
Blood River
A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous j...
View full detailsA compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous j...
View full detailsWith its unique, roving structure and beautiful descriptions, In Patagonia offers an original take on the age-old adventure tale. Bruce Chatwin's j...
View full detailsJosé Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country. From the misty mountains of the...
View full detailsMaugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he not...
View full detailsIn 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long hair, jeans and artistic ...
View full detailsColin Thurbon's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. On buses, donkey carts...
View full detailsIn Storms of Silence Joe Simpson recalls the severe snowstorm which put an end to an attempt with four others on Gangchempo and the infection which...
View full detailsIn a centuries-old tradition, farmers in north-western Iceland scour remote coastal plains for the down of nesting eider ducks. High inside a cast ...
View full detailsWhen Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Ken...
View full detailsFor four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers. His journey was not only a surve...
View full detailsAn extraordinary and vivid introduction to the country of Nicaragua and its politics from the Booker-winning author of Midnight's Children. In this...
View full detailsEncountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast o...
View full detailsPart fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond,...
View full detailsIn this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston ...
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