Before Thesiger, T.E.Lawrence and Richard Burton, there was an even greater traveller in the heroic British tradition of the recklessly adventurous, amateur scholar - Alexander...more

Gaia Servadio is an Italian writer, long settled in Britain, who has retained a passionate relationship with her motherland and those who have expressed this in verse. The cast ...more

One winter, Dervla Murphy, the four-footed Hallam (the mule) and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart ...more

Dervla Murphy's first epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, Full Tilt, is a complete adventure in itself. It is also the first volume of a trilogy of experience...more

In The Waiting Land (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilizatio...more

Goodbye Buenos Aires is a vivid and earthy celebration of Argentina, which chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the 20's and 30's through the imaginative...more

NEW PAPERBACK EDITION - 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...more

NEW PAPERBACK EDITION Evliya Çelebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world - a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckis...more

Gathers poems about four of China''s venerable cities - Chang''an (now Xi''an), Luoyang, Beijing, and Hangzhou. To the Chinese, the city was a depiction of the Confucian ideal o...more

A Pattern of Islands is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, ...more

TIME OUT – BOOK OF THE WEEK 26 May -1 June 2011

The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath: It has been said that ‘ God made the country and man made the town', but this is not...more

The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. Studying in the Cameroons for his first experience of fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society...more

A Russian Upstairs, Downstairs, but one scented with the cordite and fear of revolution, and with a cast of devotedly loyal and capable British governesses. Miss Emmie i...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