Search Results for ‘World’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 92 matches found

1,000 Places To See Before You Die

This unique book describes 1000 “must see” places to see before you die. The book is filled with factual information from beaches to museums to castles to bustling markets, impressive hotels to backwater...

1000 Books to Change your Life

1000 Books to change your life celebrates the transforming power of literature. More than 50 leading novelists, writers and critics draw the arc of a life lived in books, from birth to death. With...

A Mad World, My Masters

From small heroes to big villains, Simpson is a master of storytelling, carrying within him a sense of wonder and adventure. Having been at the epicentre of many of the world's flashpoints for over...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bryson hangs up his walking boots and other travelling paraphernalia to instead study, well, everything. He’s driven by simple questions and an enquiring mind. He doesn’t want so much as to know what...

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Illustrated

Bryson hangs up his walking boots and other travelling paraphernalia to instead study, well, everything. He’s driven by simple questions and an enquiring mind. He doesn’t want so much as to know what...

A Traveller's Life

This is the autobiography of Newby as a traveller. The book is organised in episodes showing the whole range of situations into which he has thrown himself. He never loses his wanderlust and optimism...

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)

It's the early 1990s and three young people, working for the UN and Red Cross in Cambodia, become friends in the heady atmosphere of the country's first democratic elections. All of them have been attracted...

Hemingway Adventure

The latest photographic travelogue from Michael Palin, former Monty Python comedian and author of a hugely successful trilogy of books: Round the World in Eighty Days, Pole to Pole and Full Circle. In...

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...

Life in the Undergrowth

David Attenborough reveals a secret and amazing universe which is teeming with life and is all around us, yet we never see. It is the world of the very small, and it is a world of sex, drugs and violence...

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...

Long Way Round

“Long Way Round” was just that for these two intrepid bikers: From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the...

Moods of Future Joys - Around the World by Bike, part 1

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“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...

Mosquito - The story of man's deadliest foe.

The authors draw upon their own experience and their research into the findings of tropical medicine specialists and entomologists over the last century or so. This is a fascinating & accessible book...

News from No Man's Land

In his third riveting volume of autobiography, John Simpson draws once more on his own extraordinary experiences. He provides a vivid and utterly absorbing account of how news stories arise, are selected...

Not Quite World's End - A Traveller's Tales

The book’s full title gives a new reader an idea as to just what to expect from John Simpson; “Not Quite World’s End - A Traveller’s Tales” is an optimistic voice in seemingly pessimistic times. For...

Salt - A World History

This book mixes the unusual recipe of a large helping of history, a decent portion of politics, a drop of geology and major injection of home economics. Blended together carefully, the outcome is a...

Smile When You're Lying - confessions of a rogue travel writer

From Bangkok to Bogotà, “Smile When You’re lying” is a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows the truth...

Something Wholesale

Wherever Newby travels, whether it is some far exotic and dangerous destination or haute couture London, he always manages to entertain and inform. It is the account of the confusion and disorder of...

The Accidental Angler

Meet Charles Rangeley-Wilson. He’s one of Britain’s best-kept secrets – angler, conservationist, traveller. He’s also one of our finest fishing writers. Now join him on the trip of a lifetime, on a...