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Slow Dumfries and Galloway Guide - Holiday advice and tourist information on everything from Dumfries market and architecture to wildlife, flora and walking routes. Also covers medieval castles and historical sites, the moors of Eskdalemuir, Solway Firth, Mull of Galloway, Galloway Forest Park, Caerlaverock, Gretna Green and Wigtown Book Festival.

Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, exploring thirteen-hundred years of social change and asking what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal. -- .

Explore 1,199 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This book features 40 sites with photos, travel tips, and insights for a memorable visit.

For more than a decade, writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell has been preoccupied by the strange connections between place and culture: curious about the graves of writers, determined to find the locations of iconic films, intrigued by the landscapes that inspired novels.

- The ultimate guide to London's hidden gems and unexpected delights Think you know London? Think again. Behind unassuming doors and just a few steps away from buzzing inner-city streets, London offers a truly mind-boggling wealth of places to explore - from hidden rooftop courtyards and Roman ruins to eerie foot tunnels beneath the Thames and clandestine cocktail bars. Whether it's a 100-year-old underground postal railway you're after, or a token-operated book vending machine, this book will guide you down the city's most unexpected avenues. Simply slide open the trick bookcase and step into your new favorite London haunt.

Joanna shares her adventures to some of the most remote corners of the world while facing the added challenge of living with Crohn's Disease.

Walk Her Way New York City is a collection of 10 curated walking tours through New York neighborhoods, each celebrating the city's history and the women that have made their mark here. Authors Jana Mader and Kaitlyn Allen have meticulously researched and traced the city blocks, uncovering important landmarks, events and women's stories, both well-known and forgotten, to create a series of fun and eye-opening walks that connect you to the city that surrounds you. Featuring beautiful illustrated maps and portraits by Aja O'Han, each walk covers a different neighborhood, including Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo, Central Park, Chelsea, Chinatown, East Side, Greenwich Village, Harlem, Midtown, Roosevelt Island, and SoHo. The walks can be done individually or paired together for an ultimate walking history lesson. While some stops along the walks are worth an extended visit, such as a museum, others are marked as “on the way.” All include significant landmarks of women's history, some of them not yet memorialized. The stories and events of famous and lesser-known women come alive within the pages of the book and on each street corner, as readers can walk in the steps of this diverse set of creative women.

Ultimate Dive Sites is the perfect guide to plan your dream underwater adventure, with 50 of the best dive sites and experiences from around the globe for both casual and professional divers alike. Diving expert and author Todd Thimios has been on more than 3500 dives in locations around the world and has curated the best experiences and dive sites across each of the continents. Have the experience of a lifetime by getting up close and personal with the manta rays in the Maldives, orcas in the Arctic and anacondas in the Amazon. Prepare to be awestruck by the vivacious Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the amazing Raja Ampat archipelago in Indonesia. Or brave the dark depths and go blackwater night diving in the Phillipines. All these thrilling dive sites are rich with coral reefs and diverse marine life only found underwater.  Including sensational photography and detailed descriptions, Ultimate Dive Sites will make you fall in love with the enchanting beauty of the ocean and its incredible creatures.

Great French journalist Louis-Sébastien Mercier's descriptions of an optimistic, utopian 18th-century London. First translation in English by Laurent Turcot and Jonathan Conlin. Contemporary illustrations in colour.

Shots Across the Water: travel narrative about a young man's African adventure, walking or hitch-hiking from Egypt to Swaziland, and back to Britain. Carrying just £250 and a small rucksack, the author relied on the kindness of strangers to traverse the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria and the Sahara Desert.

Part of the new Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, this is the first fully critical edition of Dickens's travelogue, Pictures from Italy. The edition includes an essay on the text, explanatory notes, a glossary of terms likely to be unfamiliar to the modern reader, and detailed maps.

The remarkable and little-known story of Henri Matisse and his groundbreaking time in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and cemented his legacy.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICKA Town & Country Must-Read Book of Summer 2024!One of Vulture's Best New Audiobooks of 2024. "A delightful and sharp-witted tour through a lifetime's worth of travel exploits and misadventures. . . . Readers are bound to catch the travel bug."-Publishers WeeklyIn this hilarious and often touching collection, the author, television writer, and producer takes us with him on travels across the globe. Gary Janetti has gained a devoted following, with a huge audience on social media, and two bestselling collections of essays under his belt. His new collection will prompt laughter but also delighted recognition as Janetti tackles the absurdity and glory of travel. In We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay, he shares stories of his varied trips around the world. Tag along as he enjoys an unexpectedly transformative stay at a rigorous Italian spa where he and his husband go from deep grumpiness to exaltation. Take a ride on the Orient Express to Venice and discover a surprising side of London, including a hilarious dinner with actress Maggie Smith. And pull up a deck chair to watch the entertainment as Gary embarks on a family cruise on the Queen Mary 2. Interspersed with recollections of his trips are personal meditations on dining alone as well as journeys to such diverse destinations as Mykonos, Australia, a Noma pop-up, and other glamorous spots. Gary is unabashedly frank about his very exacting travel needs, and delivers practical advice on all aspects of the traveler's life, from very precise packing instructions, suggestions on how to get upgrades, and restaurant and hotel recommendations in his favorite cities. Aspirational, charmingly acerbic, and as diverting as the best vacation can be, delivering both laughs and moments of sharp recognition, Gary's funny collection is the perfect getaway companion, for both seasoned nomads and curious armchair travelers.

'Compelling, insightful, often sombrely beautiful' Sunday Telegraph Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilization. Beginning in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Naipaul's journey takes in Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and ends, as the country does, in South Africa. Focusing upon the theme of belief - though sometimes the political or economical realities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken into account - Naipaul examines the fragile but enduring quality of the old world of magic. To witness the ubiquity of such ancient ritual, to be given some idea of its power, was to be taken far back to the beginning of things. To reach that beginning was the purpose of this book.

This unique collaboration between scholars, practitioners and Muslim artists profiles emerging forms of contemporary British Muslim art, prompting a debate about its inclusion in UK society. It features analysis of Muslim art as a category, as well as accounts of creatives who are often at the margins of the British arts industry.

A narrator and her dog are criss-crossing the Swiss Alps. She travels with friends who share her interest in food, languages and their topographical contexts. They collect colours, even look for colourlessness, and develop the idea of a walk-in diary, a vain attempt to archive their observations. Gradually, other mountains appear in their observations and memories, as do the mountains of literature and art. Mountains may be sites of fear and awe, of narrow-mindedness, racism and ever-looming collapse; Alpine lodges may be places of hospitality, retreat and unexpected encounters; of nature under threat. In 515 notes, Zsuzsanna Gahse unfolds a finely woven interplay between her six characters while giving us a vivid panorama of mountain worlds, a multi-layered typology of all things mountainish.

The ultimate and original Boston guide for visitors and locals, with 500 places to visit and things to do, including two city walks.

In eighteen hilarious accounts, prize-winning humorist Scott Carpenter lifts the curtain on what passes for normal in Europe¿s most glorious capital, measuring it by the yardstick of the American Midwest.

The discovery of minerals beneath our feet has transformed our species. Ochre first prompted humans to express themselves in art; tin and copper helped instigate the Bronze Age and later the Industrial Revolution; silver kick-started the engines of global trade. Each of these substances generated a leap forward in technology, each one opened the imagination a little further - and each one brought with it a cache of unexpected dangers. Under A Metal Sky begins and ends in Philip Marsden's homeland of Cornwall, one of the world's great geological hotspots.Travelling eastwards into Europe, he examines how the extraction of peat propelled the Netherlands to world prominence but also imperilled its very existence. Continuing on up the Rhine by barge, into the heart of the continent, he uncovers more stories of potent and tempting resources, from iron-rich meteorites to radium and mercury, and the gold-bearing mountains of Georgia. At the same time he explores precious seams of ideas, from science to alchemy, mysticism to ecology - and those questing souls who pursued them, likeParacelsus, the Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II, Goethe,William Blake and Marie Curie. Rich with revelations, Under A Metal Sky traces the dazzling achievements and dark consequences of our ability to extract what we want from the earth, and presents a fascinating new perspective on European history and on our troubled relationship with the natural world.