Travel writing

Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson - who spent several years in the South Pacific - here is the story of a contemporary writer who lived in and came to love the Solomon Islands.

The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history, much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window.

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

'One of Britain's most respected television journalists, with a reputation built up over many years of covering world events' Guardian'Tributes will rightly be paid to a fantastic journalist and brilliant broadcaster - but George was the most decent, principled, kindest, most honourable man I have ever worked with' Jon SopelAs a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana - the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire.

'The best book in English about one of the world's most brutal and under-reported conflicts .

Asmara is the capital of Eritrea - a surreally Italian city at the centre of an ex-Italian colony that has been at war with its neighbour Ethiopia (who claim sovereignty over Eritrea) for over ten years.

Life isn't a sort of practice run, something you can afford to play around with.

It's almost impossible to get lost these days; the fastest and most direct route arrives with the press of a few keys.

Tony Wheeler is 'the trailblazing patron saint of the world's backpackers and adventure travelers'.

For James Jeffrey, his mother s homeland of Hungary has always featured in family stories sometimes as a fairytale land, other times as an exotic parallel universe.

'It can be as intangible and fleeting as watching an iceberg crowded with basking seals slide by, or a deep and powerful childhood memory of spine-tingling excitement as a holiday destination is reached.

Caution: Contains incidents of insane motorcycle antics, drug use and swearing.

A born storyteller, Troy Cassar-Daley has at last turned his talent to sharing his own inspiring life.

The second book in a much loved Italian travel memoir trilogy which also includes the delightful When in Rome and Girl by Sea.

The conclusion to Penelope Green's bestselling trilogy about her life in Italy that includes When in Rome and See Naples and DieFrom her rooftop terrace, Penelope looks out across the sparkling waters of the Bay of Naples, and into a garden of lemon trees and magnolias.

The first book in a much loved Italian travel memoir trilogy which also includes the delightful See Naples and Die and Girl by Sea.

Approaching forty, with the predictable mortgage, career and comfortable surburan lifestyle, James Knight knew he was one of the lucky ones.

An extraordinary evocation of the desert and its people by a woman who dressed as a man in order to travel alone and unimpeded throughout North Africa In 1897 Isabelle Eberhardt, at the age of 20, left an already unconventional life in Geneva for the Morroccan frontier.

In this brilliant travel diary Evelyn Waugh captures a portrait of Africa and the Levant as it was emerging from the shadow of WW II and into the post- colonial order.

Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences.

In Robbery Under Law, subtitled 'The Mexican Object Lesson', Waugh presents a profoundly unpeaceful Mexican situation as a cautionary tale in which a once great civilisation - greater than the United States at the turn of the twentieth century - has succumbed, within the space of a single generation, to barbarism.

'Who in his sense will read, still less buy, a travel book of no scientific value about a place he has no intention of visiting?

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for The Times.

Evelyn Waugh chose the name "e;Labels"e; for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "e;fully labelled"e; in people's minds.

The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts.

Audie Award Finalist for best inspirational book!

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First published in 1954 as South to Sardinia, this account of a summer journey in the early 1950s sees Alan Ross alternating the past and present of a strange island whose interior, especially, had been only rarely visited at that point.

'The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869.

As Far As You Can Go was Julian Mitchell's third novel, first published in 1963.

'Joseph Hone went to Zaire for the BBC.

The Chronicles of Jean Froissart (1337-1410) are universally acknowledged as the most vivid and faithful account of 14th century events and ideas.

In 1946 Roy Farrell and Syd de Kantzow's beloved, battered wartime DC-3 touched down in Shanghai for the first time.

Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writerWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'A declaration of love.

The first ascent of Everest.

Europe has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times).

Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.

Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.

Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the United States, by car, train, ship and aeroplane.

'Byrne comes across like a post-punk Michael Palin.

Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed in vast quantities.

This is a unique report from deep inside the largest Muslim country in the world.

In Contact!

India is on the up.

The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people.

An essential guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy.

An illuminating road trip through the history, life, and attractions of one of the most beautiful countries in the southern hemisphere The beauty and grandeur of New Zealand has captured the imagination of movie-goers over the past couple of years, and the country is a dream destination for many around the world.

In 1987 Michael Harrold went to North Korea to work as English language adviser on translations of the speeches of the late President Kim Il Sung (the Great Leader) and his son and heir Kim Jong Il (then Dear Leader and now head of state).

A traveling troubadour discovers the secrets of eternal peace on a journey into war-torn Bosnia in this inspiring and spiritual memoir.

Sun, sea, shopping, roaring nightlife, the world's tallest building, seven-star resort hotels and sprawling championship golf courses.