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(Hardback)

By: Dougie Strang

ISBN: 9781780278353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The Bone Caveis a vivid account of a month-long journey in the Scottish Highlands. Walking and occasionally hitching, Dougie Strang follows a series of folktales to the locations in which theyre set, encountering along the way a depth of meaning to them that allows him to engage with the landscape from a different perspective.


(Hardback, Main)

By: Gavin Francis

ISBN: 9781805300137
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Canongate Books
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From the Sunday Times bestselling authorcomes a fascinating meditation on bridges around the world, exploring how these structures can improve human connection


(Paperback)

By: Patrick Leigh Fermor

ISBN: 9781848547544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2014
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor - hailed as the greatest travel writer of his generation.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Ben Stubbs

ISBN: 9781742236315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Outsiders think of South Australia as being different, without really knowing much about it. Combining his own travel across the million-square kilometres of the state with an investigation of its history, Ben Stubbs seeks to find out what South Australia is really like.


(Paperback)

By: Ella K Maillart

ISBN: 9781529379785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An epic journey by Ford motorcar from Geneva to Kabul and the story of a relationship. A John Murray Journey.


(Paperback)

By: Dom Joly

ISBN: 9781472146069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In this brilliantly odd and hilariously told bestselling travel memoir, Dom Joly sets out on a quest to visit those destinations from which the average tourist would, and should, run a mile.


(Paperback)

By: Sarah Murgatroyd

ISBN: 9781921520990
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Text Publishing
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Murgatroyd has brought together new scientific and historical evidence to tell the story of Burke and Wills, the explorers who set out to cross Australia from coast to coast. The Dig Tree describes vividly the remarkable courage, suffering and moments of sheer lunacy, as Burke and Wills struggled to survive in a harsh land they did not understand.


(Paperback)

By: Dom Joly

ISBN: 9781472128430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The Downhill Hiking Club is an absorbing, affectionate love letter to Lebanon and its rich history, in which Dom Joly and his two best friends hike across Lebanon. It's three men on a camel . . . without the camel.


(Hardback, Main)

By: James Crawford

ISBN: 9781838852023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Blending history, travel and reportage, this is a wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an examination of their role in shaping our world today.


(Paperback, Main)

By: James Crawford

ISBN: 9781838852061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Blending history, travel and reportage, this is a wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an examination of their role in shaping our world today


(Paperback)

By: Jack Cooke

ISBN: 9780008294717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-lovedThe Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous and not so famous tombs, graves and burial sites.


(Hardback)

By: Caroline Taggart

ISBN: 9780712354943
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2024
Publisher: British Library Publishing
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Accompanied by colour destination photographs and illustrations, mainly from the British Library Collections, this book is sure to inspire real travel and vicarious vacations alike.


(Paperback)

By: Katharine Norbury

ISBN: 9781408859261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 10th March 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Stuart Maconie

ISBN: 9780008498269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the author of 250,000-copy bestseller Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North A Sunday Times Book of the Week A New Statesman nonfiction pick for 2023 A Bookseller One to Watch


(Hardback)

By: Iain Sinclair

ISBN: 9781786079190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A journey through time and space, grappling with the ghosts of empire


(Paperback)

By: Paul Theroux

ISBN: 9780141189147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gives an account of the author's journey by rail through Asia. This work describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met. It also shows how he is drawn into conversation with fellow passengers, from Molesworth, while avoiding the forceful approaches of pimps and drug dealers.


(Hardback)

By: Markus Rex

ISBN: 9781771649483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Greystone Books,Canada
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(Hardback)

By: Susan Smillie

ISBN: 9780241553169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Tim Parks

ISBN: 9781529112597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th June 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: E. M. Forster

ISBN: 9781780601601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2022
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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This book chronicles Forster's infatuation and exasperation, fascination, and amusement at this idiosyncratic court, leading us with him to its heart and the eight- day festival of Gokul Ashtami, marking the birth of Krishna, where we see His Highness Maharajah Sir Tukoji Rao III dancing before the altar like David before the Ark.


(Paperback)

By: Nigel Barley

ISBN: 9781906011505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2011
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Offers an introduction to the life of a social anthropologist.


(Hardback)

By: Sarah Baxter

ISBN: 9781836002765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2025
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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Drawing from four books in White Lion's bestselling Inspired Traveller's Guides and with 10 newly commissioned entries, Cultural Places is an all-encompassing tour of the most culturally important places on the planet - be they literary, artistic, cinematic, gastronomic or musical.


(Paperback)

By: Helena Attlee

ISBN: 9780241952573
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits. Combining travel writing with history, recipes, horticulture and art, it takes the reader on a unique and rich journey through Italy's cultural, moral, culinary and political past.


(Paperback, MMP)

By: Iain Sinclair

ISBN: 9781786073303
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The final chapter in Sinclairs life-long odyssey through the streets of the Big Smoke

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