Travel writing

'Tribes With Flags' is the gripping story of Charles Glass's dramatic journey through Greater Syria which provides background context to a troubled region once again in the headlines.

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

A narrative account of Darwin's historic 4-year voyage on the Beagle to South America, Australia and the Pacific in the 1830s that combines the adventure and excitement of Alan Moorehead's famous (and now out of print) account with an expert assessment of the scientific discoveries of that journey.

'My name is Mike and I am a map addict.

This timeless classic is an exciting true story of survival against all odds.

Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'.

'The most effective advertisement for the countryside I've ever encountered' Daily MailWalking Through Spring follows Graham Hoyland's journey as he traces a new national trail, walking north with Spring from the South Coast to the Borders.

How to be treated like shite in 15 different countries.

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A hilarious field guide to the world's most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English.

In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors.

One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.

Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence.

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The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon WinchesterIn a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life story of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future.

In this inspiring and original book, former editor of The Times, Sir Peter Stothard, re-traces the journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels.

Full of facts and trivia for every day of the yearDo you know when the Duke of Albemarle arranged Britain's first boxing match, between his butler and his butcher?

Whicker's War and Journey of a Lifetime in one ebook for the first time.

'I watched the mirror for a last view, for now, of the frozen mountains of Glen Coe.

Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.

An alternative look at Japanese life, history and cultureYour Rough Guide or Lonely Planet book can tell who where to stay or what to see, but how do you really get under the skin of Japan?

'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

To Graham Greene, 'Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.

'The best knitwear, the best furniture design, the best fairy tales, the best female prime ministers.

Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time.

A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great PlainsIn his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal.

Evelyne Binsack ist die erste Schweizerin, die 2001 auf dem höchsten Punkt unseres Planeten, dem Mount Everest, stand.

'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

In an epic season of sport, Jim Fergus and his trusty Lab, Sweetzer, trek the mountains, plains, prairies, forests, marshes, deltas, and deserts of America.

Evelyne Binsack ist die erste Schweizerin, die 2001 auf dem höchsten Punkt unseres Planeten, dem Mount Everest, stand.

Auf der Suche nach einem anderen Schönheitsideal: Tine Wittler im Land der runden Frauen.

In diesem Buch erzählt Evelyne Binsack, die am 23.

Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time.

In diesem Buch erzählt Evelyne Binsack, die am 23.

Peer und Jochen sind Mitte dreißig, als sie darüber erschrecken, dass ihr Leben im immer gleichen Trott dahinschleicht.

In 1993, Amira Aass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story - and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "e;Go to Gaza"e; is another way to say "e;Go to hell.