To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, in all its violence and beauty.
Ancient scrolls and beliefs entered the land in the satchels of Buddhist pilgrims and in the baggage of military invaders - from Alexander the Great to Mughal, Persian... Læs mere
There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides. This book... Læs mere
For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, and under threat of 'disappearance' he helped families of the missing, attended guerilla conference, and took tea with torturers.
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2000.
Describes the Costa Brava, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and made ends meet.
Describes the author's various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet.
Charles Nicholl pieces together the shadowy story of Rimbaud s life as a trader, explorer and gun-runner.
Travels in Thailand and Burma in 1968, learning about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism.
Letters written from 1716-1718 from the Ottoman Empire by Mary Wortley Montagu, one of the first modern travel writers. A revelation in their day.
Rogerson family history.