Travel Writing Books

Whether you’re planning a cultural trip to Paris, backpacking around Asia, cruising in the Caribbean, or simply wish to visit faraway places from the comfort of your sofa, start your journey here. Discover our huge range of new and classic travel writing, and browse inspiring travel books on the British Isles, Africa, the Americas, Australia and the Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, as well as exhilarating books on expeditions and outdoors pursuits.

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The Salt Path

Raynor Winn

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Landlines

Raynor Winn

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Islands of Abandonment

Cal Flyn

£9.99

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The Wild Silence

Raynor Winn

£10.99

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Into Iraq

Michael Palin

£16.99 £14.99

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth

Julian Sancton

£10.99 £9.49

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Journeys to Impossible Places

Simon Reeve

£10.99 £9.49

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Espana: a Brief History of Spain

Giles Tremlett

£12.99

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The Amur River

Colin Thubron

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The Places In Between

Rory Stewart

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Underland

Robert Macfarlane

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Around the World in 80 Trains

Monisha Rajesh

£10.99

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The Old Ways

Robert Macfarlane

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The Ship Beneath the Ice

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£25.00 £21.99

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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem

Matthew Teller

£10.99 £9.49

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Beyond Possible

Nimsdai Purja

£10.99

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The Road to Little Dribbling

Bill Bryson

£10.99

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Erebus: The Story of a Ship

Michael Palin

£9.99

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Elixir

Kapka Kassabova

£20.00 £17.99

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A masterwork of travel writing fuelled by an impeccable narrative drive, Kassabova’s spellbinding volume takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through the history, people and nature of the Mesta River region in her native Bulgaria.

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Finding Hildasay

Christian Lewis

£16.99

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The North Will Rise Again

Alex Niven

£20.00

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Sarn Helen

Tom Bullough

£16.99

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Elixir

Kapka Kassabova

£20.00 £17.99

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The Treeline

Ben Rawlence

£10.99 £9.49

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36 Islands

Robert Twigger

£20.00

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Soundings

Doreen Cunningham

£10.99

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Grounded

James Canton

£18.99

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The Meaning of Geese

Nick Acheson

£20.00

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London: A Guide for Curious Wanderers

Jack Chesher

£14.99

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One Thousand Shades of Green

Mike Dilger

£17.99

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The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century

Jessica Vincent

£9.99

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Riding Out

Simon Parker

£9.99

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The Hidden Fires

Merryn Glover

£14.99

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Steeple Chasing

Peter Ross

£22.00 £19.99

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One Place de l'Eglise

Trevor Dolby

£10.99

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Time on Rock

Anna Fleming

£10.99

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Explorer

Benedict Allen

£10.99

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Wild Maps

Mike Higgins

£20.00

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Where To Go When

DK Eyewitness

£18.99

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Bradshaw's Handbook

George Bradshaw

£12.99

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Secret Britain

Mary-Ann Ochota

£20.00

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Landscape Photographer of the Year

Charlie Waite

£35.00

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Hike

DK Eyewitness

£20.00

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Lonely Planet Epic Drives of the World

Lonely Planet

£24.99

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Londonist Mapped; Hand-drawn Maps for the Urban Explorer

£16.99

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Lonely Planet Lonely Planet's Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist

Lonely Planet

£19.99

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Epic Train Journeys

gestalten

£35.00

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Lonely Planet Lonely Planet's Ultimate Travel List

Lonely Planet

£19.99

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Lonely Planet Lonely Planet's Guide to Train Travel in Europe

Lonely Planet

£19.99

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The Flightless Traveller

Emma Gregg

£22.00

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Lonely Planet The Travel Book

Lonely Planet

£40.00

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Lonely Planet Epic Hikes of the World

Lonely Planet

£24.99

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The Book Lover's Bucket List

Caroline Taggart

£16.99

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There and Back

Jimmy Chin

£38.00

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Collins World Atlas: Complete Edition

Collins Maps

£30.00

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The Hidden Fires

Merryn Glover

£14.99

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Following in the footsteps of the great Nan Shepherd and her seminal The Living Mountain, Glover crafts an evocative and immersive slice of travel writing about how the beauty and grandeur of the Cairngorms spoke to her soul.

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth

Julian Sancton

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Journeys to Impossible Places

Simon Reeve

£10.99 £9.49

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The Amur River

Colin Thubron

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Shackleton

Ranulph Fiennes

£10.99

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The Instant

Amy Liptrot

£10.99 £9.49

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Clanlands

Sam Heughan

£9.99

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The Third Pole

Mark Synnott

£12.99 £10.99

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The Hero's Way

Tim Parks

£9.99

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A Thing of Beauty

Peter Fiennes

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Vuelta Skelter

Tim Moore

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Windswept

Annabel Abbs

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Marram

Leonie Charlton

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Cry of the Kalahari

Delia Owens

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Wanderlust

Rebecca Solnit

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Dear Bill Bryson

Ben Aitken

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Waypoints

Robert Martineau

£9.99

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Black Earth

Jens Muhling

£9.99

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The End of the Road

Jack Cooke

£9.99

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Our Best British Travel Writing

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The Salt Path

Raynor Winn

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The Old Ways

Robert Macfarlane

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The Road to Little Dribbling

Bill Bryson

£10.99

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Notes From A Small Island

Bill Bryson

£10.99

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Walking Home

Simon Armitage

£10.99

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Waterlog

Roger Deakin

£9.99

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Attention All Shipping

Charlie Connelly

£9.99

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Walking Away

Simon Armitage

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Pies and Prejudice

Stuart Maconie

£9.99

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Sea Room

Adam Nicolson

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Round Ireland With A Fridge

Tony Hawks

£12.99

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The Marches

Rory Stewart

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The Debatable Land

Graham Robb

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Watling Street

John Higgs

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Once Upon A Time In The West...Country

Tony Hawks

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Engel's England

Matthew Engel

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The January Man

Christopher Somerville

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Love of Country

Madeleine Bunting

£9.99

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Our Best Travel Writing on Europe

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Why the Dutch are Different

Ben Coates

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Neither Here, Nor There

Bill Bryson

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Driving Over Lemons

Chris Stewart

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The Land Where Lemons Grow

Helena Attlee

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A Year in Provence

Peter Mayle

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Travels with Epicurus

Daniel Klein

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French Revolutions

Tim Moore

£9.99

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Homage to Barcelona

Colm Toibin

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Paris

Julian Green

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Trieste

Jan Morris

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Four Seasons in Rome

Anthony Doerr

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Round Ireland With A Fridge

Tony Hawks

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Icebreaker

Horatio Clare

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A Time in Rome

Elizabeth Bowen

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How to be Danish

Dr Patrick Kingsley

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Trans-Europe Express

Owen Hatherley

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The Durrells of Corfu

Michael Haag

£9.99

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The Path of Peace

Anthony Seldon

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Illuminating and deeply moving, the story of Seldon's epic trek from the French-Swiss border to the English Channel - the Western Front Way - is a stirring tribute both to the fallen of the First World War and the power of walking itself.

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Our Best Travel Writing on Africa

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No Picnic on Mount Kenya

Felice Benuzzi

£12.99

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The Shadow of the Sun

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Blood River

Tim Butcher

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A Year in Marrakesh

Peter Mayne

£14.99

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Dark Star Safari

Paul Theroux

£12.99

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Journey Without Maps

Graham Greene

£9.99

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Green Hills of Africa

Ernest Hemingway

£9.99

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Adventures in Morocco

Alice Morrison

£9.99

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Africa Solo

Mark Beaumont

£10.99

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The Lost World of the Kalahari

Sir Laurens Van Der Post

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The Innocent Anthropologist

Nigel Barley

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I Dreamed of Africa

Kuki Gallmann

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The Timbuktu School for Nomads

Nicholas Jubber

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Saharan Journey

Sven Lindqvist

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Travels with a Tangerine

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

£12.99

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Karama!

Johnny West

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The Masque of Africa

V. S. Naipaul

£12.99

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Our Best Travel Writing on The Americas

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The Penguin Lessons

Tom Michell

£9.99

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Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

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Travels with Charley

John Steinbeck

£9.99

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In Patagonia

Bruce Chatwin

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Deep South

Paul Theroux

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Kings of the Yukon

Adam Weymouth

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Bad Times In Buenos Aires

Miranda France

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Walking the Americas

Levison Wood

£12.99

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Our Woman in Havana

Sarah Rainsford

£9.99

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Short Walks from Bogota

Tom Feiling

£9.99

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The Traveller's Tree

Patrick Leigh Fermor

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America

Jean Baudrillard

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Turn Right At Machu Picchu

Mark Adams

£16.99

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The Golden Door

Adrian Gill

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The Trouble I've Seen

Martha Gellhorn

£14.99

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The Collector of Leftover Souls

Eliane Brum

£12.99

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Ghost Riders

Richard Grant

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I Left My Tent in San Francisco

Emma Kennedy

£12.99

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Himalaya

John Keay

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One of the globe's greatest wildernesses, the tumultuous history of 'the roof of the world' is described with grandeur and true storytelling skill by an unfailingly eloquent expert on the region.

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Our Best Travel Writing on Asia

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Nothing To Envy

Barbara Demick

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Lost Japan

Alex Kerr

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Eat the Buddha

Barbara Demick

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The Great Railway Bazaar

Paul Theroux

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Indonesia Etc.

Elizabeth Pisani

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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

Eric Newby

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Around India in 80 Trains

Monisha Rajesh

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Hokkaido Highway Blues

Will Ferguson

£10.99

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Ottoman Odyssey

Alev Scott

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In Search of Kazakhstan

Christopher Robbins

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A Dragon Apparent

Norman Lewis

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The Lost Heart of Asia

Colin Thubron

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Travels on my Elephant

Mark Shand

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The Waiting Land

Dervla Murphy

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Shadow of the Silk Road

Colin Thubron

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White Mountain

Robert Twigger

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The Epic City

Kushanava Choudhury

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Looking for Adventure

Steve Backshall

£10.99

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Our Best Travel Writing on Australasia & the Pacific

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Down Under

Bill Bryson

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The Songlines

Bruce Chatwin

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The Happy Isles of Oceania

Paul Theroux

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The Kon-Tiki Expedition

Thor Heyerdahl

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In Tasmania

Nicholas Shakespeare

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In the Land of Oz

Howard Jacobson

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Terra Nullius

Sven Lindqvist

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The Journals of Captain Cook

Captain James Cook

£12.99

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30 Days in Sydney

Peter Carey

£14.99

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Our Best Travel Writing on the Middle East

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The Places In Between

Rory Stewart

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Arabia

Levison Wood

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Revolutionary Ride

Lois Pryce

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Palestinian Walks

Raja Shehadeh

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From the Holy Mountain

William Dalrymple

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Arabian Sands

Wilfred Thesiger

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The Road to Oxiana

Robert Byron

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My House in Damascus

Diana Darke

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The 8.55 To Baghdad

Andrew Eames

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Sultan in Oman

Jan Morris

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Walking to Jerusalem

Justin Butcher

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To Jerusalem and Back

Saul Bellow

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Arabia through the Looking Glass

Jonathan Raban

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Mirror To Damascus

Colin Thubron

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Fifty Miles Wide

Julian Sayarer

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Syria

Gertrude Bell

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Yemen

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

£12.99

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The Ship Beneath the Ice

Mensun Bound

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Penned by the Director of Exploration on the expeditions, The Ship Beneath the Ice tells the thrilling true story of how, over a century after it disappeared under the Antarctic pack ice, Ernest Shackleton's vessel Endurance was sensationally discovered.