A portrait in words and photographs of over 50 of the most exotic railway journeys across the globe, in Asia, Africa, Australia, North, Central and South America, and Europe. Some of these, such as the Orient Express route from Paris to Istanbul, are historical and no longer possible as a single journey. For these, full details of how to trace the ......
A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: "only food runs!" With a new introduction and new material from the authorIn the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide's-eye view of living in the bush, ......
Illustrates the fulfillment of author's childhood dream to see 100 countries. This title is a regular edition book with full cloth case and French fold jacket in full cloth box with debossed artwork and blind stamping and includes a signed and numbered artist's print.
Recollections of grueling climbs, knee-wrecking descents, mountaintop thunderstorms, snakes underfoot, and the myriad characters encountered on an AT thru-hike.
In this witty and entertaining memoir, Alister Kershaw describes the pleasures of his prolonged residence in France - a country of villages - from 1948, when even Paris was a series of villages.
Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga
Combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. This book offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, tattoos, and a striking account of a ship funeral.
Mungo Park set off from his home in the Scottish borders in May 1795 at the age of 23 to discover the course of the River Niger in West Africa. When he reappeared in England more than two and a half years later, he had been presumed dead, and the tale of his perilous journey published in 1799 was greeted with great acclaim.
For ten years Robyn Davidson has been travelling light. Across the desert, across America on a Harley-Davidson, or walking through the bush of ghosts by night. In these articles that make up Travelling Light, the bestselling author of Tracks takes us into wilds of many countries - as well as countries of the mind.
The Travel Writer's Field Guide is an inspirational reference book for anyone who loves to travel. Inside its pages, authors Phoebe Smith and Daniel Neilson offer advice about every element of travel writing, from structuring stories to pitching to editors.
ISBN-13: 9781999325800
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: THE WILDERNESS CONSPIRACY
In Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions, Daniel Cooper Alarcon argues that travel literature performs important social and cultural criticism often overlooked in studies of the genre. By examining non-fiction and fiction novels and short stories that purposefully examine different types of travel in relationship to each other, Cooper Alarcon ......
This book paints the story of a Western artist's discovery of authentic Mexico, encapsulating a journey away from narrow observations of the country's stereotypes- black and white films, cactus', cartels, and the jumping bean- towards a greater understanding of its significance in the social and geopolitical landscape. From the emergence of ......
