Travel Writing & Commentary

Brought to you by Penguin. Brimming with wry humour and fascinating insights, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country. With his eightieth birthday looming, it crossed Michael Palin’s mind that now might be the time to hang up his boots, to lounge about at home, to take things...

Brought to you by Penguin. AS SEEN ON TV Professor Alice Roberts travels 1,300 miles by train across Italy, France and Spain in search of a greater understanding of the Roman Empire for Channel 4's popular TV series Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts. Visiting sites often off the beaten...

In early 2022, Charlie Walker set out to hike 600 miles along the frozen rivers of Siberia. He hoped to cut through the myth of the gulag and the permafrost to understand who its people are and how they reckon with their haunted past, as well as what the future might hold for this remote corner of our world. But on 24 February, Russia invaded Ukraine, with devastating consequences. What had begun as an adventure swiftly descended into a paranoid nightmare, as Walker began to suspect he was being monitored by the Russian authorities. Shortly afterwards he was arrested and imprisoned.

What happens when you take a battered Dacia Duster, one determined couple, and point them toward the edge of the world? A Dirty Duster to Iceland: Circumnavigating Fire and Ice is not your typical guidebook—and not quite a travel diary either. It sits somewhere in between. Part road trip, part reflection, and part survival-by-sandwiches, this is a fourteen-day, 2,300-kilometre journey around Iceland’s Ring Road—across volcanic plains, glacial lagoons, windswept fjords, and vast stretches of beautiful, bewildering nothingness.

Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of the anxious traveller, where panic strikes in the most serene situations, where each time you're convinced that the symptoms are in fact physical and your lungs or heart will stop working, and the only relief is a paramedic telling you that you won't die...

In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse was struggling. Once the vanguard leader, the Parisian avant-garde now considered him passé. His important early collectors had stopped buying his work and were fully championing Picasso, and he had exhibited little in the last few years. In the face of Cubism...

In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary saga—a six-year voyage during which he covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world—revealing both a rich sense of history and an insuppressible Welsh wit.

Journey of the Soul is more than a travel audiobook. It's a guide to transforming every journey into a powerful path of personal growth, self-discovery, and meaningful exploration.

Reimagining Horizons is a deeply moving memoir that weaves together grief, resilience, and the rediscovery of purpose after unimaginable loss. When Harper Law loses Celia, his wife of 57 years, he finds himself navigating an emotional wilderness. But through caregiving, reflection, and an unexpected bond with Anna, a caregiver from Eastern Europe, he slowly begins to reimagine life beyond sorrow. From the early days on Wall Street and family life in New York, to personal reflections shaped by love, caregiving, politics, and culture.

There are three kinds of people crazy enough to hike the entire Appalachian Trail—young romantics chasing glory, older souls seeking one last thrill, and the occasional runaway escaping life’s troubles. Then there’s a guy who simply loved hiking, and who was naïve enough to think it would be enough. It wasn’t.

Of the sixty million pickups on U.S. highways today, just one in eight was bought for work purposes. The remaining fifty-four million are what truck dealers call "lifestyle purchases." Does the pickup impulse spring from some deep, organic longing? For agrarian roots, for simpler times, for a driving experience larger than life?

Follow one of America’s most revealing highways from the Gulf Coast of Florida to the regional road network of northwestern Pennsylvania and see how a single route can expose the structure of a country. U.S.

De sur a norte, un viaje por el país de los fiordos y el sol de medianoche En 1972, con apenas veinte años y una mochila a la espalda, Xavier Moret hizo autostop hasta el cabo Norte. Allí, frente al acantilado, vio cómo el sol se detenía en el horizonte y volvía a ascender, como si el día...

Landroversandwine Overlanding JournalForeword: The name Landroversandwine came about in early 2007, I met a chap at a 4x4 show, and he was organising a charity drive around Europe in Landrovers (Landies). I had to come up with a Team name, I couldn’t think of one, but the organiser said what do you like? And I said Landrovers, and what else do you like, and I said Wine, so Team Landroversandwine was born. And I’ve used it or be known by it ever since. So, this is a book about my humble overlanding travels in my Landies. The first was a lovely Series 3 109 2.

A heartrending, transformative true story following Brad Ryan and his grandmother Joy Ryan as they embark on a seven-year journey to visit every US National Park. Raised in Appalachia, Grandma Joy lived a life shaped by constraints and hardships, while Brad grappled with the weight of family...