Essays & Travelogues

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A modern classic on exploring and understanding the Antarctic, the most uncharted place on our planet. Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the...

Everyone strives for happiness - Aristotle already knew that. But what exactly is happiness? And can you measure it? A journey to the 30 happiest countries in the world brings this abstract topic closer to the reader. We look at happiness from three...

Shortlisted for the Scottish Nature Photography Book Awards Washed by the surging waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the island chain of Scotland's Outer Hebrides lies at the very edge of Europe. From white shell sands, peaty moors and gnarly mountains to...

'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber'A golden writer' Andrew MarrA. A. Gill was rightly hailed as one of the greatest journalists of our time. This selection of some of his recent pieces, which he made himself before his...

Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, SEA AND SARDINIA records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his delighted response to a new landscape and people and his uncanny ability to transmute the...

After more than a decade of travelling throughout France one important lesson eluded married couple Julie and Jean-Benoit: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language? In The Bonjour Effect, they chronicle the...

Spellbound by his grandmother s Anglo Indian heritage and the exuberant annual visits of her friend the Begum, Isambard Wilkinson became enthralled by Pakistan as an intrepid teenager, eventually working there as a foreign correspondent during the War on...

'I am fascinated by people turning their daft dreams into a reality. How did they do it and why?'Driven by his own passion for collecting Hunter Davies has packed his notepad and set off in search of Britain's maddest museums. As he explores these hidden...

Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created ... but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shiniest.' Sydney takes us on the city's journey from penal colony to...

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland...

The perfect book for anyone who has ever dreamed of living in Paris Profiles of twenty real-life women of Paris - artists, activists, booksellers, and filmmakers, aged fourteen to seventy, living in tiny attic studios, grand apartments, or houseboats -...

A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom HollandWinding its way from the White Cliffs of Dover to the...

The northern parish of Assynt boasts some of the most spectacular scenery in Britain. The mountains of Quinag and Suilven dominate a very varied landscape with wild, white hills inland and a complex, intricate moorland to the west. Here, rocky crags,...

In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994867Author Anne HaywardFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 17mm

Studying in Lampeter, Dyfed and learning Welsh, Pamela Petro found it infuriating that whenever she stumbled with her Welsh, the locals would always revert to English. She decided to go where English was not an option - all kinds of unlikely places with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477414Author Lawrence OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

The plan was simple. Go to America. Buy a second-hand car. Drive coast-to-coast without giving any money to The Man (TM). What could possibly go wrong? Dismayed by the relentless onslaught of faceless American chains muscling in where local businesses...

The plan was simple. Go to America. Buy a second-hand car. Drive coast-to-coast without giving any money to The Man (TM). What could possibly go wrong? Dismayed by the relentless onslaught of faceless American chains muscling in where local businesses...

Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768245007Author Evon BlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH Publishing

Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford.'Alarmingly full of incident, very funny - even mildly transformative' Daily MailLacking even the most basic...

A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture. 'Delightful... A wonderful cornucopia of history' TLS 'Uncovers the Po's fascinating history' Guardian The Po is the longest river in Italy,...

"A Pattern of Islands" is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he...

Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the...

'Of all the places where I feel the translucency of things, places that are thin for me, bluebell woods are first among them.' Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, or to see a city's sights or a place of history. Others,...

In his hair-raising adventures across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Chris Thorogood treads a death-defying path over cliffs, up erupting volcanoes, through typhoons, and out into the very heart of the world's vast, green wilderness. Along the...

Now in paperback, the inside story of one of the world's most renowned watering holes, legendary since the days of Hemingway.Harry's Bar in Venice has remained one of the world's most storied watering holes, as entrenched a fixture of the Venetian...

At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other - but taking the long way round. His grand tour of the Mediterranean begins in Gibraltar and takes...

At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other - but taking the long way round. His grand tour of the Mediterranean begins in Gibraltar and takes...

Few countries are as marked by their history as the Maltese islands of Malta and Gozo. Each period of Maltas turbulent historynot least its heroic role during the Second World Warhas added to its rich cultural fabric. Deborah Manleys selection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914066191Author Tony PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hawksmoor PublishingPublisher Hawksmoor PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783965823Author Matt GawFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Elliott & Thompson LimitedPublisher Elliott & Thompson LimitedWeight(grams) 129g

'A remarkable story beautifully told... Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist' Chicago TribuneCarrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia...

'I remember seeing the lion looking yellow and heavy-headed and enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush and P. O. M. kneeling to shoot him. Then there was the short-barrelled explosion of the Mannlicher and the lion was going...

The author takes us on an unexpected journey up the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar world The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine,...

'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier.' Paul Theroux 'For Love and Money ... is as good a...

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE "I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had to report what had happened, not only for myself but to help stop...