Classic Travel Writing

V. S. Naipauls first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest his birthplace....

Elderly British men display a variety of annoying habits. They write letters to the newspapers; they drink too much; they reminisce about the old d...

Travel was a way of life for the Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke, and it was integral to his work. Between 1897 and 1920 he visited V...

'Mirrorlands' is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the worlds largest and most populous countries. Charti...

Weaving the myths of the Sirens into the landscape and history of the island of Capri, Siren Land focuses on the legends and archaeology, folklore ...

Henri Michaux (18991984), the great French poet and painter, set out as a young man to see the Far East. Traveling from India to the Himalayas, and...

Inspirational - The Daily MailSarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book char...

George Orwell set out to make political writing into an art, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature his description...

The classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists journeys through summer and winter in the north countryin two new stand-alone paperb...

The Old Country, how did it smell? Sound? Was village life as cosy as popular myth would have us believe? Was there really a strong sense of commun...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED THE GRAN TOUR AND THE MARMALADE DIARIESAn irreverent homage to the '95 travel classic.'It would be wrong to view t...

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, driv...

Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents the critically acclaimed biography with never-b...

'We shall therefore confine our walk to Central London where people meet on business during the day, and to West London where they meet for pleasur...

Inspirational - The Daily Mail Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book c...

Bengal Lancer is a complete one off. On one hand this book is a love affair with the spiritual traditions of India while on the other it is the me...

'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, wh...

The Tharaud brothers became unique eyewitnesses to history when summoned in 1917 from the Western Front to Morocco by the Resident-General of the F...

In Love with Paris is an irresistible combination of 50 mouth-watering sweet and savoury recipes and heart-melting love stories.Take a culinary wal...

Recollections of Tartar Steppes, first published in 1863, is a lost classic of women's travel writing that remains one of the earliest and best exa...