- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Travles through this bleak area of the map. Not so bleak, actually! Track the authors travels on a map, enjoy the wry humour,as he travels around this little known part of the world.
- Location(s): Gabon
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1890s
Unique perspective: Until 1893, Mary Kingsley led a secluded life in Victorian England. At age 30 however, Kingsley defied convention and arranged a trip to west Africa to collect botanical samples for a book left unfinished by her father....
- Location(s): Dubrovnik
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960’s
“This is a terrible chronicle of debauchery. It is by my standards anyway, because I’m a very typical, ordinary, middle-class wife. You might not think it, perhaps, from what I’ve been telling you, but don’t be hard on me...
- Location(s): Santiago de Compostela
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Almost 300,000 people `officially’ complete the journey to Santiago each year – hundreds of thousands more travel at least part of the way. In this book, Richard Frazer discovers on his pilgrimage to the shrine of St James the...
Travels With Boogie: 500 Mile Walkies and Boogie Up the River
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
- Era(s): End 20th Century
Travels with Boogie is the story of two city slickers – one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell, the other the long-suffering author – and how they came to terms with England’s countryside and waterways. First they had...
- Location(s): Australia, Los Angeles, New Zealand (Aotearoa), The Cook Islands
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2010's
In 2000, after her children set off for new lives on the other side of the globe, Vivien Fallows embarked on a solo travel mission. At the request of her husband, Vivien shared the stories in a diary, which...
- Location(s): Paris, Brighton, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paraguay
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother’s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
One man’s story of the pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela across northern Spain – on Shinto, the donkey, an unusual means of transport. This is an entertaing look at man’s relationship with animals, a compassionate book...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Witty, yet wise with intimate insights, this is a unique journey of sensuous delights, a beautiful and compelling series of adventures that capture the insecurities, pain and ultimate joy of a middle-aged woman facing life and embracing life on...
Treacherous Strand (Inishowen Mysteries)
- Location(s): Inishowen
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A woman’s body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen peninsula. Partially-clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh, she is identified as Marguerite Etienne, a French woman who has been living in the area. Solicitor Benedicta...
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