Search Results for ‘Great Britain’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 59 matches found

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...

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...

Notes from a Small Island

SIGNED COPIES! 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...

Slow Coast Home

Setting off in a clockwise direction after a Shetland grandmother warns her that she'll end up meeting the devil if she travels anti-clockwise, Josie Dew travels through rain, hail, floods, bitter temperatures...

The Map That Changed the World

SIGNED COPIES! "The Map That Changed the World", by Simon Winchester, begins in 1815, when an extraordinary hand painted map was published in London. The first of its kind, this geological map outlined...

The Middle-Aged Mountaineer

This book recounts Curran's journey from the Shetlands to the coast of Cornwall, climbing routes he had never attempted on his bicycle. Cycling through some of the wettest weather Britain could throw...

The Wild Places

In "The Wild Places" by Robert Macfarlane, the author embarks on a series of beautifully described journeys in the remaining wildernesses of Britain and Ireland. The result is both an intellectual and...

Trawler

Redmond O'Hanlon helps decimate the oceans by joining a deep-sea trawler crew on one of their gut-wrenching, roller-coaster forays into the north atlantic. A rarely documented way of life and its privations...

The Mapmakers - A History of Stanfords

We are proud to sell this wonderful book, as “The Mapmakers” is quite literally, all about us. One of London’s best known specialist shops, we have been trading in Charing Cross and Covent Garden for...

Days from a Different World

In this new volume of memoirs, John Simpson turns his sights on his own childhood, through which he paints a vivid picture of Britain in the 1940s and 50s.
'I have already touched on my childhood in...

RSPB Children's Guide to Birdwatching

This new RSPB-endorsed book is a practical and comprehensive introduction to watching birds, for children aged 8-12 years.
Lavishly illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs and paintings...

Taking On The World

Inspired by a sailing trip with her aunt on the East Coast when she was four, Ellen MacArthur saved her school dinner money for eight years to buy her first boat, an eight-foot dinghy called Thr'penny...

White Teeth

White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel on a scrambled, heterogeneous sprawl of mixed-race and immigrant family life in 20th-century gritty London.
It follows the roots and the lives of...

Pies and Prejudice - In Search of the North

“Pie and Prejudice” is a charming, wise and witty travel book that takes place on our very own shores. A northerner in exile, stateless and confused and hearing rumours of Harvey Nichols in Leeds and...

Home Guard Manual (1941)

The “Home Guard Manual” is a wonderful reproduction of the original 1941 text, read by potential inspirations for Dad’s Army all over wartime Britain.
It was May 1940, and Hitler stood on the cliffs...

Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain (1942)

In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the 'British, their country, and their ways'. This is that guide, “Instructions...

John Betjeman - On Trains

“John Betjeman - On Trains” is a wonderful selection of evocative letters on Britain's railways by the former Poet Laureate.
The best-loved of English poets, John Betjeman (1906-1984) was also a great...

The Kingdom by the Sea

After living for more than a decade in London American Paul Theroux still hadn't been much in Britain. As his itinerary he chooses to follow the coastline and circumnavigate the island. The year is...

Waterlog

“Waterlog” was inspired by John Cheever’s classic short story “The Swimmer”; Roger Deakin set out from his moat in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles.
The result of his journey is a maverick...