No flashlight. No canteen...Ready to Travel! Follow the exciting journey of Vietnam veteran, Terrance "Terry" Brown and ......more
A road trip through Wales and its rich history of folklore. Russ Williams was raised on Welsh stories, like the one abou......more
It follows the development of a minor tradition where French metropolitan authors traveling abroad who are aware of the ......more
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through "liv......more
A vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions. Eli......more
During his teenage summers, Michael Barnett discovered his passion lay far from the monotonous environment of a UK shipp......more
Hundreds of thousands of people all over Ireland were entertained and thrilled in their youth by reading the homely and ......more
Embark on an unforgettable European adventure with "Travel to Europe: Trip Adviser," your comprehensive guide to 17 capt......more
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the pers......more
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When Shelley jets off for two weeks on Hydra, she’s not seeking a sun-kissed Greek island escape; instead, she’s chasing......more
The stories contained herein are one man’s adventure to see and understand a part of the world that is so much a part of......more
About the Book A VISUALLY PLEASING COLLECTION OF INTIMATE PORTRAITS OF LADAKH AND ITS PEOPLE The story of Ladakh is more......more
A newly expanded edition of the beloved Paris in Winter absorbs readers into magic of the City of Light, showcasing its ......more
bend - don’t break! Life throws curveballs, but you’re not just here to swing and miss. You’re here to get bendy, to fle......more
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Discover Oceans of Wonder and Serenity Embark on a breathtaking journey with Where the Ocean Sings, a mesmerizing voyage......more
In this collection of personal essays, twenty-six writers from across North America share journeys back to their motherl......more
A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary......more
Charles Dickens’s global travels across Europe, America, and Canada influenced his literary works. From childhood, Charl......more
What happens when your children have flown the nest and Christmas loses its magic? That’s the very question the author f......more
Fans of Peter Mayle and Janine Marsh will enjoy this exploration of medieval villages, cultures, and recipes of France’s......more
An epic story of leaving everything behind to find purpose, adventure and love by crossing 4750km of rugged Australian t......more
Have you ever dreamt of leaving everything behind to travel the world? Quitting your job... Saying "farewell" to the lif......more
Lyttelton isn’t your typical Kiwi town. "A New Zealand Diary - Living in Lyttelton" peels back the layers of a place tha......more
Follow in the footsteps of some of the world’s most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works i......more
A beloved and bestselling Pacific Northwest adventure classic, now available in paperback! Widowed at the age of thirty-......more
What do we mean by atmosphere? Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, to see a city’s sights ......more
Off the coast of Istanbul, in the Marmara Sea, lie the Princes Islands, an archipelago of unusual natural beauty, which ......more
A journey through the history of the English garden. Garden design in England was entirely reinvented during the 18th-ce......more
The history of travel writing goes back thousands of years. Long practised in several different cultures and languages a......more
It’d been a long time since I claimed some solitude in this blessed landscape; since I’ve done without lifes little prop......more
Britain’s foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar ’Funny......more
Sunday Times bestselling Chris Lewis meets the love of his life and starts the real adventure of a lifetime as he builds......more
Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN......more
With heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer w......more
Filled with wit and wisdom that is matched by her spell-binding illustrations, in this book Mairi Hedderwick portrays th......more
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Steve Burgess takes readers around the world as he ponders our right to roam. In this smart and sharply funny exploratio......more
Jamey Glasnovic’s meandering journey to find solace in a chaotic world has already led him across three continents. Now,......more
In her study of the opening of the English Lake District to mass tourism, Saeko Yoshikawa examines William Wordsworth’s ......more
The nineteenth century was the heyday of travel, with Britons continually reassessing their own culture in relation to n......more
Author Majorie Neset, a lifelong traveler, reader, and writer, invites you along on a lifetime of journeys, long and sho......more
Author Majorie Neset, a lifelong traveler, reader, and writer, invites you along on a lifetime of journeys, long and sho......more
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This volume is a translation and commentary of three geographers from Greco-Roman antiquity: Hanno of Carthage, from aro......more
JAPA CHRONICLES is an essential guide and companion for anyone contemplating a life beyond their home country’s borders.......more
"The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543" by Miguel de Castanhoso is a captivating and detailed account of t......more
Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wa......more
Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahum......more
"Deep down, there is just something that draws us to the land, to wild places. We were there to listen to the land." Whe......more
A full-color guide to the monuments and landscape of Upper Egypt, now fully revised and updated by leading Egyptologist ......more
Central Asia has been perceived as a landscape of connections, of Silk Roads; an endless plain across which waves of con......more
"... a memoir that takes the reader on a captivating emotional and physical journey through Linda Murphy Marshall’s life......more
’The Apennines are Italy’ exclaimed The Examiner two centuries ago, yet this unique region and its striking literary and......more
Voyages is a celebration of the joys of adventure in places of breathtaking and pristine natural beauty. From paraglidin......more
Take the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology o......more
- A chronicle of one couple’s visits to 95 cities worldwide, focusing on the hidden beauty, rather than the obvious Care......more
Jonathan and Jackie Thomas, founders of the world’s largest Anglophile website Anglotopia.net, set off on their biggest ......more
"Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping ... readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high ......more
"I could dream in poetry, could summon words for spiritual experience, could name God in twelve ways and in ten times an......more
"I could dream in poetry, could summon words for spiritual experience, could name God in twelve ways and in ten times an......more
Whether you are a true adventurer yourself, or someone who enjoys reading about and vicariously enjoying adventures from......more
As a single mother raising five children in the sixties, Betty Lunam is no stranger to struggle. Born in rural Québec in......more
Whether you are a true adventurer yourself, or someone who enjoys reading about and vicariously enjoying adventures from......more
As a single mother raising five children in the sixties, Betty Lunam is no stranger to struggle. Born in rural Québec in......more
- A highly coveted classic - Written by Frank Norman and abundantly illustrated with Jeffrey Bernard’s photos - Candid s......more
After eight years living in Copenhagen, an English journalist, driven by a passion for languages and mountains, finally ......more
Dawson Turner FRS (1775 - 1858) was an English banker, botanist and antiquary. He specialized in the botany of cryptogam......more
Details the embedded artistry and archeology during the Second Afghan War, with sketches, observations, and insights. ’L......more
Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN......more
Venice’s historic bars and cafés offer a window on the city’s past and present. And there is a dazzling array of drinks ......more
Dawson Turner FRS (1775 - 1858) was an English banker, botanist and antiquary. He specialized in the botany of cryptogam......more
"In ten intimate essays, Daniel Saldaäna Parâis explores the cities he has lived in, each one home to a new iteration of......more
Tom Rosenthal is a solo-living, daily-Deliverooing, Uber-to-everywhereing, screen-addicted, community-contact-avoidant h......more
Seventy-Five Men, A Shipwreck and Me is the true story of a daring race to recover a treasure trove of silver from a tor......more
Seventy-Five Men, A Shipwreck and Me is the true story of a daring race to recover a treasure trove of silver from a tor......more
Yvonne Corpuz was a global leader with a renowned firm headquartered in Japan when an unexpected turn in her career left......more
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’Hemingway’s world was close and uncomfortable and itchy and sweaty and frequently exhausting . . . This stuff was too g......more
’A battleground of immense geological forces that is a centre of human tectonics as well, with sacred and secular, tradi......more
’The Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to tra......more
’For most of my lifetime, half of my own continent had been chilled by a Cold War and concealed behind an Iron Curtain. ......more
’Once a traveller, always a traveller, and as long as there were maps and guide books and airline schedules I was still ......more
’It was a journey of dazzling extremes. Beauty and ugliness, sophistication and squalor, unceasing urban noise and monas......more
Michael Palin’s journey from North to South Pole sees him tackling Arctic ice floes, scaling Sudanese sand dunes and whi......more
"’The reason why the 80-day journey retains its appeal is that it is still the minimum time needed to go round the world......more
Discover Skye as you’ve never seen it before as the author traverses the island on foot experiencing a wild landscape of......more
Essays that blend nature writing with memoir. On a wild and windswept stretch of the Durham coastline, there’s treasure ......more
Re-released eighty years after liberation with a new foreword from Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Th......more
""Notes of a Twenty-Five Years’ Service in the Hudson’s Bay Territory Vol. I"" by John McLean provides a comprehensive a......more
"Notes of a Twenty-Five Years’ Service in the Hudson’s Bay TerritoryVol. II " by John McLean continues the detailed narr......more
Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era offers fresh examinations of interwar era accounts by women about travel ......more
Back in 1969 when Morocco’s ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their ch......more