Travel writing

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.

'A beautiful book about love and loss, fragility and chance, the wide world and the near world .

Chasing gold and diamond rushes around the world, Jim Richards worked in some of the most dangerous places on earth, from the piranha-infested rivers of South America to the blazing deserts of Australia, from the world's biggest mining scam in Indonesia to the war-torn jungles of Laos.

We'd a lot of fun in those tumbledown days.

Travelling from one place to another is never as simple as getting from A to B.

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.

Thousands of people in Britain surf, few of them have surfed all the way round.

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.

Part anthology, part history, Not So Barren or Uncultivated brings to life these forgotten journeys and gives a picture of Finland at a time when it was little known to the outside world.

Selected passages from the accounts of nearly thirty travellers, together with Lurcock's informed and entertaining commentary, chart the varied responses of British writers to the making of modern Finland up to 1917, the year of independence.

The third and final volume in Tony Lurcock's series of compilations of British eye-witness accounts of Finland from the mid-18th century.

Lorca's Sketches of Spain: Impressions and Landscapes is a unique book, now available in an unillustrated e-book edition as well as an illustrated print edition.

Throughout southern Africa, shebeens are where jokes are born, news is embellished and exchanged.

Gerald Brenan returned to Spain in 1949 for the first time since the Civil 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.

Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile.

At the age of 52 and with a shoestring budget, Peter Millar set about rediscovering the United States by following the last traces of the technological wonder that created the country in the first place - the railroad.

The second annual themed compendium of writing by Five Leaves' authors and friends.

In 1849, several hundred thousand Americans and Europeans began streaming across 'The Great American Desert' bound for the gold fields of California.

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 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.

The first in a series of annual journals from Five Leaves, a set of essays on the loose theme of Maps.

British Antarctic Expedition 1910 - 1913.

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

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 .

The Dangerous Book for Boys – but for girls…

Ever wondered how to cook a locust or sweet-talk a cannibal?

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.

The West Highland Way is Scotland's first official Long Distance Route and runs near 100 miles from Milngavie to Fort William.

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.