Topic: Travel and Tourism

After 10 years in England, Bill Bryson returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the films of his youth were set.

This is much more than a book about a sea voyage. It is about a journey home to his father who is dying, about his crumbling relationship with his wife and also about the historical journey in his search for the North West Passage.

In 1765 Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin, a Bengali munchi (secretary) travelled on a mission to Britain by sea, taking in Mauritius and the Cape. He wrote frankly about what he encountered and combines modern ethnological notes with travellers' tales. In 1765, Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin, a Bengali secre...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

This is a rich, fact-filled and hilarious travelogue, written with all of Karl's unusual observational skill and counter-intuitive logic that the millions of Ricky Gervais podcast fans have learnt to love.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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.