Travel Writing & Commentary

Read by the author, Kate Barron 'A truly inspiring story of courage, resilience and the call of the wild. Wilderness Mum is a testament to the extraordinary things we are capable of' - Tim Peake Most people believe the wild years end when motherhood begins. For me, that’s when they truly...

"Jenna helps you prepare for trips that’ll work with your family and budget, and also with the understanding that no trip is perfect or without a few hiccups." – Giovanna Fletcher "I love Jenna's down-to-earth, approachable style – she makes family travel feel doable and exciting." –...

Brought to you by Penguin. A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged, and typically rather cautious, journalist Mike Carter to take off on a life-changing six month motorcycle trip around Europe. Never mind that he hadn't been on two wheels since an inglorious...

There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world—from altesse to zierfandler—but 80 percent of the wine we drink is made from only 20 grapes. In Godforsaken Grapes, award-winning travel writer Jason Wilson looks at how that came to be and embarks on a journey to discover what we miss.

Five and a half decades of adventure travel, mostly by motorcycle, often alone or with his son. Now in his 70's, Tales from the Road: Volume 3 captures interesting and unusual vignettes from the author's adventure travels, starting, perhaps, when he was six-years-old (a solo, unauthorised three-mile journey by tricycle). Then, two epic journeys with his father and brother: walking 375 miles from Durban to Lourenco Marques when he was 12-years-old, and then, two years later, a 1,200-mile bicycle ride to Beira in Mocambique.

The Still Point is a meditation on risk, empathy, and attention, told through 20 years of travel across 65 countries. From the Afghan desert to the streets of Beirut, from the markets of Lagos to the mountain roads of Peru, Scott H. Blake reflects on what danger, culture, and human instinct can teach us about perception and about ourselves.

Uma jornada de coragem, amor e transformação a 4.680 metros de altitude. Você já sentiu que o tempo está passando… e a vida precisa de algo mais?
Ascender e Superar é mais do que um diário de viagem — é um convite à superação, mesmo quando o fôlego falta e os medos sussurram que é melhor parar.

The city long adored for its medieval beauty, old-timey brasseries, and corner cafés has even more to offer today. In the last few years, a flood of new ideas and creative locals has infused a once-static, traditional city with a new open-minded sensibility and energy. Journalist Lindsey Tramuta offers detailed insight into the rapidly evolving worlds of food, wine, pastry, coffee, beer, fashion, and design in the delightful city of Paris.

Wie viele Fettnäpfchen passen in eine Reise nach Costa Rica und Panama? Ich fand die Antwort und schrieb ein ganzes Buch darüber. Im Herz der Tropen ist meine Geschichte , der sich auf den Weg macht, um mehr zu erleben, mehr zu verstehen und mehr von sich selbst zu entdecken und das mit jeder Menge Chaos, Humor und einer gesunden Portion Neugier. Was als sportliche Reise nach Costa Rica und Panama begann, wurde zu einem Abenteuer, das nicht nur meinen Körper, sondern auch seine Seele auf den Prüfstand stellte.

Acts are sometimes the only things that can speak. It was brave of me to stay. I didn't want to stay, though, so I left. Every day began already worn out, every talk went back to the same subject, and every well-known street asked the same questions. The city I lived in was full of people, noise, and movement all the time, but I felt strangely still inside. In that quiet, the idea for the road began to form. Not as a way to get away. Not as a quest. As a place only. Loneliness is often linked to empty roads, but it's not always about not having anyone else around.