Travel writing

When Tonia Parronchi's husband, Guido, told her of his plans to buy a boat and take her and their baby sailing, she had her reservations, but she soon came round to the idea and has never looked back.

Struggling to come to terms with his brother's suicide, Jesuit priest Brendan McManus decides to walk the Camino de Santiago, the famous Spanish pilgrimage route, where he undergoes a profoundly transformative journey of rebirth and renewal that moves through grief and anger to hope, gratitude and acceptance.

After a career in the Army spanning three decades Steve Stewart decided it was time to move on and fulfil a lifelong dream.

Inspired by the adventures of a hardy nineteenth-century Irish emigrant to America, Mici Mac Gabhann, who detailed his exploits in the Irish language book Rotha Mor an tSaoil, Michael McMonagle undertakes an epic journey to retrace his steps.

The remarkable story of two women, the first in the world to drive the length of Africa, and the first to cross the Sahara on a motorcycle.

Cathy Birchall is the first blind person ever to circumnavigate the globe on a motorcycle, covering 26,385 miles, 31 countries and 5 continents with her companion Bernard on their 18 year old BMW.

This is a truly great travel adventure through Iraq, Iran and Baluchistan to India in 1933.

This is the story of a journey made in the 1970s that would be nigh on impossible in today's political climate.

Corinna Weyreter and Gjalt van der Zee sailed away from the rat race, and their careers in the oil industry, in search of freedom and adventure in the fabled South Pacific.

Des Molloy and Dick Huurdeman look like the sort of guys who should be sedately steering a sleigh in a Santa parade, not riding old single-banger British bikes half way across the world through some of the most difficult and remote terrain imaginable.

"Greenpeace medal-winning Stanley Johnson crosses the globe meeting local conservation heroes and the endangered species they are fighting to protect.

Long-awaited new edition of the Blue Guide to this fascinating city, which straddles Europe and the Orient and whose history goes back to the days of ancient Greece.

Discerning on-the-ground guide to the sights and monuments of these two key destinations.