Category Archives: Travel Guides
Norfolk Coast Path & Peddars Way
All-in-one, practical guide to walking the Norfolk Coast Path and Peddars Way, with 75 large-scale walking maps and guides to 33 towns and villages, planning, places to stay and places to eat. The Norfolk Coast Path & Peddars Way cover 130-miles of walking trails. The Peddars Way runs through East Anglia from Knettishall Heath on
The New Nature Writing – Granta 102
For as long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But economic migration, overpopulation and climate change are transforming the natural world into something unfamiliar. As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it. The New Nature Writing – Granta 102 includes:Jonathan Raban
Granta 112 – Pakistan
Packed with almost 200 million people speaking nearly sixty languages, brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion, but wracked with deep separatist fissures and the destabilizing forces of ongoing conflicts in Iran, Afghanistan and Kashmir, Pakistan is one of the most dynamic places in the world today. From the writers who are
The Best of Young Spanish Novelists [Granta 113]
The Best of Young Spanish Novelists, from Granta, is a collection of stories from 22 promising new talents in the world of Spanish language writing, featuring stories from writers native to Spain, as well as those from Spanish-speaking countries of South America. In past decades, Granta’s young writer collections have proved launching pads for such
Granta 114 Aliens
First there was the traveller; then the word was emigrants. In America, they turned into immigrants. And today — in many parts of the world — they are (we are) aliens. From somewhere else. At odds with and yet fully inside of another culture. At home nowhere. This new issue of Granta features tales from
Granta 119: Britain
In 2012, Britain is a nation in flux, managing difficult socioeconomic realities, contending with new political alliances and negotiating shifting demographics. Yet it is a country that is still perceived as being bound by tradition and class structures. With new fiction, memoir, poetry, photography and art, Granta`s Britain explores landscape, identities and stories of the
Granta 123: The Best of Young British Novelists 4
The fourth instalment of Granta`s always compelling, prescient and star-making Best of Young British Novelists list.
Granta 124: Travel
Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta, at the end of his life and on the frontiers of medicine. Robert Macfarlane
Granta 130: India: New Stories, Mainly True
A powerful curiosity is the hallmark of new kind of Indian writing: important questions about the country`s past and present have found their expression in different forms of non-fiction story-telling that twenty years ago tended to be the preserve of writers from the west. Biography, memoir, narrative history, reportage, the travel account: all these forms
Story of Swimming
A chronological story told by passionate swimmer, Susie Parr, reflecting on the history of swimming in Britain from early Roman accounts to the rise of popular watering holes exploring the social and political aspects of swimming over time. Beautifully illustrated with stunning images throughout, ‘The Story of Swimming’ is an intriguing story that makes a
Peru`s Cordilleras Blanca & Huayhuash – The Hiking & Biking Guide
The next most popular tourist region after the Inca Trail, the Cordilleras Blanca and the Huayhuash boast some of the most spectacular scenery in the Andes, and most accessible high mountain trekking and biking in the world. Perfect pyramidal peaks, gargantuan ice falls and turquoise alpine lakes are all easily reached from Huarez, the region`s
When the Alps Cast Their Spell
The sport of mountaineering was pioneered 150 years ago by a diverse cross-section of Victorians, following in the footsteps of earlier local explorers who ventured into the upper regions of ice and snow in search of game and minerals. By the early years of the 19th century, a growing interest in the study of geological
Adventure Cycle Touring Handbook – 3rd ed.
This guide has become the cycle-tourist’s bible and has been re-researched by intrepid cyclists Neil and Harriet Pike. A source of information indispensable for anyone planning on (or thinking about) going on a long-distance cycling journey. This is a comprehensive manual packed with practical information suitable for a two-week trip as well as a year-long
Peking Story
A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, “Peking Story” is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared. As the American son-in-law of a revered official from an ancient Chinese family, David Kidd had unqiue
The Cycling Anthology
Following the success of The Walker s Anthology and The Railway Anthology, we re continuing this series and applying the same formula to the subject of cycling and journeys by bicycle. We draw on the writings of more than 50 literary figures and famous personalities on the subject of cycling and journeys by bicycle J.G.
Hermit of Peking
The arrival of an unpublished memoir offering up a scandalous version of the hitherto blameless public life of the revered oriental scholar, Sir Edmund Backhouse, sets Hugh Trevor-Roper on the trail of an outrageous confidence trickster. One of the great detective stories of our age, told with a pace and an infectious delight in the
Dales Way
The popular Dales Way long-distance footpath begins in Ilkley, West Yorkshire and runs for 84 miles (135km) to end in the Lake District, in Bowness-on-Windermere. It follows riverside paths along the River Wharf towards Ribblehead and the watershed of northern England, then meanders along the river valleys of Dentdale, the River Mint and the River
Walled Gardens
“Walled Gardens” is a brilliant portrait of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, struggling through the post-war depression aided by drink, horse-racing and religion, and their own idiosyncratic adaptations to modern life. Seen from the troubled perspective of the daughter of an aristocratic family in decline, we watch the disintegration of a marriage in elegant but emotionally chilled
The Walker`s Anthology – Further Tales
Following the success of The Walker s Anthology, The Railway Anthology, and The Cyclist`s Anthology we re continuing this series with further short excerpts from the writings of famous literary figures on the subject of hiking, trekking and climbing around the world. In this fascinating anthology, Bryn Thomas has drawn on writings of more than
Pocket Guide to the Edible Garden
The Pocket Guide to the Edible Garden takes its readers through the fruit and vegetable gardening year, listing month-by-month the tasks to be done and showing in original hand-drawn illustrations exactly how to do them. It answers those awkward but essential questions regarding how deep, how far apart, how to tend and care, and how
