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A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning Small Island and the Man Booker shortlisted The long song. ...

Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep landed life afloat. These ordinary men live extraordinary lives, ...

Edited by Michael Kerr From Henry "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" Stanley writing about his epic 19th century journey down the Congo to a couple who tried to sail their amphibious Volkswagen Beetle around the world, a riveting anthology of accounts of travel by water The Daily Tel...

Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the 30 years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. In this enchanting travelogue, Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...

A new edition of the widely acclaimed account of the civilian experience of fifteen years of war in Beirut- "a profound, heartbreaking book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), "an impassioned cry against indifference" (New York Times Book Review), "a work ringing with truth and insight" (Arab Book Wor...

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile is a classic travelogue by the British Army officer John Hanning Speke. Speke undertook three exploratory expeditions to Africa but he is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and the discovery and naming of Lake Victoria. Despite being te...

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A rugged land between the Black and Caspian seas, the Caucasus is a battle ground for a fascinating and formidable clash of cultures: Russia on one side, the predominantly Muslim mountains on the other. In Caucasus, award-winning author Nicholas Griffin recounts his journey to this war torn region t...

Seen through the eyes of a young boy, the Argentine pampas was a land of freedom and endless exploration. In scintillating detail Hudson recalls its wild artichoke thistles, temporary lakes, spectacular storms, unforgettable trees and its pulsating bird life. He also captures the idiocyncracies of i...

Brighton Rock, Graham Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie, is gripping and terrifying - an unputdownable read. First published in 1938, it is a murder thriller set in 1930s Brighton; the author wrote the screenplay for the iconic 1947 film of the novel directed by John Boulting and sta...

The number one bestselling book from the author of The Old Ways. This is a celebration of the unique relationship between language and place; a field guide to nature writers from Roger Deakin to Nan Shepherd; and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable, poetic, funny, peculiar and endangered w...

Edited, with an introduction and notes by Edward Hutton ...