Travel & Guidebooks

Synopsis From the Ward Lock Red Guides Series Edited by Reginald J. W. Hammond. Explore the rugged beauty and historic charm of North Wales' northe...

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 Traveller's Guide to the Planet. Every country in the world, in one guidebook: Lonely Planet delivers the first guide to The...

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 of...

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

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 sup...

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 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 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...