Travel writing

In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John ClareIn 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough.

A Financial Times and Observer "e;best summer read"e; 'With its union of practicality and magic, a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary.

Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies.

Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana is the 9th book in the bestselling Travelers' Tales humor series which began with There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled followed by the now classic "e;underwear"e; women's humor series which began with top seller and still-selling Sand in My Bra.

Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, going deaf from the clamor of immense speakers, and being punched, stabbed, pummeled, or fondled by other lustful revelers.

Wander off the beaten track to uncover the world's most secret destinations through insightful text and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations: discover an ancient gateway to the Mayan underworld, a mysterious underwater monument sunken off the Ryukyu Islands in Japan or a prehistoric village covered for centuries by a huge sand dune in the Orkney Islands.

Dix femmes aux âges et aux parcours différents, ayant osé parcourir le monde en solo, racontent ici leurs souvenirs d'un des périples les plus mémorables qu'elles ont fait.

In our ever-more-globalized world, how better to connect than with food, and who better to connect than a chowhound communications professor?

A “contagiously exuberant” celebration of Italian food, culture, and history that “will be the companion of visitors for years to come” (The Washington Post Book World).

The author has been visiting the same village in Mauritania on the remote edge of the Sahara for over twenty years.

Japan – Inselreich im Fernen Osten.

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to.

From the walkable breweries of Ashville, North Carolina, to the lfestival in Copenhagen, Oktoberfest in Brazil to the breweries of Beijing, discover 101 traditional, quirky, absurd, must-visit beer destinations across the globe.

Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca.

A Russian Paints America presents the first complete English translation of Svin'in's fascinating memoir.

After two months on board a Russian container ship sailing 15,000 miles across the world, Josie finally arrives in New Zealand with her bike.

It was a blustery April morning on the Thames Embankment in London when Anne Mustoe set out on a phenomenal lone cycle ride - to the original site of Cleopatra's Needle at Heliopolis in Egypt.

The Northwest Passage proved so elusive for so long that many sailors and explorers believed it didn't actually exist.

Through the centre of China's historic capital, Long Peace Street cuts a long, arrow-straight line.

It's no secret that the Bahamas is one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS.

Die Krönung von Haile Selassie zog 1930 ein schillerndes Publikum nach Addis Abeba.

Christine thought a year in South Korea would hit the pause button on her messy life.

'Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures' Robert MacfarlaneTake a journey into our ancient past.

Nachschauen, wie es den Menschen geht - unter diesem Motto könnte man die Geschichten aus dem Himalaya zusammenfassen, die der Innsbrucker Schriftsteller und ehemalige Extrembergsteiger Rudolf Alexander (Rudi) Mayr in diesem Buch erzählt.

It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines.

The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel.

Off-grid: a place, building or person without mains water or power.

A book as effervescent and alive as the city itself.

In Journeys to Impossible Places, best-selling author and presenter Simon Reeve reveals the inside story of his most astonishing adventures and experiences, around the planet and close to home.

UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW CHAPTERIntoxicated with dreams of a Greek paradise, John Mole inflicts upon his family a tumbledown ruin on a hillside with no water, no electricity, no roof, no floor, no doors, no windows and twenty years of goat dung.

Seit ihre Mutter ihr das Schwimmen beigebracht hat, fährt Katharina Hagena fast jeden Sommer mit ihrer Familie nach Spiekeroog.

"e;Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book.

Throughout history, many people have escaped to nature either permanently or temporarily to rest and recharge.

This book is as captivating as the city itself.

The Meander is a river so famously winding that its name has long since come to signify the frustrations and the virtues of the indirect approach; an approach that the author makes use of while traveling the length of the river alone and by kayak.

In Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, Karl Bushby set out on one of the most remarkable journeys of modern times.

"e;Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association, acquaintances are changed?

Sun, sea, shopping, roaring nightlife, the world's tallest building, seven-star resort hotels and sprawling championship golf courses.

In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict.

In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered widely divergent and conflicting ideologies-socialist, conservative, male chauvinist, and feminist-and the major travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts.

Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean.

I come from Des Moines.

In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on.

Asmara is the capital of Eritrea - a surreally Italian city at the centre of an ex-Italian colony that has been at war with its neighbour Ethiopia (who claim sovereignty over Eritrea) for over ten years.