Search Results for ‘Europe’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Classic Travel Literature’ - 21 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...

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...

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...

A Fez of the Heart

This is Jeremy Seal's quest, by means of a fez, for the heart of a country culturally and spiritually at odds with herself. It is also a very skilled and entertaining portrait of modern Turkey, as the...

In the Shadow of Vesuvius - A Cultural History of Naples

In the Shadow of Vesuvius is a cultural history of Naples by Jordan Lancaster that offers a sparkling portrait of the city for those interested in looking behind the scenes and beneath the surface.
Naples...

Naples '44

Norman Lewis arrived in Naples in 1944 as an Intelligence Officer attached to the American 5th Army. The local populace were starving and desperate. They had devoured all the tropical fish in the aquarium...

Notes from a Small Island

Having lived in the UK for nearly two decades and about to return to America, Bill Bryson finally does Britain, in a farewell tour. He takes an unstructured route around the country, travelling here...

South From Granada

Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen, and “South from Granada” depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Andalucian...

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...

Venice

Jan Morris’ Venice is an impassioned portrait of one of the world’s most glorious cities by ‘one of our greatest writers’ (according to the The Times).
Divided into three sections which explore the...

In Search of England

H. V. Morton travels through England by motor car in the 1920s and encounters ruined gothic arches in Glastonbury, farmers bartering for cigars in Norfolk and what now seems like an idyllic way of life...

Portrait of A Turkish Family

"Portrait of a Turkish Family" is a masterpiece of memoir writing, justly deserving of it's reprinting here by publishers Eland. Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman...

The Caravan Moves On - Three Weeks among Turkish Nomads

In the “Caravan Moves On”, Irfan Orga journeys to the centre of Turkey to stay with the Yürük nomads in the High Taurus mountains.
He learns their traditions, listens to their legends, and lives to...

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

"As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" is the second in Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy, following "Cider With Rosie", and covers Lee's travels as a young man through Spain on the eve of the...

Cider With Rosie

Cider with Rosie, by Laurie Lee, is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst...

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...

Iceland - Scenes and Sagas

Illustrated with Sabine Baring-Gould's own drawings, Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas, is an entertaining and eccentric insight into a world of myth and legend as well as a classic of natural and human...

Turkish Coast Through Writers' Eyes

Turkish Coast is an anthology of writings about Turkey’s south-western shore through the eyes of the authors, diarists and famous observers who have been there. Rich in antiquity and still a comparatively...

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...