Search Results for ‘Europe’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 188 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

The Shipping Forecast, regularly broadcast on BBC radio, is for many a familiar and reassuring element of the British cultural landscape. Its content could spell the difference between life and death...

Cycling Back to Happiness - Adventure on the North Sea Cycle Route

“Cycling Back to Happiness” is a hugely entertaining and truly inspirational piece of travel writing, an extremely personal story that will have you hooked from start to finish.
'Don't let your biggest...

Danube

There is something about the art of travel writing that seems to bring out the very best in the most skilful practitioners. The late Bruce Chatwin produced some of his most incandescent prose in his...

Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia

A charming and insightful account of the everyday dramas associated with running a farm in Spain. As well as his own story Chris Stewart tells the stories of his neighbours: peasant farmers, new age...

Facing the Frozen Ocean

In June 2003, Bear Grylls and his team set out from Halifax, Nova Scotia, across the infamous Labrador Sea, one of the most treacherous stretches of water in the world. The team headed for the vast...

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

SIGNED COPIES! 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...

Greek Walls, An Odyssey in Corfu

A personal account of 26 years spent in Corfu, from the days before charter flights and package holidays when Corfu was "heaven on Earth" and beyond. The author and his wife purchased some land in...

Left for Dead - The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race

This is the true story of Nick Ward’s harrowing time in the tragic Fastnet Race of 1979. The yachting race runs from the Isle of Wight, around Lands End and north-west to Ireland most south-westerly...

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...

Mani

This is the absorbingly impassioned account of Patrick Leigh Fermor's travels amongst the remote Greek Mountains, where he explores the history and myths of the local people. Isolated from the rest...

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...

Mother Tongues - Travels through Tribal Europe.

The author travelled for 18 months from Lappland to the Mediterranean, seeking out Europe's remaining indigenous tribes who are rooted to a place and have maintained their own language and culture, eg...

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...

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...

Staziland

Anna Funder’s “Staziland” 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 Cyclades

First published in 1885, this is still a classic travel account of the Cyclades. It is the result of two tours the author made with his wife between 1882 and 1884 and it registers the ups and downs...

The Greek Islands

As every reader of Durrell knows, and every newcomer should know, his writing is steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean, especially the Greek Islands.
This captivating and highly unusual...

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 Pilgrimage to Santiago

First published in 1974, this is a classic account of one of Europe's most stirring journeys. Following the route by car and by foot, Mullins recounts the legends and explores the ideological dimension...