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Synopsis A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote a...

Synopsis "Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas - what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Pilot Sees The World. A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2022. Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the ...

Synopsis Intrepid presenter Nicholas Crane investigates eight epic journeys, following in the footsteps of our greatest indigenous explorers. Nic...

Synopsis Roger Deakin's Wildwood is a much loved classic of nature writing. Wildwood is about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our so...

Synopsis Intrepid travellers Chris and Carolyn Caldicott own and run the World Food Café in London's Covent Garden. In this cookbook they bring tog...

Synopsis Shortlisted for Adventure Travel Book of the Year. In the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his la...

Synopsis Subtitled : Around The World with Robert Runcie. The full humour of Terry Waite comes through in this entertaining collection of true li...

Synopsis Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides is a thought-provoking commentary based on broadcaster Lesley Riddoch's cycle journey through a beautiful is...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller. Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year Award. In TV adventurer Simon Reeve's bestse...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Tapestry of Travel Tales. "This book centres around a wonderful holiday my husband Douglas and I had in Sri Lanka in 2017,...

Synopsis With Preface by William Dalrymple. The memory of a brief visit to Burma had haunted Rory MacLean for years. A decade after the violent s...

Synopsis Hitchhiking may be an ancient mode of travel but in Japan it is considered folly. Which is precisely its attraction to henna gaijin ("weir...

Synopsis The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination...

Synopsis Discover the places where iconic songs were written, groups were formed, music legends were born and extraordinary talent is celebrated. ...

Synopsis Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere else. But the reality of travel seldom matches our daydreams. The tragi-com...

Synopsis In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the Unite...

Synopsis On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had set off from Pa...

Synopsis 'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of...

Synopsis Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports sh...

Synopsis After revealing his incredible achievements in the bestselling Cold, Sir Ranulph Fiennes reveals what it's like to live - and survive - in...

Synopsis The No' 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and adven...

Synopsis Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before...