Travel writing

Meet Me in Gaza: Uncommon Stories of Life inside the Strip

by Louisa B. Waugh

How do people and goods get in and out of Gaza? Do Gazans ever have fun? Is the Strip beautiful? And do TV reports actually reflect ordinary life inside the world’s largest open-air prison? Meet Me in Gaza...

Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

by Tim Parks

The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life-by riding its trains.Tim Parks's books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable...

Odd Tom Coryate: The English Marco Polo

by R E Prtichard

Thomas Coryate (1576-1617) was one of the great early travellers, opening up Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Holy Land and Mogul India to his amazed - and sometimes disgusted - readers. In 1608 he set...

A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza

by Dervla Murphy & Avi Shlaim

Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Through reported conversations she creates a vivid picture of...

Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure

by Tom Doig

Uncrossable rivers! Hospitable nomads! Rabid dogs! Marijuana fields! Hailstone flashfloods! Maidens on horseback! Underpants wrestling! Toxic mountain-top lakes! Stupid westerners! And the mountain-biking -...

Maiden Voyage

by Tania Aebi

What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love.

Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle...

Literary Creations on the Road: Women's Travel Diaries in Early Modern Japan

by Keiko Shiba & Motoko Ezaki

In this book, originally published in Japanese, Shiba intersperses her narration with excerpts from the actual travel diaries and sheds new light on women’s literary activities in early modern Japan, which...

The City of Abraham

by Edward Platt

The City of Abraham is a journey through one of the world’s most divided cities – Hebron, the only place in the West Bank where Palestinians and Israelis live side by side. It begins with a hill called Tel...

Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany

by Shamus Sillar

This is the story of a newly married couple and the year they spent in Sicily. Packed with history, culture - and plenty of misadventure - it will definitely make you laugh. It also has as much romance as an...

Namibia Space

by Chris Marais & Julienne du Toit

Namibia is a haunting and beautiful country. Join travel writers Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit as they share their experiences of this vast country through their remarkable writings and photographs. Namibia...

Bright Lights, No City: An African Adventure on Bad Roads with a Brother and a Very Weird Business Plan

by Max Alexander

The hilarious story of two brothers, a truckload of batteries, and a brilliant plan to bring light--and new business opportunities--to Ghana

At age 47, Whit Alexander, the American co-founder of the Cranium...

From China to Peru: A Memoir of Travel

by Russell Fraser

An invitation to tour the globe with a veteran world-wanderer in search of regional peculiarities and universal truths

Meander: East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River

by Jeremy Seal

The Meander is a river so famously winding that its name has long since come to signify the frustrations and the virtues of the indirect approach; an approach that the author makes use of while traveling the...

Griffith REVIEW 37: Small World

by Julianne Schultz

Small World explores the way we travel now-whether it's exploring wild, dangerous or weird places, or travelling not as passive tourists but engaged travellers. This edition will also consider how technology-from...

Afrika Dispatches from the Outside Edge: An Epic Journey to Save and Improve Lives

by Kingsley Holgate

Driven by his passion for exploration and a sincere love of Africa, intrepid modern-day adventurer and humanitarian Kingsley Holgate and his family set off on an epic 64 327-kilometre, 33-country journey around...

Joy Unconfined: Lord Byron's Grand Tour Re-toured

by Ian Strathcarron

Lord Byron's Grand Tour is recorded as impressions in his own letters and journals, more methodically in the diary of his travelling companion John Cam Hobhouse, and reflected poetically in the first two cantos...

Our Man in Paris: A Foreign Correspondent, France and the French

by John Lichfield

Since 1997 John Lichfield, The Independent's correspondent in France, has been sending dispatches back to the newspaper in London. More than transient news stories, the popular 'Our Man in Paris' series consists...

The Wild Within

by Simon Yates

'All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range or region. I am increasingly drawn to remoteness – to places where few others...

Valvona & Crolla: A Year at an Italian Table

by Mary Contini & Philip Contini

Valvona & Crolla has been described as 'the Sistine chapel of continental delis'. Founded in 1934 by the Continis' ancestors, the Italian shop and restaurant is legendary in food circles for its excellent food...

A Year in Korea: An American Journal

by David Wellens

This frank and candid account describes the fifty weeks Wellens spent teaching at Chungnam Institute of Foreign Language Education, a state-of-the-art facility in Gongju, South Korea. Anyone considering teaching...