Classic Travel Writing

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...

The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor The first collection of letters from Patrick Leig...

At the height of his career, around the time he was working on Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens wrote a series of sketches...

The Arcadian Library in London holds one of the finest collections of writing by Western women travelling to the East. The books and manuscripts co...

The summer of 2018: England sweltered in the most sustained heatwave for 42 years, the government tore itself apart over deals and no...

Definitive modern edition of Stevenson's intriguing account of his emigration from Scotland to California'The Amateur Emigrant', an autobiographica...

During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent...

Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy...

Foreign adventurers have been tramping around China for centuries, and this book presents some of the best of the stories from the dozens of travel...

'Evliya Çelebi was the widest-eyed, most intensely curious and prolific travel writer the Ottoman world ever produced. A learned and perceptive ge...

In the mid-nineteenth century, as new routes opened up, a new generation of travellers embarked on excursions to India, China and Japan. Globetrott...

Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Millers The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel litera...

D.H. Lawrence's first travel book and an important insight into the roots of his literary genius. In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for ...