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In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was …

'A rare and beautiful book' TLS'Original and stimulating' Irish TimesInto the world of 1950s Ireland - a lushly green, windswept landscape studded with holy wells and the decaying …

Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. …

Carl von Linnés öländska resa företogs 1741 och har i förvånansvärt hög grad behållit sin aktualitet genom att det öländska landskapet i stort sett ännu i våra dagar har kvar sin …

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR 'A beautiful and evocative story' TIME OUT '[Markham] can write rings around all of us . . . ' ERNEST HEMINGWAY 'A vivacious account of an …

The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its …

Marco Polo set off on his travels from Venice as a young man in 1271, and returned home in 1295 after spending 24 years away, 17 of them in China. He isone of the few early …

It was time, the editor told me, for a more modern approach to Germany The three of us were the backbone of the British press corps. No clich about Germany left the country …

Praised by the New York Evening Post as "the best and most thrilling book of exploration," this 1929 volume offers firsthand accounts of Haitian voodoo and witchcraft rituals. …

Elin Wägner (1882-1949) brukar räknas till de så kallade Tiotalisterna, med sitt samhällsfokuserade författarskap. Wägner var även verksam som journalist. Till hennes mest kända …