From celebrated travel writers and enthusiasts

One of the very best travel lists.
William Dalrymple

I find this in an old encyclopaedia. Eland: the largest of the antelopes, fast, independent, almost the size of an ox, and unusually robust. Now almost extinct in Cape Colony, but surviving elsewhere. It has a short mane and never sheds its horns. In publishing - they might have added - it is pretty much the same, with a nearly extinct integrity, an eccentric passion for quality, its editorial horns intact, and a wonderful survivor. We are all in its debt.
Colin Thubron

Eland Books have the ultimate list for travellers and explorers. If you have read all their books then you will know what it's all about and will hardly need to go anywhere yourself. It is one of my daydreams to be rich enough to give complete sets to all the intelligent young I know.
Robin Hanbury-Tenison

There are books and writers that have the capacity to shift our view of the world, or of one particular place. Then, for some reason or other, many of them are forgotten or lost. Eland brings them back to us, and beautifully so.
Justine Hardy

Four cheers for Eland! For rescuing multitudinous wonderful classics from scandalous obscurity. For introducing important new authors to the reading public. For sticking doggedly to high editorial and production standards. And, of course, for not featuring a single celebrity autobiography on its noble list. Congratulations!
Sara Wheeler

Eland is the 'Ultima Thule' for fine travel writing. Its list, teeming with the classics, is mouth-watering, its sumptuously produced books lifelong companions to treasure.
Justin Marozzi

Under the guidance and inspiration of first John Hatt and now Barnaby Rogerson, Eland has developed into Britain's leading independent publisher of inspirational travel writing. In a media world increasingly bereft of intelligent travel editorial, it is heartening to still be able to turn to Eland's inspirational list.
Jamie Dunford-Wood, Travel Intelligence

It is, quite simply, the most consistently fine publishing house in the English-speaking world, every title a cracker.
Nicholas Shakespeare

For twenty-five years Eland has revived, preserved and celebrated some of the very best travel writing, keeping alive individual voices, travellers tales, even glimpses of ways of life that our arrogant, disposable society would have otherwise lost to history.
Rory Maclean

No British publisher has a list so enticingly eclectic or so consistently rewarding. Eland has established itself as a National Treasure.
Fergus Fleming

'Travelling . . . in books,' said Fielding's Parson Adams, is 'the only way of travelling by which any knowledge is to be acquired.' A slight overstatement, perhaps; but today, with real travel a rarity and records of past journeys all the more precious, the parson's words are truer than they ever were. Knowledge, though, is only part of it.
To read Beames on Bengal, for instance, or Harris on Morroco, is not just to be edified; it is also to be enthralled and entertained. By bringing these authors - and the others on their splendid list - back into print, Eland have enriched a whole new generation of travellers-in-books.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Eland is a veritable treasure trove, a home to the finest travel literature. There are plenty of far larger publishers who must blush with embarrassment when compared to them.
Tahir Shah

Book for book the best list in London.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Evening Standard

When I think of elands, I imagine pace, elegance and adventure on far horizons. When I think of Eland, I recall the same qualities in well-selected, well edited books.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Eland keeps the art of travel writing alive, it is one of the few publishers remaining that always produces a list that is impossible to resist.
Tarquin Hall

It is thanks above all to Eland Books that we are reminded of how great and important travel writing can be: they have kept alive the reputation of authors who have expanded enormously our appreciation and understanding of the world. I for one am indebted to them more than to almost any other publisher, if only for having first introduced me to such a magnificent writer as Norman Lewis.
Michael Jacobs

Sleek and speedy by name, sleek and elegant by nature - and unfailingly original.
Robert Lacey

Beautifully produced … Eland serves as a reminder that a book has value as an object, without losing sight of the fact that the contents are what matter. We'll all have our own views on what deserves to be republished, but it doesn't look like Eland will run out of ideas any time soon.
Mick Herron, Geographical magazine

Travellers - whether those who desire to explore the world in mind or body, will be unable to resist Eland… the publisher searches out and reprints books that catch the essence of a place and are written with intimacy, humour and an infectious delight in story telling … incomparable.
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