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Past and present converge as Linda Cracknell doubles back to walk in the footsteps of others. Across Norway, Kenya, and ......more

Descended from Mughal nobility, Akhtar al-Nisa Begum Nawab Sarbuland Jung grew up in Hyderabad in southern India, where ......more

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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through "liv......more

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Across Europe to Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and onward to Siberia, Japan and Australia, this is a work that is rich in many......more

Joe Roberts stayed for five months with the Trivedi family in Bangalore, while traveling all over southern India. In Pon......more

After eight years working in Japan, immersing herself in its language and literature, Lesley Chan Downer set off in the ......more

In these literary travel essays, twenty-six writers from across North America share journeys back to their motherlands a......more

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Off the coast of Istanbul, in the Marmara Sea, lie the Princes Islands, an archipelago of unusual natural beauty, which ......more

Garden design in England was entirely reinvented during the 18th-century. The strictly symmetrical gardens of the French......more

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Follow in the footsteps of some of the world’s most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works i......more

The history of travel writing goes back thousands of years. Long practised in several different cultures and languages a......more

Britain’s foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar ’Funny......more

With heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer w......more

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Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around......more

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Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wa......more

From the acclaimed authors of A Year in the Wilderness, an extraordinary account of a 12,000-mile, human-powered journey......more

Voyages is a celebration of the joys of adventure in places of breathtaking and pristine natural beauty. From paraglidin......more

A beloved and bestselling Pacific Northwest sailing adventure classic, now available in paperback from Harbour Publishin......more

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- A highly coveted classic - Written by Frank Norman and abundantly illustrated with Jeffrey Bernard’s photos - Candid s......more

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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN......more

Venice’s historic bars and cafés offer a window on the city’s past and present. And there is a dazzling array of drinks ......more

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From one of Mexico’s most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection exploring life in cities ac......more

An epic story of leaving everything behind to find purpose, adventure and love by crossing 4750km of rugged Australian t......more

Re-released eighty years after liberation with a new foreword from Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Th......more

Essays that blend nature writing with memoir. On a wild and windswept stretch of the Durham coastline, there’s treasure ......more

Whilst on holiday in Kenya, Corinne Hoffman fell in love with a Masai warrior. Eventually she moved into a tiny shack wi......more

Back in 1969 when Morocco’s ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their ch......more

Native Texan: Stories from Deep in the Heart is a lively and personal tour of small town and big city Texas in search of......more

School of Travel embarks on a transformative journey as the author intertwines two decades of adventures abroad with the......more

Deeply Personal Stories from Famous Scottish Names More than a photography book. Transport yourself to beautiful, meanin......more

A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 BestsellerA Waterstones Travel Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year W......more

A richly illustrated collection that maps twenty historical journeys. Adventures in Maps features twenty awe-inspiring j......more

The history and cultures of Wales via stops along the A470. To see the whole of Wales, from cosmopolitan Cardiff in the ......more

’For most of my lifetime, half of my own continent had been chilled by a Cold War and concealed behind an Iron Curtain. ......more

’Once a traveller, always a traveller, and as long as there were maps and guide books and airline schedules I was still ......more

’It was a journey of dazzling extremes. Beauty and ugliness, sophistication and squalor, unceasing urban noise and monas......more

’Home seems impossibly far away as we step out onto a rough base of ice and snow. The temperature is -25 C. This is cons......more

’A battleground of immense geological forces that is a centre of human tectonics as well, with sacred and secular, tradi......more

’The Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to tra......more

This is the essential guide to the north of Scotland. This book is full of practical information to get the most out of ......more

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The Station follows three high-spirited young men as they visit twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine ......more

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Aged 69, Peter Murtagh decided it was time to embark on ’the great retirement project’ - riding a motorbike from Tierra ......more

Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, T......more

Get to know the inhabitants of a tiny Japanese island--and their unusual stories and secrets--through this fascinating, ......more

An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and oft......more

Discover the ultimate illustrated guide to road-tripping up through historic New England, and the must-visit spots along......more

The Narrow Smile is a portrait of the Pathan and their highland home on either side of the Pakistan-Afghan frontier. Pet......more

A woman’s tale of the transformative power of walking Britain’s ancient pilgrim paths ’Raw, honest, powerful. I couldn’t......more

Uncork a whole new take on the fascinating story of wine, captivatingly told by everyone’s favourite wine expert Oz Clar......more

A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentle......more

The author’s road trips through the American South lead to a personal confrontation with history In A Deeper South: The ......more

A CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BOND Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well......more

In April of 1895, a Nova Scotian by the name of Joshua Slocum set sail from Boston with the goal of circumnavigating the......more

Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies opens in the rural American west, following Faith Adiele’s whimsical coming of......more

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A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the ......more

An engaging blend of conservation stories and humorous, personal anecdotes from Philippa Forrester about women who, like......more

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This book tells the fascinating tale of a character like no other--Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as th......more