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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic authority, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, accompanied by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place.

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A collection of adventures covers most continents and almost every means of transportation, and provides such information as fees, skill level, and phone numbers.

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* A highly entertaining memoir of an improbable journey, revealing the United States as it is rarely seen - from the seat of a bicycle

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When Donald MacIntosh, 23-year-old Scottish forester, was offered a position in Nigeria in 1954, it was a dream come true. During the next 30 years explored remote areas of West Africa. He listened to the tales of ancient Africa from hunters, fishermen, chiefs and witch doctors from a vast diversity of tribes in myriad encampments.

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After a thirty-year career as a high profile vet, columnist, presenter and author Bruce Fogle - the UK's bestselling cat & dog writer - decided to leave urban Britain and take a journey with his dog Macy.

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She started to wonder about all the places she'd ended up in, all the radio DJs she'd listened to, the way a new radio station made her feel at home and yet gave her the fastest insight into an alien city or community.

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Describes the author's three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch. Combining humour with erudition, this title provides an account of this journey.

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Chianti, which covers the heart of Tuscany, is the wine we all know and love, with vineyards in the magical hills around Florence and Siena, and the medieval cities of Arezzo and Pisa. However, the face of Tuscan viticulture has changed enormously in recent years with the development of the vineyards of the Maremma, bringing a host of new wines.

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1955, Kenya. A group of four acquaintances set out to drive from Nairobi to London, via the Sahara desert, in a 8 horse-power Morris Traveller.

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as he meets some of the great British eccentrics who involve themselves in a host of bizarre pastimes which include hurling themselves down a grassy cliff in pursuit of a cheese, coating themselves in prickly green burrs, hanging toast on trees and prancing around with reindeer antlers on their heads.

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Features the dazzling women of Paris; from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Napoleon's Josephine to Edith Wharton. In this book, the author journeys to Paris and takes a very personal tour through the lives, loves and losses of its celebrated women.

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A loving portrait of the other Majorca, and of a blissful life there revolving around the magic of music a book to savour, perfect for escaping those crowded beaches.

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From the author of the bestselling A Thousand Days in Venice, these are the further adventures of Marlena and Fernando and their experiences as they move to a small village in Tuscany. Originally published as Dolce e Salata, this is another delicious combination of authentic Italian life, food, recipes, love and memoir.

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In her forties Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis decided to trade in her landlubber life a nice house in Cardiff and a sensible job at the BBC for life aboard a small yacht with her husband Leighton, a former bosun with the Merchant Navy and now in his mid-sixties.

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Following the success of her two previous outings, A Bike Ride and Lone Traveller, adventuresome ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe donned the cycle helmet once more and set out on an exhilarating journey round the Indian subcontinent.

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A sailing narrative which traces a convalescing young man's adventure sailing from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast. It has an introduction by Gary Kinder, plus commentaries, notes and a reading group guide.

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* A fascinating and illuminating travelogue and 'alternative' history of England, as seen from below ground

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A journey across the scenery of the Moroccan Sahara, Jeffrey Tayler's trip is a journey threaded with danger, adventure and temperamental camels

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When TIME magazine writer Pico Iyer set out to explore the East, what he found was: Mohawk haircuts in Bali; yuppies in Hong Kong, a local movie industry that produces not one, but five Rambo ripoffs in Bombay; and young Filipinos rendering a perfect imitation of the latest Madonna song.

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The lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines.

A vast vortex of plastic floating endlessly around the Pacific.

An eerie abandoned town square in a radioactive Ukrainian wilderness.

These are the places the tourist boards would rather you didn't see.