Travel to Foreign Lands

Melting the snow to reveal a hidden Alaska, these poems juxtapose extreme landscapes with everyday existence and rituals, a life of expressways, families, and dinner parties.

Sitting in a therapist’s chair, Nate Mason recounts the story of a girl and her father, stuck in a rut, far from home, and having to contend with the demons of the Caribbean jungle.

For almost half a century, Hunter Davies has spent summer in the Lake District. Now he takes readers on an informative guided tour through the lakes, fells, and traditions of England’s favourite tourist destination.

Fresh out of jail and Caribbean dreaming, Wynston Cleave is making a new start after his wrongful conviction for murder. But on the anniversary of his arrest, Wynston picks up two American passengers in his cockroach infested cab and soon his fate becomes entwined with theirs, and the viral outbreak onboard the cruise ship from which they just alighted…

Via photographs, compressed prose and short poems, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield simultaneously documents and queries her work as a guide onboard ships in Antarctica. With incisive insider vision, Bradfield examines our relationship with remoteness, “pure” landscapes and tourism’s service economy.

A naturalist's boat voyage to Alaska takes an interesting turn when the hunt for a rare orchid begins.

The South Pacific: the perfect Gridiron recruiting ground?

Tales from the most notorious (illegal) border crossing in the World.

From the mean streets of Mogadishu to the wilds of Afghanistan, the life of a Green Beret is never dull.

An intriguing fusion of travelogue, gender identity, and science writing -— on a journey to Alaska: via Iceland, Greenland, and Canada.

A lifelong explorer recounts travel tales as tall as the Himalayas he once navigated.

Two Americans find themselves in the Israeli desert, searching for something more meaningful than the lives they left behind.

The name says it all really. And he did lose them at one point in the journey.

The loosely connected lives of characters roaming the globe intertwine -— across the past, present, and future.

Novelist Peter Carey comes home to Sydney after living abroad. But now he's here as a tourist.

A tale of love, art, and history — set against the changing face of modernist Barcelona.

Paul Bowles began travelling the moment he could — leaving America as a teenager to visit Gertrude Stein in Paris. He settled in Morocco after the war, and for thirty years travelled in North Africa, Central America, Southeast Asia, Indian and Sri Lanka (where he bought an island). He wrote articles, essays and journals along the way — writing which ranks with his novels in its astute observation, dry wit and impeccable prose. Travels brings together for the first time Paul Bowles's travel writing and journals. It includes the full text of his book Their Heads Are Green

Follow the story of a real adventurer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, as he traverses the deserts of Australia.

Will you tumble down the rabbit hole?

We all know the phrase "the past is a foreign country", but what if instead of looking back to a time when we were younger, we looked back to a time when we were older! The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a strange tale. Benjamin Button is born as an old man, and dies as a baby — his life is lived in reverse. Emerging from the cradle smoking a pipe and reading encyclopaedias, Benjamin settles down to playing with toys in old age. Don't worry if you've seen the film with Brad Pitt — the book is nothing like it!