From the daring exploits of great navigators and adventurers, to the happy meanderings of those with restless feet, each of these books is a wonderful journey you can make with the author again and again.
Between 1945 and 1950, Thesiger succeeded in making two expeditions across the 'Empty Quarter'. No Westerner has written so movingly of the beauty of the Arabian sands, and of the noble companionship of the Bedu.
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A superb anthology of over 300 tales gathered in every corner of the globe, from Abyssinia to Alaska, Borneo to Bury St Edmunds.
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Before the modern age, only the intrepid, foolhardy or mad would undertake a voyage of exploration. Impossible Journeys tells the stories of 24 of these extraordinary journeys, from the Middle Ages to the Victorian era.
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Seized with ‘a curious urge to go back to the land of my youth and make what the blurb writers like to call a journey of discovery’, Bill Bryson set off across the USA in his mother’s ageing Chevrolet. His account sparked an entirely new kind of travel-writing, delighting in the unexpected oddities of normal life.
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Written at the peak of his powers, this is Mark Twain's most personal, compelling and informed reflection on the culture, enduring mythology and destructive power of America's 'lawless stream'.
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Bryson's account of his farewell tour of Britain by public transport is a hilarious and affectionate tribute by Britain's funniest adopted son.
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The book of Parkman's youth and one of the first great chronicles of the American West, The Oregon Trail remains the most popular of all his works.
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This compelling new book by the bestselling authority on the history of the Northwest Passage, Glyn Williams, charts the epic quest through the testimony of the explorers themselves.
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No matter how many biographies are written or films are made of the story, nothing can match Scott’s own epic, elegiac account of his expedition to the South Pole. Illustrated with over 80 archive photographs, this is a wonderful edition of a classic book.
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In this genre-defying masterpiece, Chatwin merges stories of his childhood and of his restless wanderings to create a passionate evocation of the invisible lines, sacred to the Aborigines, that criss-cross Australia.
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It was 1933, the year that Hitler came to power in Germany. Armed with a borrowed sleeping bag, a battered Oxford Book of English Verse and a volume of Horace, Fermor set out looking for a new life, freedom, 'something to write about'.
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Mountaineers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates had successfully scaled the 21,000-foot Siula Grande in the heart of the Peruvian Andes, but on their descent disaster struck. Touching the Void, also an acclaimed film, is one of the most remarkable tales of survival ever told.
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When Daniel Defoe embarked on his Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain in the early 1720s, the traditional rural society that he knew and loved was already vanishing, soon to be engulfed forever by the pulsating forces of the Industrial Revolution.
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In 1893, Mary Kingsley embarked for West Africa. She knew neither French nor any African languages, she had no experience, no contacts, and she took just £300 with which to make her way around one of the least explored and most dangerous regions in the world. Enormously enjoyable, this is a witty and brave account from a pioneer of travel writing.
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Travels with Charley is at once an affectionate account of life on the road and a great writer's last look at an America entering a turbulent time in its history.
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