Travel writing

This account of a sled dog race colder and more dangerous than the Iditarod is "e;the best book on the Far North since Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams"e; (Los Angeles Times).

"e;A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside"e; CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"e;The best travelogues should make you question your preconceptions of a place and force you to engage with what the author is saying.

'Magical and transporting .

Not a Place on Any Map, winner of the 2016 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award, explores the switch-backing emotional terrain of traumas and triumphs, as well as the disparate landscapes where they unfold.

A newly-wed American Vietnam vet goes on a journey of self-discovery, circling Ireland's coastline on foot with a donkey and cart in this memoir.

In terms of your place in the world, it is your actions that define you.

The hilarious bestselling travel book that journeys round areas made famous by Radio 4's Shipping Forecast'One of those simple yet brilliant ideas' Daily Mail'Engaging and often very funny' Sunday Times'A wonderfully eccentric study' ObserverThe Shipping Forecast is a curious piece of broadcasting; at once impenetrably baffling yet at the same time reassuringly familiar, most of us have grown up with this sonorous gazetteer firmly planted in our subconscious.

Dom Joly sets off round the world, but this time he's not looking to holiday in a danger zone - he's monster hunting.

'Theatre, food, refugees: in Adrian's writing they're all linked up .

Evelyn Waugh chose the name "e;Labels"e; for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "e;fully labelled"e; in people's minds.

Between April 2007 and August 2009, I wrote a blog on Myspace.

Danny Wallace wanted to write about a place so special and so crucial to our existence that it had never before been tackled: the Centre of the Universe.

I hadn't been planning on making Mexico my new home, but the little house on the sea was all that I had left .

When Elspeth Huxley s pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat.

These personal stories collected from a lifetime of travel will transport the reader from country to country across the world in an immersive reading experience.

This is a collection of anecdotes and reminiscences of the authors travels over many years and in many countriesfrom Uzbekistan to Peru, Yemen to India, Spain to China.

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour.

A unique look at the treasures of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and the Basilica of Saint Peter from an official guide of the Eternal City.

Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.

In Silt, bestselling travel writer Robert Macfarlane walks the Broomway, the deadliest path in Britain.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR**Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire.

This is not only a travel book but a thought-provoking documentary on inter-cultural relationships between the different races and nationalities comprising the huge expatriate population and native Arab residents of the oil-rich peninsula.

Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola.

The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia.

In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland.

As an avid traveler for most of his adult life, author Michael Loveday has always been keen to soak up all he can about the essence of places from more unconventional sources.

From the vibrant souks of Tripoli and Beirut to the quiet calm of the Chouf Mountains and Qadisha Valley, Lebanon is a land of bold colours, exquisite flavours and hidden beauty.

Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places.

***NOW A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON, RUSSELL CROWE AND BILL MURRAY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'An extraordinary story.

'You can't go and live there,' a despairing friend remarked, 'it's not even in Rome.

This is the story of how Maximum RocknRoll Columnist Mykel Board spent a year teaching English at the Mongolian National University in Ulaanbaatar.

The final captivating book from the No1, million copy bestseller Shari Low's fabulous series that will make you laugh and cry.

Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three.

"e;The most interesting Dutch writer of his generation"e; Herman Koch"e;Vivid and moving.

In I Never Knew That About New York Christopher Winn digs beneath the gleaming towers and mean streets of New York and discovers its secrets and its hidden treasures.

What is an escape route?

In his beautifully written prose, Dr Jonathan Reisman - physician, adventure traveller and naturalist - allows readers to navigate their insides like an explorer discovering a new world.

The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos'A happy, hilarious book' Daily ExpressNancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the 50s and 60s.

This story of a middle-aged woman's odyssey down the Mississippi River is a funny, beautifully written, and poignant tale of a journey that transforms a lifeIn fall 2005 acclaimed travel writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi in a battered old houseboat called the River Queen, with two river rats named Tom and Jerry-and a rat terrier, named Samantha Jean, who hated her.

A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.

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.

Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman.

Why cycle fast when you can cycle slowly, (often very slowly, as dictated by terrain, topography and the weather).

The Travels of Marco Polo is unquestionably one of the worlds greatest travel books and the memoir of the Wests most famous traveler.

The quintessential Englishwoman Clarissa Dickson Wright, one of the Two Fat Ladies and author of Spilling the Beans, takes us on a personal journey through the country of her birth.

Introduced by Lois Pryce, author of Lois on the Loose, Red Tape & White Knuckles and Revolutionary Ride.

INTRODUCED BY MONISHA RAJESH, award-winning author of Around the World in 80 Trains'If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them - that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature.

JEL is going about his business as a professor in Canada when theres a knock on his door one April morning.

From scorching deserts to snow-capped mountains, through forest fires and gangland war-zones, Shaun Donovan rides the Greyhound Bus to the four corners of America.