Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to V...

Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, Lords...

Nigel Barley was a 'new anthropologist', one of the younger generation of academi whose learning ...

Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Isla...

Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "e;best horror journeys&quo...

Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba in the company of Dervla Murphy, her daughter and ...

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

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

London, that city of villages, has never been so vividly recounted as in this particular study of...

Having learned to appreciate Muslim life while living in Pakistan, Peter Mayne settled down to li...

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 ...