From the indefatigable Christopher Portway comes a fascinating account of his journeys around the world. Christopher spends three months in a dinghy on East Africa’s longest and most remote river, avoiding...
India is a harsh mistress. She seems to appreciate individual sacrifice so little. Yet she has never wanted for lovers...’ India demands a passionate response. Paul William Roberts first set foot on Indian...
Creatures from another time, volcanic mountains five million years old, Indian tribes surviving from the pre-Inca period, jungles and rainforests: Ecuador has all this and more. Only in its Galapagos Islands...
Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beautiful memoir reveals hardships and happiness...
In Brazil the motto seems to be: if you’ve got it, flaunt it, and if you don’t, flaunt it even more…’ Brazil: an eclectic nation that evokes images of vibrant carnivals, crowded shanty towns and football...
Deep in the Limousin countryside, Richard Wiles bought his dream home. But little did he expect to be living full time in the dilapidated farmhouse while struggling to finish the conversion during the...
Joining a fund-raising expedition, the author treks through primordial Irian Jaya, New Guinea. With a combination of climbing experience and Zen philosophy, he attempts the Carstensz Pyramid and the glacial...
I first glimpsed Mongolia from the air. The overwhelming impression was of space, beauty and a deceptive serenity; a gently undulating sea of rich grass, flecked with white felt tents, like aspirin scattered...
Autumn has arrived for the Kerrs on their fruit farm on the island of Mallorca… The year’s third season, ‘winter spring’, finds Peter, under the sharp eye of his long-suffering wife Ellie, struggling to...
It seemed like a mad enterprise: three inexperienced cyclists setting out to pedal 6,500 miles up the Andes, from Tierra del Fuego to Lake Titicaca. After nearly a year and against the odds – contending...