There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides. The beauty of this reg...more

This handsome 300 page hardback is packed full of photographs of the glamorous old ruling house of Egypt and has just been published by Sherif Boraie in Cairo. The book has bee...more

What is it that makes us who we are? In this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveller Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconv...more

When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set o...more

NEW PAPERBACK EDITION. Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba in the company of Dervla Murphy, her daughter and three young granddaughters and you have a Swallows and ...more

Even before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It developed wherever Arabic came to be spoken, from Damascus to Fez, Baghdad to Cairo, as well as in the Arabian ...more

The Journals of Lady Henrietta Clive, a feisty, independent-minded traveller, are among the very earliest written accounts of India by a British woman. Married to Lord Edward C...more

Lebanon has fallen prey to the rapacious appetites of most of the world's greatest powers and vestiges of these transient civilisations are still there: Phoenician tombs and Rom...more

Palestine Papers, brings the forgotten pages of history back to passionate life. Doreen Ingrams has sieved through secret cabinet documents, Foreign and War office memorandum an...more

Mother Land is a minutely remembered description of a childhood on an Aegean island, marked by the furious opposition of hostile yet neighbouring cultures. It is an account of ...more

The Galapagos Islands, an ‘enchanted archipelago' with natural volcanic beauty, were made famous by the explorations of Charles Darwin. The near-miraculous survival of unique sp...more

From the present-day street life of Ginza, to the heights of Mount Fuji in the company of 16th-century traveller and poet Basho: the most recent addition to Eland's through writ...more

Through the dialogue of Max, a young physicist in England and Eleanor, an anthropologist in Germany, Nicholas Mosley resurrects the passion which fuelled the idealism of Europe ...more

Ali al Jabri was an Arab artist who was murdered in 2002, a violent and lonely end to a life of passionate creativity and a restless search for identity. Ali was stranded betwe...more

The honeymoon – no other holiday inspires so much anticipation, or has such potential for blissful happiness, or for disappointment.

Using extracts from fiction and from real...more

WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK AWARD 2008 - Somewhere in the world there may be a noisier street than Acharnon Street; but I hope not. A si...more

For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. All around him friends and acquaintances were "disappearing". Although the...more