Travel writing

In 2013 Ian Crofton undertook a journey he had been pondering for years: a walk along the Border between Scotland and England.

This early work by Jerome K.

Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War.

Born in the Lake District and having spent much of his life there, Wordsworth-together with his compatriots Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge-would become known as the Lake Poets, with much of their work being inspired by the area's landscapes and people.

After working for four years at a leading London book publisher, Polly Evans moved to Hong Kong where she spent many happy hours as a senior editor on the city's biggest entertainment weekly.

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

When Biografi was first published, it was met first with enormous critical acclaim - only to become the centre of a heated controversy.

In the dead of winter, Polly Evans ventures to the remote Yukon Territory in Canada's far northwest, where temperatures plunge to minus forty and the sun rises for just a few hours each day.

Can you be a stranger in your own country?

SINCE its first appearance in three volumes (1938-40) Kilvert's Diary has become established as a minor classic.

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

Originally published in 1931, this early work on exploration is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition.

A view of the south of Ireland political, social, geographical through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it.

Allow yourself to be transported to the stunning Greek island of Zakynthos in this heart-warming and poignant novel'A beautiful story of heartbreak and forgiveness' Giovanna FletcherWith its perfect blue skies, white sandy beaches and crystal clear waters, Zakynthos should be a dream.

Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the C vennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France.

David Bennun had lived in Africa his whole life.

When Sean Mallen finally landed his dream job, it fell on him like a ton of bricks.

Fantasized about quitting the 9-5?

In 1887 Harper's Magazine sent Lafcadio Hearn to the West Indies to write a series of articles on the area.

"e;Around the Boree Log and Other Verses"e; is a wonderful collection of poems by Australian Poet Patrick Hartigan.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to Cornwall, with fascinating historical information, descriptions of its towns and places, details concerning folklore, and much more.

With "e;In the Land of Living Dangerously"e;, an adventure travelogue set in Indonesia, author Jay Cowan explores myriad issues experienced during his travels in the Indonesian archipelago from culture and history to politics and anthropology, from exotic endemic wildlife and huge environmental challenges to one-on-one encounters with volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, the natural disasters that keep the region in the news.

'An amazing book.

The story of our love affair with vanilla - the world's most versatile flavouring.

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole.

Summer shone late over Western Europe in 1939, but in Icaria the sun had done its work by the fourth week of August figs bursting, grapes heavy under their bloom, and the paths on the hillsides powdering beneath one s feet.

A fascinating history of the ancient middle east.

David Monagan has always dreamed of relocating to Ireland, the land of his forebears.

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned.

This antiquarian volume contains Joseph E.

"Mit zwanzig Jahren bin ich den Camino del Norte, den Jakobsweg entlang der nördlichen Atlantikküste, von Irun nach Santiago de Compostela gepilgert.

This book contains a collection of vintage hunting articles written by various authors.

When Polly Evans read a survey claiming that the last bastion of masculinity, the real Kiwi bloke, was about to breathe his last, she was seized by a sense of foreboding.

With his sixtieth birthday looming, Colin Renton decides that it's time to escape office life and focus on achieving some of his unfulfilled goals.

Drawing upon his own travel experiences and those of others, Keith Forrester interrelates travel writing, tourism and serious commentary to produce an account of the delights, challenges and excitement of visiting old and new India.

This early work on the life and travels of Johann Schiltberger is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition.

"e;I Travel the Open Road"e; contains a fantastic collection of classic travel writings by a variety of notable authors, including Robert Louis Stevenson, G.

A beautiful collection of stories and observations picked up by a lifetime of walking among the villages and hamlets of England.

A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embraced in one glorious and kaleidoscopic summer-long hunt by naturalist Jon DunnFrom the chalk downs of the south coast of England to the heathery moorland of the Shetland Isles, and from the holy island of Lindisfarne in the east to the Atlantic frontier of western Ireland, Orchid Summer is a journey into Britain and Ireland's most beautiful corners.

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*A timely collection of 26 inspiring tales, The Kindness of Strangers explores the unexpected human connections that so often transfigure and transform the experience of travel, and celebrates the gift of kindness around the world.

This fascinating volume contains a collection of travel writings by D.

The Dari n Gap is a place of legend.

First published in 1896, "e;The Innocents Abroad"e; is a travel book written by Mark Twain.

Roger Taylor follows on from his highly praised Voyages of a Simple Sailor, taking us on three more extraordinary voyages aboard his junk-rigged Corribee Mingming.

A New Statesman Book of the Year London.

Toshikazu Kase was a Japanese civil servant and spent his adult life as a career diplomat, having trained at Amherst and Harvard university Kase was part of Japanese delegation sent onboard the USS Missouri to sign the Japanese surrender to end World War II.

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.