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In a small medieval palace on Kathmandu's Durbar Square lives Nepal's famous Living Goddess - a child as young as three who is chosen from a caste of Buddhist goldsmiths to watch over the country and protect its people. To Nepalis she is the embodiment of Devi (the universal goddess) and for...

Almost 300,000 people ‘officially’ complete the journey to Santiago each year – hundreds of thousands more travel at least part of the way. In this book, Richard Frazer discovers on his pilgrimage to the shrine of St James the Great how a journey – wherever it is made – undertaken with an open...

Nature and travel writing by award-winning Hungarian-born Swiss-German author. A narrator and her dog are criss-crossing the Swiss Alps. She travels with friends who share her interest in food, languages and their topographical contexts. They collect colours, even look for colourlessness, and...

A revelatory journey from the tin mines of Cornwall to the gold mountains of Georgia in search of the substances which have both shaped our imagination and imperilled our very existence. The discovery of minerals beneath our feet has transformed our species. Ochre first prompted humans to...

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025 A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024 'A powerfully delicate book of love, loss and discovery, along paths of emotional understanding and physical wonder.' Raynor Winn On an assignment to walk the most famous pilgrimage...

Acclaimed travel writer Oliver Smith sets out to radically reframe our idea of ‘pilgrimage’ in modern Britain * A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * “Excellent…immensely well-researched and playful. Smith has written something special.” -- Patrick Galbraith, The Times "Imaginative and...

Мандрівниця Олена Бондаренко стала третьою жінкою у світі та першою українкою, яка пройшла Карпати теренами чотирьох країн. За 108 днів у соло-поході вона подолала понад 2000 кілометрів і більше сотні двотисячників, зустрічала ведмедів, ночувала в наметі поряд з дикими тваринами, у покинутих...

The incredible story of one man's obsession to find and protect the world's largest flowers As a child, Chris Thorogood dreamed of seeing Rafflesia - the plant with the world's largest flowers. He crafted life-size replicas in an abandoned cemetery, carefully bringing them to life with paper and...

Discover the power of our relationship with Y Môr (the sea) along the Wales Coast Path. Matthew Yeomans takes us on journeys along the official walking trail, which in its entirety covers 870 miles (1400 km) of the Welsh coastline. He uncovers how the sea has shaped our lives through history...

I had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds couldn't move on without the spring. One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself restless and yearning for adventure. He travels to Texas, where he begins a...

From Wales to Ukraine and Back Again the gripping sequel to her bestselling One Woman Walks Wales Join Ursula Martin on an epic 5500-mile trek across Europe in One Woman Walks Europe, an adventurous tale of endurance and self-discovery. An exhilarating journey into the wild nature of land and...

.New paperback edition of acclaimed hardback that was originally published to coincide with Bradt Guides' 50th anniversary, in 2024 .An inspirational and eye-opening memoir from a leading travel industry figure .For her services to tourism, Hilary Bradt has received an MBE and four lifetime...

An essential guide to one of the world’s most remarkable, and often misunderstood, cities by the author of Why the Dutch Are Different. When Ben Coates injures his leg and needs to rebuild his strength by walking, he finds himself presented with an exciting opportunity: to rediscover the city...

Travel around the world with Lady Dorothy Mills in a globe-trotting story of cannibals and cocktails, from the Jazz Age to Timbuktu 'A fascinating and well-researched biography of a fearless woman, it combines history, adventure and romance. I loved it.' - Lady Antonia Fraser Lady Dorothy...

A glorious piece of rich, romantic travel writing that takes the reader along old paths, into ancient villages, sharing rural homes and stables of farmers and shepherds in the Ligurian Alps, Pyrenees, Basque country and Galician coast, from a brilliant new talent 'A classic adventure narrative...

In 'Hebridean Sharker' Tex Geddes describes his exploits during the 1950s as a hunter of basking sharks in the waters of the Minch, between the Inner and Outer Hebrides. Using an adapted whaling harpoon, he and his crew stalked these huge fish often in perilous conditions, the liver of which is...

In an inspirational tale of global adventure Ed Gillespie takes anything but a plane to circumnavigate the world. Cargo ships to camels, hitch-hiking to hovercrafts. Playing table tennis with heavyweight Ukrainian boxers. Border arrests and drug searches. Communing with a Costa Rican jungle...

This is the story of ordinary life in an extraordinary place. The beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but what is it like to live there? To move house by boat, to get a child with a broken leg to hospital or set off for school one...

One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe set off on her bicycle across...

BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR "Sayarer's thoughtful, meditative travelogue feels very important . . . [An] exploration of how people persevere in the darkest of circumstances" Guardian "It conveys powerfully what life is like for people on...

A beautiful memoir of summer people and water creatures, which illustrates the formative effects of nature on children by an author who has forged a career caring for animals 'A long, hot summer's day of a book - full of wonderful stories, poignant memories and acute observations of the natural...

In The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin chronicles the landmark expedition which would forever alter the course of scientific thought. First published in 1839, The Voyage of HMS Beagle remains a foundational text in the fields of biology, geology, and anthropology, inspiring subsequent...

"McNeil's deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It's captivating stuff." Publishers Weekly "Meditative and sumptuous… Latitudes is a rich, textured portrait of the natural world and a plaintive reflection on the destruction of climate change." Foreword...

The long-haul overland run to the old Soviet Union, prior to Perestroika, Glasnost and the collapse of communism under Gorbachov back in the 1980s and 90s, has never really been documented in a book. Other than an occasional tale of the difficulties involved verbalised in pub conversations, and...

'No one is more authoritative on the history of Italian food and its culture and the influence it has had on the world, . . . an addictive read for anyone interested in the dolce vita.' - Angela Hartnett 'Food and culture of Italy come together in this fantastic and must-have book from John...

In Brightening from the East Ken Worpole explores a unique 'region of the mind' - the Thames Estuary and the marshland landscapes of the East Anglian shoreline. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, personal and historical, Worpole brings us the stories of radical communities, of arcadian...

‘Extraordinary’ ANNE APPLEBAUM ‘Thrilling . . . a record of an infatuation’ TELEGRAPH ‘The book of a lifetime’ ELIF SHAFAK ‘The North Pole proves to be the perfect subject for him’ MICHAEL PALIN 'Heart-catching . . . fabulous' OBSERVER ‘A beautiful book’ ALAIN DE BOTTON The epic adventure...

Unique and illuminating, Habib asks what it means to be a joyous traveller when we live in the ruins of colonialism? 'A ruthlessly honest and funny observer' New York Times 'Should be required reading' Los Angeles Times What does it mean to be a joyous traveller when we live in the ruins of...

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey, following four 19th century elephants marched from the East African coast towards Congo, to tell a heartbreaking story of folly and colonial greed. 'A beautiful, intelligent and...

Hollywood film stars, fascist assassins. Bombs on San Lorenzo, la dolce vita on Via Veneto. Baroque fountains, umbrella pines. Urban planning, unregulated house-building. After half a century living in Rome, David Lane turns his eye on events and streetscapes in the Eternal City over the past...

Written with deep knowledge and affection, Homage to Barcelona is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a great Mediterranean city. Colm Tóibín's Homage to Barcelona celebrates one of Europe’s greatest cities – a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from...

There is something special about the night. For many, just the idea of it conjures thoughts of starlit skies, romance, refuge, of being tucked up in bed. For some, the night means fear, vulnerability, danger, sleeplessness. At night things go bump, monsters hide under beds, owls take wing and...

Follow Colm Tóibín's lone religious pilgrimage along the Irish border during the tumultuous summer of 1987. Follow Colm Tóibín's lone religious pilgrimage along the Irish border during the tumultuous summer of 1987. In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in...

The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist shares new wisdom, humor, and experience in seven extraordinary fly-fishing expeditions—“an engaging personal journey about finding what you need to find and keeping it in your heart” (Kirkus Reviews). In The Optimist, David Coggins tackled...

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life' It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has an appointment to meet someone by the quayside. But when his guest does not arrive, he spends the day...

'The most compelling and evocative of underwater odysseys' KATE HUMBLE 'Breathtakingly good' TRISTAN GOOLEY 'The most captivating book on diving that I have ever read' MENSUN BOUND Entranced by history and myth, captivated by the wonders of nature, Damian Le Bas explores the meaning we find in...

An unforgettable memoir about a life of adventure in the great outdoors and the power of a dog's transformative love ‘Cédric Sapin-Defour’s celebration of the life of Ubac has made him a literary sensation’ Sunday Times ‘A tribute to the love humans feel for their pets’ Guardian A tiny ad in...

‘A dazzlingly inventive work of literature’ Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways 'A wonderful, epic braiding of history, geography and personal memoir' James Rebanks, author of English Pastoral 'Stunning...weaving an intricate tapestry of tarmac, humanity and time, as rich as the dark...

An evocative celebration of the seventh day in all its rich variety Closed shops and roast dinners. Bulky newspapers and the hum of lawnmowers. Strolls to nowhere in particular and visiting snoozing grandparents. Television theme tunes cueing bath time and a sudden dread of the looming week...

No adventure takes you everywhere in Britain; but this comes close. In 2022, Mark Wedgwood uniquely cycled 7,300 miles across all 204 Ordnance Survey Landranger maps in numerically ascending order: a six-month odyssey to every part of Scotland, England, Wales and the Isle of Man. Ride with Mark...

The essential guide to the finest dining experiences in the South West of England. For 32 years, the Trencherman's Guide has revealed the region's most notable restaurants, including places to dine and stay. A guide to the best feasting across the South West - from Cornwall to the Cotswolds.|The...

Lesley Chan Downer retraces Basho’s pilgrimage through Japan, blending travel, haiku, and contemporary reflections. After eight years working in Japan, immersing herself in its language and literature, Lesley Chan Downer set off in the footsteps of Matsuo Basho, Japan’s most cherished poet, to...

Discover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning tour of history - map by map. Charting everything from the movement of early Homo species out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago to the astonishing voyages of...

This fascinating book showcases the acerbic wit, the uncompromising opinions and the uncommon wisdom of Anthony Bourdain - passionate foodie, opinionated explorer and sardonic storyteller. Anthony Bourdain once bragged he could “unload my opinion on anybody at any time.' And that he did. His...

Fifty years ago, when the longest and most unpopular war in American history finally ended, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, was left traumatised by the conflict and cut off from the world. This was a cruel fate for a city that had in its short mercurial history blossomed on the back of US...

Не звикай до речей, до людей, до місць. Тут немає сенсу будувати дім, саджати дерево, народжувати сина. Усі звідкись приїхали, всі кудись урешті-решт поїдуть… Це могла би бути історія Шпіцбергену як закинутого краю, що хоч де-юре і належить Норвегії, та все ж де-факто не належить нікому, такий...

Південна Корея — це країна, де двори старовинних палаців межують із сучасними хмарочосами Сеула, а швидкісні потяги перетинають усю її територію за лічені години. Тут древня культура поєднується із кей-попом, коміксами й дорамами, що їх дивляться мільйони глядачів у всьому світі. У цій книжці...

"Історія звичайного хлопця із невеличкого села на Полтавщині, який зміг здійснити свою мрію і об'їхати навколо світу" — такою могла би бути анотація до книги, яку ви тримаєте в руках. Але історія Валерія — це набагато більше, ніж просто здійснення мрії. Це вольовий та часто не простий шлях до...

Книга «Японія: сто мільйонів аріґато» — це український нонфікшн із культурології від доктора фізико-математичних наук, заслуженого економіста України й дипломата Сергія Корсунського. Автор — Повноважний посол України в Японії, і кому як не йому розумітися на менталітеті народу країни вранішнього...

Навесні 1909-го, у віці пʼятдесяти трьох років, американський дослідник і офіцер ВМС США Роберт Едвін Пíрі вирушив підкорювати Північний полюс. Він був досвідченим полярником, що одним із перших вивчав методи виживання інуїтів — одяг, іґлу, собак — і долучав ескімосів до своїх експедицій. Пíрі...

У грудні 1911-го Руаль Амундсен, норвезький мандрівник і полярний дослідник, став першою людиною, що досягнула Південного полюса Землі. І це його історія — з перших уст. Із майстерністю першокласного письменника Амундсен розповідає про випробування, що випали на долю його експедиції, а також про...

"Оформляндія, або Прогулянка в Зону" - емоційний вимір Чорнобильщини, занурення у світ нелегальних туристів-"сталкерів". В цій книзі ви не знайдете стандартних описів Зони, нудних історичних викладок і роздумів над істинними причинами Чорнобильської аварії. Тут - погляд зсередини на явище...

У своїй новій книзі Марина Гримич ділиться своїм калейдоскопічним досвідом мандрівника і дослідника історії та культури українців Бразилії. У притаманній їй манері захоплюючої і разом з тим дуже пізнавальної для читача оповіді, наповненій м’яким дотепним гумором і самоіронією, авторка...

От издателя: Эта книга Марко Поло (ок. 1254-1324), одного из самых знаменитых путешественников за всю историю человечества, увидела свет в начале XIV в. В ней наблюдательный и практичный венецианец поделился с современниками собственными наблюдениями о нравах, государственных учреждениях и быте...

Каміно-де-Сантьяґо, або ж дорога святого Якова — це 900 кілометрів пішки з наплічником на спині через усю Іспанію до міста Сантьяґо-де-Компостела і до мису Фіністерра — Кінця Землі. Це унікальний досвід, який авторка книжки переживає разом зі своїм чоловіком. Стан перебування у дорозі, фізичні й...

«Ship Life, або Сім місяців добровільного рабства» написано у формі умовного щоденника дівчини, що працювала офіціанткою на американському круїзному лайнері. Авторка день за днем відтворює з пам'яті реальні події семи місяців, проведених на борту, ділиться своїми враженнями, відкриттями і...

Найвідоміший польський репортажист і загалом один із найбільш читаних польських авторів у світі рано чи пізно мусив, за власним зізнанням, нарешті наважитись увійти до річки, яка відділяє журналістику від заснованої на фактах літератури. Що він і зробив у книжці «Гебан», присвяченій Африці, якої...

Евгений Деменок, писатель, журналист, историк искусства, один из создателей литературной студии «Зеленая лампа» и философского клуба «Философский пароход» при Всемирном клубе одесситов. Лауреат Одесской муниципальной премии имени Константина Паустовского за книгу «Новое о Бурлюках» (2014)...

Nellie Bly (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran) was an American journalist, writer, and entrepreneur. She made a name for herself and pioneered the field of investigative journalism by writing an undercover expose on a woman’s lunatic asylum. Her colorful and hands-on reporting style earned her the...

Усі ми пам’ятаємо часи, коли подорожі стали нашим новим хобі. Безвіз, лоукостери й бажання побачити світ стали драйверами цього процесу. «Рванемо у Вроцлав?», «О, є дешеві квитки в Барселону!», «Давайте на вихідні в Бонн. Більше двох днів там немає чого робити». Нам здавалося, що так буде...

У цій книзі здійснено спробу без замаху на вичерпність синтезувати і передати читачу цілісний світ Антарктики — холодного, скутого льодом, ненаселеного і досі маловивченого краю. Він простягається на континент Антарктиди та Південний океан із безліччю островів. Зануритись у мандрівку дивовижним...

«Щоденник мрійника» — це буквально щоденник, хіба що без точного датування. Буквально мрійника, адже Іван ішов за мрією, запаливши своєю наполегливістю та впертістю і найближчих соратників, і десятки людей, які підтримували всю команду On 3 Wheels дорогою до… океану. Хлопець, який народився із...

Не звикай до речей, до людей, до місць. Тут немає сенсу будувати дім, саджати дерево, народжувати сина. Усі звідкись приїхали, всі кудись урешті-решт поїдуть… Це могла би бути історія Шпіцбергену як закинутого краю, що хоч де-юре і належить Норвегії, та все ж де-факто не належить нікому, такий...

Країна, про яку не чути в новинах, де працюють по чотири години на день, їдять гнилу рибу та депресують. А ще там живуть Карлсон і Грета Тунберґ. Усе це про Швецію, і, звісно, у цих словах не так багато правди. Історикиня Юлія Юрчук, яка вже понад десять років живе у Швеції, у своїй книжці...

Двоє українців мандрують далеким і загадковим Непалом. Кожен день подорожі переповнений відкриттями, що викликають дитячий захват, – настільки все яскраве й різноманітне. Рисові тераси й овечі отари на вузьких гірських стежках. Залиті сонцем восьмитисячники і легіт водоспадів. Підвісні мости над...

"Сім футів під сузір'ям Південний Хрест" - перша книга прози Олександра Ляшка. До цього в нього вийшли три поетичні збірки. Але навіть у морських замальовках відчувається поетичний дар автора, ліричне сприйняття навколишньої дійсності. Проза О.Ляшка художня в буквальному значенні. Автор словом...

«Поїхати або залишитися?» - це питання час від часу ставить собі чи не кожен українець. Ця книга адресована тим, хто сумнівається - чи варто емігрувати в Європу. І всім тим, хто дивиться на Європу крізь рожеві окуляри, а також не наважується зрозуміти, що Україна - країна можливостей...

Йозеф Рорер – статистик і краєзнавець, професор львівського університету. Його книга вийшла 1804 року у Відні. Українською мовою книга виходить вперше. Нотатки Йозефа Рорера описують його подорож до Відня від Молдови через Буковину (зосібна й Чернівці)...

Північне сяйво, затишні різнобарвні хатинки посеред скель, вулкани й льодовики з назвами, які неможливо вимовити з першого разу. Це, мабуть, усе, що зринає в памʼяті, коли мова заходить про Ісландію. Просто таємнича країна на півночі… Андрій Гладій у своїй книжці «Ісландія. Північні дні...

«Окрім Чернечої гори у Каневі, є ще одне святе місце на Землі, де живе дух нашого Кобзаря, — місто Форт-Шевченко в Казахстані. Тут з 1850 до 1857 року за наказом царя він відбував тяжке покарання рекрутчиною за свої волелюбні вірші. На горі Курганташ збереглися залишки Новопетровської фортеці...

Constance Fenimore Woolson was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region, the American South, and American expatriates in Europe. Woolson published her first novel Anne in 1880...

Канада — нудна й багата країна, де живуть люди, які досконало розмовляють двома мовами. Дороги тут ідеальні, а корупції немає. Засніженими преріями бігають стада бізонів, а десь поміж хмарочосами Торонто й Монреаля бородаті канадці грають у хокей. Це, безумовно, правда, коли йдеться про хокей і...

Грехем Робб - британський письменник, літературний критик, історик, кавалер Ордена мистецтв та літератури, автор бестселерів The New York Times. Його книжки отримали Премію Даффа Купера, Премію Королівського літературного товариства та Велику медаль міста Париж. Країнознавчі матеріали Робба...

Ця книжка — своєрідний антропологічний репортаж. Вона укладена зі сторінок авторських польових етнографічних щоденників і подорожніх нотаток, зроблених під час мандрівки Польщею протягом 2015−2018 років. Кожна частина книжки — особиста історія зі щоденного життя людей на різних сторонах...

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Ця книга починається сторінкою, вирваною з щоденника автора. В один з найважчих періодів свого життя Анжей Рудь починає вести щоденник, щоб залишити в памʼяті події свого життя в Польщі. Розуміючи, що його знання і досвід можуть допомогти іншим людям, автор наважується формат щоденника...

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Усе, що ви знаєте про Ірландію, — правда, але…. Але все трішечки не так. «Доля дала цьому острову божественну красу й пекельне горе. Його історія послідовно закручується за спіраллю, наче це безкінечний, розтягнутий на століття День байбака: міжчасся-трагедія, міжчасся-трагедія...

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A Utopia Like Any Other is an accessible and easy to understand guide to contemporary Sweden and its politics. Part travelogue, part academic primer and part reflection on our own need for utopias, the book takes readers on a journey from the 1930s to the present day and from an Arctic iron mine...

Sea swimming is the great leveller; we’re all the same in a pair of togs. No one minds who you are or what you’ve done; the question is `are you getting in?’ Popular for centuries, sea swimming has had a recent surge in interest, with a growing community now taking the plunge. Brendan Mac Evilly...

Peter Finch is perhaps the foremost chronicler of Cardiff, past and present. His response to the 2020 lockdown restrictions confining people to their local authority area was to begin walking the boundary of his. This was in a mirror of his long walk along the south Wales coast recorded in...

Someone once asked me how much I charge to guide people into the woods. “That’s free,” I explained. “Anyone can get themselves into the woods. You pay me to get you out.” Can anyone really know the northern forest? It is something you feel more in your heart than in your head. You may be able to...

Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world and a notoriously difficult and dangerous mountain to climb. First climbed from the west in 1955 by a British team comprising Joe Brown, George Band, Tony Streather and Norman Hardie, it waited over twenty years for a second ascent. The...

An account of seven years on the Silk Road. The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and...

Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a vivid account of this elemental scenery. There...

In "The Missionaries", Norman Lewis brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world. Формат: Скан PDf...

Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. Together the travellers brought out the best in their Spanish hosts and Chetwode's compelling account - warm, witty and candid - is informed by her...

‘A magisterial diary for bird lovers.’ Observer WINNER – BOOK OF THE YEAR - East Anglian Book Awards 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Telegraph As seen on BBC Winterwatch 2023 ‘Honest, human and heart-grabbing. I loved this book so much.’ Sophie Pavelle, author of Forget Me Not ‘Delightful’ Stephen Moss, author of...

Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar - the scene of a brutal caste war between the untouchables and...

Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, celebrated editor-in-chief of The Wine Economist Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines. The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg’s home base, and follows Fogg’s itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search...

'A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.' – Michael Palin At dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington's epic expedition to the mountain's immense...

'One of the greatest mountaineering survival stories never told.' – The Sunday Times Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both. On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long...

Poet and psychogeographer Peter Finch undertakes 20 walks around his native city, picking out features en route and providing interesting stories, historical and contemporary, about life in the city past and present. His sharp eye and compendious knowledge of Cardiff is illustrated by...

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From the author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, a rallying cry to get off the couch and out into the world. WHY WE TRAVEL is filled with personal stories and anecdotes, quotes that inspire, and reasons to motivate–plus images so lush you can’t wait to be there. For years Patricia Schultz...

Doreen Ingrams and her husband were the first Europeans ever to live in the Hadhramaut, an extraordinary, isolated region of southern Arabia. Married to an Arabic-speaking British official, she arrived by boat, and during their ten-year residency travelled throughout the region by camel and...

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The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented since the beginning of the last century. In so doing, it aims to offer an overview of the debate about Chineseness as it has emerged in different...

From time immemorial Afghanistan has been both a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads. Through its high valleys merchants traded Chinese porcelains, bundles of indigo cloth, sacks of lapis lazuli, golden jewellery, emeralds and fine carvings from both east and west. Ancient scrolls and...

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Readers of P.S. Allfree's previous book of Arabian memoirs, Warlords of Oman, will recall his closing words 'I was going to see more of Arabia.' In these pages he recounts a year and a half spent as a political officer among the Bedouin of the south-eastern Rub' al-Khali, the 'Empty Quarter'...

Five city author tour in New York, NY; Boston, MA; Washington DC; San Francisco, CA; and Portland, ME. Media coverage in national, regional, local print, and digital publications covering art, travel, and women’s interests/issues. Events in the tour cities including a launch party, exhibits at...

In the summer of 1979, Diane Meyer Lowman, a nineteen-year-old Middlebury College student, embarked on a ten-week working trip aboard a German container ship with a mostly male crew. The journey would take her from New York to Australia and New Zealand and back, through the lush Panama Canal, to...

Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago, it was thrown out of the Malay Federation and unwillingly became an independent nation. It was tiny, poor, almost devoid of resources, and in a hostile neighbourhood. Now, this unlikely country is at the top of almost every global national...

‘A magisterial diary for bird lovers.’ Observer WINNER – BOOK OF THE YEAR - East Anglian Book Awards 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Telegraph As seen on BBC Winterwatch 2023 ‘Honest, human and heart-grabbing. I loved this book so much.’ Sophie Pavelle, author of Forget Me Not ‘Delightful’ Stephen Moss, author of...

The story of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great cause celebre of the nineteenth century. Just before sunset on August 8th 1882 HMS Cockatrice, a small paddle wheel gunboat, appeared off the...

Delivering two 38-year-old Mississippi river tugboats halfway around the world from Bahrain to Trinidad would not be every ship master's dream employment. However, for Captain David Creamer, the seven-week voyage of the Justine and Martha was not only unique, but a memorable experience he was...

A light-hearted account of a country trying to keep up with the new while holding onto the old. A must-read for every resident and visitor in Singapore! A witty and humorous look into the changing Singapore landscape with an insight into Singapore's newest attractions. Формат: Скан PDf...

"a simple blueprint for Utopia" - the best travel book on Burma since World War II - despite travelling at a time of massive internal insecurity, Norman Lewis still found the eternal Burma, where pagodas are the only punctuation on the horizon and strangers are treated with an overwhelming...

a poignant description of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam in 1950, with all their beauty, gentleness, grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world, like a phoenix, from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the Vietnamese guerilla movement in its infancy...

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The Arcadian Library in London holds one of the finest collections of writing by Western women travelling to the East. The books and manuscripts cover almost four centuries of travel and range from Mary Wortley Montagu's incomparable earlyeighteenth-century 'Turkish' letters to the publications...

"Libyan Sands" is unmistakably the work of an Englishman, a modest, machine- and desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war. Формат: Скан PDf...

Peter Nasmyth has lived in and travelled extensively throughout Georgia for the last 32 years. Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry is his fascinating account of this historically rich and drama loving country, based on his travels and hundreds of wide-ranging interviews. Reprinted numerous times...

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Arguing that for many people, the easy predictibility of civilized life is unfulfilling, this chronicle presents the remarkable stories of Africans profiled by the author during more than a decade of adventuring. With a cast of characters that includes the eponymous tree-dwelling woman, the man...

'There are four roads leading to Santiago, which combine to form a single road'So begins The Pilgrim's Guide, the world's first guidebook. Written early in the twelfth century by Benedictine monks, it served travellers taking part in the great pilgrimage of the Middle Ages, to the tomb of the...

Anthology of short excerpts from the writings of more than 50 famous literary and historical figures on the subject of railways and rail journeys around the world - Bill Bryson, Agatha Christie, William Dalrymple, Peter Fleming, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, Eric Newby, Christopher Portway...

Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers realised his life’s ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the journey. Born to a sea-faring father and adventurous mother on the Firth of Clyde, Bowers’ boyhood obsession with travel and...

In the Yemeni seaman of the steam age, the author finds a surprising link between her hometown of Cardiff, once the world's biggest coal-exporting port, and Aden, where the coal which fuelled the Empire was bunkered. This work offers an account of the way in which two cultures unexpectedly touch...

A new photographic guide to the hidden history, stories and architecture of the American capital Washington, D.C. Then and Now presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution and history of America's capital city, from the dawn of photography in the mid-nineteenth century through to the present...

'What an incredible story! Dorian’s adventure is an inspiration for birders and non-birders alike.' David Lindo, author of The Urban Birder At a personal and professional crossroad, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love and 618 bird species, cycling his way to a very Big Year. In...

Soon after returning from his celebrated journey to Mecca disguised as an Arab, Burton set out on a similarly perilous trip to the city of Harrar in the heart of little-known Somaliland. As related in the Preface to his journal: "He disappeared into the desert for four months...The way was long...

Smelling the Breezes is an inspiring adventure, that throws down a gauntlet about what can be achieved in a family holiday. Rather than give a leaving party, Ralph and Molly Izzard had their own plans about how to say goodbye to their home in the Middle East. They would walk the three-hundred...

Achieve your solo female travel dreams with this empowering guide for women who want to see the world-perfect for anyone who has felt the tug of wanderlust after reading Wild, Eat Pray Love, or What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding. If you've ever wanted to travel solo, founder of global...

In 1697, a 34-year-old woman mounted her horse and set off on a 3,000-mile journey which over two summers would take her to every county in England. Her name was Celia Fiennes. It was a time when women didn’t do such things. It could be gruelling, unhealthy and dangerous. As she discovered, most...

A revised translation of a French travel memoir first published in 1912 The French travel writer and exotic novelist Pierre Loti (1850–1923), in his day the youngest member elected to the Academie Francaise, had dreamt of visiting the ruins of Angkor when, as a child, he came across...

An engrossing narrative of one man's struggle to achieve his dream against all odds, this is both a fast-paced adventure and a telling commentary on how heroes are often made despite the system they operate in, by dint of sheer perseverance and commitment to a chosen path. Above all, it's a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: TRAVEL China today is a land of opportunity for African people blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America. It is also an intersection of racism and prejudice. Noo...

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller ‘A real adventure’ Observer One of the greatest adventures of the twenty-first century. 4,250 miles, nine months, six countries, one vast continent . . . on foot. In 2013, Levison Wood decided to take on a...

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An award-winning author and photographer returns to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change. Forty years ago, the park ranger Jon Waterman took his first journey into the Alaskan Arctic, to the Noatak headwaters. He was astonished by the abundant wildlife, the strange landscape...

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With his hands gripping the handlebars and feet on the pedals, Sylvester has given BMX riding new zest as he embraces life to the fullest and lives out his imagination. Sylvester sets an exciting cadence from the start: jumping out of a plane with his BMX bike in hand into the Dubai desert. It s...

‘The point of all this has nothing to do with finding yourself. It’s about what you can do to lose what you don’t need.’ It’s a dark rainy afternoon on Dublin’s jammed M50 motorway. The rain is hammering on the windscreen of Daniella Moyles’ car. She is 26, a highly successful radio presenter...

Orwell roamed widely, living in London, Southwold, Henley, Wallington, Hayes and Jura. It's this rootless, restless man that writer Oliver Lewis pursues in his innovative and thorough book, The Orwell Tour. A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived...

In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing, away from the noise of the big city. The result is two of Charmian Clift's...

In the summer of 1987 Ed Gillet achieved what no person has accomplished before or since, a solo crossing from California to Hawaii by kayak. Gillet, at the age of 36 an accomplished sailor and paddler, navigated by sextant and always knew his position within a few miles. Still, Gillet...

A silver sea of gossamer rippling over an upland field, the work of tiny money spiders A woodpecker’s maestro drumming performance in a wet winter woodland The diving antics of laser-eyed buzzards The hug of a small forest... Determined to overcome her winter anxiety, Helen Moat sets out into...

Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in literature and art. In this innovative combination of place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in...

This book traces the origin of the legend of El Dorado and the various expeditions that set out to locate that mysterious land of untold wealth in South America. Motivated by both fanciful rumors of a golden city ruled by a man who coated himself daily with gold dust, and the more practical...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: TRAVEL China today is a land of opportunity for African people blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America. It is also an intersection of racism and prejudice. Noo...

More than fifty expeditions across all seven continents – by land, sea and air – have led adventurer Neil Laughton to some of the most remote places in the world. Adventureholic tells the stories of Neil’s most unforgettable and daring adventures yet. From summiting Mount Everest with Bear...

Travel around Turkey in the footsteps of the great British archaelogist Gertrude Bell. In 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey. Over the next twenty-five years, she would...

Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Awards – Outdoor Book of the Year 2020 Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2020 There are strange relics hidden across Scotland’s landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible stories and past lives which still...

After spending three decades advising multinational companies on geopolitics and security crises, Richard Fenning knows all about danger and intrigue. Kidnappings, terrorist attacks, coups d'etat, corruption scandals, cyber attacks, earthquakes and hurricanes were all in a day's work in a career...

In the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America’s past. Spiritually, their journey began on a Kansas trail where the author’s grandmother was born in a covered wagon in 1889. Between the Missouri River and the Golden Gate...

One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery. In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe set off on her bicycle across the Middle East. Driven by a desire to learn more about this troubled region and its...

'A thrilling, deeply emotional and authentic bird-lover's travelogue.' James Lowen, author of Much Ado About Mothing 'One spring morning, as the cuckoos were arriving in England, we departed. At Tilbury Docks we slowly edged our Toyota camper into a shipping container and, like a heron scooping...

Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward – and some of them, in the author’s opinion, have...

Based on the Nas Daily video series with over 13 million dedicated followers comes the surprising, moving 1,000-day journey of a lifetime in book form In 2016, Nuseir Yassin quit his job to travel for 1,000 consecutive days. But instead of the usual tourist traps, Nas set out to meet real...

In the face of widespread misinformation and misunderstanding, a climate scientist ventures into the vast heart of America’s new oil country on just two wheels. Recently recovered from his epic bicycle journey that took him from the Delaware shore to the Oregon coast, distinguished climate...

By spring 1938, Prague is a city increasingly on tenterhooks in expectation of an attack by Nazi Germany. Earlier that year the pressure of the situation produced a schism in the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia between Vítězslav Nezval, who wanted to continue to support the Soviet Union, and...

Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a 'man's world' - alone and literally with just the clothes on her back - to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. She won the race on 25 January 1890, covering 21,740 miles by ocean liner and...

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Richard Skelton spent nearly half a decade living in a small valley high in the Furness hills of Cumbria, in northern England. When not writing or composing music, most of his days were spent beating the valley's bounds, exploring its network of paths, streams and walls. Beyond the Fell Wall is...

BC-wide public relations campaign Representation at international conferences and trade shows Print and online advertising Cross-promotion with Rocky Mountaineer Author signings and appearances Social media campaign A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the...

Robert Mads Anderson is an elite mountaineer with a solitary goal: to conquer Everest. After nearly getting killed on his first expedition, he led a team up a new route on the Kangshung Face without oxygen or Sherpa support, climbed solo on the remote North Face, and finally guided a team to the...

Set against the backdrop of the holy Mount Kailas in Tibet, California's Bay Area, and Kali's temples in Nepal, Seeing Red is the story of one woman's search for personal truth and power, an unforgettable journey of creation and dissolution that is as enlightening as it is heart-wrenching...

Island of Lightning is the latest book of travel essays by the prizewinning Robert Minhinnick, poet, novelist, translator, cultural commentator and environmentalist. In it he travels from his home in south Wales to Argentina, China, Finland, Iraq, Tuscany and Piemonte, Malta, New York, Zagreb...

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The Pony Express has a hold on the American imagination wildly out of proportion to its actual contribution to the history and development of the West. It lasted less than eighteen months—about the amount of time it took author Scott Alumbaugh to plan and ride the route—and utterly failed by...

Author has hired a publicist: PR By the Book, [email protected] Potential Media Hooks/ Angles (These are more fully developed in Month 1 team brainstorm meeting and are constantly evolving based on news cycle.) Build on Lucy’s brand she’s built with her body of work; continue to develop her...

As heard on BBC R4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: a fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction. Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people. A place of political turbulence, where...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a foreword by Diana Gabaldon. Two men. One country. And a lot of whisky. As stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham eat, sleep and breathe the Highlands on this epic road trip around their homeland. They discover that the real thing is even...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS ‘Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking … A book I will return to again and again’ Bernardine Evaristo A gorgeously produced, hugely original examination of Black Britishness in the 21st century What is Black Britain? In 2021, award-winning poet Roger...

To walk on remnants of the storied Appian Way today, from Rome to the heel of Italy, is to walk in the footsteps of ghosts. Our guide to those ghosts-and the layers of history they represent-is Robert A. Kaster. In The Appian Way, he brings a lifetime of studying Roman literature and history to...

Takes wine as a powerful metaphor for the independent identity of this mythic land. Inspired by a deep passion for wine, an Italian heritage, and a desire for a land somewhat wilder than his home in southern France, Robert V. Camuto set out to explore Sicily’s emerging wine scene. What he...

‘On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and unravel over the empty sea. Often, no one else is there to stand beside me on the island. The mind wanders; links with the past are easily made; ancient ways of...

The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States. ‘Rob Pope has made his name revelling in challenges that range from the unconventional to the extraordinary.’ BBC News Becoming Forrest is the...

A practical and engaging guide to dinghy cruising, covering everything from getting set up to embarking on more adventurous cruises. ‘You will venture into the fringes of the wilderness with the minimum of simple gear, to live with it on its own terms. You will know that one of the sure ways to...

No more running, no more hiding – it’s time to fight back. The Blake family can only live in security if the truth about the conspiracy threatening their lives is brought into the full light of day. As the stakes are raised higher than ever before, James must return to Italy to confront those...

‘Morgan the Travel’ is an autobiographical travel memoir tracing over 50 years of globetrotting, much of the time as a Tour Manager escorting groups of adventurous souls around the world. The anecdotes related reflect the myriad of adventures, cultures and colourful people who have crossed Ron’s...

Re-Tyred is an evocation of India as the author has experienced it as a volunteer in rural areas and on the streets of Kolkata, with beautiful photographs throughout. In Himachal Pradesh, in magnificent scenery of snow-clad peaks and forested hillsides, the children were as poor as those in...

A Short History of Charleston-a lively chronicle of the South's most renowned and charming city-has been hailed by critics, historians, and especially Charlestonians as authoritative, witty, and entertaining. Beginning with the founding of colonial Charles Town and ending three hundred and fifty...

Praise for Sam Pickering: "The art of the essay as delivered by Mr. Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble." ---The New York Times Book Review "Reading Pickering . . . is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend." ---Smithsonian "What a joy it is to 'mess around' with...

For more than four decades, poet Robin Magowan has journeyed in search of spiritual experiences. Hitchhiking and walking, by bus or, when necessary, by horse, he has explored lands as exotic as Nepal and New Guinea, as classic as Italy and France, and as forgotten as Persia and pre-Castro Cuba...

CultureShock! is a dynamic, indispensable series of guides for travellers looking to truly understand the countries they are visiting, working in or moving to. Each title explains the country’s customs, traditions and social and business etiquette in a lively, informative style. CultureShock...

In A Tramp’s Wallet, Sam Pickering spends six months roaming Australia and New Zealand, tramping landscapes pocked by sheep stations, art galleries and bakeries, and always libraries, their dusty shelves troves quick with life and literature. The saunterings of one of America’s best and most...

The Roman poet Statius called the Via Appia "the Queen of Roads," and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroyed by time, neglect, and the incursions of...

A successful Hollywood couple decides that if life is structured like a movie, then why shouldn't the last act be spent indulging themselves in the hopes of realizing any leftover dreams? So the couple sells their house, pack up all of their belongings, and together with their large black...

In February 2001 Scott C. Davis flew to Damascus, attended raucous political salons, talked all night, and sat in local cafés debating the nature of the evolving Syrian nation. Such openness was new in Syria. Was it a sign of things to come? Would the Damascene Curtain fall as heavily and...

No land on earth has been so long observed as Egypt, which was attracting awestruck travelers back in the days of Herodotus and Julius Caesar. Then came pilgrims to Sinai, crusaders and Napoleon, followed by the grand tourists of the eighteenth century, and those less grand with Thomas Cook in...

In 1866, worn out by fighting in the American Civil War, the writer Samuel Hazard arrived in Cuba to begin work on a guidebook to the island. Over a period of several months, as his health recovered, he travelled throughout what was then still a Spanish colony, observing and recording daily...

Hoping to rediscover his deeper purpose, Rijumati, an English Buddhist teacher and businessman, embarked on a journey into the unknown: a round-the-world trip by land and sea that became a kind of pilgrimage. Months - and many crises - later he returned with new reverence for ordinary people and...

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"Off at last! Farewell comfort, ease, good food, snug beds! Welcome hard riding, rain and cold, scanty diet and the ground for a couch!" So begins Sabine Baring-Gould's account of his journey on horseback around Iceland in 1862. Aged twenty-eight, the young writer and teacher was fascinated by...

First published in 1881, East of the Jordan recounts the results of an archaeological expedition organised by the American Palestine Exploration Society in 1875-77. In two years the expedition members covered much of the region between Lake Tiberias (sea of Galilee) and the Dead Sea, in the...

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was shattered when she discovered the dark legacy of...

The story of the expedition that launched the global rainforest movement. 'Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Edens left, but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track... So it was with mine.' Fifty years ago...

In 1863 there was only one method of travelling from Britain to the other side of the world - by sailing ship, on a journey that could take up to four months, when the vagaries of wind and weather could put travellers in peril during long voyages. The offer of grants of land in New Zealand was a...

In the mid-1880s, Johnny Lind, a teenager from Pond Mills, Ontario, struck out for adventure and wealth. After a decade working as a railroader in the United States, Johnny headed north, to Yukon and Alaska, and he was mining gold nearby when the Klondike Gold Rush began. As a "sourdough,"...

Winner of the Wales Book of the Year Award 2006 Join Robert Minhinnick on a journey across a radioactive planet. Researching the use of depleted uranium in modern weapons, the writer follows a deadly trail from the uranium mines of the USA into Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Here, he is led into the...

‘A classic in the making for our times’ MONIQUE ROFFEY ‘Haunting, beautiful…Anima will live with me for a long time’ CAL FLYN ‘A beautiful book of passion and adventure… She is simply sublime’ HORATIO CLARE The spellbinding new book by the prizewinning writer Kapka Kassabova tells the story...

"Ronald’s detailed and thoroughly enjoyable collection shows how it can take a visitor to appreciate what the residents are so used to, they take for granted." — Camden New Journal/Islington Tribune/West End Extra The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever...

Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a man's world' alone and literally with just the clothes on her back to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. She won the race on 25 January 1890, covering 21,740 miles by ocean liner and train in...

The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled – witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Scandinavian and American sources, Ronald Ridley has compiled a vivid collage-portrait of Rome through...

In Travels with Plotinus, Moin Mir follows Plotinus’s 1,780-year-old journey of personal discovery across India, Egypt, Italy, Greece and Turkey as he tries to understand the core concept of Plotinian thought, derived from studying the Upanishads – ‘Unity and Oneness’. He uses Plotinus’s...

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Tiny is a memoir by award-winning travel writer Louise Southerden about her quest to create a simpler way of life by building her very own tiny house. In her successful career as a travel writer, Louise found herself staying in ever new and exotic locations, but while staying in a cabin in...

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Meet the Bishnois, the world's oldest sustainable community - with a foreword from Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees 'Sensitive and engaging ... I hope everybody reads it' Brian Eno A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 With a foreword by Peter Wohlleben How much can one love a...

The Station follows three high-spirited young men as they visit twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures, photograph frescoes and sketch the courtyards and those who live in them. They swim ecstatically off the sparkling, deserted beaches, climb mountains, talk and share...

Книга 1. Український Шпіцберген. Ведмеді, вугілля та комунізм Не звикай до речей, до людей, до місць. Тут немає сенсу будувати дім, саджати дерево, народжувати сина. Усі звідкись приїхали, всі кудись урешті-решт поїдуть… Це могла би бути історія Шпіцбергену як закинутого краю, що хоч де-юре і...

Книга 1. Український Шпіцберген. Ведмеді, вугілля та комунізм Не звикай до речей, до людей, до місць. Тут немає сенсу будувати дім, саджати дерево, народжувати сина. Усі звідкись приїхали, всі кудись урешті-решт поїдуть… Це могла би бути історія Шпіцбергену як закинутого краю, що хоч де-юре і...

Як це – бути вільною? Як це – не мати постійного місця проживання й ледь не кожного дня планувати свій нічліг? Як це – мати лише 4 кілограми необхідних речей, що завжди спаковані та готові до переїзду? Як це – знаходити спільну мову там, де, здавалось би, стоїть мовний бар’єр? Я вірю, що книга...

Країна, про яку не чути в новинах, де працюють по чотири години на день, їдять гнилу рибу та депресують. А ще там живуть Карлсон і Ґрета Тунберґ. Усе це про Швецію, і звісно, у цих словах не так багато правди. Історикиня Юлія Юрчук, яка вже понад десять років живе у Швеції, у своїй книжці...

Північне сяйво, затишні різнобарвні хатинки посеред скель, вулкани й льодовики з назвами, які неможливо вимовити з першого разу. Це, мабуть, усе, що зринає в памʼяті, коли мова заходить про Ісландію. Просто таємнича країна на півночі… Андрій Гладій у своїй книжці «Ісландія. Північні дні...

Нова книжка Андрія Любки – це розповідь про землі й народи між Одесою та Трієстом, про краї, де починаються й не закінчуються Балкани. Це приватний щоденник численних подорожей до популярних місць, столиць, але також до загублених у часі й просторі провінцій та невизнаних республік. Чому серби...

У цій книжці автор розповідає про перші два місяці війни. Але це не сухий воєнний щоденник, а яскрава і емоційна розповідь про те, як ми змогли встояти перед натиском ворога. Що давало сили, що відбувалося в тилу та на полі бою. Як Україна оговталася від першого шоку та почала давати відсіч...

Канада — нудна й багата країна, де живуть люди, які досконало розмовляють двома мовами. Дороги тут ідеальні, а корупції немає. Засніженими преріями бігають стада бізонів, а десь поміж хмарочосами Торонто й Монреаля бородаті канадці грають у хокей. Це, безумовно, правда, коли йдеться про хокей і...

Оновлене перевидання книги «Дорога святого Якова». Каміно-де-Сантьяґо, або ж дорога святого Якова — це 900 кілометрів пішки з наплічником на спині через усю Іспанію до міста Сантьяґо-де-Компостела і до мису Фіністерра — Кінця Землі. Це унікальний досвід, який авторка книжки переживає разом зі...

Є те чому нас точно не навчать у школі – стійкості перед невдачами, розпалювання жаги до нових відкриттів та пригод, безстрашності перед випробуваннями та впертості йти своїм шляхом. Ерлінґ Каґґе, полярний дослідник, запевняє, що вчитися ніколи не пізно і завжди можна знайти вдалий момент, щоб...

У цій книзі здійснено спробу без замаху на вичерпність синтезувати і передати читачу цілісний світ Антарктики — холодного, скутого льодом, ненаселеного і досі маловивченого краю. Він простягається на континент Антарктиди та Південний океан із безліччю островів. Зануритись у мандрівку дивовижним...

Книга про пригоди єдиного українця, який відвідав усі країни світу! Костянтин Симоненко за 10 років подолав понад 2 мільйони кілометрів і відвідав усі 193 визнані країни світу. Його досягнення було офіційно внесено до Книги рекордів України. Всього 180 людей у світі змогли відвідати усі країни...

Це історія про першу українську експедицію через усі Карпати. Арка Карпат — маршрут, протяжністю близько 2200 кілометрів, що гірськими хребтами перетинає Румунію, Україну, Польщу та Словаччину. Влітку й восени 2021 року Богдан Ославський пройшов його від краю до краю. Він пише, як готувався до...

Перетнути Мексику за покликом мрії. Побачити зорі над островом Пасхи. Скупатися з піраньями у бразильських нетрях… Усі тревелоги Кідрука вперше під однією обкладинкою! До збірки ввійшли книжки «Мексиканські хроніки» (2009), «Подорож на Пуп Землі» (2010), «Любов і піраньї» (2011) та «На...

«Їсти, молитися, кохати» - надзвичайно щира розповідь жінки про духовне переродження і позитивні зміни у житті. Автор книги на власному прикладі довела, що навіть після найбільших криз можна не лише відновитися, а й відкрити в собі нові грані, можливості та рівні переживань. Героїня її роману -...

Книга 1. Спитайте Мієчку Що робити сестрам, яким так легко загубитися у власних думках і бажаннях у великому місті? Все наче й добре, але хочеться поставити життя на паузу, хоча б до вересня, та повернутися у місце свого дитинства. Заплетені стіни старого будинку відгороджують від усього світу з...

Нова книжка Андрія Любки – це розповідь про землі й народи між Одесою та Трієстом, про краї, де починаються й не закінчуються Балкани. Це приватний щоденник численних подорожей до популярних місць, столиць, але також до загублених у часі й просторі провінцій та невизнаних республік. Чому серби...