Books about journey-travel

However well you know London, there's always more to be uncovered. This guide includes ideas from unusual takes on well-known attractions to quirky walks and must-visit restaurants and shops; from once-in-a-lifetime experiences to everyday pleasures.

London is, and always has been, crammed with literary life. Playwrights, novelists, diarists, poets and essayists have roamed its streets, met in its cafes and strolled in its gardens. They have been inspired by its monuments, churches, law courts and theatres and have created fictional Londoners. This work is aimed at book lovers and readers.

Aimed at both visitors and city residents, this guide describes 50 of best-selling author Andrew Duncan's favourite walks in and around London. Illustrated with colour photographs and complete route maps, this book provides details of addresses, opening times, and bars and restaurants to visit en route.

Traces the drifts of the trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. This book recounts the adventures of the author when travelling through the Silk Route.

'A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, The Lost is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.' Michael Chabon

Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it. The people are cheerful, their cities are clean, the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines.

Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home--in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this greatest of literary cities. While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction,

An account of the author's journey across 1700 miles of Australian desert and bush with four camels and a dog.

The extraordinary adventure-filled story of how England came to own Manhattan in the seventeenth century

An account of the world's first megalopolis.

Presents the author's adventures, as he meets skilled hunters and befriends a shaman, climbs mountains, discovers new species and stumbles across the giant bones of extinct marsupials. This work also talks about the fate of indigenous people when their intricate cultures collide with mining companies and the high-tech modern world.

This is a diary of an historian and his student group's journey to the key Holocaust sites which includes their reflections and impressions set against the history and geography of a 20th-century catastrophe.

The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new foreword by astronaut Neil Armstrong.

In the summer of 1986 two Cambridge history undergraduates set out on Marco Polo's famous journey across Central Asia to the city of Xanadu in Mongolia. This account traces their experiences in the war-torn Middle East and along 1500 miles of the Silk Road to their eventual destination.

In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on a journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. More than a thousand years later, using their writings as a guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their steps.