A detailed, affectionate and also chilling description of the disintegration of a wealthy Ottoman...

Here, like a treasure chest, are Norman Lewis's most powerful pieces of writing, chosen by John H...

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

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

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...

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

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

Sweet Waters

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple

A selection of writing by the most unknown great traveller.

The story of Koestler's imprisonment in France in 1940, his escape and his extraordinary and adve...

This collection explores the never-ending historical interest and rich and fascinating literary c...

Presents the portrait not only of the city of Bangkok, but also of the dynasty and culture which ...

'No one could fail to write a good life of Burton, but Fawn Brodie has written a brilliant one' J...

Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the mus...

Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when in 1991 he embarked on a series of three arduous jou...

Two young men s heroic but understated record of escape, including loving descriptions of Italy a...

This book is pure Murphy; detailing her winter travels in the Karakoram Mountains and the frozen ...

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

The Duke of Pirajno arrived in North Africa in 1924. For the next eighteen years his experiences ...

There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scot...

In 1782 an enthusiastic young German landed in England. Through the fresh eyes of a foreigner, th...

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

Over a period of eighteen months Tony Parker interviewed the residents of an ordinary housing est...

Those who know the downs and chalk streams of Hampshire are quietly fortunate but rarely boastful...

'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a sub...

Freely reveals a superb eye for the telling details. - The Independent