cornell's daughter sailing around the world on the family's small yacht from the age of 7 to 14, based on Doina's diaries, letters and memories.

'It would be hard to imagine a more thoughtful, intelligent and companionable person to go to sea with than Paul Heiney.

Dom Joly sets off round the world, but this time he's not looking to holiday in a danger zone - he's monster hunting.

The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway's memoir of his safari across the Serengetipresented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F.

Travel journalist Andrew Eames was in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo when he met an elderly lady who had known Agatha Christie.

Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere.

A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors' neighbourhoods in the Big Apple.

Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, archaeologist, spy - was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 20th century.

This collection of around twenty papers has its origins in a two-day seminar organised by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in conjunction with the Centre for Middle Eastern Plants at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (RBGE), with additional support from Cornucopia magazine and the Turkish Consulate General, Edinburgh.

Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century.

Maeve Higgins used to think she'd live in Ireland forever.

Why does a particular landscape move us?

Like most women, whether they’ve chosen the Fortune 500 career path or have had five kids by 35, Anna David wondered if she’d made the right choices.