Travel Writing

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never...

After a decade of making documentaries about offbeat characters on the fringes of US society, Louis had the urge to return to America and track dow...

_______________ 'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator 'A wr...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION'S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLYBeing a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to ...

In my fantasy of the Rambling Man who is something of a hobo, walking - or maybe jumping into the car of a moving train - is what he does. He sling...

Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast o...

A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRI...

From one of Germanys most beloved celebrities, a cross between Bill Bryson and Paulo Coelho.     It has sold over 3 million copies and been transla...

'A perfect read for a Mediterannean beach' Daily TelegraphWhen Chris travelled from Sydney to Dublin, he never dreamed his life was about to change...

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collec...

In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world tha...

LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn frantic flight from the Vietnam War, Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. There, through unli...

_______________ 'A beautiful meditation on the writers relocation from bustling London to bucolic Florence. It reminded me why I cherish slow livi...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening [...] all the way to j...

Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys in the Swiss Alps: one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seve...

One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery. In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis...

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat wri...

New Directions is delighted to announce beautiful new editions of these three classic Sebald novels, including his two greatest works, The Emigrant...

The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' T...

Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christies extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to ...

The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volume...

From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks writings that...

An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our expe...