In this irresistible marriage of water colourist`s sketchbook & traveler`s guide, Virginia Johnson lovingly captures the magic of one of the world`s most storied regions, the French Riviera. We walk the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Shop for handmade sandals at Rondini in Saint-Tropez. Visit the Madoura workshop in Antibes, where Picasso discovered his genius for pottery. Meet legendary characters like Pierre Gruneberg, a swimming instructor who taught Jean Cocteau, Brigitte Bardot, Paul Mc Cartney, & many others. Saturated with the limpid colours of sea & sun, the dazzling greens of verdant gardens, & the rose & ochre of sunbaked villas & joyous with paisleys & blue-striped sailor`s shirts & the riotous look of a patisserie window filled with confections, Travels Through the French Riviera is a gift book of visual wonder, the souvenir every Francophile will want. But it is also a quirky yet singularly useful travel guide, whether showing how to order coffee like a local, plan a beach day at Menton, or hike the Cap Ferrat peninsula or where to taste the best ice cream in Antibes (at Amarena
- try the mint).
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This is a unique notebook from Cavallini & Co. with a beautiful & robust cover featuring a vintage map of the world. It



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Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, & he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of cold climates & social orthodoxy. Along the way he canoed through Belgium & France, booked passage to & across America, & finally famously settled in Samoa in the South Seas. The walking trip that Stevenson describes in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) was taken when the nascent author was still in his twenties & pining for a lost love. Accompanied by Modestine, the eponymous donkey he hired to carry his camping gear, the journey proved both challenging & charming. The book is infused with all of the qualities that make Stevenson the most popular of writers: humour & humanity, poetry & perspicacity, ebullience & intelligence. About this series: Stanfords Travel Classics feature some of the finest historical travel writing in the English language, with authors hailing from both sides of the Atlantic. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface to create a series that every lover of fine travel literature will want to collect & keep. ...

In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, & tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, & a notebook, which he later transformed into Travels with a Donkey. Just a few months after publication, Stevenson was off again – this time crossing the Atlantic & the breadth of America in the hope of being re-united with Fanny, an experience he recorded in The Amateur Emigrant. Both pieces are classics of travel writings, which reveal as much about Stevenson’s character as the landscape he travels through. ...

Read it & live it for yourself: The classic 19th century travelogue by the author of Treasure Island & Doctor Jekyll & Mr Hyde is the evergreen story of one man's 200-mile hike through the mountainous heart of France, & his love-hate relationship with his companion Modestine, a donkey with a personality as broad as the dramatic landscapes of the Languedoc & beyond. More than a mere traveller's tale, this much-loved diary celebrates the history, passion & culture of the last unspoilt corner of France. This new edition, on the 130th anniversary of the original publication, features an eat & sleep guide for the modern traveller keen to follow in the footsteps (and hoof prints) of the original adventurers. Stevenson's route is now a nationally recognised & preserved ramblers trail & takes in some of France's most stunning & unspoilt countryside. There are no international chain hotels in the Lozere, & hospitality is left to innkeepers, taverniers, monks & local families. You may still travel the length of the route with a donkey to carry your bags & pass the time of day with farmers & country folk. In Laurence Phillips companion section, discover up-to-date reviews of dozens of places to eat, from the starched napkins of great restaurants to home cooked meals around a kitchen table; find plenty of hotels, guesthouses, campsites, even one of Stevenson's monasteries, on the original route: Take a fresh look at the ever glorious Lozere & southern Auvergne & discover tips for everyone passing through or hiking the original route
- whether travelling with a donkey, strolling with the family & friends, walking the dogs, driving through the region or even exploring in a wheelchair. Lots of advice for disabled guests, & heads up on which restaurants & hotels accept donkeys & dogs as guests. This edition even tells you which villages & hamlets on the trail have a resident physiotherapist, should the walking start to take its toll. For visitors pressed for time or reluctant hikers, the book even

Includes:: a range of cheating options
- hopping on a school bus to save a day's trek here & there, even driving from hamlet to hamlet.



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Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic. She found it in the circus
- Big Top, clowns, elephants & all
- where cheap,

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This isn't another piece of travel literature concerned with buying a small holding in Spain, Italy or France & pursuing some horticultural dream. Rather Tim Mackintosh-Smith, a previous winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, follows the journey of possibly the greatest traveller of all time, Ibn Battutah, or IB as he is affectionately referred to. Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned 29 years later, he had visited most of the known world & spent half a lifetime covering some 75, 000 miles. This text follows his footsteps, covering the first stage of his journey from Tangier to Constantinople & exploring both the 14th century & its parallel landscape: the contemporary Muslim world. Needless to say travelling in the early fourteenth century was not straight forward, & the trail proceeds via the Nile Delta, Northern Syria, Oman, & Dhofar before heading for Anatolia, the Crimea & finally ending up at Constantinople. As Mackintosh-Smith makes clear he has left gaps in IB's itinerary as he doesn't have a spare 30 years. The writer studied Classical Arabic at Oxford, & his cultural & historical references are fairly awesome. ...

` All writers of fiction should be required by law to go out & do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real world in front of their eyes is from the invented world behind them`. This is what Frayn did in mid-career, when he took up his old trade, journalism, & wrote a series of occasional articles for ” The Observer” about some of the places in the world that interested him. He wanted to describe `not the extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday` & his accounts became the starting-point for some of the novels & plays he wrote later. From a kibbutz in Israel to summer rains in Japan, bicycles in Cambridge to Notting Hill at the end of the 1950s, they are glimpses of a world which sometimes seems tantalizingly familiar, sometimes vanished forever. ...

” Travels With Boogie” is the story of two city slickers
- one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell, the other
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Travels with Charley is an account of legendary American writer John Steinbeck’s journey in 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, to rediscover his native l&. Steinbeck felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds & the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled across the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states, & he saw things that made him proud, angry, sympathetic & elated. All that he saw & experienced is described with remarkable honesty & insight. ...