Travel writing

'It is a violent overture, like the opening notes of an opera about war, a war between humans and the land.

'A darkly luminous story of resilience and the deeply human instinct for survival, for love.

In 1911 Roald Amundsen beat Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole, and Scott and his colleagues all died on the return journey.

First published between 1887 and 1890, Women in Journalism - The Best of Nellie Bly is an insightful volume containing all of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman's best journalistic works, including the famous expose, Ten Days in a Mad-House.

This book describes western Inner Mongolia in 1945.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

At the age of thirty-four, Polly Evans finally fulfilled a childhood dream - to learn how to ride a horse.

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

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.

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later.

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.

Lake Titikaka!

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.

'Sacrilegious to say it but Elizabeth Luard even beats Elizabeth David.

'A fizzingly entertaining and enlightening book' Daily Telegraph'Mesmerising' Geographical Magazine'A fascinating delve into uncharted, forgotten lost places.

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.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry.

During the 1930s, Gide briefly became a communist, or more precisely, a fellow traveller (he never formally joined the Communist Party).

When a Billion Chinese Jump tells the story of China's - and the world's - biggest crisis.

A classic of travel writing.

Laredo, Texas has a rich and fascinating history being on the border with America's neighbor to the south Mexico.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

It was love at first sight: the huge pale-green eyes, the ruffled tawny hair and the cute way he held his head to one side.

In 2017, Edmund Platt aka The English Snail embarked on an 8,000 km hitchhike around France to pick up the trash that 1 in 3 French people chuck from their cars every day.

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.

Sheep, hills and inbreds.

In 1992, John Beattie set out to sail around the world.

A must read for anybody with an interest in the ancient history of Great Britain, a well researched and in-depth account of life for people living around British lakes thousands of years ago.

Jeremy Clarkson, shares his opinions on just about everything in For Crying Out Loud.

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INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping Travel Book of the MonthA LoveReading Best Book of 2024Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Travel Books 2024'Travel at its best - life enhancing' Bear Grylls'Ash is a great storyteller, whose book weaves together adventure, big ideas and inspirational tales from around the world.

When Mary Quin ripped an AK-47 from the hands of a wounded kidnapper and made her escape in the Yemeni desert, she knew her life could never be the same.

This volume contains a collection of essays and memoirs by Robert Louis Stevenson, including "e;Across the Plains"e; (1892).

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.

For many Evangelical Christians, a trip to the Holy Land is an integral part of practicing their faith.

Frans August Larson was a Swedish missionary to Mongolia, this is the account of his travels around central Asia.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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

Step aboard a timeless journey across continents and decades in Michelle da Silva Richmond's captivating memoir, Fleeting Moments.

Born in London to a Turkish mother and British father, Alev Scott moved to Istanbul to discover what it means to be Turkish in a country going through rapid political and social change, with an extraordinary past still linked to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and an ever more surprising present under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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Within this volume Burke makes contemporary observations of London and compares it to how it was in the past, especially before the war.

Tired of the endless tarmac and Little Chefs, and keen to see more on his travels than the tail-lights of the car in front of him, Robbie Coltrane has set himself quite a challenge.

"e;A Woman's Journey Round the World"e; is an 1850 travel diary by Ida Pfeiffer of the first of her two trips around the world, chronicling her successful journeys to Brazil, Chile, China, India and more.