Secondhand Books Travel Writings

In 1860 Richard Burton was at a crossroads in his life. Most of his great feats had been accomplished and the foundations of his fame as Arabist and African explorer...

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard'Stunningly good... The best thing I've read for ages' James Rebanks, author...

In this account of the third of Michael Palin's travel adventures for BBC Television, he journeys for almost a year, covering 50,000 miles and all of the 18 countries that...

I want to walk through time, for days, for nights, I want every kind of walk, walks under sunsets and stars, walks of rain and storms, through howling winds and...

Who can say what the night might bring? Mummy tucking you up with Teddy and a cup of Ovaltine? Fireworks and frivolity? A party? Music? Dancing? Or you could be...

Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in...

Want to stare eye-to-eye with giant tortoises in the Galapagos? How about a safari in Tanzania? Ever wanted to take your kids to Bora Bora, Cambodia or Iceland? Then this...

Peter Fleming, brother of "James Bond" author Ian Fleming, was one of the greatest adventurers and travel writers of the 20th century and author of several classic and bestselling books....

A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY THROUGH JAPAN'S MULTI-FACETED CUSTOMS AND CULTURE'An excellent book for anyone with an interest in Japanese culture' Sunday Telegraph'Takes in everything from the mythical roots of sumo...

Alan Cooper took his 1932 Morris Minor across the Sahara. The Mau Mau uprising was at its height when Cooper assembled his paying passengers at his farm outside Nairobi. The...

Hugh Brody has an international reputation as an anthropologist and documentary film-maker of the Inuit peoples. This book is a marvellous account of hunter-gatherer culture, gleaned from years of living...

The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the sources...

This practical guide to business and pleasure in Italy aims to provide inside information and detailed assistance in understanding the people and the country. Suggestions include what to wear to...

"A Year in the World" is vintage Frances Mayes - a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely places, of memory woven into the present,...

In this collection of 25 essays, travel writer Mike Tidwell gets marooned on a desert island, travels the Silk Road with nomadic shepherds and hitchhikes on Cajun shrimp boats through...

This book is a love letter to a rock: limestone. Limestone produces some of the most distinctive, and long-inhabited, landscapes in the world; astonishingly varied, it can also be exceptionally...