Travel writing

'Perfect' Lena Dunham 'This year's literary sensation' Evening StandardHow far would you travel to become a writer?

Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city.

Jeremy Seal travels to the USA, Africa, Australia and India to meet people living amongst the world's deadliest snakes - and attempts to overcome his personal fear in the process.

'Killing It combines three popular, profound topics: where our food comes from, how to achieve purpose in life and how to find lasting love' - Sunday TimesAfter a career spent writing about food, Camas Davis came to a realization: she had never forced herself to grapple with how it actually got to her plate.

'An extraordinary journey of discovery' - Daily Telegraph'Pedals along with never a dull paragraph .

Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation.

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England.

Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that scarred the twentieth century and shaped so much of the world we know today.

This book ventures into the world beyond Lampedusa: the crisis belt that stretches from Kashmir across Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Arab world and beyond, to the borders and coasts of Europe.

Just Traveling celebrates overcoming distance and seeking difference as defining human traits.

Why cycle fast when you can cycle slowly, (often very slowly, as dictated by terrain, topography and the weather).

In today's world, where cultures and people get the opportunity to interact through the globalization of expatriate work, the author captures not only the unique senses and feeling of each destination that he experienced but also provides an in-depth insight into the nuances that enable an expatriate to manage effectively in a foreign country.

In Blue Poppies, the author shares her experience of spiritual life in the Indian Himalaya.

Reisererzählungen einer Rucksacktour von Leipzig durch Osteuropa bis in die MongoleiIn diesem Buch zur erfolgreichen MDR TV-Serie "Ostwärts" erzählt die gewitzte Journalistin Julia Finkernagel launig und geistreich von ihrer ganz persönlichen Premiere als "Go East"-Travellerin, den sehr speziellen Reise-Highlights und kleineren und größeren Katastrophen auf der Tour von Leipzig bis tief in die Mongolei.

Witty and "e;enchanting"e; reflections on the experience of travel, with a focus on art, music, and literature, by the author of Brave New World (The Spectator).

These three travel memoirs by the beloved author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn capture nineteenth-century life in America and beyond.

The author of Treasure Island shares true stories of his travels in the Pacific in these portraits of nineteenth-century Tahiti, New Zealand, and beyond.

Captivating portraits of two of the world's most beguiling cities from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Group.

This eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in 1930s Mexico inspired the British novelist's "e;masterpiece,"e; The Power and the Glory (John Updike).

Uproarious antics fill this genre-crossing collection of six stories from the beloved British naturalist and author of the Corfu Trilogy.

An account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking.

The riveting firsthand account of the historic voyage that led to the theory of evolution When the HMS Beagle set sail in 1831, the science of biology was not far removed from the Dark Ages.

This memoir and literary travelogue from one of the UK's most esteemed novelists offers rare insight into Cold War-era Russia.

A journey into nineteenth-century travel guides to the UK, Europe, and Soviet Union as researched and written by one of England's most distinguished authors.

An enduring portrait of America's virtues and vices as seen by one of England's greatest thinkersAfter losing his brother in the Great War, a troubled and depressed G.

The NPR reporter offers an "e;engaging and enlightening"e; window into late-90s Cuba, "e;from the cafes in Havana to the mysterious lairs of Santiago de Cuba"e; (Kirkus Reviews).

Renowned author D.

A travelogue detailing Charles Dickens's tour of North AmericaIn January of 1842, Charles Dickens and his wife, Kate, traveled from Liverpool to Boston.

William Humphrey's delightful chronicle of an angling holiday in Wales celebrates two equally astonishing creatures: the Atlantic salmon and the British fly fisherman In order to mate in the same freshwater stream where it was spawned, the salmon swims one thousand miles or more and overcomes countless obstacles, from trawling nets to twelve-foot-high waterfalls.

Eva's hospital room looks out onto the skyscrapers of a huge city, but since waking up from her coma she only dreams of treesThirteen-year-old Eva opens her eyes to find herself in a hospital, her body paralyzed while it heals from a devastating accident.

In 1869, Hayyim Habshush, a Yemeni Jew, accompanied the European orientalist Joseph Halevy on his archaeological tour of Yemen.

Vanishing Streets reveals an American writer's twenty-year love affair with London.

Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight.

Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight.

Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant ';sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters' (Newsweek).

Numerous visitors to Mediterranean countries have found their holiday punctuated by trips to feed hungry feral cats.

The essential Laurie Lee, a collection of occasional writings full of his unique vision and irresistible charm All of the wit and wisdom and poetry that made Laurie Lee one of the most celebrated English writers of the twentieth century can be found in this compilation of "e;first loves and obsessions.

Journal Excerpts from the Ring of Fire relates exciting travels to the Pacific area, often called the Ring of Fire.

This collection of 27 travel essays written over the last decade is based on Julie Hills journeys to far-flung destinations of the world.

Longtime readers have come to understand that Outside's true gift is in chronicling misadventure.

For more than thirty years, journalist and author Martin J.

A brand new edition of the finalist for the 2008 Casey Award, presented annually to the best baseball book, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out profiles America's greatest baseball museums, shrines, sports bars, pop culture landmarks and ballpark sites.

Say bonjour to a whole new way of life!

New York Times BestsellerParis was practically perfect.

"e;Peter Zheutlin has written a lovely, moving, important book about a subject that is both heartbreaking and joyful.

"e;ACountry Between reminds us that grief is as indispensable to joy as light is to shadow.

JEL is going about his business as a professor in Canada when theres a knock on his door one April morning.

Jean and Michael Gerber did what most of us only dream of doing.

PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR SAM MARLOWE travels to Paris in search of the Modern world, a valuable object that may or may not have gone missing.