Plan Your Visit With Confidence
Plan Your Visit With Confidence
Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER 2025A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: TRAVEL China today is a land of opportunity for African people blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America. It is also an intersection of racism and prejudice. …
On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar ‘On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement’ – Joanna Lumley In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure …
Walking with Nomads: One Woman’s Adventures Through a Hidden World from the Sahara to the Atlas Mountains ‘Transports the reader to another world’ Sunday ExpressAdventurer and TV presenter Alice Morrison takes the reader on three remarkable and inspirational journeys across Morocco, Walking with Nomads from the Sahara to the Atlas mountains, to reveal the growing challenges …
by Andrew Graham Dixon (Author) 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 5 ratings #1 Best Sellerin European Art History ‘This book is going to revolutionize the way we understand Vermeer’ Peter Carey The paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the most beautiful, even sublime, in the history of art. Yet like the life of Vermeer himself, …
From the author of the smash-hit Around the World in 80 Trains comes a new globetrotting journey – this time celebrating the peculiar magic and mayhem of the night train. ‘Nobody writes trains like Monisha Rajesh’ Irvine Welsh‘Hugely entertaining’ The Times‘A moonlit express train to travel writing heaven. This is Monisha Rajesh’s wittiest and most irresistible adventure yet’ William Dalrymple …
Book overview When the door is left ajar and your dance card is empty and you’re slipping down the batting order and you know that the old mountain-climbing, ocean-sailing, camping-in-the-mangroves-in-a-hammock old bastard is getting soft, yes is the answer. To everything.Umbrellas in the Jungle is a collection of short stories from nine months travelling in …
Whether you are fortunate enough to travel as far as Central America, or smart enough to be stuck somewhere else but interested in that region, there is a vast amount of information which you can access. As well as guidebooks, understanding what you can learn will be valuable if you take the effort to search …
Finding Solace on the Edge: A Journey of Resilience in “The Salt Path“ Raynor Winn’s “The Salt Path” is more than just a memoir; it’s a testament to the human spirit’s remarkable capacity for resilience, healing, and finding unexpected beauty amidst profound adversity. Published in 2018, this extraordinary debut chronicles an incredible journey of survival …
A faux pas I made in an interview for a summer job at The British Council in Bahrain by Carrie Evans (Author) Awoke this morning to the thickest pea-souper I believe I’ve ever seen in the Gulf. I remember first hearing about this phenomenon at Spring Gardens in London from a terribly plummy sort of chap, who …
Not in a Tuscan Villa – During a year in Italy, a New Jersey couple discovers the true Dolce Vita when they trade rose-colored glasses for 3Ds by John Petralia (Author), Nancy Petralia (Author) 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 1,304 ratings See all formats and editions What happens if you decide to make a dream come true? Newly retired and …