Travel, Geography & Place

Books that take you somewhere. Classic travel writing includes Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts, Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands, Paul Theroux's The Great Railway Bazaar and Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia. David Grann's The Lost City of Z follows the explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished in the Amazon, and W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn turns a walk along the English coast into a meditation on history and memory. For armchair travellers and anyone with a map on the wall.

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Travel Writing

The great travel writers on the road. Patrick Leigh Fermor walks across 1930s Europe in A Time of Gifts; Wilfred Thesiger crosses Arabia's Empty Quarter in Arabian Sands; Paul Theroux rides the trains of Asia in The Great Railway Bazaar; and Bruce Chatwin collects the stories of South America's far south in In Patagonia. W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn makes a walk through Suffolk into a journey through history. Books to read for the places, the people and the prose.

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Geography

Geography is about places and the people who live in them. Two classics of travel writing explore it in very different ways. Paul Theroux's The Great Railway Bazaar follows his train journey from London across Europe, the Middle East and Asia and back, full of fellow passengers and sharp observations. Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia collects the stories of South America's far south, its settlers, outlaws and landscapes. For readers who like to understand a place through its people. See Travel, Geography & Place for more.

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Exploration & Expeditions

True stories of expeditions into the unknown. Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands describes his crossings of the Empty Quarter of Arabia in the 1940s with Bedu companions, a way of life that was about to vanish. David Grann's The Lost City of Z follows the British explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925 searching for a lost city, and Grann's own journey on his trail. Two gripping books for adventurers and armchair explorers. See Travel, Geography & Place for more.

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