Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula.

Starting in September 2017 in a city in Northern Syria, a stone’s throw away from Turkey and amidst the deadliest war of the twenty-first...

A rich, intimate embrace of Capri, which was a magnet for artistic renegades and a place of erotic refuge

Isolated and arrestingly beautiful, the island of Capri has been a refuge for renegade artists and writers fleeing the strictures of conventional society from the time of Augustus, who bought the island in 29 BC after defeating Antony and Cleopatra, to...

From bangers ‘n’ mash to banh mi, London has one of the most eclectic vegan food scenes in the world, and it’s growing by the day. Discover creative twists on classic dishes, fusion cuisine and tempting desserts through Vegan London – with eighty of London’s best vegan and vegan-friendly establishments at your fingertips, you’ll find food and drink for...

From the great cathedral-like railways stations of the steam age to obscure lines built through spectacular landscapes to open up countries before the advent of motorised road transport, this book is a celebration of our lost railway heritage and the lines that can no longer be travelled. Through stunning images, Lost Railway Journeys evokes the romance...

Dena was a midwife exhausted by her fight for the rights of childbearing women at work and the hamster-wheel of American motherhood at home. Adam was an eccentric Buddhist yogi passing as a hard-working Dad. Bella was fourteen and wanted to be normal. Sophia was up for anything that involved skipping school. Together, they shouldered backpacks, walked away...

Food and travel writer Kirk Richardson is searching for the best craft beer breweries in North America. From the shores of Southern California to the ports of New England and everywhere in between, Kirk brings together exceptional craft beers and stories from the unique characters who make them. Pull up a chair, pour yourself a pint, and relax: you're in...

Where else but Africa, can you touch mountain snow one day and run from a lion, another? Robbed of all his possessions, riddled with flu and wearing borrowed pink tracksuit bottoms, the Kilimanjaro climb was doomed to fail. Alistair was determined to raise money for charity and somehow made it to the crater rim before being escorted off the...

'Full of heart and hope' Heidi Swain.

Has she already met The One? What if Mr Right had come along at the wrong time...?

Evie Grant is forty-five years old, a widow, and single mum of two children about to leave the nest. Suddenly alone in the family home, Evie realizes she hates her job, hardly goes out and hasn't had a date since who knows when...

So it...

No Access Washington, DC tells a story of the nation’s capital through places in, near, under, over, or around the city—a collection of spaces that most people don’t see, can’t see, rarely see, don’t know how to see, or haven’t seen. Come journey beneath DC’s most iconic buildings like the massive undercroft below the Lincoln Memorial and discover...

YOU’VE NEVER READ A LOVE STORY AS TWISTED AS THIS.

Juliette loves Nate.

She will follow him anywhere. She’s even become a flight attendant for his airline, so she can keep a closer eye on him.

They are meant to be.

The fact that Nate broke up with her six months ago means nothing. Because Juliette has a plan to win him back.

She is the perfect girlfriend. And...

Buying a fake can be a costly mistake!

Heading off on your next holiday adventure and considering buying a keepsake memento? Want to know how to buy a beautiful gemstone in your destination country without getting ripped off? Thinking of proposing on holiday and want to buy the engagement ring together out there? Interested in the idea of gemmology and...

Add some sparkle to your next adventure… learn how to buy gemstones with expert help! This pocket travel guide is part of the ‘Gemstone Detective’ series, created for those planning a trip to the vibrant country of Thailand.

Known as the ‘Land of Smiles’, Thailand is famous for its exquisite gemstones and jewellery.

Written by Kim Rix, a gemmologist (GIA)...

No Regrets: How one woman navigates through Midwestern expectations and manages to reach all seven continents, including working twice in Antarctica. Follow Linda as she gains inner strength and confidence to travel. Experience adventures alongside her, from hiking the Alps refuge to refuge to discovering remote places in Fiji.

If you've ever wondered what it's like to explore the Blue Mountains, forage for bush tucker in Kakadu National Park, watch the sunrise over Uluru, or hire a campervan and drive to Bryon Bay, this is the book for you.

After moving from England, Alistair now calls Australia home and each year he explores different parts of the country. During these trips he's...

Matthew Félix is not a luxury traveler.

His unorthodox bathing practices in Paris. The Dead Sea shower incident that led to an arrest. The nightmare while he was trapped on a bus without a bathroom in Anatolia, his retelling of which won Gold for Humor in the 2018 Solas Awards. Maybe it's Matthew's no-frills approach to experiencing the world that gets him...

• 20th anniversary e-book edition of this evocative travel and Internet history memoir with a new introduction by the author, foreword by best-selling author Chris Epting, and 22 color photographs • Making lemonade: the author’s six-year odyssey began in the wake of a California wildfire that destroyed her home and possessions • Sudden...

An unlikely pilgrim battles agoraphobia to reclaim life beyond the sofa. The 800-kilometer journey along the Camino Frances provides a scenic backdrop to ponder midlife crisis and chronic illness, an empty nest and marital discord, military service and posttraumatic stress, rage and grief, heartbreak and fear - And the way forward. El Camino de Santiago...

Who do you call if it all goes wrong on holiday?

Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane – a very modern flying doctor. His job is get on a plane and bring patients home after holiday disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing incidents on business trips and all the other things that can go wrong when we head overseas.

Holiday SOS is his extraordinary...

In 1976, four award-winning American writers each bought a modest home in a secluded one-acre section of Old Town, Key West, an island paradise that for years had welcomed and embraced a coterie of other well-known writers from Ernest Hemingway to Tennessee Williams.

For a while, these four writers – poet John Ciardi, novelist Ralph Ellison, novelist John...

How To Teach English in the Middle East is a full-service preparatory book for any native or near-native speaker of English intending to find employment as an ESL instructor in the Middle East. Drawing upon four years of experience as an English language lecturer at a technical college in a small desert town near the Arabian Sea, Eric Harrington Woro lays...

The trouble started when their dream came true.

First they took French. Then they took leave of their senses. They bought a 400-year-old cottage in rural France from an ad on the Internet. Their “completely restored” farmhouse certainly looked charming, but the pool leaked, the walls cracked, and the electricity fizzled whenever they switched on...

The true Irish insider's guide to the very best Ireland has to offer. This fully comprehensive and independent guide to Ireland gives you only the very best recommendations, whatever your budget.

Brought to you by the McKennas, who have over 30 years’ experience writing and talking about Ireland’s amazing food, drink and hospitality. Following the format of...

'Scotland as I saw it on this journey is vibrant and exciting and very much alive, a tartan patchwork of the past, present and future of the country woven together by all those people who have ever called it 'home' and all the others who will.'

James McEnaney sees Scotland as a 'complicated and conflicted place' that needs disruption of the status quo. He...

The White Moth is an intimate, riveting portrait of life at a farm villa in Tuscany, from the challenging times of fascism and foreign occupation in the 1940s to the idyllic farm-to-table times in the 1970s. A generational saga of longing, loss and displacement, the book is also an American woman’s tribute to her Italian husband and mother-in-law. 

While...

Bob McIntosh grew up as a single child on sheep and cattle stations in the outback of Australia and received a customary tough, thorough but loving countryside upbringing, based on a set of strong values, a good attitude to farm work and where a love of all aspects of nature comes as natural as nature itself. 

Not exactly sure what to do with life after...

Travel is fun – to state the very obvious. But what if it could be enriching, life-enhancing and lots, lots more? What if that hunger for self-discovery, identity and fulfilment could take you in undreamt-of directions?

The John Wesley Powell Route offers some of the most adventurous paddling in the United States. Across six Southwestern states, paddlers will find trips for all abilities and timeframes—from a few hours to a few months. Canoe trips in Canyonlands. Whitewater rafting in Dinosaur National Monument and Cataract Canyon. Peaceful floats in Browns Park or the...

Do you wonder what it’s like to go backpacking? At the age of sixty-two, Hazel bought a ‘Round the World’ ticket, rented her cottage out for a year and spent the time exploring eighteen countries, mostly travelling solo.

Never having travelled alone before and with poor navigational skills, Hazel had no idea how she would cope.

To her delight she found...

Nick Wall has spent over four years gathering traditional music from every country in the world, from Kazakhstan to Kiribati, researching the life and culture of these countries, then weaving the music in with information, stories, and reflections about each country.

Around the World in 575 Songs: Traditional Music from all the World’s Countries is a...

The Lauragais lies in south-west France at the heart of Occitania. Today it is largely ignored by the millions who visit its neighbours each year – Toulouse and Carcassonne – but in times gone by it rarely escaped the attentions of the great and the good, or the ambitious and the avaricious.  

This is a book with big characters – Simon de Montfort, the...

In a book that has been called "a love song to nature," the author documents the latest decade of his explorations of the Baja peninsula and the Sea of Cortez. While much of the book narrates his experience as a writing professor taking undergraduates on sea kayak expeditions to the Isla Espiritu Santo archipelago each year during spring break, the book...

"A wondrously joyous account of travel as it should be." –Publishers Weekly

A travel narrative that focuses on Sicily's little-known regions, from the author of Seeking Sicily and Hidden Tuscany.

From Palermo to Castiglione di Sicilia to Alimena, Sicily holds great secrets from the past and unspoken promises. Tradition, in the form of festivals, the written...

The Eat, Pray, Love for busy executives, Take Off Your Shoes invites the reader to join a journey of self-rediscovery.

A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Ben Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years of business success. Unsettled by his insight and determined to rebuild family relationships and...

We present 50 unique maps – each in its own beautiful and fascinating style – that chart the globalography of our world. We live in an era of incredible connections and inter-dependency; connected through aid, migration, trade, finance and the invisible lines of culture, data, technology and ideas. These are not maps of nations in isolation, but of...

For some people, retirement dreams can consist of comfy slippers and gardening. Not so David and Helene, whose dream was of adventure. They presented Audley Travel with the challenge of exploring the history, landscape, wildlife, people and food in fifteen countries over ten months.

Fortunately, they were up to the task so David and Helene traded their...