Search Results for ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Classic Travel Literature’ - 47 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...

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...

Bangkok - The Story of a City

A fluent and affectionate portrait not only of the city of Bangkok, known to Thais as ‘the city of angels’, but also of the dynasty and culture that created it. Cutting through confusion and veiled...

Behind the Wall

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In which the author immerses himself in post-Mao Chinese culture and travels alone by foot, bicycle and train on a 10,000 mile journey throughout this vast land. What Thubron reveals...

Cuba Confidential

An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century's wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that...

I Came, I Saw: An Autobiography

Norman Lewis's autobiography was originally published as "Jackdaw Cake" in 1985. It was re-published in 1996 with 50 new pages increasing in depth the story in the 1960s and 1970s, recording his time...

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...

Lost City of the Incas

First published in the 1950s, “The Lost City of the Incas” by Hiram Bingham is the amazing account of the impressive discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu. Re-published now with an introduction...

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

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...

Old Glory

In which the acclaimed author journeys through the heart of the USA from Minneapolis to New Orleans along the Mississippi, realizing a lifelong dream and producing a masterful insight into contemporary...

Passage to Juneau

The Inside Passage to Alaska, with its outer fringes and entailments, is a very complicated sea-route. Parts of it are open ocean, parts of it no wider than a modest river, and it has been in continuous...

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...

South From Granada

Between 1920and 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 Ascent of Rum Doodle

First published in 1956, The Ascent of Rum Doodle quickly became established as a mountaineering classic. As an outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, many thought...

The Last Grain Race

At the age of eighteen, Eric Newby signed on as an apprentice on the four-masted sailing ship Moshulu. This was to be her last voyage in the Australian grain trade and the first of Newby's journeys...

The Lost Continent

SIGNED COPIES! This is the book that launched the career of one of the funniest and most successful travel writers working today - Bill Bryson.
Having been living in England for 10 years he decides...

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 Snow Geese

SHORTLISTED for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Award
William Fiennes’ “The Snow Geese” is the profoundly moving account of both a physical and spiritual migration following snow geese in their spring journey...