Travel writing

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking ones way to godliness.

They say that tourist ships to Antarctica, even more than ordinary human conveyances, are loaded down with aching hearts.

In this witty and entertaining illustrated memoir, Alister Kershaw describes the pleasures of his prolonged residence in France - a country of villages - from 1948, when even Paris was a series of villages.

Award winning author Reg Egan's third book, 'Of Rivers, Baguettes and Billabongs', is an insightful look at the history and lives affected by two rivers in two different continents: the Darling in Australia and the Dordogne in France.

A fascinating personal account of walking solo all 2,184 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Atlanta Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine, which took five months and two pairs of boots

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Truly hilarious books are rare.

When and how did we humans lose our connection with nature - and how do we find it again?

When and how did we humans lose our connection with nature - and how do we find it again?

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

In Heavy Time psychogeographer Sonia Overall takes to the old pilgrim roads, navigating a route from Canterbury to Walsingham via London and her home town of Ely.

Arguably the most famous road in Wales, the A470 is 186 miles from shore to shore through the backbone of Wales, linking north to south.

The Silver Invicta is a stream of impressions from a fishing life, in its varying moods, coloured with plenty of whisky and eccentric company.

***NOW A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON, RUSSELL CROWE AND BILL MURRAY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'An extraordinary story.

An alternative view of the North West of England that delves into its stranger past.

Yoga and Reiki Master Teacher, Emma Despres, has always been drawn to travel and learning about new cultures.

Tom is on the menu at a dog-meat restaurant in Hanoi when he is rescued by an Irish couple escaping economic woes back home.

'Timely and powerful.

Keen to see some of Europe, partners Abi (she/her) and Lili (they/them) get on their bikes and start pedalling.

Memories of a Retired Fell-Walker is a delightful book full of charm, comradeship and nostalgia.

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

Remarkable Road Trips collects over 50 of the most spectacular, dangerous, and thoroughly memorable road trips from around the worldEntries range from the shortest - the Guoilang Tunnel hewn into the side of a cliff face in China, to the longest, the Dempster Highway in desolate stretches of Arctic Canada.

It used to be the easiest way in the wine world to get a laugh - start extolling the virtues of English wine.

"e;An engrossing portrait"e; IndependentBased on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist and author Peter Millar tackles the fascinating and complex story of the people at the heart of our continent.

"e;Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer .

Winner of the STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR"e;This book seems prophetic in the wake of Donald Trump and the current controversy over 'fake news'"e; Daily Telegraph"e;One can't help thinking that the future of travel writing lies in this adventurous, postmodern genre"e; Sara WheelerDocumenting Sayarer's real life journey hitchhiking across the US, this fascinating memoir tells the story of the forgotten people lost in their own country, grappling to find a voice in the vast political landscape of the US.

BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARTen years after breaking a world record for cycling around the world, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels on the roads of Israel and occupied Palestine.

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

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

The Cleveland Way is one of Britain's oldest long distance walks.

It isn't called "e;running"e; a bed and breakfast for nothing.

In the early 1960s, travel-writer Simon Gandolfi drove a VW from England to Goa where he rented a bungalow on the beach at Calangute.

The generation that reached maturity in the inter war years had grown up in the shadow of the heroic age of Polar exploration and the sacrifices of a generation in the Great War.

Off the western seaboard of Scotland are hundreds of islands.

As you travel Africa, you will find the way of ubuntu - the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one.

A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's fascinating guide to Europe's rail network.

Step into the surreal world of a Tokyo hostess club and gain an exclusive underground pass courtesy of Chelsea Haywood as she sets out to explore a vocation where 400 dinners, Harajuku shopping sprees and first-class trips to Kyoto are just part of the job.

When Dominic Gill set out from Alaska on his bicycle, it was to be no ordinary ride.

Ron Evans was probably the most notorious Soviet spy of British nationality working out of Scandinavia in the post-War era.

This sea story from the bottom of the earth takes the reader on a philosophical voyage through many realms, religious and secular, mathematical and poetic, natural and mechanical.

This is not only a travel book but a thought-provoking documentary on inter-cultural relationships between the different races and nationalities comprising the huge expatriate population and native Arab residents of the oil-rich peninsula.

This sea story from the bottom of the earth takes the reader on a philosophical voyage through many realms, religious and secular, mathematical and poetic, natural and mechanical.

This book is made up of twenty-three stories, each from a different author from across the globe.

This is the story of how Maximum RocknRoll Columnist Mykel Board spent a year teaching English at the Mongolian National University in Ulaanbaatar.

A young Sydneysider in London, Lenore Blackwood, was getting work as an actress, pulling beers to pay the rent, and reading about Gandhi, Nehru, Menon and the very new Republic of India.

The Okavango Delta, Botswana: a lush wetland in the middle of the Kalahari desert.

The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAROn 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France.