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,...

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...

Michael Palin journeys to a vast country of unimaginable contrasts - Brazil. An economic powerhouse, it is host to a staggering variety of peoples. He starts his journey in the north, in the...

Michael Palin reads his own account of an epic journey across the Himalaya. The greatest mountain range on earth, it includes the Khyber Pass and the Silk Road, the mighty peaks of Everest and K2,...

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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If there was ever a traveller for whom the expression ‘been there, done that’ was invented, it is Tim Cahill. His fierce enthusiasm for exploration has taken him around the globe, and knows no...

In ‘Pass the Butterworms’, Tim Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the ‘Mongolian death...

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...

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...

All Annie Hawes knows of distant Calabria, way down in the toe of the boot of Italy and a thousand miles to the south of her hillside home in Liguria, is that it’s a wild, unruly place,...

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...

When Annie Hawes buys a hillside cottage in Italy for no more than the price of a dodgy second-hand car, a capable young Englishwoman becomes a surprisingly incapable Ligurian signorina In the...

A companion to the major six-part BBC TV series, written by Michael Wood and read by Sam Dastor.Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of India.Home...

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...