Search Results for ‘Africa’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 73 matches found

A Year in Marrakesh

Having learned to appreciate Muslim life while living in Pakistan, Peter Mayne settled down to live in the back streets of Marrakesh in the 1950s. Rather than watch from the shelter of a hotel terrace...

Blood River - A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

'Blood River' tells of author Tim Butcher's unbelievable solo journey down the river Congo, through the heart of Africa. Ever since Henry Morton Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the...

Dark Star Safari

SIGNED COPIES! Embarking on another ambitious journey, Paul Theroux travels on his Dark Star Safari from Cairo to Cape Town by train, boat and cattle truck. He sets out to travel the length of Africa...

Desert Divers

Officially about the hold the Sahara has over the western psyche, Sven Lindqvist’s short book continually evokes the starkness, harshness and loneliness experienced there. He also intertwines a memoir...

Livingstone's Tribe

An examination of colonial Africa in the age of Livingstone and modern times.

Moods of Future Joys - Around the World by Bike, part 1

“Moods of Future Joys” tells the first part of Alastair Humphreys’ incredible 40,000-mile journey around the world by bike. The journey was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget and spontaneous...

My Life and Travels

Revered as one of The Twentieth Century's great British explorers, William Thesiger's exploratory zeal was enduringly established in early childhood. Encompassing over fifty years of travel, Thesiger...

Out of Africa

From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa.
Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest...

Stealing Water

“Stealing Water” tells the tale of author Tim Ecott’s childhood in apartheid Johannesburg in the 1970s; a captivating and, given the situation, surprisingly funny account of an Irish emigré family finding...

The Meaning of Tingo

Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means "to take off your clothes in order to dance"? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or the Dutch word for skimming...

The Shadow of The Sun - My African Life

Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career.
In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The Snows of Kilimanjaro contains some of Ernest Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular early works of fiction. In all these stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live...

The Translator

A harrowing tale of selfless courage in terrifying conditions, “The Translator” tells the story of Daoud Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur region of Sudan who found a new calling in the wake of...

Thunder & Sunshine - Around the World by Bike, part 2

“Thunder & Sunshine” tells the second part of Alastair Humphreys’ incredible 40,000-mile journey around the world by bike. The journey was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget and spontaneous...

Travels Into the Interior of Africa

Mungo Park's account of his journeys into West Africa in 1795 and again in 1805 provided Europeans with their first reliable description of the interior of the continent.
Though he failed in the object...

Travels With Herodotus

"Travels with Herodotus" records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket.
As a novice reporter in the 1950s...

Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of The Great Explorer

A legend in his own lifetime, the explorer and traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for 60 years in some of the remotest most dangerous places on Earth. His books are widely acclaimed, yet his character...

In Search of Eden

'As a young man, I walked for a time in paradise.' In the summer of 1977 James Weir came upon a walled garden in the south-east of Turkey that seemed to speak to him of something deep in our collective...

The Zanzibar Chest - A Memoir of Love and War

"We should never have come!" so said Aidan Hartley's father in his final days, rising from a bed made of mountain cedar, lashed with thongs of rawhide from an oryx shot many years before. His words...

Travels in the White Man's Grave

Donald Macintosh spent thirty years as a tree prospector and surveyor in the rainforests of Liberia, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon. During his time there he came in contact with...