Norman Lewis führt Tagebuch über seine Zeit als Nachrichtenoffizier in Neapel, von Herbst 1943, d...

Welcome to Paradise opens a window into the hearts of a small group of African would-be emigrants...

Saints of Sind is an exploration of the mystical Sufi shrines and hereditary saints of Pakistan's...

News from Tartary is the account of an illegal, six-month journey from Beijing to Kashmir in 1935...

Puka-Puka is a triangular coral reef, some seven miles in circumference with three islands. It fr...

Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, Lords...

Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, this volume tells of a friendship between a wri...

Chetwode's compelling account of exploration in the high sierra north of Granada in 1961.

One of the most witty and idiosyncratic of travel books, Eothen started out as a few notes scribb...

A heart-rending account of a Spanish village torn apart by the coming of the Civil War - A rare h...

With both a native s intimacy and the fresh-eye of an outsider, Simeti celebrates the Mediterrane...

Now back in print, ROGER VAILLAND's atmospheric 1957 novel won the Prix Goncourt, and the Knopf e...

From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-ce...

Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Sibe...

The first twenty-five years of Churchill's life were full of adventure: night marches, cavalry ch...

Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to V...

'Gavin Maxwell was a romantic, self-destructive, aristocratic adventurer who worked as secret age...

Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It ...

In 1716 Mary Montagu traveled across Europe to take up residence in Istanbul as the wife of the B...

Tells the story of a street in London's docklands and of the family who lived on it. The street w...

From his birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London, Willia...

The Tharaud brothers became unique eyewitnesses to history when summoned in 1917 from the Western...

An immediate bestseller when first published in 1877, Burnaby s delight in a life of risk and adv...

A collection of peacetime journalism from the renowned American writer.

Mother Land is a brilliant debut autobiographical novel with a literary style that recalls such c...

Presents a portrait of the Greece the author came to know through a lifetime of exploration. This...

In little more than a century, Fiji islanders have made the transition from cannibalism to Christ...

'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Chris...

A minutely remembered description of a childhood on an Aegean island, marked by the furious oppos...

Flandrau was a young rich American with an individual sense of humor, and no prejudices except ag...

From time immemorial, merchants, pilgrims, and invaders from East and West have penetrated the hi...

A superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tr...

For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. A...

Over the Summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Isla...

A title, in which, the millennia of mercantile and cultural exchange along the Silk Route are cel...

Bruce Wannell was the greatest Orientalist traveler of his generation: a Paddy Leigh Fermor of th...

Sent to India aged just sixteen to make his fortune, Alexander Burnes soon revealed an extraordin...

Like most travelers in Burma, Norman Lewis fell in love with the land and its people. Although mu...

A combination of two journeys, Scotsman Mungo Park's story of his first trip in 1795 as a 24-year...

Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous,...

The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. 'A riotously funny...

At the height of The Troubles, Dervla Murphy bicycled to Northern Ireland to try to understand th...

Recounts the first half of the author's adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, obser...

A combination of accounts by famous travelers from Rebecca West to Laurence Durrell and Firzroy M...

With the potent myths of the Pacific Ocean in mind, Julian Evans journeys ever deeper into a worl...

Bengal Lancer is a complete one off. On one hand this book is a love affair with the spiritual tr...

For travelers through the Aegean Sea from Odysseus onwards, the Greek Islands have proved to be p...

The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her...