Travel

An exploration of the joys and idiosyncrasies of Britain's one-off narrow-gauge railway lines. This informative guide to lesser-known and eccentric railways across the country is the perfect alternative railway history for lovers of steam heritage.

This is a classic collection of the very best of travel writing published in Granta magazine, with contributions from many best-selling authors including - Thomas Keneally, Paul Theroux and Colin Thubron to name just a few.

Small and practical, these maps are easy to use thanks to double sided pocket format and includes multi-language key, relief shading, spot heights and other geographical features. Ferry connections are marked but railways are not included.

Seeing this panoply of signs splashed across the pages in Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements is almost as good as taking a road trip! You can get your kicks--and pretty much anything else--on Route 66, provided you see the sign that s advertising it! Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements ...

25 London adventure walks, based around historic, literary and artistic themes, all starting from points accessible by public transport .

This book offers a critical examination of Harold Pinter's dramatic writing over four decades, from The Room (1957) to Celebration (2000), emphasising the worth of the plays as pieces written for performance, investigating their status as dramatic (as opposed to literary) texts.

From its famous landmarks and industries to its cultural and sporting highlights, A Lancashire Miscellany is bursting with intriguing facts and figures-a book to dip into again and again.

On the occasion of the centenary of the Master's death, a new collection of the acclaimed novelist's travel writing, taking readers from the American towns of upstate New York to villages in rural Tuscany.

Vanlife Diaries celebrates the nomadic lifestyle and community through interviews, advice for living on the road, and more than two hundred photos of these tiny rolling homes.

Perhaps no other city has so many resonances, on so many levels, as Paris, which has fragmented socially, sexually, intellectually and linguistically into many fields. Using literary analysis, film, social and gender theory, and perspectives on urbanism, this book examines some of them.

From an award-winning travel writer, this is an evocative journey around some of the country's most ancient sites and ritual places, and a profound exploration of the relationship between man and the landscape

From the Lion's Mouth - holiday reads and travel literature, an insightful portrait of Pakistan with themes of religion, culture and hospitality in an account of travelling up the Indus River from the Karachi mudflats through the Karakorum, Kashmir and the Himalayas to its source on Mount Kailash on the Indian side of the Tibetan plateau in Ladakh.

An exploration of the outposts set along the edges of civilisation and the impact that visiting these has on the human spirit, from the co-author of Holloway

Adventurer Lois Pryce ignores all warnings and embarks on a 3,000- mile journey across Iran, lifting the veil on a misunderstood country. Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Book of the Year Award.

Tales of escape and adventure on Britain's waterways

The Pyramids of Giza are home to a Sound and Light Show of music, historical narration, and lights and images played out on the ancient stones and the Sphinx. Including an introduction to the area and historical period by Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, this full colour presentation has over 60 photographs and a complete script of the show.

Covering the high points of pharaonic Egypt--pyramids, tombs, temples and sculpture--this collection of images with extensive captions introduces the major must-see sights and works of art.

One of the highlights of a visit to the temple of Horus at Edfu, halfway between Luxor and Aswan in Upper Egypt, is the famed Sound & Light Show, a spectacular show of music, historical narration , and lights and images played on the ancient temple facade and inside the columned courtyards and hallways. ...

The true story of the men who made Shackleton's most famous expedition possible and paid the highest price for it.