In November 2013, former soldier Levison Wood embarked on one of the last great explorations - to walk the Nile from source to delta. In this volume he tells his story.

Campaigner, publisher, and wanderer Alastair Sawday has spent his life travelling. En route he has unearthed a multitude of stories - stories of people ploughing their own furrows, of travellers' tales, stories from the 'front line' of his publishing, ruminations and reflections about places, people and ideas. In this deeply charming, erudite, and spirited book, he shares his experiences and explores the value of travel.

Miles Morland is an adventurer. Born in India to a naval father and a glamorous mother once described as the 'most dangerous woman in India', Miles' young life was marked by fraught events and enough hair-raising stories to last a normal person an entire lifetime. Later, following a 'proper' education in England, Miles jacked in his sensible Wall Street job to go and find the places on earth that no-one else wanted to find. Brilliantly observed and...

The sixtieth parallel marks a kind of borderland. It wraps itseld around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden, and Norway; it crosses the tip of Greenland and of Southcentral Alaska; it cuts the great spaces of Russia and Canada in half. The parallel also passes through Shetland, at the very top of the British Isles. In this volume, Malachy Tallack explores the places that share this latitude, beginning and ending in Shetland, where he has spent most...

Kristin Newman's funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant journey through her 20s and 30s, which she spent travellng the world for a few months a year, falling madly in love with attractive locals - while her friends at home were settling down with husbands and children.

In 1995, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journey, 'Notes from a Small Island', became one of the most loved books of recent decades, and was voted in a BBC poll as the book that best represents Britain. Now, Bill Bryson sets out on a brand-new journey, on a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis on the south coast to Cape Wrath...

Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on, award-winning journalist, author, and one-time glamrock fan Peter Millar uses what is now the country's best visited tourist destination as the embarkation point for a literally reverse-engineered train journey through this still exotic, diverse...

Jennifer Klinec has always been drawn to travelling in pursuit of her love of food. Raised in Canada to Hungarian-Croatian parents, she made her way across the world before ending up in London. And for her, a visit to Iran means one thing - learning more about the food that Iranians eat. So she packs her suitcase, puts on a scarf and closes up the cookery school she hosts in her home before leaving for a land that has long fascinated her. She wants...

When I first arrived in the desert, I desperately wanted to be the first female explorer to cross the Sahara. The thought of it used to keep me up all night. Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, the Canary Islands to Central America, and, for several years in the 1970s, to the Sahara. 'Stories of the Sahara' invites us into Sanmao's extraordinary life in the desert: her experiences...

In 2010 Stephen Fabes rode away from his career as an emergency doctor in London, on a journey that would see him ride the length of six continents; a cycling circumnavigation which took six years. 'Signs of Life' is his story of a world of challenges - from Tajik camel spiders to camping on a frozen lake in Mongolia, to coaxing another few kilometres out of 'Ol' Patchy' (his faithful inner tube), and of fascinating interactions with the people of...