Topic: Travel and Tourism

The sixtieth parallel marks a kind of borderland. It wraps itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden, and Norway; it crosses the tip of Greenland and of Southcentral Alaska; it cuts the great spaces of Russia and Canada in half. The parallel also passes through Shetland, at the very top ...

One woman, an unreliable bike and a richly entertaining, stereotype-busting journey of discovery. In 2018 Rebecca Lowe - driven by a desire to experience and understand better the Middle East and Islam - set off on a solo 11,000 kilometre bike ride through Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, t...

Join travel writer Tom Chesshyre as he celebrates 200 years of passenger railways in a zigzagging tour around the UK. On a series of rides, Tom enjoys the scenery, seeks out the history and heritage, dodges delays (best he can), and lets the rhythm of the clattering rails help him understand what...

Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and bountiful valleys, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines - there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Tom Chesshyre hits the tracks to take in the country on a series of clattering r...

From London via Paris, Naples, Nuremberg, the Swiss Alps, Budapest, Athens and into the furthest corners of Eastern Europe across Romania and Bulgaria, join Tom Chesshyre on his fascinating journey to Istanbul and back.

Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of the tracks. From France (dogged by rail worker strikes), through Belgium, the ...

Celia Dillow presents an anthology of travel writing about South America. It is an enchanting scrapbook of travellers' personal narratives, both historical and contemporary and covers the Amazon rainforest, Andean cloud forest, Galapagos, Machu Picchu, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Features cit...

Between 1920 and 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 Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to t...

This is Ernest Shackleton's gripping account of the doomed Endurance voyage. Setting out on the eve of the First World War, he wanted to be the first to cross the last unknown continent but the exploration was plagued with problems.

A beautiful memoir, travelogue, and meditation on stone by artist and stone mason Beatrice Searle. At the age of twenty-six, Beatrice Searle crossed the North sea and walked 500 miles through Southern Norway on a medieval pilgrim path to Nidaros Cathedral, taking with her a 40-kilo stone from the...

A love letter to life on the remote British islands of Shetland and to a wilder way of living, from one of our most celebrated poets.

This is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the exposed and exhilarating western coasts of Ireland and Scotland. It is a course that has been follo...

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the closure of London's most infamous arts establishment, the Colony Room Club in Soho, former member Darren Coffield has written the authorised history of this notorious drinking den. It's a hair-raising romp through the underbelly of the post-war scene: du...

In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'A Time of Gifts' is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - ...

In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa's resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants - if only he could train them. And so he commissioned the charismatic Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to ship four tamed Asia...

This practical and inspiring guide provides travellers with tips and tricks to make their money go further. As the cost of living and travel increases, Lonely Planet's experts reveal the best ways to bag a bargain, whether it's booking transport, a hotel or finding experiences that won't break th...

It's time to seize the day and find your own inner wander woman, whatever that might look like, with the help of travel journalist Kate Wills. Kate wasn't expecting to be divorced after less than a year of marriage. She wasn't expecting to be remaking a life that had, for the last 12 years with h...

Follow Bobby Bolton and his trusted dog, Red, as they truck from Wigan to the other side of the world, adventuring through continents and finding love along the way.