Travel writing

An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose, cartography, visual art and cultural legacy of the award-winning work of cartographer and writer Tim Robinson.

Robert Louis Stevenson.

Jules Gabriel Verne was born on February 8th, 1828 on Ile Feydeau, a small artificial island on the Loire River in Nantes.

Philip Edward Thomas was born on 3rd March, 1878 at 14 Lansdowne Gardens in Stockwell, Lambeth, which was then a part of Surrey.

Thomas Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on November 29th, 1886 in Eltham, London (at the time it was part of Kent).

Ghosts!

'Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals' suffering is something that each person must decide for themselves - as they must decide whether the taste of a steak justifies the death of a cow.

Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders.

Women have been writing about their travels for generations, putting a uniquely feminine slant on life on the road and the people and places they encounter along the way.

Thomas Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on November 29th, 1886 in Eltham, London (at the time it was part of Kent).

India is among the most difficultand most rewardingof places to travel.

In the '80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published The Portable Lower East, life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and roust its residents.

This is Kim Petersens memoir recounting how she and her family navigated through death of a child, facing fear of the water, personally building a sixty-five-foot power catamaran and a four thousand mile crossing of the Atlantic Ocean with her husband and two teenaged kids.

In the spring of 1973, aged 19, Mark Goodwin volunteered to teach English and Maths at a school in South Sudan.

Marco Polo Didnt Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.

Globetrotter, artist and linguist, living in the South of France in Provence, the author travelled widely during the sixties and seventies.

The redoubtable Peggy Haswell was a young pioneer, flying to The Gambia just after World War Two.

Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers' Tales for award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road.

Winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book, this newly designed collection paints a unique portrait of a complex and captivating land.

A True Story Of Risk, Resilience and SurvivalAfter a life-changing neck injury left him paralysed, Ed Jackson defied the odds to walk again.

Wild with Child is a unique collection of true stories by parents who boldly head out into the wilderness with kids in tow (or in the lead, as the case may be).

In her new book, Helen Womack turns herself upside down on a journey of self-discovery to Oz.

Great writers inspire readers to head out in search of foreign sunsets, but in this instance, they inspired travel writer Michael Shapiro to head out for the great writers themselves.

Too many travel guides are dry lists of attractions or portentous histories of a place.

The chronicle of a family's first year alone in Alaskan wilderness, Arctic Son is a poetic journey of discovery into what we value in life.

De Madrid a Nápoles es un gran libro de viajes.

Embajada a Samarcanda.

Viajes por España.

Recuerdos de viaje por Francia y Bélgica en 1840-1841, de Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, es un ejercicio de apertura a la realidad europea del momento: "Los españoles, aunque más afectos en general a los antiguos usos, no hemos podido menos de participar de esta metamorfosis que se deja sentir tanto más en la corte por la facilidad de las comunicaciones y el trato con los extranjeros…"

Los Viajes de un colombiano por Europa, fueron publicados por entregas en El Comercio de Lima.

La Relación de un viaje al Río de la Plata es un relato del viaje de Acarette du Biscay, aparecido en Londres en 1698, y entonces se tradujo con el título de Relación de los viajes de Monsieur Ascárate du Biscay al Río de la Plata.

What kind of people would you meet if you decided to walk across the world''s most populous country?

With his sixtieth birthday looming, Colin Renton decides that it's time to escape office life and focus on achieving some of his unfulfilled goals.

Explore Cleveland's peculiar charms and local history with the least practical, most literary guide to the city.

An epic history of the ';other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore.

New Lands Within The Arctic Circle is a non-fiction book written by Julius Payer, an Austrian explorer who was a member of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition of 1872-1874.

30 short stories from 50 years off the beaten track, illustrated by many photographs.

30 short stories from 50 years off the beaten track, illustrated by many photographs.

»Die Dolomiten sind nicht die höchsten Berge der Welt, auch nicht die gefährlichsten, aber bestimmt sind es die schönsten.

Ein unvergesslicher Besuch im Land am Golfstrom, wo Bürgersteige beheizt sind, Politiker gern in Tracht erscheinen und es die höchste Lebensqualität der Welt gibt.

Antike Kulturen, Heldenmut und ein unverzeihlicher Verrat: Die größte Abenteuergeschichte des 19.

En août 1897, le jeune commandant belge Adrien de Gerlache a voulu être le premier à atteindre le pôle Sud magnétique.

Follow Colm Toibin's lone religious pilgrimage along the Irish border during the tumultuous summer of 1987.

The author of acclaimed memoirs about life on a French olive farm explores the larger history and culture of the Mediterranean delicacy.

Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe.

Das Buch zu einem der beliebtesten Reiseländer und AuswanderungszieleAtemberaubende Nationalparks, Berge und Meere, Grizzlys und Elche; dazu Sportmöglichkeiten zu jeder Jahreszeit, lukullische Genüsse und sprachliche wie kulturelle Vielfalt: Kanada wird nie langweilig.

Introduced by Lois Pryce, author of Lois on the Loose, Red Tape & White Knuckles and Revolutionary Ride.

How to give yourself the gift of time when you travel, and by so doing, discover something about the world, and about yourself.

«Partí de mi A Coruña natal con veinticinco años, sin apenas haber viajado antes y con un currículo de proyectos nómadas completamente en blanco.

Through its extensive use of primary source materials and invaluable contextual notes, this book offers a documented history of one of the most famous adventures in early American history: the Lewis and Clark expedition.