Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the tra...
As a child, award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on horseback. This is the story of how that dream was fulfilled by following in the fo...
City of Djinns was the first product of Dalrymple’s love affair with India, centring on Delhi, a city with ‘a bottomless seam of stories’. Shaped more like a novel than a ...
In 1985 Hudson visited the village of Dulaba in the Gambia to help in some field studies there. He was so intrigued by what he saw that he decided to return. The book tell...
In the summer of 1981, Vikram Seth, an Indian postgraduate student at Nanjing University, decided on a politically difficult and geographically hazardous journey: he would...
Путешествия Тима Северина продолжаются!
С детства влюбленный в сказания о скитаниях Синдбада-морехода, Северин отправляется по следам знаменитого бродяги - на корабле, по...
As a child in England, Raban read "Huckleberry Finn" and dreamed of floating down the Mississippi. "Old Glory" offers the chronicle of this realization of his dream--achie...
Молодая женщина Робин Дэвидсон с четырьмя верблюдами и собакой прошла более полутора тысяч миль по пустыням Центральной Австралии. Чтобы проделать этот путь, ей пришлось п...