Travel

When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the first time. In the year in which Matar's life was sh...

The pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid account ...

When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the wo...

All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to pro...

John Burgess masterfully brings to life the modern history of Cambodia's fabled Angkor temples, from their "discovery" by French explorers in the m...

As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, Anne Applebaum travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine an...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous j...

On her last trip abroad before the COVID-19 pandemic, Clara Chow visited Ipoh. Over three days, she explored cave temples, bank vaults and a suppos...

From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted The Return of a King, this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in Del...

The celebrated American food writer M. F. K. Fisher pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods: the oyster. She tells of oysters fou...

Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told throu...

Journalist Luke Williams travels to Asia to escape hard drugs, high rents and cold nights--he finds adventure, temples, and for the first time--peo...

Translated by Will Stone Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerful elegies, homages and personal memories, Zweig forms a ric...

Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sa...

What happens when a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago, Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed alo...

The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be. We visit the ...

illustrated by Landis Blair As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Her...

In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the shores of ...

In 2006, journalist Deborah Cassrels embarked on a personal odyssey to the Indonesian island of Bali. She was quickly enchanted by everything that ...

Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those ...

Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys in the Swiss Alps: one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seve...

How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar and Other Essays is a coming-of-age story of a woman who leaves home to work in Shanghai following the death of ...

Feeling stuck in his life, New York Times food writer Jeff Gordinier met Rene Redzepi, the Danish chef whose restaurant, Noma, has been repeatedly ...

Kyoto is a place that epitomises grace. Simplicity and elegance permeates life in Kyoto - from its architecture to its food. As the ancient capital...

To many, Osaka is a brother to Tokyo. In the kitchen, they have varying styles. As a chef, Osaka might appear to prefer whipping up rather monotono...

"This is a travel guide book that marries my loves - my love for Japanese cuisine, my love for photography, my love for maps and my love for poetry...

In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of ...

With its unique, roving structure and beautiful descriptions, In Patagonia offers an original take on the age-old adventure tale. Bruce Chatwin's j...

To Mohamed Choukri, Tangier was the most extraordinary and mysterious city in the world. No less extraordinary was Choukri, who taught himself to r...

China, 1898: a time of war, intrigue and growing foreign power. Onto the scene comes a Parisian fugitive with a gifted pen and a journalist's eye. ...

At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. ...

In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and his possessions, an...

José Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country. From the misty mountains of the...

Translated by Will Stone When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is somethi...

The Yukon River is almost 2,000 miles long, flowing through Canada and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Setting out to explore one of the most ruggedly be...

edited by Donald Richie Over a century after his death, author, translator, and educator Lafcadio Hearn remains one of the best-known Westerners ev...

Laos, 1900 - a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, a fertile place teetering between an ...

The Hebrides hold a remarkable place in the imaginations of Scotland and England. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Oc...

M.F.K. Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her daughters after the Second World War. In Map of Another Town, she traces the history of this ancien...

A graphic memoir lamenting the loss of train travel, the grip of family, mortality, art, and the human condition, with many other digressions throw...

New Orleans is a travelogue, written during the Circuit Breaker, about a trip to the American city in October 2019. A Singaporean writer and an Arg...

A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand p...

While undertaking this photographic investigation of North Korea, French photographer Stéphan Gladieu (born 1969) found himself under constant surv...

A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional kille...

You can't think about travel without thinking about luggage. And baggage has baggage. Susan Harlan takes readers on a journey with the suitcases th...

For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these trav...

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he not...

Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketche...