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Vagabonding

There's nothing like vagabonding: taking time off from your normal life--from six weeks to four months to two years--to discover and experience the world on your own terms. In this one-of-a-kind handbook, veteran travel writer Rolf Potts explains how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.

Vagabonding

Between Extremes

Five years after their release from Lebanon, an Irish teacher and a English journalist undertake a journey they had envisioned in their cell. When they finally set foot in Chile, they realise that the reality is very different from what they had imagined but are ready for the unknown...

Between Extremes

The River's Tale

From it source, high in the Tibet mountains, to Vietnam, where it discharges its water into the South China Sea, the Mekong changes name and identity several times. E. Gargan, left behind his work as a journalist and embarked fifteen years of experience of Asia onto a boat with a capricious engine..

The River's Tale

The places in Between

The Places In Between is Rory Stewart's moving account of his death-defying walk across war-torn Afghanistan in January 2002

The places in Between

A Fez of the Heart

This is Jeremy Seal's quest, by means of a fez, for the heart of a country culturally and spiritually at odds with herself. The fez's opposing associations - both revered Eastern-Islamic headdress and banal tourist souvenir - exactly reflects Turkey's cultural faultline.

A Fez of the Heart

Full Circle

For almost a year, Michael Palin travelled through 18 countries on the perimeter of the world's largest ocean, in a spectacular journey of contrasts, drama and beauty. From head-hunters in Borneo to a meal of maggots in Mexico, his route takes him to some of the most politically volatile and physically demanding places on Earth.

Full Circle

Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell follows P. J. O'Rourke, a foreign affairs journalist., on a global fun-finding mission to the most desperate places on the planet, from the bombed-out streets of Beirut to the stultifying blandness of Heritage USA.

Holidays in Hell

In Patagonia

Bruce Chatwin's journey to a remote country in search of a strange beast brings along with it a cast of fascinating characters. Their stories delay him on the road, but will have you tearing through to the book's end.

Georgia in the Mountains of Poetry

Peter Nasmyth's fascinating account of this historically rich and drama loving country, based on his travels and hundreds of wide-ranging interviews.