Mark Tully is incomparable. No foreign commentator has a greater understanding of the passions, the charms and the resilience that constitute India. Both he and his colleague, Gillian Wright,...

Andrew Eames sets out to travel from London to Baghdad by train, following the route of the old ‘Orient Express’ and an identical journey made by Agatha Christie in 1928.

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Tim Cahill learns many valuable life lessons along the way in a remarkable collection of hilarious journeys, such as: how to drink with the Aussies (trying to match them beer for beer is not a...

Born in Warrington to an Irish mother, Pete McCarthy has long held a deep love for his mother’s homeland and admits that, despite the many exotic places he has visited, nowhere can match the...

‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ is Bill Bryson’s quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. He takes subjects that normally bore...

In ‘Made in America’, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn’t won, why Americans...

Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it. The people are cheerful, their cities are...

For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his classic ‘personal history’ of America, guiding us through...

After almost two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a while, but before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one...

In his seventh voyage of discovery, Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a new Europe.

Michael Palin’s ‘New Europe' starts with a simple idea: that only a couple...

Driving 15,000 miles from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty-three and a half days, Tim Cahill embarks on his fastest, funniest trip yet.

The third and most ambitious of Michael Palin’s adventures is a voyage of epic proportions the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim. He travels for almost a year through the eighteen countries...

Englishwoman in Italy Annie Hawes isn't quite as baffled by Ligurian life as she was when she first came to this land of hills and olive groves. But she is as surprised—and, often,...

After ten years in England, expatriate American Bill Bryson was gripped by an urge to return to the land of his youth. Borrowing his mother’s old Chevrolet, Bryson travelled 13,978 miles through...

Alistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. This book presents the cream of his writings on the events that shaped modern...