Travel Writing

Aged 22, Patrick Nash left his parents' home in south London with a small rucksack, two UK passports and £250 in cash. His plan was to visit a frie...

Take an enchanting tour of Paris's most charming places, objects, and pasttimes in this lovingly compiled Francophile handbook. Organised by season...

An extraordinary photographic exploration of North Korea, from a Westerner who lived in Pyongyang and explored the country beyond for nearly two ye...

'A compelling way of looking at the world' The TLS WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ATMOSPHERE? Some travellers are driven by the need to scale...

The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa.In 1518, al-Hasan i...

Witty and fascinating a guide book that can't help but inspire independent.co.ukAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His tra...

Interrogating the multiple ways in which travel was narrated and mediated, by and in response to, nineteenth-century British travelers, this interd...

This title was first published in 2001: Hundreds of European travelogues produced by British travellers between 1750 and 1800 remain out of sight i...

A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzi's unique, captivating narrative promises-and del...

Descended from Mughal nobility, Akhtar al-Nisa Begum Nawab Sarbuland Jung grew up in Hyderabad in southern India, where she lived a quiet, private,...

Descended from Mughal nobility, Akhtar al-Nisa Begum Nawab Sarbuland Jung grew up in Hyderabad in southern India, where she lived a quiet, private,...

The number one Sunday Times bestseller Walking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the follow-up to Finding Hildasay, with his d...

The Oxford Dickens edition of Pictures from Italy puts the spotlight on Dickens's 'little book' describing his travels through Italy in 1844 and 18...

In one of his most personal books, Bill McKibben invites readers to join him on a hike from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the A...

Containing the widely anthologized essay On Dumpster Diving, Travels with Lizbeth is a beautifully written account of one man's experience of homel...