Search Results for ‘Europe’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 379 matches found

A Time of Gifts

In 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Liegh Fermour's set out to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This book covers the first stage of that walk from the Hook of Holland, through Germany...

Attention all Shipping

In Attention All Shipping, Charlie Connelly looks at the Shipping Forecast, which, regularly broadcast on BBC radio, is for many a familiar and reassuring element of the British cultural landscape. Its...

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux recreates the classic 1975 journey across Europe and Asia that he documented in The Great Railway Bazaar.
This exceptional journey - from London, through...

Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World

Lone Traveller is based on Anne Mustoe's second ride round the world. Taking historical routes as her inspiration again, she followed the Roman roads from Rome to Lisbon, travelled across South America...

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...

New Europe

In New Europe Michael Palin sets off to discover the half of Europe that until recently has been largely out of bounds. Shown in BBC TV documentaries, the famed travel writer and comedian explores 20...

On the Shores of the Mediterranean

Eric and Wanda decide to travel clockwise around the Mediterranean. They start off in Naples, then through Venice leave for the Balkans. They go through then still united Jugoslavija, Albania. They...

Stasiland

Anna Funder’s “Stasiland” is a spirited & rigorous historical account of life in East Germany, told with a passion and skill that makes it read almost like a novel. Funder examines the nature of the...

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 Travels of Lady Bulldog Burton

Celebrated inventor of the double-gusset underpant and inveterate traveller, Lady 'Bulldog' Burton's previously unpublished diaries (Volume 1) provide a fascinating account of the grand tour of Europe...

The White Spider

Heinrich Herrer, author of Seven Years in Tibet, was a member of the four-man party that scaled the previously unconquered North Wall of the Eiger in 1938. In this book he tells the story of this harrowing...

Microcosm Portrait of a Central European City

The story of Central Europe is anything but simple: as a result of invasions and resettlements, the people of Central Europe have witnessed a profusion of languages, cultures, religions and nationalities...

Stanfords Travel Classics

Stanfords Travel Classics are a must for any one interested in travel, be it a book to join you on your journey, or to take you there from your armchair.
As a specialist travel bookseller we were inspired...

Between the Woods and the Water

In 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Liegh Fermour set out to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This book covers the second stage of that walk - from Esztergom to the "Iron Gates...

Clear Waters Rising

Clear Waters Rising is an acknowledged classic of modern day travel writing. Winning the Thomas Cook/Daily telegraph Travel Book Award when first published in 1996, the book documents Nicholas Crane...

In Europe

Geert Mak spent the year 1999 in Europe criss-crossing the continent, tracing its history from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and...

Neither Here Nor There

This time Bill Bryson travels Neither Here nor There, across Europe, from Hammerfest in Norway to Istanbul, Turkey. This is his second trip to the old continent, the first time as a student he wandered...

The Great Railway Bazaar

“The Great Railway Bazaar” is Paul Theroux’s account of his epic journey by rail through Asia in 1975. One of the greatest journeys - recounted by one of the greatest writers - of the twentieth century...

The Sky Above, the Kingdom Below

The wellspring of “The Sky Above, the Kingdom Below” is the remarkable 17th century figure, Thomas Coryate, unofficial jester to the court of King James I, associate of John Donne, Ben Johnson and Inigo...

Kefalonia - Walk and Eat

Kefalonia is the Sunflower Walk and Eat guide to finding the best places to combine a short walk with sampling the island’s culinary delights. Pocket-sized, the guide covers walks in areas such as Lixouri...