George CourtauldThe fierce secrecy surrounding the corps of the Queen's Messengers has been somewhat relaxed recently, but the 'silver greyhounds' are still bound by the Official Secrets Act. This is...

Marco Polo Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the...

'- A compact guide to assembling a customized travel health kit with natural remedies for relieving many of the traveler's common complaints--from sore feet and jet lag to insomnia and...

Peter Biddlecombe To businessman and travel writer Peter Biddlecombe, the USA is about food. Huge, enormous, vitamin-fortified, artery-clogging, fat-laden, calorie-packed, colon-blocking, microwaveable mountains of the stuff. In his ninth irreverent...

Kira SalakMarika Vecera is a young war reporter who hears the news that her hero, famous war correspondent Robert Lewis, has committed suicide. As she begins working on his biography...

Corinne HofmannThe runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior...

Uli von KapffIn a single decade, between 1818 and 1828, Shaka transformed a modest chieftaincy into one of the most powerful kingdoms in southern Africa. His empire, whose heartland lay...

Piu Marie Eatwell They Eat Horses, Don't They?:The Truth About the French tells you what life in France is really like. Do the French eat horses? Do French women bare...

Heather Wood A firsthand account of 40 Indian villagers who are given the chance to see all of India by a wealthy landowner. September 4, 1990 by Penguin Books

M Sasek With the same wit and perception that distinguished his stylish books on Paris, London, and Rome, M. Sasek pictures fabulous, big-hearted New York City in This Is New...

Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin   Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time   The astonishing, uplifting story of a...

Jerome K Jerome   Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first...