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Enticing account of a 1970s expedition across Middle East and South Asia

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A thrilling memoir of the spectacular high-altitude mountaineering achievements of Andrew Lock: the only Australian to have summited all fourteen 8000-metre peaks in the world, including Mount Everest - twice. Here Andrew Lock gives us a gripping account of his death-defying ascents and explains his passion for climbing in small teams, or solo, without Sherpas or bottled oxygen.

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A collection that ranges from sketches to critical essays. Each piece marks a new 'confrontation with the world' and throws new light on the political and social climate of diverse cultures such as those of New York, Singapore, Ireland and Malawi. It is a perspective on two decades of travelling, writing and living away from home.

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In a story that even she will admit borders on the surreal, Angela Gilltrap, ex-'Strictly Dancing' star finds herself living in Sugar Hill in Harlem, New York City. She suddenly has to adjust, not only to her new city, but to the nuances of her new surroundings, which happen to include the occasional drive-by, drug deals and daily arrests.

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This time the author has found the perfect antidote for a broken heart: to pick up his backpack and trek from the southernmost tip of Africa to the pyramids of Egypt by any means possible. But of course! Needless to say, almost every country along the way is in a state of political agitation and he must grapple with wild animals.

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Shares the highs and lows of long distance love. The author ponders if its better to leave or be left and considers abandoning her near perfect life for one of chaos and uncertainty.

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'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.'

Brad Newsham was a twenty-two-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this in his journal.

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In 'Five Cities' ('Be ehir'), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar focuses on cities significant in Anatolian history and his own emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, a part poetic meditation on time and memory,

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A follow-up book to "On Rue Tatin", in which Susan Loomis shares more stories of how she, her husband and two children settled into life in a small French town. Here they learned about their neighbours and how to be accepted as inhabitants of the town.

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Based on a holiday from hell that the author once experienced in Thailand and Burma, this work tells the story of how he got ripped off by cunning gangsters in Bangkok. After this nightmarish experience, he travels to Burma to meet some friends and ends up trapped in a rebel training camp under fire from the military.

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The tale of a series of journeys through Albania in the period between Communism and anarchy before it was again closed to Western travellers.

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Tales of derring-do from adventurer extraordinaire Robert Pelton Young. Weaving together dispatches of mayhem in such exotic locales as Africa, the Philippines, and Borneo, "The Adventurist" spans six continents and four decades of hard living. Photos.

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Originally published in 1976 in Portuguese as O turista aprendiz by Duas Cidades, Sao Paulo.

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What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds This book offers a traveler's tale of Germany while testing the limits of the travel narrative as a literary form.

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What drew Annie Taylor and Alexandra David-Neal to Tibet, when it was still cut off from the world and so hostile to foreigners, and particularly female ones, that they had to wear male Tibetan dress for protection This and other accounts of travel are included in this book.

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Tells the hilarious true story of Australian journalist Tim Elliot's misadventures in Bolivia while working for the Bolivian Times newspaper in a country renowned for cocaine, corruption and poverty. From romantic heartbreak to riots, Tim's adventures were hell to live through, but funny to read.

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A remarkable, multifaceted story made up of journal accounts, memories, conversations and personal experience, The Bronski House is a paean to Poland, a landmark in travel writing, and a family history tied together by the unique experience of returning from exile.

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This tells of foreign correspondent Christopher Kremmer's, fascinating and timely account of over a decade spent living, travelling, and reporting from Asia, and the Middle East. During this time he formed an obsession with carpets and the 'perfect rug' - an obsession that saw him trace the threads of carpet making throughout the East.

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Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago.

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A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsdens classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres.

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The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now considered to be the greatest living explorer.