Travel writing

Londoners share their favourite aspects of the capital - featuring Sir Paul Smith, Dame Zaha Hadid, Stephen Fry, Martine Wright, Dom Joly, Don Letts, Henry Holland and many moreLondon is an epic story, with glorious locations that make your heart race and your head think.

'Modest, down to earth and full of humour, this is one of the best books about filming I've ever read.

In the aftermath of World War I Syria paved a path towards democracy.

In the aftermath of World War I Syria paved a path towards democracy.

"e;A collection of exchanges - as surprising as they are interesting - between British author Nicky Gentil and some of the cabdrivers who have crossed her path.

Dana Stabenow was born in Alaska before Statehood, grew up on and around fishing boats, and worked for an air taxi service, a cannery, and later, on the oilfields of the North Slope.

A wryly humorous memoir from Hunter Davies, as he falls in love again in his eighties and chronicles the first year of living with his new girlfriend in their cottage on the Isle of Wight.

***'In the January dark, a young man walks slowly into the sea.

The final captivating book from the #1, MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Shari Low's fabulous series that will make you laugh and cry.

In 2017, Edmund Platt aka The English Snail embarked on an 8,000 km hitchhike around France to pick up the trash that 1 in 3 French people chuck from their cars every day.

* Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature * Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times ';A triumph.

A view of the south of Ireland political, social, geographical through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it.

A stunningly illustrated history of Venice, from its beginnings as 'La Serenissima' 'the Most Serene Republic' to the Italian city that continues to enchant visitors today.

In 1271 Marco Polo set out on a journey to China to meet the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan.

Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization.

A journey through the past and present of a little-known area of south-west France.

New and updated edition.

Shortlisted for the Scottish Nature Photography Book Awards Washed by the surging waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the island chain of Scotland's Outer Hebrides lies at the very edge of Europe.

A trip through Scotland's West Coast islands.

One of the Daily Telegraph's 20 Books Perfect for TravelScotland has its rugged Hebrides; Ireland its cliff-girt Arans; Wales its Island of Twenty Thousand Saints.

In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan.

Journey back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers.

The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson.

A journey both historical and contemporary among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity: Madagascar.

A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup.

Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future.

Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future.

This is the memoir, written in 1975 and 1976, of a 22 year old girl travelling alone overland from England to India.

Two doctors, one motorcycle,and a remarkable four year journey around the world Imagine jacking it all in, packing your life into a 41-litre pannier and riding into the sunset.

Traveling with the Atom is a historical travel guide to the development of one of the most significant and enduring ideas in the history of humankind: the atomic concept.

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

Norman Douglas was born in Thuringen, Austria on 8th December 1868.

Norman Douglas was born in Thuringen, Austria on 8th December 1868.

Norman Douglas was born in Thuringen, Austria on 8th December 1868.

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

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

This extraordinary account of a remarkable journey made in 1933, through Iraq, Iran and Baluchistan (now part of Pakistan) to India is packed full of wonder, adventure, determination and love of travel and motorcycles.

In May 1935, 22-year-old Max Reisch and 19-year-old Helmuth Hahmann set out in a small motor car to find a land route from India to China.

One man's real-life experience of motorcycling solo around the globe - no back-up teams, no spare bikes, no film crews - just him and his Yamaha Tenere XT660, travelling 42,000 miles through 6 continents and 35 countries, seeing amazing things; meeting fascinating people; experiencing different cultures, and coping with extremely challenging conditions.

There's popping out for a quick pint, and then there's this - a gloriously preposterous 27,000 mile journey across 25 countries to grab a beer in pubs (bars) at opposite ends of the world.

December, 2014: In the forbidding waters off Antarctica, Captain Hammarstedt of the Bob Barker sets off on a voyage unlike any seen before.

December, 2014: In the forbidding waters off Antarctica, Captain Hammarstedt of the Bob Barker sets off on a voyage unlike any seen before.

Travelling from Madrid to The Valley of the Fallen, through Castile and Le n and across the fiercely contested region of Catalonia, Christopher Finnigan meets a remarkable cast of characters behind some of the biggest political events Spain has witnessed in decades.

Travelling from Madrid to The Valley of the Fallen, through Castile and Le n and across the fiercely contested region of Catalonia, Christopher Finnigan meets a remarkable cast of characters behind some of the biggest political events Spain has witnessed in decades.

From the 16th century, the mines of Potos , perched high in the Andes, bankrolled the Spanish empire.

From the 16th century, the mines of Potos , perched high in the Andes, bankrolled the Spanish empire.

'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya ChakraborttyTaking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain s oil-soaked past, present and future.

Johann Georg von Hahn - a nineteenth-century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder of Albanian Studies as a scholarly discipline.