Travel Writing & Commentary

Reluctant adventurer Bryson recounts his gruelling hike along the longest continuous footpath in the world....

Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did....

With wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure....

As Ellie’s 50th birthday approaches, she begins to doubt she’s capable of achieving anything at all....

In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it....

Make your journey to Ireland the best possible! Ireland's prolific green countryside captivates many visitors year after year....

The third and most ambitious of Michael Palin's adventures is a voyage of epic proportions - the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim....

In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world....

The Old Ways, a major new book from one of Britain’s finest nature writers about landscape and the human heart....

Bryson writes about everything from everyday chores, to suing people, the beach, TV, movies....

Eat, Pray, Love is a journey around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment, and a story for anyone who has battled with divorce, depression, and heartbreak....

Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....

Disillusioned with corporate London life and with no previous experience as a long-distance cyclist, Anna decides to clamber atop a beautiful pink bicycle (named Boudica) and set out on an 11,000-mile journey on her own, through each and every state of the USA....

This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard....

The Appalachian Trail covers 14 states, and over 2,000 miles. It stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south....

Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, but perhaps the greatest single challenge he has faced is his latest, a crossing of the vast and merciless Sahara Desert....

This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world....

In Pole to Pole we join Michael Palin on the second of his epic challenges....

Keith Foskett’s dream of escape started with a single step. When the long-distance hiker chose to backpack all 2,180 miles of the Appalachian Trail, he left ordinary life behind for five months....

This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits....

A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated from the page.... 

Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitchhike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn't the conventional follower of the hippy trail....

Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his...

In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries....

Best-selling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital's history....

Remember when you were a kid, and you used to go round to a friend's house to see if they were playing....