Travel Writing

Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford.

The award-winning TV adventurer and travel writer's enthralling account of his expedition around the Arabian Peninsula

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing'

The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwe

At Cambridge University the author realised that the lengthy vacations were going to be the last periods of freedom before old age approached. Three friends chose to go on an expedition. This book describes that adventure where, never tiring of Fray Bentos, they drove across Europe, India and Africa travelling towards that glass of champagne.

Vignettes of travel writing from around the globe in 26 A - Z stories, peopled with eccentric characters

This comprehensive planning guide to 4x4 travel through eastern Africa (Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia) is based on first-hand travel experience. Introductory chapters give detailed general information and guidance on itineraries, what to take, potential costs, fuel availability, road conditions, security issues, etc.

More than a decade ago Marita van der Vyver emigrated to France where she married a Frenchman and settled in the scenic countryside of Provence. Having become famous for a novel built on fairy tales, her life resembles that of a princess meeting her prince charming.

A thoughtful and beautifully crafted epilogue to the history of slavery - essential reading for anyone interested in American history.

A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing.

An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism.

This narrative of Catherine Barter's journey to the Zulu country describes the Zulu kingdom in 1855 when it was still politically and economically independent.

To Port Natal in 1839 came Adulphe Delegorgue, a young French naturalist with a passion for information, a keen eye and a ready wit. . . and a mighty elephant gun.