Travel

The celebrated novelist Orhan Pamuk explores his idea of Istanbul, mingling personal memoir with cultural history to evoke his home of fifty years. After the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the world almost forgot that Istanbul existed. The city into which I was born was poorer, shabbier, and more isolat... More

This brand-new guide to one of South America's best travel bargains, formerly covered in the bestselling "Argentina, Uruguay & Paraguay," focuses solely on Argentina and features full-color highlights, detailed itineraries, easy-to-use grid-referenced maps, and more.... More

Lonely Planet's guide is the ticket to endless adventure in Southeast Asia, including Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and... More

Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later. Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand o... More

England's favourite American's book about his adopted country: his hilarious No.1 bestseller. After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.... More

Winner of the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year ‘City of Djinns is a delight. William Dalrymple is in command of his subject, seizes the reader and uses his skill to tempt and tantalize… The book is Dalrymple’s journey into the soul of Delhiâ€... More

Winner of the 2005 Kiriyama Prize for Non-fictionSuketu Mehta left Bombay at the age of 14. Twenty-one years later he returned to rediscover the city. The result is this stunning, brilliantly illuminating portrait of the megalopolis and its people—a book, seven years in the making, that is as vast... More

The international bestseller HOLY COW! combines the author's quest for spiritual enlightenment among India's many religions with her own engrossing - and comic - story After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with... More

Lonely Planet's series of country travel guides provides upfront color highlights, "top ten" lists, easy-to-use maps with cross referencing to text, and more. "Down-to-earth, accurate information for every budget, enthusiastically written!"--"Travel & Leisure."... More

Naipaul's first travel book - travelling from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean Naipaul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is both a journey to the familiar and to the strange and Naipaul recor... More