Travel & Guidebooks

Synopsis Subtitled : Around The World in Search of Home. The sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. Wrapp...

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 Notes from a Small Island & Notes from a Big Country. Notes from a Small Island. In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks...

Synopsis An anthology of 17th and 18th Century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by...

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 Subtitled : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People. Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery...

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

Synopsis Subtitled : The World's Most Secret Locations. Ever wondered what it takes to get into Fort Knox? Fancied a peek inside the Coca-Cola Safe...

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 Compiled from the favourite trips of National Geographic’s travel writers, Journeys of a Lifetime spans the globe to highlight the best of...

Synopsis DK Eyewitness: winner of the Top Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2017. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Australia helps ...

Synopsis Winner of the Guardian & Observer 'Best Guide Books' and Wanderlust Magazine Silver Award for 'Top Guidebook'. Capture the essence of ...

Synopsis DK Eyewitness: winner of the Top Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2017. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide - New Zealand is...

Synopsis Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson - who spent several years in the South Pacific - here is the story of a contemporary wri...

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 Rough Guide to Kenya is the ultimate guide to East Africa's best known destination. From the live music in Nairobi to the Turkana over...

Synopsis This work embraces half a lifetime of travelling around the world by train: steaming down the Khyber Pass on the train's front buffers; an...

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...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller. Book of the Week on Radio 4. A 2015 Book of the Year - The Economist, The New York Times, GQ. Think back to when ...