Travel writing

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Captain Woodfield made 20 seasonal voyages to the Antarctic on three research ships between 1955 and 1974.

Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty years.

Jane Shaw was working as a volunteer in Chelsea's famous Physic Garden when she earned a placement to work for a year on a very special organic garden in Greece.

In this stunning large-format book, British mountaineer Alan Hinkes describes for the first time in one place his experiences of climbing all 14 of the peaks over 8000m: the world's highest mountains, in the Himalaya and Karakoram.

An inspirational larger format book providing an overview of 20 memorable treks in the Himalaya.

Alpine expert Kev Reynolds has spent fifty years exploring mountain landscapes and thirty writing about his experiences.

In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives.

In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives.

To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains.

An inspirational larger format guidebook to 20 summer treks in the Alps across Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France and Slovenia, including the classics such as the Tour of Mont Blanc and lesser-known routes like the Traverse of the Slovenian Alps.

To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains.

To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains.

On the south bank of the Thames, outside the jurisdiction of the ancient City of London, Bankside has long been known as a hotbed of creativity, dissent and loose living.

This collection of classic tales comprises over 50 accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters and journals.

'It is late October, and the temperature is already -40C.

"e;Whenever I was asked: 'Why did you go to Santiago?

Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola.

The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.

This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game.