Travel Writing

Robert Hughes / Barcelona

 An informed and readable work of history, art criticism, and urban anthropology devoted to the most un-Spanish city in Spain     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

Don George / The Kindness of Strangers

 When we miss our train or bus, lose our wallets, fall ill or get lost, a kind stranger can save not only the day, but the entire journey. This collection explores the unexpected acts of kindness...

William Fiennes / The Snow Geese

WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR One winter, after an enforced period of quiet, William Fiennes finds himself restless...

John Harris / The Backpacker

Leaving the blinding sand for the cool shade of the trees, I walked carefully through the undergrowth to where Dave, using two twigs as chopsticks, was picking up a freshly severed human finger.....

Chris Stewart / Driving Over Lemons

Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. At age 17 Chris retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a...

Brian Keenan / Four Quarters Of Light

Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy while reading Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. With a head full of questions about its inspiring landscape and a heart informed by...

P.J. O'Rourke / Holidays in Hell

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Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet

A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already...

Robert M. Pirsig / Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR AND A READER'S GUIDE Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance caused a sensation when it was first published in 1974.The story of the narrator, his son Chris and...

Danny Wallace / Join Me

Danny Wallace was bored. Just to see what would happen, he placed a whimsical ad in a local London paper. It said, simply, 'Join Me'. Within a month, he was receiving letters and emails from...

Sarah Macdonald / Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure

After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted...

Peter Biddlecombe / Ireland: In A Glass Of Its Own

Peter Biddlecombe has dragged his beleaguered expense account around no fewer than 170 countries of variable merit, which puts him literally miles ahead of every other travel writer. Wittily and...

Stephen Fry / Stephen Fry in America

Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his...

W.G. Sebald / The Rings of Saturn

"The Rings of Saturn" begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures...

Sean Rothery / A Long Walk South (Hardback)

In 1950 he cycled from Dieppe to Rome and back in the poverty of postwar Europe. Half a century later, still powered by the lure of adventure, he fulfils another dream. This is an enthralling account...

John Hadfield - Shell Book of English Villages HB 1985 Revised England Rural

Revised 1985 edition of this general guide to the rural villages of England, published by peerage Press in 1989. Solid in laminated boards, there is a small are of peel to the top of the spine,...

Tobias Jones / The Dark Heart of Italy

Why is Italy still riven with internal conflict? Why does one man - Silvio Berlusconi - appear to own everything from Padre Nostro to Cosa Nostra? Tobias Jones sets out to answer these and many other...

Billy Connolly / Billy Connolly's Route 66 (Large Paperback)

The best-loved comedian in Britain hits the most famous highway in the world on an unforgettable journey. Billy Connolly, music-lover, biker, and scourge of the beige and bland the world over, has...

Brendan Walsh / Cycle Touring Ireland

This new edition of Brendan Walsh's Cycle Touring Ireland retains the basic structure of the first edition and of its predecessor, the Irish Cycling Guide. It covers the scenic coastal parts of...

Jason Webster / Duende: A Journey In Search Of Flamenco

Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some...

Tim Cahill / Pass The Butterworms

In Pass The Butterworms Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the "Mongolian death trot"; to the North...

Evan McHugh / Pint-Sized Ireland

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Paul Theroux / Dark Star Safari

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Michael Palin / New Europe

No. 1 bestseller and superstar doing what he does best, introducing millions of avid readers to little-known peoples and places.Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down,...

Cheryl Strayed / Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

The official tie-in edition to the stunningly raw and powerful film adaptation of the bestselling memoir, starring Reese Witherspoon.At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In...

Philip Nolan / Ryanland

In this hilarious, no-holds-barred account, journalist Philip Nolan packs his bag (maximum 10kg, please) and takes us on an adventure that is not for the faint-hearted as he flies with Europe 's...

Marlena De Blasi / A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance

When Fernando spots her in a Venice cafe and knows immediately that she is The One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American woman travelling through Italy, she thought she was...

Gill Harvey / Crime & Detection

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Bruce Chatwin / In Patagonia

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Joseph O'Connor / Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America

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Tony Hawks / Playing the Moldovans at Tennis

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Carol Drinkwater / A Celebration of Olives

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Ian Pattinson / Lyttelton's Britain

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Stuart Maconie / Pies and Predjudice

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Eric Hansen / Motoring with Mohammed

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Tim Moore / Do Not Pass Go

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Danny Wallace / Friends Like These

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Frances Mayes / Under the Tuscan Sun

Bill Bryson / The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

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Colin Thubron / In Siberia

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Peter Mayle / A Year in Provence

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Brian Keenan & John McCarthy / Between Extremes

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Michael Palin / Sahara

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Lucy Irvine / Castaway

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Eric Newby / On The Shores Of The Mediteranean

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Bill Bryson / A Walk in the Woods

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Bill Bryson / Made in America

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Tim Butcher / Blood River

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Bill Bryson / Notes from a Small Island

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Carol Drinkwater / The Olive Harvest

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Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman / Long Way Round

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Bill Bryson / Down Under

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