” Travels With Boogie” is the story of two city slickers
- one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell, the other
...

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. ...

Our society worships at the fountain of youth. Each year, we try to delay the arrival of old age, using everything at our disposal, from extreme exercise & botox to pilates & cosmetic dentistry. But in the process, are we missing out on a distinct & extraordinarily valuable stage of life? Asking whether it is better to be forever young or to grin toothlessly & live an authentic old age, Daniel Klein journeys to the Greek island of Hydra to see a different side to aging. There he draws on the lives of Octagenarian Greek locals, as well as philosophers ranging from Epicurus to Sartre, to discover the secrets of aging happily. A travel book, a witty meditation, & an optimistic guide to living well, this is a delightful, quirky jaunt through the terrain of old age, led by a perceptive & witty modern-day sage. ...

” To travel with James in these pages is to take an unhurried vacation with a thoroughly seasoned, supremely cultivated, acutely intelligent companion. Our guide is a curious, engaged observer not only of landscapes & streets & cathedrals but also of paintings & plays & the characteristics--national, social, & individual--of the people we encounter at his side. This is a book to be read slowly, the better to absorb its sights & sounds, its insights & reflections.” --from the foreword by Hendrik Hertzberg Brimming with charm, wit, & biting criticism, this new collection of travel essays reintroduces Henry James as a formidable travel companion. Whether for a trip to Lake George or an afternoon visit to an art exhibit in Paris, James will delight readers with his insights & make them feel nostalgic for places they`ve never been. ...

Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays
- to India, China & Africa
- with the great Greek

...

After a thirty-year career as a high profile vet, columnist, presenter & author Bruce Fogle
- the UK`s bestselling cat & dog
...

One of Graham Greene`s most loved novels, Travels With My Aunt is the story of Henry Pulling, an unmarried retired bank manager who has just been made redundant &, with no prospects or hobbies other than tending his dahlias, finds himself agreeably excited by his mother`s funeral. It is at this sad event that for the first time in more than half a century, he meets his formidable & irrepressible Aunt Augusta, & from this point on, his life is never to be the same again. An initial mix-up involving an illegal stash of marijuana & his mother`s ashes sets the tone for things to come, & abandoning Southwood & his dahlias, Henry goes on to travel through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul & then Paraguay. With his Aunt in tow
- or, rather, in the tow of his aunt
- Henry joins the shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, smugglers & CIA men & gradually comes to realize that ” Beyond Latimer Road there stretched another world
- the world of Wordsworth & Curran & Monsieur Dambreuse & Colonel Hakim & the mysterious Mr Visconti” & that this world is more his country than Engl&, proving in the process than one may come to life at any stage during the course of a lifetime. Full of both bittersweet moments (as Henry comes to feel differently about his old life & origins) & hilarious ones, as he embarks on the new, the novel contains an array of vividly drawn characters
- the formidable Aunt Augusta herself being one of the most unforgettable of Greene`s huge oeuvre
- who will thrill, move & have you laughing out loud in turns. A romp of a read.




...

Fi Glover is a bit of a traveller. She loves hotels, air stewardesses & fluffy towelling robes, but above all, she loves radio. One night, whilst recording BBC 2`s ” Travel Show”, she found herself in the far reaches of Texas, suffering from a night of line-dancing & an over-enthusiastic radio DJ. She started to wonder about all the places she`d ended up in, all the radio DJs she`d listened to, the way a new radio station made her feel at home & yet gave her the fastest insight into an alien city or community. She decided to take a journey around the world collecting hotel freebies & DJs
- from the charismatic Rose who guided Montserrat through the tragedy of their volcanic eruption to Dr Laura, who talks the dysfunctional of New York through their psychotic days; from the peace-keeping corps of Beirut & their radio-station-in-a-hut to the despairing English football broadcasters in their radio-station-above-a-caf- in Brussels 2000. From Somerset to Beirut, Las Vegas to Vienna, ” Travels With My Radio” is a wonderfully funny & strangely moving quest to find the perfect radio station.
...

Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her ”best horror journeys”. She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean & visits a dissident writer in the Soviet Union against her better judgement. Written with the eye of a novelist & an ironic black humour, what makes these tales irresistible are Gellhorns explosive & often surprising reactions. Indignant, but never righteous & not always right, through the crucible of hell on earth emerges a woman who makes you laugh with her at life, while thanking God that you are not with her.” Martha Gellhorn at her witty, acidulous, sympathetic & wholly delightful best: fine observation of landscape & incident, & even finer observation of character”, John Simpson. ...

Travel writer Jim Perrin is a regular contributor to ” The Great Outdoors”, ” Climber” & ” The Daily Telegraph”. This volume collects the best of his recent work & covers venues as far apart as Garhwal & Montana, Kirgizstan & the High Arctic, Hungary & Cuba. It features Perrin spending time with headhunters in Borneo, narwhal in Lancaster Sound, wolves in Yellowstone, walking with his dog through Wales & finding out about the ”wild tribe” of remote Inishturk. ...