World Travel
A Year of Sport Travel: Experience the Greatest Sporting Events in the World
Ever dreamed of travelling the globe in search of the ultimate sport fix? A Year of Sport Travel gives you 12 months of the world's biggest and most exciting sporting events from the PGA Masters, FA Cup, and Wimbledon all the way to camel wrestling in Turkey and the snowball fighting championships in Japan.
Lonely Planet 2009
ISBN 9781741798838
Pbk £16.99
The World's Greatest Places: The Most Amazing Travel Destinations on Earth
A book that seems
to cover every famous spot you've heard of and hundreds you haven't. From
Monaco Books 2009
(Illustrated)
ISBN 389944535X
Hbk £40.00
The Big Short Break: Minimum Time, Maximum Experience
Ronald Asprey
The Big Short Break is the first in a new series of experience-led travel books. It is a progression from hotel-focused books and combines first hand specialist knowledge with vibrant photography and innovative design. The destinations redefine what can be experienced in a long weekend - and have all been specifically chosen so that they are easily accessible from the UK.
Original Publishing 2007
ISBN 9780955593505
Hbk £19.95
Travel Photographer of the Year: Journey One
Christopher Coe
This collection of images from the Travel Photographer of the Year competition is the first in a series of "Journey" portfolios that will take you on an amazing journey around the globe through the eyes of many talented photographers.
Each journey is a photographic adventure to new places and familiar ones. It's about the joy and excitement of travel and it's about life, culture, colour, people and this amazing planet. Whether you're a lover of travel or a lover of photography, the stunning images in each "journey" will inspire you.
Travel Photographer of the Year 2004
ISBN 9780954939618
Hbk £25.00
Islands: A Trip Through Time and Space
Peter Conrad
Peter Conrad, who was born in Tasmania, has produced an original
and highly personal account of the role islands play in our dreams and
nightmares.
With his customary wide range of reference and quick
wit, he visits every corner of the globe to explain why islands appeal
to us, and on the way covers everything from the myth of Atlantis to
Watteau's erotic Cytherea, from Prospero's magical kingdom to Nelson
Mandela's prison.
Thames and Hudson 2009
ISBN 9780500415719
Hbk £14.95
Around the World in 80 Dates
Jennifer Cox
As a seasoned travel writer and broadcaster, Jennifer Cox has embarked on plenty of epic adventures before and explored some of the world's most remote regions. She's bonded with people the world over - but she can't, for the life of her, seem to find a soul mate in London. She's tried every dating technique known to womankind, all to no avail. And so she decides to set out on the trip of a lifetime, dating her way around the globe to find the man of her dreams. And date them she does: From the Skate Date in Paris to the High Roller in Vegas, from the Love Professor in Sweden and the Dead Date in Italy to the Penguin Ranger in Australia. But just as she crosses the international dateline one more time, juggling doubts and excess baggage, the impossible happens - has she finally met Mr Right?
Arrow Books 2005
ISBN 0099460289
Pbk £7.99
Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die
Steve Davey
A gorgeously designed and lavishly illustrated book featuring forty essential travel destinations around the world, from Angkor to Zanzibar. The world's must-see destinations in an evocative and compelling format.
BBC Books 2004
ISBN 0563487461
Pbk £18.99
Luxury Liners
Catherine Donzel
An irresistible world unfolds in this fascinating voyage through the
heyday of the great ocean liners. For over a century, from the 1850s to
the launch of the Queen Elizabeth II in 1969, great ships like the Queen Mary, Normandie, and Brittania were undisputed monarchs of the sea, when the transatlantic crossing was still the swiftest route between Europe and America.
Luxury Liners
presents a sumptuous illustrated history of the glamorous life onboard
these enormous ships.
Illustrated with rare, unpublished photographs from private collections, Luxury Liners is ideal for maritime history buffs and lovers of a bygone era.
Vendome Press 2006
ISBN 0865651736
Hbk £25.00
Something Different For the Weekend
Andrew Eames
Packed with 52 seasonal breaks for the imaginative traveller this book is a goldmine of ideas and information. Want to sleep in hay in the barns of northern Germany? cycle through spring blossom on the plains of Mallorca? or even stay with a Count in Transylvania? Just a few of the wonderfully off beat suggestions made by this guide.
Bradt 2008
ISBN 9781841622095
Pbk £9.99
The Road Less Travelled: 1,000 Amazing Places off the Tourist Trail
Eyewitness Travel
Following the bestselling Travel: Where to Go When which organised the world's cultural sites, festivals and beaches into a January to December timetable of locations, The Road Less Travelled presents one thousand lesser-known destinations, journeys and experiences. Expertly written and illustrated with breathtaking photographs.
Dorling Kindersley 2009
(Illustrated)
ISBN 140534427X
Hbk £25.00
Aviator Women: From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, Making History in Air and Space
Bernard Marck Flammarion
A volume of photographs chronicling the lives of the women pioneers of aviation from the earliest bi-plane test pilots to astronauts. This is a book full to brim with record-breaking feats, fierce competitions, rivalries, passion, daredevil stunts, and mysterious disappearances. These "Flying Flappers" and "Pilots in Petticoats" are wonderful company. One of my favourite books of the year.
See also Women Travellers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950 by Christel Mouchard (£24)
Flammarion 2009
(Illustrated)
ISBN 208030108X
Hbk £27.50
Travels With Myself and Another
Martha Gellhorn
Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "best horror journeys". She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer in the Soviet Union against her better judgement. Written with the eye of a novelist and an ironic black humour, what makes these tales irresistible are Gellhorn's explosive and often surprising reactions. Indignant, but never righteous and not always right, through the crucible of hell on earth emerges a woman who makes you laugh with her at life, while thanking God that you are not with her.
Eland 1978
ISBN 0907871771
Pbk £12.99
The Bedside Book of Beasts: A Wildlife Miscellany
Graeme Gibson
A compilation of art, poetry and prose exploring ties between humans and wild animals looking in particular at the relationship between the hunter and the hunted. Includes excerpts from folktales, ancient texts, and the writings of authors as diverse as Charles Darwin, Seamus Heaney, Margaret Atwood, De Montaigne, Edmund Wilson, Flaubert, Kawabata, and Barry Lopez. A book to immerse yourself in for hours at a time.
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2009
ISBN 0747596107
Hbk £20.00
Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth is in her thirties, settled in a large house with a husband who wants to start a family. But she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a rebound fling later, Elizabeth emerges battered yet determined to find what she's been missing.
So begins her quest. In Rome, she indulges herself and gains nearly two stone. In India, she finds enlightenment through scrubbing temple floors. Finally in Bali, a toothless medicine man reveals a new path to peace, leaving her ready to love again.
Bloomsbury 2006
ISBN 9780747585664
Pbk £7.99
Ways of Escape
Graham Greene
With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of a long and extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; he has travelled like an explorer seeking our people and political situations. 'at the dangerous edge of things' - Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days - of the French., Cuba, Prague, Paraguay, Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion. With ironic delight he recalls his time in the British Secret Service in Africa, and his brief involvement in Hollywood. He writes, as only he can about people and places, aboutfaith, doubt, fear and, not least, the trials and craft of writing.
Vintage Classics 1980
ISBN 0099282593
Pbk £7.99
Wild: An Elemental Journey
Jay Griffiths
Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous
and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. A
poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and wild
lands, Wild is by turns funny, touching and harrowing. It is also a journey
into that greatest of uncharted lands - wild mind - as
Hamish Hamilton 2006
ISBN 9780241141526
Hbk £20.00
Lonely Planet's Best Ever Travel Tips
Tom Hall (ed.)
Featuring contributions from a range of travel writers, industry experts and staff, Lonely Planet's Best Ever Travel Tips gives you the secrets of the trade that will help you get the most from your trips.
Lonely Planet Publications Ltd 2010
ISBN 9781741794793
Pbk £4.99
Clean Breaks: 500 New Ways to See the World
Richard Hammond
500 experiences that will inspire you to see the world in a new light - unusual holidays and alternate ways to travel that make a real difference to the lives of local people and the planet. Including chapters on unique accomodation, amazing wildlife, climate friendly travel and living with the locals.
Rough Guides 2009
ISBN 9781848360471
Pbk £18.99
Leviathan, or the Whale
Philip Hoare
Leviathan is so
much more than the sum of its subjects; it is concerned with whales, Moby Dick,
Herman Melville, the author's relationship with all of the above, his mother,
the sea and the history of the whaling trade. Even though I read most of it on a windy Greek
beach with europop blaring out, I was transported to the northern tip of
Fourth Estate Ltd 2009
(Illustrated)
ISBN 0007230141
Pbk £8.99
The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
Roz Hopkins (ed.)
A pictorial guide to travel around the world features 1,200 full-color photographs and descriptions of more than two hundred countries, all organized alphabetically for easy access, along with key facts, maps, cultural insights, and travel tips for each nation.
Lonely Planet 2005
ISBN 1741046297
Pbk £20.00
The Soccer War
Ryszard Kapuscinki
In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on the fighting that broke out between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 after their matches to determine which one of them would qualify for the 1970 World Cup. By the time, he returned to Poland he had witnessed twenty-seven revolutions and coups and been sentenced to death four times. The Soccer War is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of the Third World.
Granta 1990, 2007
ISBN 9781862079595
Pbk £8.99
Travels with Herodotus
Ryszard Kapuscinski
As a novice reporter in the 1950s, the young
Ryzsard Kapuscinski wanted nothing more than to travel outside the
borders of Poland. One day, without warning, his editor called him into
her office and told him he was being sent to India. 'At the end of our
conversation, during which I learned that I would indeed be going forth
into the world, Tarlowska reached into a cabinet, took out a book, and
handing it to me said "Here, a present for the road." It was a thick
book with a stiff cover of yellow cloth. On the front, stamped in gold
letters, was Herodotus The Histories.' Travels with Herodotus records
how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and
Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. At every encounter with
a new culture, Kapuscinski plunges in, curious and observant, thirsting
to understand its history, its thought, its people. He reads Herodotus
so much that he often feels he is embarking on two journeys. So woven into his
accounts of his travels here are his retellings of Herodotus epic
stories: Kapucinski's excitement and absorption in them is palpable.
Penguin 2007
ISBN 0141021144
Pbk £9.99
Bed in a Tree
Bettina Kowlewski
As its title wittily hints at, this book features the most weird and wonderful places to bed down around the world. It suits all budgets and tastes: from the most rough and ready to the more luxurious including a room underwater, a wine barrel and, of course, a bed in a tree. It helpfully gives some examples of similarly unusual local activities. Something for the off beat traveller in your life.
Dorling Kindersley 2009
(Illustrated)
ISBN 1405334975
Hbk £14.99
Holiday SOS: Sun, Sea and Surgery
Ben Macfarlane
Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane. His job is to bring peple back to Britain after holiday disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing incidents on business trips and all the other things that can go wrong when we head off overseas. Holiday SOS is his story - a year in the life of a very British flying doctor.
Hodder 2009
(signed copies available)
ISBN 9780340919750
Pbk £12.99
Silence
Sara Maitland
This is travel writing with a difference. Rather than physical travel - though she does that too - Maitland investigates the emotional and spiritual landscape that opens up to her when she is surrounded by silence, exploring our need for deep silence and its ability to shatter one's sense of self. She looks in particular at the stories of Chris McCandless (Into the Wild), Joe Simpson (Touching the Void) and the 1968 Golden Globe Race. Fascinating and powerful.
Granta Books 2009
ISBN 1847081517
Pbk £8.99
Contact! Brief Encounters in a Lifetime of Travel
Jan Morris
There is nothing like a new book by Jan Morris to cause excitement amongst the Travel Bookshop team. Best known for her writing on place and history. Contact collects a lifetime of encounters with people. Glimpses and conversations with people from around the world. In these moments of contact, some only a few lines long, are distilled sadness, joy, humour and humanity. They read almost like haikus. A book to dip into during quiet moments.
Faber and Faber 2009
(Illustrated)
ISBN 0571250688
Hbk £14.99
Set-Jetting in Style: A Film Inspired Travel Guide
Jill & Carlo Nash
The third book in the Luxury Backpacker series highlights famous films and their locations. Features include regional information for each county, helpful maps, places of interest, hand-picked places to stay, and delicious places to eat.
Luxury Backpackers 2009
ISBN 9780955739743
Pbk £16.00
Global Adventures in Style
Jill & Carlo Nash
100% independently reviewed, informative and inspirational. Global Adventures in Style covers a variety of adventures for beach bums, city slickers, culture vulture or those looking for relaxation or romantic escapes. With essential information such as getting there and away, country highlights and favourite places to stay and eat. It's the perfect book for both your backpack and the coffee table. Featuring: Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, New Zealand, China, Thailand, Italy and USA.
Luxury Backpackers 2008
ISBN 9780955739705
Pbk £16.00
Honeymoons in Style
Jill & Carlo Nash
100% independently reviewed, informative and inspirational. Honeymoons in Style covers a variety of adventures for loved-up couples that also want to experience something more than 2-weeks in a beach resort. Includes experiences such as gastronomy, outdoor action, city stops, culture and art. With essential information such as getting there and away, country highlights and favourite places to stay and eat. Featuring France, Italy, Morocco, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, South Pacific and Brazil.
Luxury Backpackers 2008
ISBN 9780955739712
Pbk £16.00
A Merry Dance Around the World
Eric Newby
A collection of traveller's tales gathered from a lifetime of travel with extracts from his best books including Love and War in the Appennines and A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.
Illustrated with b/w photographs.
Picador 1995
ISBN 9780330349031
Pbk £6.99
The Great Cities in History
John Julius Norwich (ed.)
An unrivalled
collection of essays by the world's leading travel writers, historians and
academics about cities throughout history. From Uruk, that rose and fell on the
banks of the
Thames & Hudson 2009
(Illustrated)
ISBN 0500251541
Hbk £24.95
Worth the Detour: A History of the Guidebook
Nicholas T. Parsons
Nicholas Parsons takes us on a fascinating journey through centuries of travel writing. All over the world travellers check out the sights of their chosen destination with their noses glued to a guidebook, and rely on them for every aspect of their visit - ordering meals, understanding the locals or avoiding wandering into the red-light district. Few realise the guidebook has a long and distinguished history, going back to Biblical times and encompassing major cultural and social changes that have witnessed the transformation of travel. Much as the modern "Blue Guide" will tell the visitor what the essential sights of Paris or New York are so, in the fourth century AD, a "Guidebook to the Seven Wonders of the World" was produced. In 1480, an 'official' guidebook to the Holy Land warned 'For the sake of good relations with foreign hosts, a grave and courteous manner must be maintained ...'. This is very similar to the advice given in one of the most recent guidebooks to Iraq: 'Be especially courteous when dealing with officials ...if you upset them, they can be your worst enemies'.
Sutton 2007
ISBN 9780750943932
Hbk £20.00
Meetings with Remarkable Muslims
Barnaby Rogerson (ed.)
A collection of personal reminiscences of
friendships and chance encounters which have left an indelible mark on the
author. Throwing a bridge across the divide, it shows how immeasurably richer
our lives are for sharing different cultural traditions. This diverse
collection of writers draws together a world stretching from
Sarah Anderson writes about the Spanish/Moroccan traveller of the late
fifteenth century Leo Africanus.
Other contributors include Peter Clark, William Dalrymple, Jason Elliot, James Fergusson, Sylvie Franquet, Shusha Guppy, Mark Hudson, Brigid Keenan, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Sheila Paine, Tahir Shah and Jasper Winn.
Eland 2005
ISBN 9780955010507
Pbk £12.99
Earth Bound: A Rough Guide to the World in Pictures
Rough Guides
Rough Guides photographers have travelled to every corner of the globe - their mission to capture the spirit of a place, its people, its sights and monuments, its heart and sould.
This book collects the best of what they have found on their travels - amazing festivals and celebrations; jam-packed resorts and remote paradises; people at work and at play; powerful art and amazing architecture; the souvenirs and keepsakes that we remember our trip by.
With great writing from the best of Rough Guides' stable of authors, Earthbound captures the essence of travel: why we do it, what we get out of it and the sheer richness and pleasure of the world at large.
Penguin Group 2009
ISBN 9781848361942
Hbk £20.00
Great Yoga Retreats
Kristen Rubesamen Angleika Taschen
Part of Taschen's fantastic travel series, this book brings together the most exquisite and inspirational yoga retreats around the world from ashrams on the banks of the Ganges to New Age institutes in California via eco-retreats in Italy and a beach resort in Mexico. Combined with the stunning photographs, this coffee-table book is a must for any yoga devotee.
Taschen GmbH 2009
(Illustrated)
ISBN 3836512319
Hbk £27.99
1000 Places to See Before You Die
Patricia Schultz
Around the world, continent by continent, here is the world has to offer: 1000 places guaranteed to give travellers the shivers. Sacred ruins, grand hotels, wildlife preserves, hilltop villages, snack shacks, castles, festivals, reefs, restaurants, cathedrals, hidden islands, opera houses, museums and more. Each entry tells exactly why it's essential to visit. Then come the nuts and bolts: addresses, websites, phone and fax numbers, best times to visit. Stop dreaming and get going.
Workman 2003
ISBN 0761104844
Pbk £12.99
The Man in Seat 61
Mark Smith
For a long time the Man In Seat 61 was my favourite website. I liked nothing better than planning a grand overland journey and Mark Smith had done all the difficult research. His book fulfills the same brief, offering advice on worldwide train travel, listing train times and alternate routes. It proves it's possible to get anywhere without first getting on a plane.
Bantam Press 2008
ISBN 9780593058688
Pbk £12.99
1000 Great Holiday Ideas
Time Out
Plan your perfect trip with this inspirational compendium of failsafe holiday suggestions. It's packed with fresh ideas for traditional breaks, from beach idylls to winter sun and family camping, alog with great suggestions for trying something different - all around the world. Whether you're looking for a weekend bread or the trip of a lifetime, Time Out's worldwide team of travel specialists can take you there.
Time Out Group 2010
ISBN 9781846701757
pbk £9.99
The River Between
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Rivers Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of the white settlement.
Heinemann 1965
ISBN 9780435905484
Pbk £9.99
Weep Not, Child
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Weep Not, Child is a powerful, very moving story of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women.
Heinemann 1964
ISBN 9780435908300
Pbk £9.99
Petals of Blood
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Petals of Blood was published in 1977 to huge controversy, leading to Ngugi's imprisonment for his portrayal of Kenya ruled by greed, corruption and brutality. Yet his blistering criticism of the legacy of colonialism still burns with hope for the future.
Penguin 1977
ISBN 9780141187020
£12.99
I Will Marry When I Want
Ngugi wa Thong'o and wa Mirii
This is the renowned play which was developed with Kikuyu actors at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre in Limuru.
Heinemann 1982
ISBN 9780435902469
Pbk £9.99
Unforgettable Journeys to Take Before you Die
Sarah Watkins
International travel writers Steve Watkins and Claire Jones draw on their years of experience in selecting thirty of their favourite trips of a lifetime. With a diverse range of adventures on offer from crusiing through a Patagonian fjord to taking a slow barge down the canal du Midi. A book that is sure to inspire and inform in equal measure.
BBC Books 2007
ISBN 9780563522638
Pbk £18.99
