Travel & Guidebooks

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 Edited by Reginald J. W. Hammond. 17th Edition from 1971. The Wye Valley Guidebook : Monmouth, Hereford, Llandrindod Wells and the spas ...

Synopsis From Cape Wrath to Finisterre is a travelogue and an homage to Celtic lands and waters, from their northern to their south-western landf...

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 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 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 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 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...