(Paperback)

In this inspiring and original book, former editor of The Times, Sir Peter Stothard, re-traces the journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels.

(Paperback)

When Nora Sayre arrived in London in the 1950s, she quickly joined a circle of artists, many of them blacklisted Americans. This is her account of an extraordinary group of people - Graham Greene, Oona and Charlie Chaplin, Tyrone Power, Cyril Connolly, A.J. Liebling and many more.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

It was a way of trading your old stuff to get bigger and better new stuff. If that kind of entrepreneurial spirit could turn tiny objects into big ones, then why not try trading up to a house So he wrote an internet advert hoping to trade one red paperclip and suddenly his inbox filled with responses: the trading had begun.

(Paperback)

Catching all the fascination and humour of travel in out-of-the-way places, One's Company is Peter Fleming's account of his journey through Russia and Manchuria to China when he was Special Correspondent to The Times in the 1930s.

(Paperback)

A sparky, witty and thoroughly enjoyable memoir of a girl who fell in love with flamenco dance and with Spain.

(Paperback)

When the intrepid Mrs Fay departed from Dover more than two hundred years ago, she embarked on a grueling twelve-month journey through much of Europe, up the Nile, over the deserts of Egypt, and finally across the ocean to India. This title features the letters she wrote from her 1779 voyage across the globe.

(Paperback)

* A hilarious, witty and insightful new book that lays bare contemporary Ireland, from the author of the bestselling ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING

(Paperback)

Out Back is a sometimes shocking, laugh-out-loud funny and always entertaining account of the people and places that make outback Australia so unique, as seen through the eyes of an outsider.;

(Paperback)

Daniel Metcalfe journeys through the five 'stans, as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan, and brings to life the brilliant human tapestry they comprise - uniquely shaped by the immigrants, deportees and conquerors that have settled there.

(Paperback)

From the award-winning magazine OUTSIDE comes a collection of engaging and original stories and articles devoted to travel, adventure, sports, and the environment.

(Paperback)

A tale of travels among South East Asia's Sea Gypsies, scattered groups of semi-nomadic fisher people who occupy the spaces between the islands.

(Paperback)

Framed by a 150-mile journey through Yorkshire and Northumberland with a friend, the author dips back into past journeys by horse that also reflect her childhood in the bohemian Betjeman household, a year-long honeymoon journey overland to India, early days at Private Eye, and the ups and downs of thirty-nine years of marriage and motherhood.

(Paperback)

By the end of World War II much of Western Europe was in chaos. And is there any trace of the 2.7 million Americans who smashed their way into the Reich (or the 12 million that followed) With questions like these, the award-winning travel writer John Gimlette, guided by WWII veteran Putnam Flint, sets off on an astonishing journey into the past.

(Paperback)

Never mind meanderings on hill tribes and Buddhist temple architecture, or burble about meditation and mantras, and dire warnings about 'prostitutes' and 'the sex industry'. Because that is why you have come here.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Describes how the authors were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to write, to cook, to find love, to study, to raise children, to escape, or to live the way it's done in French movies; they came from the United States, Canada, and England; from Iran, Iraq, and Cuba; and - a few - from other parts of France.

(Paperback)

Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the Mongolian death trot; to the North Pole, where he goes for a pleasure dip in 36-degree water; to Irian Jaya New Guinea, where he spends an evening with members of

(Paperback, Enlarged edition)

(Paperback)

From the wastes of Antarctica to the blazing oil fields of Kuwait, and from an evening of demonic possession in Bali to a session on Guatemala's Throne of Terror, this title takes us on a tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places.

(Paperback)

One of the greatest 19th-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his descriptions of the flora and fauna of the continent'.

(Paperback)

More travel adventures from the best-selling author of Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus, involving every possible mode of transport, from the ruggedly intrepid to the downright dubious.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

In this smart, heartfelt, and beautifully written book, sure to please fans of transporting travel narratives and personal memoirs alike, Napoli discovers that the world is a beautiful and complicated place--and comes to appreciate her life for the adventure it is.