Search Results for ‘Middle East’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 46 matches found

Bad Lands

Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet, travelled through some of the world’s most repressive and dangerous regimes. Wheeler says, “When Mr Bush produced his ‘Axis of Evil’ list, my first thought was...

Crossing the Sands

Thesiger is first of all a photographer and then a writer. He had to be convinced to write Arabian Sands by someone who had seen these photos. Extracts from this book accompany and comment the pictures...

Danziger's Travels

After walking and hitch-hiking through southern Turkey and the ayatollah's Iran, Danziger entered Afghanistan illegally in the wake of a convoy of Chinese weapons and spent two months dodging Russian...

Married to a Bedouin

“Married to a Bedouin” is Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand- born nurse became the wife of Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller of the Manaja(h) tribe, and lived...

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...

Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of The Great Explorer

A legend in his own lifetime, the explorer and traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for 60 years in some of the remotest most dangerous places on Earth. His books are widely acclaimed, yet his character...

Descent into Chaos

In “Descent into Chaos”, celebrated journalist and leading expert on Central Asia and extremism Ahmed Rashid explains why he believes the US-led ‘War on Terror’ is failing to prevent the spread and...

Magic Bus

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap...

Mumbai to Mecca

“Mumbai to Mecca” is an incredible travelogue, reminiscent of the journeys written by such travellers as Richard Burton, who saw Mecca, but through different eyes, and with a different faith.
'From...

The Sky Above, the Kingdom Below

The wellspring of “The Sky Above, the Kingdom Below” is the remarkable 17th century figure, Thomas Coryate, unofficial jester to the court of King James I, associate of John Donne, Ben Johnson and Inigo...

From Beirut To Jerusalem

Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for non-fiction, this extraordinary best-seller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East.
The twice winner of the...

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium

In his third book William Dalrymple makes another ambitious journey, this time following in the footsteps of John Moschos, a sixth century Byzantine monk who made records of the various religious communities...

In Xanadu: A Quest

When the Karakoram Highway reopened in 1986 it was again possible to use the mountain road linking Pakistan and China and so to complete an overland trip from Jerusalem to Xanadu for the first time...

The Zanzibar Chest - A Memoir of Love and War

"We should never have come!" so said Aidan Hartley's father in his final days, rising from a bed made of mountain cedar, lashed with thongs of rawhide from an oryx shot many years before. His words...

Travels with a Tangerine

This isn't another piece of travel literature concerned with buying a small holding in Spain, Italy or France and pursuing some horticultural dream.
Rather Tim Mackintosh-Smith, a previous winner of...

Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels as Tramp, Artist & Spy

British artist Henry Hemming set out in a pick-up truck called Yasmine to begin an extraordinary journey through the Middle East post-9/11.
Unsure how he’d make enough money to even stay on the road...

Arabia: Through the Looking Glass

Travels in Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan. With an exceptional eye for the human details of life Jonathan Raban presents the reader with an insight into Arab society and...

Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

The history of the Ottoman Empire all too often seems to be the preserve of academics. Jason Goodwin ignores this convention, preferring a dramatic and personal approach and bringing the Ottoman Empire...

Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia

Wilfred Thesiger, arguably last century's greatest explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia. Although he originally wanted it to be a book of photographs, his diaries contained...

Bread and Ashes

Tony Anderson set out in the summer of 1998 to walk through Georgia. He wanted particularly to visit the Georgian mountain tribes - Tush, Khevsurs, Ratchuelians and Svans - to discover if they shared...