Travel writing

The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule

by Joanna Kavenna

A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In...

Venice Is a Fish: A Sensual Guide

by Tiziano Scarpa

One of Italy’s brightest literary lights reinvents travel writing with a seductive, intoxicating celebration of the magical saltwater city

“Venice is a fish,” writes Tiziano Scarpa. “It’s like a vast...

The Road to McCarthy

by Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in hisbestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: "Never pass a bar withyour name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up,his characteristic good humor,...

Dishwasher

by Pete Jordan

Dishwasher is the true story of a man on a mission: to clean dirty dishes professionally in every state in America. Part adventure, part parody, and part miraculous journey of self-discovery, it is the unforgettable...

Shadow of the Silk Road

by Colin Thubron

Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish...

Fly-Fishing the 41st

by James Prosek

The New York Times has called James Prosek "the Audubon of the fishing world," and in Fly-Fishing the 41st, he uses his talent for descriptive writing to illuminate an astonishing adventure. Beginning in his...

In Siberia

by Colin Thubron

As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on...

Enid Blyton at Old Thatch

by Tess Livingstone

Includes 23 colour and black and white photographs. For Enid Blyton, Old Thatch was "a wonderful place to write stories in." From her 400 year old home to the surrounding Thames Valley, where she set her most...

Exploring the Isles of the West: Skye and Tiree to the Outer Isles

by Marc Calhoun

A compilation of the author's years of exploring the islands, recounting not only the physical journeys but his own journey from tourist to serious explorer dedicated to seeing and learning as much as possible...

Exploring the Isles of the West: Firth of Clyde to the Small Isles

by Marc Calhoun

A compilation of the author's years of exploring the islands, recounting not only the physical journeys but his own journey from tourist to serious explorer dedicated to seeing and learning as much as possible...

After the Dance: Travels in a democratic South Africa

by Robbins David

In April 1994, amid international acclaim, South Africa stepped back from the slough of endemic political violence and danced its first bold dance with constitutional democracy. After the Dance sets out to capture...

We Called It Culture - The Story Of Chautauqua

by Schuyler Cammann

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

Daniel Boone - Master Of The Wilderness

by James Baikie

John Bakeless's biography of Daniel Boone first published in 1939. Wildly renowned as the first historically significant, definitive biography of Boone. Daniel Boone, the icon of the American pioneer, born in...

Questions of Travel: A Novel

by Michelle de Kretser

Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the world--exploring the seductive new world of the internet, his father...

Any Deadly Thing

by Roy Kesey

Short story collection from BASS author, Roy Kesey. With incredible language and plots, Kesey leaves his readers wanting more stories.

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 -...

The Southern Gates of Arabia - A Journey in the Hadbramaut

by , Freya Stark

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

Canada's Road: A Journey on the Trans-Canada Highway from St. John's to Victoria

by Mark Richardson

In 10 weeks during the summer of 2012, on the 50th anniversary of the Trans-Canada Highway, author Mark Richardson drove the nearly 8,000 kilometres of the iconic road, meeting a variety of people along the...

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...

Isles at the Edge of the Sea

by Jonny Muir

Off the western seaboard of Scotland are hundreds of islands. Beginning on Arran, Jonny Muir sets out to explore these places with a single ambition: to reach the St Kilda archipelago, the islands at the edge...