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With great hope and insight, Maskalyk illuminates a distant place - its heat, its people, its poverty, its war - to inspire possibilities for action.

Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit.

An astonishing and fantastical autobiographical novel, reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Laurence Sterne, The System of Vienna details Jonke's travels through Vienna by streetcar.

Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance by three wandering minstrels from rural India.

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it.

In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road.

Carol Birch's eleventh novel harnesses this same drive and commitment, producing a story of rich, vivid detail, brilliant characters and a satisfying and compelling narrative.

Suketu Mehta's impressive and expansive non-fiction book about modern Mumbai is the definitive book about this massive city.

In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on 'La Poderosa', the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton motorcycle. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Che Guevara.

...a dazzling brilliant book that is subtly political, never heavy-handed and always cast with a fair eye.

I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month'.

This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past.

This collection is the first to bring together all Stevenson's shorter Pacific fiction in one volume.

On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs.

This selection of Michael Frayn's travel journalism is a clear-sighted evocation of societies in flux, highlighting the ways in which the tumultuous 1960s and 70s affected the lives of ordinary people.

Told with humour, the stories are compelling, touching and sometimes painful. This is a wonderful read, easy to pick up and difficult to put down.

This is a melancholic, elegiac, meditative novel that somehow never feels slow and ponderous. Instead, the mystery at the heart of the writing keeps the reader hooked just as much as the beauty of the writing.

This amusing exploration of Bollywood and its twin extremes of extravagance and underworld by journalist Justine Hardy does justice to the high-concept day-glo filmi world of India.

Kipling's early tales of the Raj were collected in this volume, his first published book, in 1888.

At once a wonder voyage, an adventure story, an exercise in visionary cartography, and a work of natural history, it is written in a style and a form as unusual as the places with which it is concerned.

There is something fitting about the fact that the author of a novel about Victorian soldier, explorer, linguist and polymath Richard Francis Burton is a Bulgarian whose family fled to West Germany to escape persecution before he emigrated to Kenya and later lived in India and South Africa.

Are You Experienced? is a scathing satire of the enthusiastic gap year tradition of students heading to mystical climbs to 'find themselves.'

Westoll explores Surinam's bloody past, the allure of its wild places, the legends and rituals of its extraordinary people. An honest and beautiful writer he conjures a place of golden light and impenetrable shadow, of long-held secrets and sacred stories.

In 1976, Thomas Goltz, then a naive twenty-one-year-old on the trail of his errant brother, worked his way around Africa putting on one-man Shakespeare performances.

You wouldn't exactly use a city-pick as your guide to a foreign city - as the series' editor says in our interview, it won't tell you how to get to the airport - but if you could only read one book before you went, this would have to be it.

Pedro Juan is a reporter in Havana, but as existence in Cuba and his own life begin to collapse around him, he gives up the farce of a daily job, and begins to 'train himself to take nothing seriously.'

Slight as Self-Portrait Abroad is, it comes highly recommended for all would-be cosmopolitans and world travellers - as long as you don't mind laughing out loud in front of your fellow passengers.

This graphic novel from Guy Delisle is a charming insight into a country notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control.

Filled with intimate photographs, incredible musical stories and a powerful ecological message, this is a enchanting celebration of bike riding.