An awe-inspiring metropolis in miniature, The Panorama of the City of New York has achieved cult-like status with New Yorkers and serves as a locus of memory for visitors from around the globe. The Pa..
This majestically illustrated and deeply insightful guide explores 100 of the most spiritually significant places throughout the world, seeking to understand what it is that defines these sites. Spiri..
A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of Country
England'..
How does a plane stay up in the air?
Does the Mile-High Club actually exist?
When you flush the toilet, where does it all go?
Buckle up for some turbulence because nothing flies under the ra..
In this illustrated anthology of oral histories, people connected personally or professionally to teak speak of survival, change and learning, creativity and destruction, growth and demise. Woven toge..
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness?
In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane s..
'I really can't recommend Lucy Lethbridge's new book on the history of tourism enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom Holland
'Delightful ... witty ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a..
Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers ..
A celebration of the unsung hero of the plant word and an immersive journey through the British wetlands
Glowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . .
Moss is known as the livin..
'Into the underland we have long placed that which we fear and wish to lose, and that which we love and wish to save . . . '
From the vast underground mycelial networks by which trees communicate..
Nobody knows the city of light like Paris resident and travel writer John Baxter - and nobody is able to write about its culture quite so intriguingly. Let him guide you around the Paris you've always..
Blows the dust off geology to tell the incredibly dramatic story of all the upheavals, volcanic explosions, sea inundations and violent quakes that have shaped our landscape, human history and our eve..
A thousand mile, three billion year journey that tells the story of how the land beneath our feet shapes our past, present and future from the author of The January Man and Ships of Heaven.
Trave..
A woman's tale of the transformative power of walking Britain's ancient pilgrim paths
'Raw, honest, powerful. I couldn't put it down.' Cerys Matthews
On an assignment to walk the most famous pilg..
Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world.
'Travel at its best - life enhancing' Bear Grylls
'Ash is a great st..
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness?In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets ou..
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the m..
Wilderness: The Most Sensational Natural Places on Earth is a fresh and inviting coffee table book featuring 40 of the most sensational wilderness destinations on planet Earth, both the far-reaching a..
International bestseller Paolo Cognetti, author of The Eight Mountains, on the quiet joys of not racing straight to the snowy peak
An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places o..
'Yangon Echoes' is a popular history of buildings used as homes in Burma's bustling, former capital, charting social space and urban folklore and linking past to present via living memories. It offer..