Topic: Travel and Tourism

When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on th...

A strikingly original debut from a tremendous new talent, Robert Moor explores how trails help us understand the world, from the biological phenomenon of how ant trails are formed to hiking paths that span continents and oceans, from migration routes to the Internet.

Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. 'Landmarks' is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland, an...

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 ...

Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining 'Walking Home', the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction far from home. In 'Wa...

This is a collection of 31 hilarious travel stories on a variety of themes including food, people, transport, accommodation, etc.

Dervla Murphy describes the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine.

When early retirement beckons, Russell George decides to set off on a gruelling 950 mile solo charity walk along the length of Britain from John O'Groats to Land's End - which is about 930 miles further than he's ever walked before. This is an amusing and enlightening tale of an arduous, but rewa...

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert is in her 30s, settled in a large house with a husband who wants to start a family. But she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a rebound fling later, Elizabeth emerges battered yet determined to find what she's been missing. So begins her quest.

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...

In 'Notes From a Small Island', Bryson, who moved to England from the USA and lived in England for almost two decades with his family, turns an affectionate but ironic eye on his adopted country.

The Appalachian Trail covers 14 states and over 2000 miles, snaking through some of the most spectacular landscapes in America. Reluctant adventurer Bryson recounts his gruelling hike along the longest continuous footpath in the world.

Travelling between Cairo and Cape Town, Paul Theroux visits some of the most beautiful, as well as most dangerous, landscapes on earth. This book chronicles a journey of discovery and rediscovery, not only of the unknown and unexpected, but also of people and places he first got to know forty yea...