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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Antarctic

by John Keay

Farthest South - Ernest Henry Shackleton Born in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy before being recruited for Captain Scott's 1901 expedition to Antarctica. He was with Scott on his first attempt...


So Long! I'll Be Back In 30 Years: Three decades of life-changing encounters and events across Asia

by Margo McCutcheon

In So Long! I'll Be Back in 30 Years, author Margo McCutcheon takes readers on a 30-year journey through Asia and an array of bizarre characters, adventures, disasters and life-changing encounters. Open the...


An Inland Voyage

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. Pioneering new ground in outdoor literature, this was Stevenson's first book. He had...


The Silverado Squatters

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon in California's Napa Valley in 1880. He and his new wife Fanny Vandegrift were unable to pay 10 dollars a week for a...


A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings in Australia in 1852-53

by Ellen Clacy

This fascinating travelogue details the visit of author Ellen Clacy to the massive gold mines that were erected in Australia in the nineteenth century. Twenty-year-old Clacy's visit wasn't a genteel carriage...


The Next Port

by Heyward Coleman

The Next Port by Heyward Coleman is a bold and entertaining memoir chronicling the five year voyage the author and his wife made sailing their 42-foot sailboat, Skimmer, and offers a few insights about marriage,...


The Truth About Anna: And Other Stories

by William Warren

William Warren's writings on Asia have entertained and informed readers all over the world for 40 years. As he says, 'Even as a child, I preferred the unusual to the ordinary, the little-known to the familiar;...


A Crack in the Earth

by Haim Watzman

The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from the Red Sea to Lebanon, was ripped open millions of years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological object has also been a part of human history ever since...


A geisha cannot desire

by Valeria Ferracuti

In Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital, Sumiko, a young and beautiful geisha, introduces a foreigner in transit to the pleasures of the Oriental erotic art, immersing him in a pervasive sexual dependency, an experience...


1943

by Giulietta Iannone

Following the announcement of the Italian Armistice, on September 8th 1943, Lugano became a nerve center for European espionage activities and gave shelter to many expatriates. This short story is built around...


Love in the time of Bin Laden

by Ebla Ahmed

A journey to the timeless and wonderful Sana'a. The discovery of her body and her own femininity by a girl arrived in Yemen after years of living in the Western world. An unusual and sensual path through glances...


The escapist

by Eva Clesis

Who wouldn’t want, sometimes, a way to escape? In this story set in Prague, the main character is the “lover for a day” of a violent man, which brings her on vacation for study and work purposes in the...


Sex Tape

by Andrea Mariani

A beautiful and deadly woman, like an orgasm by asfyxiation, looks for the next man to fascinate to conquer the jet-set lights. But this time she has gotten her sums wrong. And the prey will soon become the...


Hotel Tales: A Little Adventure and Some Unexpected Tales

by Hanley Chew

The book took off one fine day quite unexpectedly. I was in a mentoring session with a young lady, discussing aspirations. Mine was to create this book. Hers was to take some time off a corporate career, see...


The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Siberia and Alaska

by John Keay

Stranded on Bering Island - Georg Wilhelm Steller As physician and scientific know-all on Vitus Bering's 1741 voyage, Steller shared its triumphs, including landing the first Europeans in Alaska. He also shared...


The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arctic

by John Keay

Four Years in the Ice - John Ross Disgraced and dishonored for his report of an imaginary mountain range blocking the most likely access to the North West Passage, in 1829 Ross returned to Canada's frozen archipelago...


The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: North America

by John Keay

First Crossing of America - Alexander Mackenzie "Endowed by nature with an acquisitive mind and an enterprising spirit", Mackenzie, a Scot engaged in the Canadian fur trade, resolved, as he out it "to test the...


The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Australia

by John Keay

Landfall at Botany Bay - James Cook The son of a Yorkshire farm labourer, Cook won distinction as a naval hydrographer but was still a controversial choice to command a voyage of scientific observation to the...


The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: East and Central Africa

by John Keay

Among the Sudanese - James Bruce Bruce reached the source of the Blue Nile in 1771, a century before the search for the source of the White Nile became headline news. His descriptions of the cruelties and orgies...


The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: South America

by John Keay

Eating Dirt in Venezuela - Alexander von Humboldt Geographer, geologist, naturalist, anthropologist, physician and philosopher, Baron von Humboldt brought to exploration a greater range of enquiry than any contemporary....