Travel & Holiday Guides

Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge replacing the 'oxen ford' from which it takes its name. It became a centre for trade...

Pocket-sized Fellranger booklet describing 10 routes onto England''s highest mountain, Scafell Pike, from all points of the compass, with tips on t...

Portmeirion is one of the wonders of Wales. This colourful Italianate village, established on the Welsh coast by the extraordinary-and eccentric-se...

Lord Byron completed his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean between 1809 and 1811, leaving England at the age of twenty-one as an undiscovered soul an...

OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking, horse riding and ...

The whole of Dartmoor on two Maps. Dartmoor's famous Tors including Haytor Rocks and Yes Tor. The format gives more mapping on the sheet without ma...

The whole of Dartmoor on two Maps. Dartmoor's famous Tors including Haytor Rocks and Yes Tor. The format gives more mapping on the sheet without ma...

Visit the inside of the legendary Battersea Power Station in London, a sublime abandoned villa in Tuscany, forgotten thermal baths in Spain, a dese...

The OS Landranger Active Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps, perfect for day trips and short breaks. Tough, durable and weather...

A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy covers the period from June to August 1944 when the Allies stormed ashore, fought their wa...

OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off...

The OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps, perfect for day trips and short breaks. Each map provides all the informa...

Berlin is much more than the former capital of Nazi Germany--it is often described today as innovative, fast-paced, avant-garde, rough, exciting, a...

Athens is an historical anomaly. Excavations date its first settlement to over seven thousand years ago, yet it only became the capital of Greece i...

Founded by Viking adventurers around AD 870, Reykjavik, the most northerly capital city in the world, is paradoxically a young city. Though it is h...

In this thoroughly revised and updated new edition of Trekking Tibet travellers will learn the necessities of pre-trip planning and how to seek out...

'German military figures had a certain terrifying glamour,' wrote Patrick Leigh Fermor, recalling views about Germany during the First World War. W...

The lodges, all designed to provide maximum style and comfort, also offer visitors an opportunity to get to the heart of the country by travelling ...

A guide to Berlin - exceptional experiences, passionate authors, a new approach to the art of travelling. We tried 1,000 places. And included only...

One of the most renowned and distinctive museum buildings in Poland, the National Museum in Szczecin is the largest cultural institution in Weste...

OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking, horse riding and ...

Cranborne Chase is an area of outstanding natural beauty in southern England, encompassing the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Here r...

Mercier first travelled to London, and began recording his impressions, in 1780. A leading exemplar of a new form of literature, with a journalisti...

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers 1.7 million acres in southern Utah, offering the hiker an experience of deep solitude surrou...

OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off...