A meeting with an elderly woman tending eider ducks on a remote Norwegian island is tinder, spark and fuel for this remarkable book. Rebanks is a thoughtful story-teller and a very congenial... read more
Cruises in North Africa, in two volumes: 'In the Sahara: by camel, by car, by cruise-ship' and 'Roaring Twenties Tourism Seen by Sandoz', an artist, 41 and well-established by the time he se... read more
When everyone walked: the network of footpaths and bridleways that connected rural communities and criss-crossed the land unchanged for centuries until the dominance of the internal combusti... read more
This Carrolian pursuit of realms beyond the modern borders - lost utopias, Amazonian city-states, alternative narratives - is as much an intellectual journey as it is physical.
Europe and the Middle East at the turn of the century through the eyes of Begum SJ, descendant of Mughal nobility. Translated from Urdu into English for the first time.
The Balkans to the Amazon, Abruzzo to Ibiza, this selection of Lewis's writing is electrifying. Lewis' eye for the humorous and absurd, the tragic and unjust is, as ever, an incomparable del... read more
A chance encounter with a map sets Roberts off on another unusual and intrepid exploration: this time a story of colonial Africa, when King Leopold tried to introduce Indian elephants to the... read more
Salt desert, bazaars, dried-up river beds, neon lights, ancient ruins and bus stops: Seiland's photographs balance tradition with modernity, the sparse and the rich, luminous and varied. Lar... read more
The 1,500-mile watershed stretching from Austria to Romania is still home to a third of Europe's wildlife, including lynx, chamois, bears, and bison that roam its high alpine meadows and its... read more
A memoir of the author's clandestine explorations through the haunting nuclear wasteland of 'the Zone' that is Chernobyl is both compelling and sinister.
The death of the author's father brings her to Shetland and the pandemic kept her there. What follows is a powerful, nuanced tale of navigating the challenge of a big onshore windfarm that h... read more
Ochre, tin, iron, radium, gold: Marsden travels from Cornwall to Georgia and back, tracing the often revolutionary use of minerals, dipping into alchemy, science and ecology and fraternising... read more
The father of Neoplatonism hoped to reach India to study the Upanishads, only to be reach the Tigris. Now Mir has not only trailed him to Egypt, Italy, Greece and Turkey but completed his jo... read more
From Central America to Tierra del Fuego in the mid-1970s, by whatever means possible. Drawing on her letters and diaries of the time, Stewart writes engagingly about her adventures and the ... read more
It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandrian childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name, he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestse... read more
In the footsteps of the Japanese monk-poet Matsuo Basho, LCD encounters old worlds and new, thatched villages in the mountains and drear concrete edgelands. She has lived and worked in Japan... read more
Castles, villas, forests, frescoes, abbeys and salt pans: lesser-known sites in the care of the FAI - the Fondo Ambiente Italia, Italy's equivalent to the National Trust. Handsome, with 300 ... read more
The man who walked everywhere spent a year in Italy with his family, and later lived in Paris and Switzerland; he travelled to America and Canada too. By his great-great granddaughter.