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 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 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 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 Subtitled : A Journey with a Pilot. Sunday Times Bestseller. Book of the Week on Radio 4. A 2015 Book of the Year - The Economist, The New...