Travel writing

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.

A useful guide for aspiring ski reps, providing insight into a typical winter seasonExplores Swedish culture and traditions- portrays Sweden in an honest, different lightAndrew Reed spent a winter as a ski rep for a well known UK travel company in the resort of re, Sweden.

An epic River Journey from the English Channel to the Black Sea.

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).

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

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.

'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.

Lady Anne Blunt was a woman ahead of her time.

With fascinating extracts from his own writings, this book reveals the captivating travels and adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle - the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

In the summer of 1974, against the backdrop of the Lebanese Civil War, ceramics expert and Morgan sports car enthusiast John Carswell set off with his young family from their home in Beirut on an expedition across Asia and the Middle East.

Morocco has long been a mythic land, firmly rooted in the European colonial imagination.

A literary guide to one of the most fascinating countries in the world.

In this first guide to Tangier's extraordinary cultural history , former BBC North Africa correspondent Richard Hamilton explores the city to find out what has inspired so many international writers, artists and musicians.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS.

In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France.

An exploration of Sardinia's incredibly rich history and culture, which stretches back to the Neolithic period.

With fascinating extracts from his own writings, this book reveals the captivating travels and adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle - the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

A look into the tantalising secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai.

This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II.

It has long been assumed that no Armenian presence remained in eastern Turkey after the 1915 massacres.

In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France.

'If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers then you have a house with no light' -George Bernard ShawThere is so much in the modern world which has its origins in Greece, most notably language and literature.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS.

'Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Edens left, but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track.

In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries.