Peter Fleming and Eva Maillart set out across a China torn by civil war to journey through Sinkiang to British India. This account also offers an insight into the last days of the Great Game, when Britain and Russia still faced each other across a Central Asia in a state of anarchy.

Ibn Battutah was a traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for twenty nine years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. This book describes the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey. It also compares the contemporary Muslim world with the past.

Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa and educated at Eton and Oxford. In the spirit of TE Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring the deserts of Arabia. This book narrates his stories, including two crossings of the Empty Quarter, among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels.

An Enthralling True Story of Shipwreck, Exploration and Discovery in the Middle East. This engrossing travelogue begins with the terrifying account of the storm that left Eric Hansen and four companions shipwrecked on a deserted Red Sea island. A witty, vivid mix of reportage, comedy and tension. Simultaneous publication with the paperback edition of Eric Hansen's acclaimed 'Orchid Fever' and 'Str

Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for the home she herself once had in Africa and her heartbreaking search for her missing lover.

A chance meeting on the River Thames starts Kevin Rushby on a voyage in search of the lost pirate settlements that once existed on the islands of the Indian Ocean. Along the way he meets the crackpot dreamers, the tough settlers, the fighters and the failures who live on the islands now.