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...

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

Lords of the Atlas is a classic story of Morocco and the rise and spectacular fall of the House o...

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.

Eothen, which means `news from the eaststarted out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map,...

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...

For centuries this account, the first joyful description of India by a British woman, remained un...

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...

The first eighteen years of William Hudson's life were spent on the Argentinean pampas. Although ...

Martha Gellhorn's three novellas are about Europeans in the dramatic landscape of East Africa. Tw...

Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of her most recent journeys to Israel and...

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

Winston Churchill wrote this account of the first 25 years of his life in 1930. It reveals him st...

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

Here are the vanished days of the unfettered Sultanate in all their dark, melodramatic splendor.

The narrator arrives in his 117th rented room at the end of an epic journey, abandoned by his lov...

Describes the Costa Brava, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of sprin...

An account of the day-to-day life in an orphanage for Tibetan children in the refugee camps of No...

Letters written from 1716-1718 from the Ottoman Empire by Mary Wortley Montagu, one of the first ...

A searing indictment of attempts by fundamentalist Christian missionaries to convert indigenous t...

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

A Moroccan Trilogy

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...

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 haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the re...

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

Viva Mexico!

Ancient scrolls and beliefs entered the land in the satchels of Buddhist pilgrims and in the bagg...

Vibrant and original memoirs of a civil servant in India from 1858 to 1893, telling of rapacious ...

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

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

Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structu...

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

This brand new edition brings the heady sense of excitement, risk, and zeal bursting from the pag...

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...

'one of the best accounts of this period' Indira Ghose, Memsahibs Abroad

Istanbul, capital of two great empires, confluence of Asia and Europe, has called forth poetry th...

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...