Now a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
China and India have always been seperated not only by the Himalayas, but also by the impenetrable jungle and remote areas that once stretched across Burma.
In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent.
This book presents a detailed historical account of the Nuremberg Trials, the military tribunals orchestrated by the Allied forces after World War II and held in Nuremberg, Germany.
"e;Safar Nameh - Persian Pictures - A Book Of Travel"e; is a 1894 account of Gertrude Bell's trip to Persia to visit her uncle, Sir Frank Lascelles, who was British minister at Tehran.
'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.
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.
El mar y la literatura fueron las grandes pasiones de Pierre Loti, un autor tan inusual y prolífico que ha inoculado la pasión por las cosas del mundo a más de una generación de escritores y viajeros, y no solo en Francia.
Extraña y remota hasta para los propios australianos, Kimberley es una región imponente por su salvaje naturaleza, y también una geografía radical que convoca azar, peligro o asombro; un escenario distópico para la saga Mad Max filmada en sus paisajes.
Premi RenaudotSylvain Tesson accepta la invitació del fotògraf Vincent Munier d'anar al Tibet a fotografiar la pantera de les neus, un animal llunyà i esquiu, del qual avui només viuen uns milers d'exemplars.
'A toda máquina' es la inspiradora historia real del viaje de Dervla Murphy en 1963 de Irlanda a la India en una bicicleta Armstrong Cadet, y de las pruebas, paisajes y culturas que encontró por el camino.
He aquí, en clave viajera, humorística y metaficticia, el recorrido de un escritor por ese estado norteamericano siempre tan presente en la literatura contemporánea.
Armenia, el país en el que todo es posible, el país que, como eterna Arca de Noé, pone a resguardo de tempestades humanas y de las otras, variopintas especies de su cultura milenaria.
Part history, part travel journal and part autobiography, 'Hotel Tiberias' is a journey of many layers and resonances, as Sebastian Hope follows the tumultuous story of his family's hotel in Palestine.
Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago.
This outstanding collection of pieces, illustrated with his own superb photographs, is a unique record of Newby's travels all over the globe - and a lasting tribute to lost and fading worlds.
Transports the reader to another world Sunday Express Refreshingly straightforward Financial Times Best Summer Travel Reads Adventurer and TV presenter Alice Morrison takes the reader on three remarkable and inspirational journeys across Morocco, from the Sahara to the Atlas mountains, to reveal the growing challenges faced by our planet.
My life as an Explorer is a classic of Polar literature, written by the one man to do more to further the exploration of both Polar regions than any other person.
