Travel Writing

De Breffny, Brian - In The Steps of Saint Patrick - HB - 1982

A detailed  historical examination and description of tje life of St. Patrick, following his travels through Ireland, depicting his life and examining the wide body of folklore and writings that have surrounded him and the places he visited...

Charlie Connelly / Our Man In Hibernia (Large Paperback)

 If you think you know Ireland, this book will make you think again. Each year on St Patrick's Day the eighty million people around the world claiming Irish ancestry celebrate their spiritual homeland. Millions more don leprechaun hats and swallow...

Mike Carter / All Together Now? (Large Paperback)

 'This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster.' Adrian Tempany, Observer'In a few weeks' time, it would be thirty-five years to the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles...

Mike Parker / Map Addict (Hardback)

 'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said!' Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road...

Benjamin Zephaniah / Kung Fu Trip

 Benjamin Zephaniah decides he has had enough of London. So he takes off to China, specifically to Shaolin Temple, the spiritual home of martial arts and kung fu. Benjamin wants to take on an instructor who will teach him more about kung fu. But...

Rob Lilwall / Cycling Home From Siberia

 'It is late October, and the temperature is already -40C...My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.'In 2004 Rob...

Giles Goodhead / Us vs. Them (Large Paperback)

  Travelling football fanatic Giles Goodhead drags a series of unsuspecting friends and family to experience eight of the world's most intense football derbies. From the noisiest (100,000 furious Barcelona fans simultaneously blowing whistles) to...

Charley Boorman / Right To The Edge (Large Paperback)

  Charley Boorman returns with a brand-new adventure, travelling from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and Japan...by any means! Using quad bikes, hovercrafts, wooden scooters, canoes, paragliders and of course his...

Tobias Jones / Utopian Dreams

  Utopian Dreams offers one writer's attempt to retreat from the 'real world' - which is making him emptier and angrier by the day - and seek out the alternatives to modern manners and morality. Instead of cynicism, loneliness and depression, is...

Kyle MacDonald / One Red Paperclip (Large Paperback)

 A red paperclip is currently sitting on my desk next to my computer. I want to trade this paperclip with you for something bigger or better, maybe a pen, a spoon, or perhaps a boot. If you promise to make the trade I will come and visit you,...

Simon Garfield / On The Map

 Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps...

Mary Russell / My Home is Your Home

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Mary Morris / The Virago Book Of Women Travellers.

 Some of the extraordinary women whose writings are including in this collection are observers of the world in which they wander; their prose rich in description, remarkable in detail. Mary McCarthy conveys the vitality of Florence while Willa...

Robert Louis Stevenson - Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes - HB - Slipcased Folio Society - Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone

Hardcover in pale green khaki cloth, titles in gilt to spine, wraparound cover art and interior art by Edward Ardizzone, Hardcover, slipcased. , first published in 1879, this is the 3rd printing of the Folio Edition from 1970 - first published by Folio...

Mike Parker / Map Addict : A Tale of Obsession, Fudge and the Ordnance Survey

 My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said...'Mike Parker, presenter of Radio 4's On the Map, celebrates the richness of all things maps in this fantastic, critically-acclaimed read.Have you ever got through an entire day without...

Christopher Berry-Dee / Dead Men Talking

  Renowned crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee has gained the trust of some of the most infamous inmates from around the world, having corresponded with them and even entered their prison lairs to discuss their horrific crimes in detail. In this,...

Peter Mayle / Bon Appetit! (Large Paperback)

  Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France and the French. As the retired school master from Provence says, "The religion of France is food. And wine, of course." And they put their money where their mouth is, spending a greater...

Alex Garland / The Weekenders : Travels in the Heart of Africa

  What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet? What would happen if you took Irvine Welsh from the streets of...

Tony Wheeler / Lonely Planet Unpacked

  Lonely Planet founder, Tony Wheeler, joins other authors in a collection of travel disaster stories. Mishaps include a rampaging elephant in Sri Lanka and a drunken shoot-out in Tibet.       All of our books are second...

Tim Moore / French Revolutions

  Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting even in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and chased by cows,...

Christopher Ross / Tunnel Visions

 When Christopher Ross put on a hi-visibility vest and joined London Underground as a station assistant, he discovered a Plato's cave of reflection and human comedy, populated by streakers, buskers, onanists and angry commuters. A meditation on...

Sue Perkins / East of Croydon (Hardback)

 Follow Sue Perkins' extraordinary adventures across southern Asia in this hilarious travelling tale.'Very funny. . . reading her memoir is very like meeting her' Sunday TimesSHORTLISTED FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AT THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK...

Rory Coveney / Voyage of Hope : Sail Chernobyl (Hardback)

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Hilary Bradt / Dingle Peggy

 The continuation of the journey on horseback through the west Ireland described in Connemara Mollie. With her replacement pony, Peggy, the author travels from the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, south down the coast of Co. Cork, before turning...

Patricia OReilly / Writing for the Market

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Garrett Carr / The Rule of the Land (Large Paperback)

 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKIn the wake of the EU referendum, the United Kingdom's border with Ireland has gained greater significance: it is set to become the frontier with the European Union. Over the past year, Garrett Carr has travelled this...

Kathryn Thomas / Off the Beaten Track (Large Paperback)

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Rosita Boland / Elsewhere (Large Paperback)

 From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of the most remote parts of the globe carrying little more than a battered rucksack and a...

Tim Severin / The Spice Islands Voyage (Hardback)

  The Spice Islands voyage is a trip among the Spice Islands of Indonesia on a traditional native sailing vessel and a quest to rediscover a remarkable Englishman who changed the way we see the natural world. Alfred Russel Wallace was the joint...

Chris Bonington / Tibet's Secret Mountain (Hardback)

 In the last decade of the twentieth century it is almost unbelievable that a mountain range of length comparable to the entire Nepal Himalaya should still remain a vague notion to the geographers and exploratory mountaineers. But such is the...

Melinda Blanchard / A Trip To The Beach

  A Trip to the Beach is about the maddening, exhausting and exhilarating challenges Melinda and Robert Blanchard faced while trying to live the simple life after moving to Anguilla to start a restaurant - and the incredible joy when they somehow...

Paul Kilduff / Ruinairski (Large Paperback)

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Paul Kilduff / Ruinair (Large Paperback)

 Kilduff travels on a cheap Irish airline led by a self-proclaimed `obnoxious little bollocks', that flies from A to somewhere remotely near B, weighs baggage as if it was gold, charges passengers to check-in or to use a wheelchair, sells them...

Brian Keenan / Four Quarters Of Light (Hardback)

  Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school. The book was Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. And it has permeated Keenan's life ever since.A short visit to Fairbanks...

Ronan Moore / Irishisms : Blather, Blarney, Blessings and everything else we say in Ireland (Hardback)

 While officially in Ireland we may have only two languages, in truth is it is probably closer to three: English, Irish and Irish-English. And it is this third language, Irish-English, that most of us on our fair island now speak.Irishisms examines...

Nicholas Woodsworth / Crossing Jerusalem

  Jerusalem is not an ordinary city and Crossing Jerusalem is not a standard telling of a city's story. While the author himself is deeply skeptical of religion, this book is both a portrait of a spiritual Jerusalem, and a recounting of the...

Michael Simkins / Fatty Batter

  A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded...

John McCormack / A Story of Dublin (Large Paperback)

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Paul Aston / True Sea Stories

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Monty Halls / Monty Halls' Great Irish Escape (Large Paperback)

 Former Royal Marine Monty Halls and his faithful canine companion, Reuben, won the hearts of viewers and readers with his adventures on the west coast of Scotland in Monty Halls' Great Escape. In this adventure, Monty and Reuben escape to Connemara...

Peter Carey / 30 Days in Sydney

  After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as...

Charley Boorman / Race To Dakar (Large Paperback)

  In January 2006, 230 people raced in trucks, cars and motorbikes from Lisbon to Dakar in the 28th annual Dakar rally -- the most dangerous race in the world. Taking part was a team of three bikers: Matt Hall, Simon Pavey ...and actor and bike...

Jim Rogers / Adventure Capitalist (Large Paperback)

 This is a gripping tale of adventure, danger and humor, peppered with investment tips from a Wall Street legend. The best-selling author of "Investment Biker" takes a fascinating journey through the world's economic situation in a convertible...

Simon Reeve / Step By Step (Hardback)

 Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Award'My goodness, it is brilliant. Searingly honest, warm, bursting with humanity. Such brave and inspiring writing.' Kate Humble'[Simon] begins to fill in the gaps in his life story that until recently he...

Tim Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy

  A brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles, smiling dolphins...

Jenny Diski / Stranger On A Train

  In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train. Somewhat reluctantly she meets all kinds of characters, all bursting with stories to...

Alex Kapranos / Sound Bites : Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand

 In September 2005, Alex Kapranos began writing about what he ate while touring the world with the rock band Franz Ferdinand. The writing is as much about where he eats and the people he eats with as the unusual flavours he tastes on the road...

Tim Moore / The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold : Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail (Large Paperback)

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Peter Nichols / A Voyage For Madmen : Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ... (Hardback)

  Nine people comprised of two Frenchmen, an Italian and six Englishmen, began the 1967 Golden Globe around the world yacht race. Only one completed the journey. This is the story of this endeavour. The goal was to sail around the world solo, a...

Paul Theroux / Dark Star Safari : Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (Hardback)

  "Safari" in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. In "Dark Star Safari", Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. Journeying by...

Carol Drinkwater / The Olive Harvest : A Memoir of Love, Old Trees, and Olive Oil

 "The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginningto rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light,appear and disappear ... The silence is truly awesome. Not a bird, not a whisper of wind, not a...

Pete Brown / Three Sheets To The Wind : One Man's Quest For The Meaning Of Beer

 Meet Pete Brown: beer jounalist, beer drinker and author of an irreverent book about British beer, Man Walks Into A Pub. One day, Pete's world is rocked when he discovers several countries produce, consume and celebrate beer far more than we do...