An account of Shirley MacLaine's pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. This 458-mile trek is done with the intent of finding one's own spiritual meaning. She leads us through her liberating visons and revalations that were revealed to her as she walked the path.

Describes the hopes and cynical betrayals of the author's experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War.

If someone called you a 'googlewhack' what would you do? Would you end up playing table tennis with a nine year-old boy in Boston? Would you find yourself in Los Angeles wrangling snakes, or would you go to China to be licked by a performance artist?

Most people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy-shirted Byrons of its 19th-century heyday, but someone did it first and Thomas Coryate, author of arguably the first piece of pure travel writing, Crudities , was that man. Tim Moore retraces the Jacobean hero's footsteps - in a Rolls Royce.

Derived from studies and sketches made between 1979 and 1992, this book covers ten centuries of Spain's history - its politics, its architecture, its climate and its people. Cees Nooteboom's destination is Santiago de Compostela, though he makes numerous detours.

An eccentric wager finds Tony Hawks, a man who loves an unusual challenge, bound for the little-known Eastern European state of Moldova. His mission: to track down members of the country's football team and persuade them to play him at tennis. This quest turns into an extraordinary journey involving the Moldovan underworld, gypsies, and others.