In the late 1940s, Norman Lewis settled in a remote fishing village on what is now the Costa Brav...

Dahris Martin, a young American in search of sun, arrived in the holy city of Kairouan in the lat...

On an unamed Island that can only be Ceylon, the traveller checks into his 117th rented room, aba...

A year in the life of glorious Sicily: its seasons and its sacred festivals, its almonds and oran...

Throughout the 1960s, John Freely explored the alleys, hidden corners and monuments of Istanbul, ...

For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the News Editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. A...

Chantemesle is a lyrical evocation of growing up on the banks of the Seine. In this minutely obse...

This novel set in Ceylon follows the lives of a handful of villagers hacking out a fragile existe...

The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive, a feisty, independent-minded traveller, are among the very ...

Smelling the Breezes is an inspiring family adventure, a three-hundred-mile walk down the spine o...

Arthur Grimble was sent to the Gilbert and Ellice islands as a colonial administrator in the twil...

Gavin Maxwell was a romantic, self-destructive, aristocratic adventurer who worked as secret agen...