Travel writing

If ever there is a place on earth for a man that was as close toperfect as possible, it would have to be Thailand.

One of the worlds great cities, Florence is visited by over six million tourists each year, yet, despite some recent improvements in accessibility, the Cradle of the Renaissance still presents significant barriers.

Despus de vivir momentos extenuantes en su vida, un joven toma la ms importante de sus decisiones: Vivir una gran aventura que comienza en la ciudad de Roma, Italia.

**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner**Discover the city of temples, video games, manga, and cosplay with this graphic Tokyo travel guide!

Sail Tales is about the adventures a humble sailboat owner had over the years.

What Readers and Reviewers say about Half Baked in Taiwan:"e;Entertaining, also very educational.

This is a baseball and travel book.

William Guy (when he is not traveling) lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner**For fans of Japanese manga and anime, a trip to Tokyo is an absolute must!

After trekking in Nepal, Sally Wendkos Olds and Margaret Roche both fell in love with this mountainous Himalayan country and her people.

God bless the United States and God bless New York City proclaimed a sign as the bus rolled through a small Indiana town.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to most as Mark Twain, was a quintessential American writer who spent much of his life traveling the world.

In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat.

The travel writing of celebrated writer George Fetherling is filled with vivid prose and bizarre characters.

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

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

A Bill-Brysonesque romp through this often-overlooked travellers' gem of East Asia.

A Bill-Brysonesque romp through this often-overlooked travellers' gem of East Asia.

The Trans-Canada, the world's longest national highway, comes to life in words and pictures.

I wasnt going to let the fact that I have Multiple Sclerosis, stop me from flying off to the Greek islands for some fun in the sunThis is a diary about holidaying in three different resorts on the island of Rhodes; Tholos, Stegna and Pefkos.

Father Don Osuna shares memories covering fifty years of travel experiences with his good friend, classmate and fellow priest, Tony.

Sippingn Snacking California Central Coast and Las VegasWhen planning a visit to our family in the USA, we decided initially to parachute into California and Las Vegas for some sipping and snacking and catching up with old friends.

This is Thailand is the riveting real-life account of Marek Lenarciks blind leap from the safe, comfortable and utterly bullshit, corporate world of Dublin to the charming, exotic beaches of Thailand.

The definitive collection of travel writings by one of the twentieth century's best-loved journeyersFrom the moment of his birth, Lawrence Durrell was far from home.

Hailed as among the most important books of the twentieth century, Rebecca West’s magnum opus is a history, a travelogue, and a sociological study of Yugoslavia that examines how the past shapes the present  In a breathtakingly wide-ranging journalistic work, West richly chronicles her travels throughout Yugoslavia in the 1930s, introducing vivid characters and illuminating details.

A travelogue and historical exploration of Mexico from one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers Dame Rebecca West travels through Mexico and explores its people, history, religion, and culture in her unfinished work Survivors in Mexico, carefully stitched together by Bernard Schweizer in this posthumously published edition.

MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere.

Told with humor and a true travelers fascination with new places and adventure,this book provides a country wide glimpse of Canada and its bounty of travel opportunities and experiences.

'An absolute gem of a book' Alastair HumphreysFirst published in 1926, The Gentle Art of Tramping is as relevant now as then.

Observing the barges from the Pont des Arts in Paris sparks in Richard Goodwin a strong desire to join their nomadic lifestyle.

During the five years Jimmy Burns was based in Buenos Aires, which resulted in his award-winning study of the Falklands War and its aftermath, The Land That Lost Its Heroes, he also embarked on further-flung journeys in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile.

This enthralling study which examines the impact of the Spaniards upon the Aztec and Inca worlds is dominated by the personalities involved, in particular Cortes and Montezuma.

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First published in 1989, in Bel Mooney's Somerset she sets the tone of this delightfully personal account of her 'adopted county'.

The unrivalled scenery of the Alps attracts increasing numbers of visitors every year, while for those who seek the more active and dangerous pursuits of climbing and skiing, the region offers unique opportunities.

It was the railway system which moulded the American hobo into the legendary figure he became, especially in the depression years, but surviving until today.

First published in 1958, A Person From England tells of how the legendary cities of Turkestan - Merv, Khiva, Bokhara and Samarkand - have long exerted a romantic fascination upon Western travellers.

This Latest Volume of Autobiography opens in 1934, in an isolated hamlet in the Cotswolds.

Part of Croft-Cooke's series of autobiographical works, The Sensual World.

'At the first mention of going to Roumania, a great many people, as I did myself, would take down their atlas and open the map.

First published in 1951, this is part sentimental journey revisiting old well-loved scenes of former travels, and part search for new, out-of-the-way lands, Alec Waugh's travel book tells of a journey half-way round the world.

Alec Waugh first saw the West Indies on a trip round the world in 1926 when his ship called in at Guadeloupe.

First published in 1930, this discursive and absorbing travel-book offers, as the author says in his new Foreword, "e;a picture of a way of living that exists no longer.

Sacheverell Sitwell goes beyond the generic images of Holland as all museums, windmills, canals, tulips and clogs.

Here, Belloc writes of a trip through Sweden and Denmark in 1938, a nostalgic trip taken forty-three years after his first Scandanvian trip in 1895.

A narrative of his time in Denmark, this work is largely concerned with the topography of the country, telling the intending visitor about all those features of the country's buildings, landscape and people which are most characteristic and best worth seeing.

The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on SundayA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.

A Strange Kind of Paradise is an exploration of India s past and present, from the perspective of a foreigner who has lived in India for many years.

*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street'Fl neuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French.