The New York skyline is arguably one of the most distinctive on Earth. At night, however, the city's numerous landmarks are transformed from the familiar into the new. Following the...
Following an extended bout of hard city life, Tony Rocca and his wife, Mira, decided that some of the really important things were missing - good food, plenty of sunshine...
Fabio Caramaschi lives and works in Rome, but he leaves as often as he can, traveling and telling, in words and images, the stories of the people he meets: "I...
A second collection of enthralling accounts of the most spectacular train trips from around the world Readers will be immersed in evocative accounts of the Desert Express from Windhoek in...
This book celebrates the unique collections of Yale University, chiefly of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, on the occasion of the tercentenary of the city of St. Petersburg....
Tired of his life as a globe-trotting journalist, and desperate to finish his latest novel, writer Derek Lambert decides to settle with his new wife and young son in a...
During the 18th and 19th centuries, artists and travellers were lured to Rome, the home of civilized values and artistic beauty. But the history of visiting Rome had a pathological...
Mumbai Masti captures the distinctive iconography of a melting pot of communities through a distinctly unconventional prism. It audaciously brings together two diverse creative energies with electric results. Globally acclaimed...
Involved extensive travels throughout this beguiling country, photographing formally and informally, in meeting places, places of work and leisure, public spaces, domestic surroundings, in country fields and city streets and...
With his typically perceptive insights, Levi writes evocatively on his experiences in India, including his interview with Pandit Nehru, his tour of a tent city at a political convention, and...
Once the elegant second city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest, the 'Queen of the Danube', is now being rediscovered as one of the liveliest and most attractive destinations in Europe....
Between Sea and Sahara is one of the great classics of travel-writing about the Middle East - a landmark in the story of Europe's fascination with "The Orient". Travelling in...
Beyond the breathtaking beauty of the Parthenon, which dominates the city and the imagination, Athens is less well known than many other European cities. Surprisingly few guidebooks deal with it...
An Inland Voyage is an account of a canoeing trip through Belgium and northern France undertaken in 1876, when the author was 36 years old. Stevenson and his companion, Sir...
Martin Buckley travels from north-east India to Sri Lanka to recreate one of the great journeys in world literature - the Ramayana. Myth, travelogue and holy writ, the Ramayana -...
This book is inspired by the experience of those who, usually for professional reasons, have to continually travel by air from one city, country or continent to another. Dubbed 'frequent...
Every morning in Sadar Bazaar, one of the oldest markets in Delhi, men gather looking for work in the building trade. For five years, Aman Sethi visited them and talked...
A brilliant fusion of travel writing and Soviet history which reads like Bruce Chatwin. Engineers of the Soul is the riveting story of two journeys -- one literal, one imaginary...
