It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly.Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country.
Eothen, which means `news from the east started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advice for his own youthful `year off travels, but it became one of the most influential, witty and idiosyncratic of travel books.
A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. 'An incredible, brilliant act of retrieval .
This visually stunning photo book takes readers on a transcontinental journey through eight Far East countries, supplementing beautiful photography with inspiring travel stories of cultural impressions and personal encounters. Text in English and German.
A recently discovered gem from the bestselling author of Somewhere Towards the End and Alive, Alive Oh!: the charming and vivacious diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier.' Paul Theroux
A second volume of photos from the archive of the oldest off-road cycling club in the world is a further look into an unseen corner of cycling, social history and outdoor culture.