Search Results for ‘Asia’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Classic Travel Literature’ - 12 matches found

In the Empire of Genghis Khan

WINNER OF THE THOMAS COOK/ DAILY TELEGRAPH TRAVEL BOOK 2001
"In The Empire of Genghis Khan" is a superb book, feeling like an epic poem of old, it's all the more incredible when you realise this was...

Penguin Great Journeys

Penguin's Great Journeys is a series of pocket paperbacks, each of them an extract from a historic classic travelogue. Writers such as Thesiger, Twain, Chekhov, Kapuzinsky, Marco Polo and even Herodotus...

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby is an acknowledged classic of travel writing. The 50th anniversary edition of the book’s publication includes previously unpublished photographs of the expedition...

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan

Elliot first visited the country as a teenager during the war with the Soviet Union. On this visit he travelled with the mujaheddin, on later visits he travelled independently. Afghanistan is a country...

Annapurna

Since first publication, when it sold 400,000 copies, “Annapurna” has acquired classic status. It is the enthralling account, by the leader of the French expedition, of the first conquest of Annapurna...

Behind the Wall

Having learned mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000-mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a tropical paradise near the Burmese border...

Slowly Down the Ganges

In the winter of 1963-4 the Newbys followed the Ganges from the place where it enters the Plains of India to the Sandheads, forty miles offshore in the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges is not among the longest...

The Road to Oxiana

This the diary Byron kept while travelling through Persia and Afghanistan in 1933-34. With lots of detail and deep insight, Byron provides us with a vivid account of the people and places he comes across...

The Spirit Wrestlers

Marsden starts in Moscow and journeys South East, meeting monks, mystics, icon painters, Russian special forces soldiers fresh from Chechnya, a priest who prayed hard and built a church from scratch...

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

Dalrymple’s second book was the result of a six year stay in Delhi. Here he removes the focus from his own experiences to instead attempt to uncover the various layers of both old and new Delhi. Continually...

Riding the Iron Rooster

Theroux decides to travel to China by train. He joins a tour in London and travels all the way to Moscow and then on the Trans-Siberian to Irkutsk. In the space of a year he travels on probably every...

The Way of the World

Part candid description of a road journey, part a meditation on travel, this is the tale of a life-enhancing journey taken in the 1950s from Geneva to the Khyber Pass on very little money. When Nicolas...