Norman Lewis führt Tagebuch über seine Zeit als Nachrichtenoffizier in Neapel, von Herbst 1943, d...

Here, like a treasure chest, are Norman Lewis's most powerful pieces of writing, chosen by John H...

Nigel Macfarlane has worked alongside artisan papermakers in India, Nepal and Bhutan for more tha...

A heart-rending account of a Spanish village torn apart by the coming of the Civil War - A rare h...

With both a native s intimacy and the fresh-eye of an outsider, Simeti celebrates the Mediterrane...

For centuries this account, the first joyful description of India by a British woman, remained un...

From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-ce...

Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Sibe...

Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It ...

This is the patriot's song book, which includes such rollicking word-smiths as Hilaire Belloc, G....

From his birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London, Willia...

The Tharaud brothers became unique eyewitnesses to history when summoned in 1917 from the Western...

Presents a portrait of the Greece the author came to know through a lifetime of exploration. This...

In little more than a century, Fiji islanders have made the transition from cannibalism to Christ...

'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Chris...

For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. A...

A title, in which, the millennia of mercantile and cultural exchange along the Silk Route are cel...

Bruce Wannell was the greatest Orientalist traveler of his generation: a Paddy Leigh Fermor of th...

A combination of two journeys, Scotsman Mungo Park's story of his first trip in 1795 as a 24-year...

Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous,...

'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple

The story of Koestler's imprisonment in France in 1940, his escape and his extraordinary and adve...

This collection explores the never-ending historical interest and rich and fascinating literary c...

When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-o...

Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the mus...

One winter, Dervla Murphy, the four-footed Hallam and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored `...

The Duke of Pirajno arrived in North Africa in 1924. For the next eighteen years his experiences ...

A triumph of a travel book, describing modern travels through Egypt in search of its past.

There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scot...

Travels in Thailand and Burma in 1986, learning about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism.

A history of Crete, uniting ancient myths and history with first-had observations to give a compl...

'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a sub...

Find yourself plunged straight back into Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, feel the frozen gro...

An account of the day-to-day life in an orphanage for Tibetan children in the refugee camps of No...

This collection of travel writing explores Syria, the tourism capital of the Middle East. It is d...

The land of the Iranians, known to European travelers for centuries as Persia, is a land of mount...

The story of the common people in a British village over the past two thousand years.

In 1862, Lucie Duff Gordon left her husband and three children in England and settled in Egypt, w...

'Jonathan Raban is simply one of the great writers of nonfiction at work today. I hold his work i...

The Turkish Coast from Izmir to Antalya is an area of incredible natural drama, rich in the ruins...

Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of her most recent journeys into I...

'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in gene...

The travels of Dervla Muprhy, who in 1966 travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a...

I want to marry a lighthouse keeper. And live by the side of the sea. So says the old song, but P...

A MONTH BY THE SEA gives unique insight into the way in which isolation has shaped this society: ...

Travelling for the first time with her five-year-old daughter Rachel, Dervla Murphy, with little ...

Features a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. This book also builds a complex picture of ...

Time Among the Maya shows Ronald Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive wri...