Travel writing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 name of Mary Kingsley deserves to be more widely known than it is today.

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.

'Warm, funny .

A kayak trip in Greenland's Nuuk fjords through an area of amazing beautyTurreted fairytale peaks, glistening snowfields, waterfalls plunging over immense cliffs into the sea, a million tons of ice capsizing - this is the setting for Fallen Pieces of the Moon, an account of a kayak trip along the west coast of Greenland, paddling about 150 miles of coastline in the Nuuk fjords area.

Archibald Menzies was one of a legion of intrepid Scots plant collectors in the 18th and 19th centuries who roamed the world and, by a combination of toughness and knowledge, established the foundations of the botany of the British Empire.

Simon Hall's second book is set in the mid-1970s during the closing years of the golden age of British shipping, when cargo carriage at sea saw radical change and the romance of being at sea in old-style cargo ships came to an end.

Simon Hall went to sea in search of a way of life that he believed was glamorous, adventurous and disciplined, a life where smartly-uniformed men ran ships in a tightly organised manner.

After an initial visit of three months to the Atlas Mountains in 1965, well-known travel writer, climber and photographer Hamish Brown has been back every year since, and this book is something of a love story about one man's lifelong devotion to the Atlas Mountains and the Berber Highlanders who so strongly remind us of Scottish history, although in a harsher, bigger world where storms and flash floods can cause havoc.

In 1863 there was only one method of travelling from Britain to the other side of the world by sailing ship, on a journey that could take up to four months, and when the vagaries of wind and weather could put travellers in peril during long voyages.

To celebrate 60 years of sailing Scottish waters, the author single-handedly sailed Halcyon, a 32ft wooden yawl, from Fairlie on the Clyde, round the Mull of Kintyre by way of numerous inner islands to Barra in the Outer Hebrides and to the Atlantic side of the islands, not often visited by cruising yachts.

In April 2006 the author became the first person to single-handedly circumnavigate Scotland by boat and bike.

Often amusing, sometimes romantic or fraught with danger, these 30 short stories are about local people, spectacular places and the special wildlife the author sets out to find.

A tale of two tugboats brimming with adventure, mishap and intrigue.

The trials and tribulations experienced while sailing two old and tired American tugboats halfway around the world.

An alchemic blend of travel and nature writing that explores the primary dilemma of the 21st century - the conflict of modern lifestyles with the natural environment.

British-Australian adventurer and environmentalist Huw Kingston's account of his remarkable year-long circumnavigation of the Mediterranean Sea.

This is a thought-provoking work, capturing the march of time which overtook the maritime world in the last quarter of the 20th century.

Spitsbergen is the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago which is situated between the Greenland and Barents Seas, approximately 600 miles from the North Pole.