Travel Writing

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...

Paul Gleeson / Little Lady One Man Big Ocean: Rowing the Atlantic (Hardback)

  Two non-rowers take on one of life's great challenges: the Atlantic. Paul Gleeson & Tori Holmes enlist the help of Irishmen Eamonn and Peter Kavanagh to train them for the 2005/06 trans-Atlantic race. The race itself turned into a...

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...

Ben Judah / This is London

 This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before...

Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback)

 In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but...

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...

Sara Wheeler / Travels in a Thin Country

 Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself easily to maps. Nor, as Sara Wheeler found out, does it easily lend itself to...

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...

Gloria Steinem / My Life on the Road

 THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES, MRS. AMERICAGloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were...

Richard Holmes / Footsteps (Hardback)

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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,...

Brendan McManus / Redemption Road : Grieving on the Camino (Large Paperback)

 An Irish Jesuit priest walks the Camino as he struggles to come to terms with his brother's suicide, finding remption at the end of his journey.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

Michael Bright / 1001 Natural Wonders : You Must See Before You Die (Large Paperback)

  A breathtaking journey, taking in the most incredible natural wonders of the world, 1001 Natural Wonders is the definitive guide to the stunning features of nature. Some places are in the remote wilderness, others just a bus ride from town, but...

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...

Douglas Kennedy / Beyond The Pyramids : Travels in Egypt

 BEYOND THE PYRAMIDS is a delightfully wry chronicle of travels through a country of incongruity - an Egypt encompassing a diversity of cultural influences which often belies its image of 'archaeological theme park'.With an acute eye for the...

Conor Woodman / The Adventure Capitalist

 Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right - trading Sudanese camels for...

Redmond OHanlon / Borneo and the Poet

  In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder...

Diana Souhami / Coconut Chaos

  This singular tale by Whitbread Prize-winning writer Diana Souhami (SELKIRK'S ISLAND) connects the famous mutiny on the Bounty in the Pacific Ocean in 1789 to the plight of the islanders of Pitcairn now. Its conceptual core is chaos theory: how...

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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Eric Newby / What the Traveller Saw

  A collection of travel essays by a distinguished travel writer. Other books by Eric Newby include "The Last Grain Race", "Slowly Down the Ganges", "Love and War in the Appennines" and "On the Shores of the Mediterranean"...

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...

Colm Toibin / The Sign of the Cross

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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...

Dara O Briain / Tickling the English (Hardback)

  Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence...these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in "Tickling the English". O Briain moved to England many years ago, but when he takes his...

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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Belinda Jones / Bodie on the Road

 Bodie was on death row in a Los Angeles shelter, having been abandoned by his owner. Belinda was in a heap on the floor of her vintage apartment, having been dumped by the man of her dreams. Two lost souls ready to find a new life.Together they...

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...

Edmund De Waal / The White Road

 ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,...

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...

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...

Janine Marsh / My Good Life in France

 One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not...