” 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

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With a rare combination of great economy of means & unfailing panache, Antony Cleminson`s drawings of palatial buildings & urban settings are endlessly delightful & fascinating. Collected from more than 60 years of traveling with his wife Jan, a concert violinist, they take in Engl&, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Croatia, Russia, Jordan, Syria, & Yemen. They bring not only extreme sensitivity to place, but also an engineer`s understanding of structure, & an historian`s understanding of style. Pencil, chalk, charcoal, red & black ink, & india ink are some of the media used, & the book is printed on genuine Ingres paper to reproduce these beautiful drawings as closely as possible. Will appeal to those with a love of architectural heritage in Europe & the Middle East. ...

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




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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. ...

Virginia Woolf had a lively sense of place & delighted in `lighting accidentally...upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Following Virginia`s footprints from her beloved Sussex & Cornwall to wartime London, Italy & the Riviera to Greek mountains & the wilds of Spain, Jan Morris intersperses swift verbal sketches of a Greek peasant wedding, a fenland sky, an elderly spinster in a hotel dining room in Italy, or Bognor pier in the rain with her own brief, telling comments on both writer & subject. ...

Map No. 1163, Travers, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
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Fran Sandham’s ” Traversa” is a part travelogue, part history & entirely awe-inspiring account of one man’s grit, determination & sheer obsession with the continent of Africa. Walking 3, 000 miles across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean, Sandham was inspired by the great explorers, leaving behind the daily grind of London to undertake an extraordinary adventure & see for himself whether any trace of the Africa of Victorian times exists in the Africa of today. Along the way he befriends a donkey called ‘ Where You Get Stuck’; risks muggings & potentially much worse whilst sleeping beneath a vast canopy of Africa stars; encounters all manner of creatures from scorpions & snakes to tsetse flies & voracious mosquitoes. Interwoven with his experiences are tales of battles & conquests, cannibalism & madness from the original expeditions of Livingstone, Stanley & Grogan. ...