Жанр "Туризм. Путешествия. Путеводители"

In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences,...

From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took...

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform...

In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his...

"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"

A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a...

Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become...

In the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the Indian Himalaya. Now he returns to the most...

Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but...

A nostalgic and very funny celebration of the slightly slapdash place we call home: Great Britain

Would you cheer if they sent...

Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while....

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas,...

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries...

In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of...

Travels around Italy in search of illusion, national character and goals.


'Delves into the very essence of being a fan,...

'I recommend his book to all those who are fed up with accounts of roughing it agreeably in Tuscany and similar junk that...

Graham Greene's incredible journey to an unchartered land.

The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West...

A glorious ramble around Yorkshire from one of our best loved poets

I'm going to define the essence of this sprawling place...

Mike Carter's journey around the British coast by bike

What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on...

Join Stuart Maconie as he clock off in the north of England

Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its...

A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and...

In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to...

The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook.

If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would...

A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov,...

Discover over 5000 years of seafaring history, packed with first-hand accounts of triumphs and disasters.
A fascinating journey...

'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...'
In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel...

Articles include Working Under the Water, The Golden Gate Bridge and A Striking Color.

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Sakhalin Region - the only island region in Russia - has a lot of interesting things to offer tourists. Thanks to its favourable...