Travel writing

The London Nobody Knows

by Geoffrey Fletcher

Geoffrey Fletcher's London was not the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. He wrote about parts of the city no-one ever had before. This could be an art nouveau pub, a Victorian...

The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War

by Christopher Merrill

Using several ageless questions—“Where do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do?”—as his point of departure, award-winning poet Christopher Merrill explores the related issues of terror, modernity,...

Saudade: The Possibilities of Place

by Anik See

The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation. In its simplest sense, it describes a feeling of longing for something that is now gone, and may yet return, but in all likelihood can never be...

Dolphins Under My Bed

by Sandra Clayton

Proving that sailing is not just the husband’s pursuit, this charmingnarrative of one couple’s first long distance voyage is told from thewife’s perspective. Writing in a lively, humorous way, Sandra Claytongives...

We Are Soldiers Still

by Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway

Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway return to Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley more than four decades after the battle they recalled in their #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young...

On the Run

by David Dibenedetto

Each autumn, one of nature's most magnificent dramas plays out when striped bass undertake a journey, from the northeastern United States to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, in search of food and warmer seas....

Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

by Patrick Leigh Fermor & Jan Morris

Continuing the journey on foot across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts       

Between the Woods and the Water begins where its predecessor, A Time of Gifts, leaves off—in 1934, with the nineteen-year-old...

A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

by Patrick Leigh Fermor & Jan Morris

 In 1933 Patrick Leigh Fermor was eighteen. Expelled from school for a flirtation with a local girl, he headed to London to set up as a writer, only to find that dream harder to realize than expected. Then...

Driving Home: An American Journey

by Jonathan Raban

For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and,...

A Parrot in the Pepper Tree

by Chris Stewart

Chris Stewart’s DRIVING OVER LEMONS told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras – an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international...

Prague Pictures

by John Banville

From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries.

The fourth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series....

Travels

by Paul Bowles

Inmore than forty essays and articles that range from Paris to Ceylon, Thailand to Kenya, and, of course, Morocco, the great twen-tieth-century American writer encapsulates his long and full life, and sheds...

Taxi Trips to Remember or Forget

by Kenneth Lundstrom

Synopsis: Based on the true adventures of author Kenneth Lundstrom, Taxi Trips to Remember or Forget is a lively and colorful portrayal of his wide-ranging travels across the globe. With taxi rides in various...

The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto

by Pico Iyer

When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something...

Travels with a Typewriter

by Michael Frayn

‘All writers of fiction should be required by law to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real world in front of their eyes is from the invented world behind...

Travels with the Flea

by Jim Perrin

Travel writer Jim Perrin is a regular contributor to "The Great Outdoors", "Climber" and "The Daily Telegraph". This volume collects the best of his recent work and covers venues as far apart as Garhwal and...

Traveling While Married

by Mary-Lou Weisman

Ah travel! New scenery, exciting adventures, time alone with a loved one. Truth is, travel can make or break a relationship. Just negotiating when to leave for the airport can be tricky: she insists on arriving...

The Viper Squad

by J.B. Hadley

Mike Campbell, a Special Forces veteran, organizes a squadron of mercenaries to travel to El Salvador and rescue a wealthy American businessman's daughter.

Algren at Sea: Notes from a Sea Diary & Who Lost an American?-Travel Writings

by Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren's two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings...

Near Death in the Desert

by Cecil Kuhne

“The night was heavy with foreboding. The rain, which had been spitting down on us during the late afternoon, grew heavier. It hurled into our faces, borne by a wind that was now gusting between the dunes...