Travel writing

A survivors true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush.

Wien im Sommer 2015.

A charming collection of quirky insights into Japanese culture.

What in the world has the power to liberate women in Iran while provoking antagonism between Catholics and Protestants in Scotland, to lure Nigerians to the cold of the Ukraine while heating up class warfare in the US heartlands, and both profit local gangsters and create local - and international - celebrities?

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE'Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted' The Times'Compelling and poignant' Guardian'This is travel writing at its best' Observer Internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India.

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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.

_______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.

No-one travels like the renowned writer-adventurer Richard Grant and, really, no-one should.

ATTEMPTING 300KPH on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, PAUL CARTER and danger at high speed is his second name.

Discover the secrets of how to perform at your best in 2019In this fascinating book based soundly in medical science, Mike Stroud - of BBC Television's The Challenge and SAS: Are You Tough Enough?

Bestselling author and quiz master Christopher Winn is here to test your general knowledge of Britain with over 1000 quiz questions to perplex and puzzle about our glorious islands.

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune.

One man tracks the arrival of spring north through Europe from southern Spain to the Arctic Circle.

Rather than deal with the problems he was facing as a recent college grad, Paul Jury decided to leave them in his rearview mirror.

Im Jahr 2006 besteigen Mo und Khalil mit unbestimmtem Ziel einen Zug in Richtung Osten.

The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers.

An anthology of essays and poetry exploring the Motor City’s hidden corners—from the people who live and work there.

**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'A master nature writer' (New York Times) provides the ultimate natural, social and cultural history of the Arctic landscape.

In 1972, when she was a young, divorced, single mother, restless and idealistic, Elena Schwolsky made a decision that changed her life: leaving her eighteen-month-old son with his father, she joined hundreds of other young Americans on a work brigade in Cuba.

What do we learn from eating?

Der Fürstabt des Klosters St.

'Horizon is magnificent; a contemporary epic' Robert Macfarlane, author of UnderlandFrom the author of the classic Arctic Dreams comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the encounters that shaped an extraordinary life.

Four million captivated viewers watched Charley Boorman complete his last adventure - LONG WAY DOWN - which took him from John O'Groats to Cape Town.

The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure.

To the armchair fan, the life of the sports writer is one of unalloyed joy: all-expenses-paid trips to the most exciting events in the world, the best seats in the house, and one-on-one interviews with Anna Kournikova.

**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner**For fans of Japanese manga and anime, a trip to Tokyo is an absolute must!

The Western Shores of Turkey is the distillation of a succession of journeys that John Freely made along this coast - an odyssey spanning a quarter of a century.

'Joyful, life-affirming, greedy.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE VICKI ORVICE AWARD FOR WOMEN'S SPORTS WRITING 2025'Just wonderful two wheels good, Laura Laker brilliant.

Travels with the Lonely Planet guidebook that started it all.

For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes.

Wer die Landschaft liest, sieht in die Seele des LandesChristof Mauch hat 15 Jahre in den USA gelebt und ist immer und immer wieder durchs Land gereist.

What sort of mad longing besets a woman—nearing fifty and recently widowed—to sell everything she owns, buy an around-the-world airline ticket, pack a single suitcase, and set off alone on a year-long journey without a plan or agenda?

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING STEVE COOGAN AND JONATHAN PRYCEThis is the true story of the unlikely friendship between a flightless bird and a teacher out of his depth 'So touching that I didn't want it to end.

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

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.

Georg Forster (1754-1794) war eine der faszinierendsten Gestalten seiner Zeit: glänzender Schriftsteller, Naturforscher, Entdecker, Zeichner, Übersetzer und entschiedener Revolutionär.

'You don't have to be twenty, male and an ace mechanic to set out on a great journey.

'An inspiring, life-affirming story' Reader's Digest Philip and Caroline Jones, a middle-aged couple living in Edinburgh, found themselves facing redundancy and an uncertain future.

"e;In the middle of the night I crawled out of my tent into a silvery vastness truly unchanged since Genghis Khan and his hordes loped west more than half a millennium ago.

Esta edición especial reúne las mejores aventuras de Bill Bryson en Australia, Gran Bretaña y América.

This Element puts into dialogue early Portuguese and Malay travel writing of Melaka to re-examine ''discovery'' as a cross-cultural trope.

The Best American Series(R)First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction.

IRENE PRUGGER ENTFÜHRT UNS IN DIE WELT DER VORARLBERGER ÄLPLERINNEN UND ÄLPLER.

Follow George Fetherling as he travels through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia looking for any remaining traces of the Indochina that was.

This book is a celebration of mountain huts, showcasing the the sheer variety and sometimes quirky nature of these buildings that allow walkers, trekkers and climbers to access remote corners of the mountains.

Great American RailroadJourneys sees the famous brand of social-history-cum-travelogue venture tothe New World.

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.