In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This book recounts the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It discusses about the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, and more.

Whether it's an escape over the Berlin Wall or on the Underground Railroad of the American South, men and women have shown extraordinary courage and invention in their bids for freedom. This work gathers together 50 of the most remarkable escapes and escape attempts.

Records how the author set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. The author sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time).

Lost on a remote Sumatran volcano... pursued through a Tokyo backstreet by a Japanese gangster... picnicking with the French Foreign Legion in the Horn of Africa: the author's idea of a holiday is not everyone's. This book presents a personal account of the author's myriad adventures.

Couchsurfing? Surely a sofa would sink on the open sea? Couchsurfing is a global community of over a million people in 232 countries that offers couches, beds and body-sized horizontal surfaces via the internet for fellow members to bunk down on for the night. Couchsurfing is everywhere, from Kazakhstan, where there are124 empty couches for the daring traveller, to Antartica where 30 cold ...

Offers an insight into the human story behind the money in our pockets, and reminds us that making a living is about exactly that - living. This title helps to discover the dark arts of haggling from the carpet merchants of Marrakech and learn what the ancient camel markets of Sudan can teach us about the current banking crisis.

With a foreword by Sir Richard Branson, The Art of Flying Crooked follows the exciting journey of two friends visiting 26 places in the Australian outback.

Includes:- AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, POLE TO POLE, FULL CIRCLE, SAHARA, and HIMALAYA. Each book contains stunning colour photographs by Basil Pao and the full text of the hardbacks. RRP 44.95

Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her teenage years as a nanny on a boat moored at Cannes, his lack of travel experience still has the power to shock people into leaving dinner parties early.

Best-selling writer and traveller Peter Moore decides to go on an adventure on his Vespa through Sicily, Sardinia and the Amalfi Coast as a last fling before the onset of fatherhood. Eliciting free beers from barmen, and swoons from young women, he finds that this most Italian of machines draws him deep into the heart of this fun-loving country.

Offers a look at the relationship the British have with music, and helps in understanding how the country has represented itself through song. This travel book presents a portrait of Britain as an adventure into lyric and melody. It spans the entire British Isles, from John O'Groats to Land's End.

Features the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities.

Presents the story of what happened when the author decided to say yes to everything, in order to make his life more interesting. This is the tie-in book that goes with the 2008 film of the Danny Wallace book - Yes Man - starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel.

Joe Bennett went to New Zealand for a holiday and got stuck - for 15 years. In this title, he goes in search of the reason.

Guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of the author's birth and the home of his imagination. This is an account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his home since his birth.

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.

Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the 1970s he married a Swedish woman and worked in a mill raising their son. In the mid-1980s his marriage and the country fell apart. Twenty years later Andrew travelled the length of Sweden in search of the country he had loved, and then hated, and now found he loved again.

A sequel to Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) , this work brings stories from the far side of civilization. It regales us with the author's adventures from the front line of the oil industry.

When ex-blues drummer John Dummer decamps to France to start up as an antiques dealer and live the simple life, he doesn't count on meeting Serge Bastarde. The lovable (if improbably named) rogue and brocanteur offers to teach John the tricks of the trade in return for his help in a series of breathtakingly unscrupulous schemes.