Category: Travel
'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history. On his ...Show more
Category: Travel
The premier guide for Spiritual Pilgrimage to Fatima, with high-quality maps and photos, quality writing, history, descriptions, suggestions, schedules.
Category: Travel | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Now in its 37th edition, Explore Australia covers more of the country than any other Australian guidebook. You'll find details on over 700 regional towns, including information on local and nearby attractions, as well as markets and festivals. This beautifully designed and comprehensive guideb ...Show more
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
It's back: our agenda-setting compilation of the hottest destinations in the world. Our staff, authors and online community have travelled to every corner of the world and we've distilled their adventures down to the most outstanding, underrated and overlooked places - and tell readers why to go in 2020 ...Show more
Category: Travel
From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness--one of our most engaging and discerning travel writers--a unique, indispensable guide to the enigma of contemporary Japan. After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer can use everything from anime to Oscar Wilde to show how his adopted home is both haunt ...Show more
Category: Travel
Read this book if you want to find out just how crazy Japan is about cats. In a country with millions of cat owners, it's not unusual to find felines in coffee shops, hotel lobbies, and museums; being taken for stroller rides; or even serving as train stationmasters. But how did this cat mania start? Wh ...Show more
Category: Travel | Series: Atlas Obscura Ser.
Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. The second edition, revised and updated with 20% new material, reveals more hidden wonders. Among them: The Glowing Termite Mounds of Emas Brazil, The secretive FBI Spy H ...Show more
Category: Travel
Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual works together weave a dense and beautiful brocade of repeated patterns and motifs, tones and textures. Here are asobi, the wandering performers who pre ...Show more
Category: Travel
'What's so impressive about Justin Butcher's book is the interweaving of his personal face-to-face experiences in Israel and Palestine against the backdrop of the social and political realities there. This book displays an empathy that is unusual in discussions of that tangled and tragic situation - the ...Show more
Category: Travel
They didn't know it, but Patti Miller and herbrother, Barney, shared something in common -- a passion for the illuminating joy of wild nature -- with all its challenges and dangers. In this extraordinaryand unexpected book, Patti tells the story of her own long-distance walkingover hundreds of kilometre ...Show more
Category: Travel
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers ...Show more
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
The next title in our Epic series celebrates the fastest growing activity in the world: recreational running. We cover the greatest routes, from fun and scenic short runs, to trails and must-do marathons that go beyond New York and London to include Kyoto, the Great Wall of China and Australia's Blue Mo ...Show more
