Travel writing

The ultimate travel companion for voracious voyagers.

Paris - Paris?

Jeremy Seal travels to the USA, Africa, Australia and India to meet people living amongst the world's deadliest snakes - and attempts to overcome his personal fear in the process.

Shortly after the 2005 London bombings, Tahir Shah was thrown into a Pakistani prison on suspicion of spying for Al-Qaeda.

What would you do if you were desperate to travel around the world, but you had little or no money to finance your trip?

The wilderness is much closer than you think.

The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States.

The river of life has followed an unusual course for Mary Stickney.

Across six of the seven continents on which cricket is played, there are some remarkable cricket grounds.

Take a breath.

Lin and Richard, like so many people, dreamed of a life in the sun, away from the pace and problems of their stressed lives as teachers.

Rising From The Mist in the sun-blushed hills of Tuscany is Il Piccolo Rustico, a 300-year-old stone farmhouse that Nancy Doran dreams of lovingly restoring into an idlyllic home.

The Cleveland Way is one of Britain's oldest long distance walks.

This collection of 27 travel essays written over the last decade is based on Julie Hills journeys to far-flung destinations of the world.

When Mary Quin ripped an AK-47 from the hands of a wounded kidnapper and made her escape in the Yemeni desert, she knew her life could never be the same.

How often have you eaten a mushroom that you picked yourself that morning?

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

When author John Eyberg announced his plan to bicycle two thousand miles across Texas and back, most people thought he was crazy.

Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, offers a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject - footpaths and the history of land ownership.

READERS PRAISE:'What an amazing and inspiring read.

Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers.

London - one of the world's most exciting cities.

THE SHOCKING STORY OF A DESERT ISLAND DREAM THAT WENT SOUR'Writer seeks "e;wife"e; for a year on tropical island.

This is the memoir, written in 1975 and 1976, of a 22 year old girl travelling alone overland from England to India.

Travel writing at its humorous best, Flying Visits collects the Postcards of Clive James originally written for the Observer between 1976 and 1983 - full of his distinctive wit and satire.

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap dope.

In the summer of 1974, I travelled through India and Nepal with a backpack and a low budget.

How do you find the woman of your dreams when you're nearly forty, living in the middle of nowhere and spectacularly ungifted in the art of seduction?

France, the Soul of a Journey is a travel memoir that really gets into the veins of France's lush ambience.

"e;Am I giving the impression that I don't like the Veneto?

'Superb - a great book to fuel your wanderlust.

The country of Colombia, emerging from the fog of its violent past, has been shedding its reputation as a dangerous place.

I m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can.

THIS STORY CONSISTS OF CHAPTERS IN DECADES.

The Journey is about real-event stories of a Filipino nurse who does not want to leave his loved ones, but out of poverty, he made the biggest sacrifice of his life.

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to be a jet-setting hostie, or international flight attendant, then spending a little time in Danielle's life is a captivating journey.