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

Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her 'best horror journeys'. She bum...

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...

In 1924, Robert Frisbie arrived on the island of Puka-Puka, one of the most remote in the South P...

The Way of the World is the beguiling tale of an impecunious and life-enhancing journey from Gene...

The grotesque game of The Law, played in the taverns of southern Italy in the 1950s, is but a sha...

The first twenty-five years of Churchill's life were full of adventure: night marches, cavalry ch...

Travelling through Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia in the twilight of the French colonial regime, Norman...

Mission Impossible - the Central Asian city of Khiva, closed to Europeans by the Russians and a p...

If you want to know about writing, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night. Mart...

From time immemorial Afghanistan has been both a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads. ...

No one could have invented John Beames, whose vibrant and original memoirs were discovered by cha...

At the age of only twenty six, Alexander Burnes proved himself to be one of the most effective in...

Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breathtaki...

Nigel Barley was a 'new anthropologist', one of the younger generation of academics whose learnin...

At the height of The Troubles, Dervla Murphy bicycled to Northern Ireland to try to understand th...

Marrakesh is the drum that beats an African rhythm into the complex soul of Morocco.There has nev...

With the potent myths of the Pacific Ocean in mind, Julian Evans journeys ever deeper into a worl...

Arthur Grimble was sent to the Gilbert and Ellice islands as a colonial administrator in the twil...

At the age of nine Janina David led a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland....

Evliya Çelebi is the greatest travel writer of the Ottoman Empire. Born in Istanbul in 1611, he s...

Richard Burton's life offers dazzling riches. He was one of the greatest Victorian explorers, an ...

Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when he embarked on a series of three arduous journeys in...

In the late 1940s, Norman Lewis settled in a remote fishing village on what is now the Costa Brav...

In 1934, Norman Lewis and his brother-in-law Eugene Corvaja travelled across the breadth of Spain...

Part travel book, part love story, An Indian Attachment tells of the two years Sarah Lloyd spent ...

The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool presents the unexpected face of Syria. Based on five jou...

In 1782 an enthusiastic young German landed in England. Through the fresh eyes of a forgeiner we ...

Valse des Fleurs recreates one glittering winter's day in St Petersburg in its heyday. The Tsar i...

Irfan Orga, author of Portrait of a Turkish Family, journeys to the centre of Turkey to stay with...

Chantemesle is a lyrical evocation of growing up on the banks of the Seine. In this minutely obse...

Duncan Pryde, a tough eighteen- year-old orphan and ex-merchant- seaman, left Glasgow to try his ...

MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MUSLIMS is a collection of personal reminiscences of friendships and cha...

Spellbound by stories of his grandmother's Anglo-Indian heritage and the exuberant annual visits ...

Having learned to appreciate Muslim life while living in Pakistan, Peter Mayne settled down to li...

In 1903 Mary Mackenzie sailsfor China to marry the British military attache¿, a man who turns out...

This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Pr...

Not for Norman Lewis the tourist sights of Delhi and Rajasthan. His travels in India begin in the...

This loving profile of an extraordinary country is based on Lewis's sixty-year fascination with a...

Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford, is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and...

Buenos Aires in the 1920s was a fascinating destination for a young person looking for a new life...

This collection of four, heart-rending stories encapsulates Martha Gellhorn's experience of obser...

At the age of forty-eight, war veteran Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm in California and joined ...

In The Japanese Chronicles, Swiss travel writer and photographer Nicolas Bouvier shares his intim...

In 1955 the winds of change were beginning to blow across the Sultanate of Oman, a hitherto truly...

In 1957, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last Prince of the Sicilian Lampedusa family, died impoverished and...

On an unnamed Island that can only be Ceylon, the traveller checks into his 117th rented room, ab...