Between the salt and the ash

Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, exploring thirteen-hundred years of social change and asking what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal.

Driving with strangers

Driving with strangers is an ambitious, timely and intellectually eclectic contribution to how we think about mobility, the rationale behind its different forms and why our philosophy of travel and societal structures are closely related.

Vers ispahan

A critical edition of this early twentieth-century travel book by the French travel writer Pierre Loti (1850-1923).

British encounters with syrian-mesopotamian overland routes to india, 1751-1795

This book argues that eighteenth-century British travel writing on the Syrian-Mesopotamian overland routes to India does more than recount encounters; it challenges Enlightenment assumptions about “improvement.” As travellers moved through Syria and Mesopotamia, describing local peoples, cultures...

Pracht und idylle

A richly illustrated introduction to the immense variety of stately homes and parks in Germany, from Lake Constance to the Baltic Sea. A journey of discovery through almost 100 castles and abbeys, palaces and mansions, parks and gardens, many of them UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Revised and expan...

Idyllic splendour (revised and expanded edition)

A richly illustrated introduction to the immense variety of stately homes and parks in Germany, from Lake Constance to the Baltic Sea. A journey of discovery through almost 100 castles and abbeys, palaces and mansions, parks and gardens, many of them UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Revised and expan...

Nikolai gretsch's travel letters: volume 3 - letters from germany

Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a tre...

Nikolai gretsch's travel letters: volume 2 - letters from france

Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a tre...

Travel writing in an age of global quarantine

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’...

Nikolai gretsch's travel letters: volume 1 - letters from england

Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837.  Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a tr...

Captain philip beaver's african journal

Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhum...

Governing the military

Governing the military is an up-to-date study of key contemporary challenges to govern the military and the ongoing successes and failures by post-dictatorship civilians in Chile to reform national defence governance.

Ulaanbaatar beyond water and grass

Ulaanbaatar beyond Water and Grass is the first book in the English language that takes the visitors to an in-depth exploration of the capital of Mongolia. In the first section of the book, M. A. Aldrich paints a detailed portrait of the history, religion, and architecture of Ulaanbaatar with ref...

The making of macau's fusion cuisine

In The Making of Macau’s Fusion Cuisine: From Family Table to World Stage, Annabel Jackson argues that Macanese cuisine cannot be seen as a unique product of Portuguese colonialism in southern China. Instead, it needs to be understood in the context of Portugal’s culinary footprint in Asia and be...

Methone

The Middle Ages arguably constitute the golden age of the prominent fortress town of Methone, an ancient settlement sited on the west coast of the Messenian peninsula of the Peloponnese. Its medieval magnificence is reflected in the strong fortification walls, built by the Venetians, who expelled...

Faliro – voula (greek language text)

Starting with the tram just outside Piraeus and traveling along the west coast of Attica to the Asklepion of Voula, the natural and man-made landscape of the coastal zone is described, from ancient times to the present day. Greek language text

The wartburg - world's heritage

Idyllic splendour

A richly illustrated introduction to the immense variety of stately homes and parks in Germany, from Lake Constance to the Baltic Sea. A journey of discovery through almost 100 castles and abbeys, palaces and mansions, parks and gardens, many of them UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Constaninople byzantine et les voyageurs de levant

This book surveys historical descriptions of Constantinople by visitors from the Middle Ages to the 18th and 19th centuries, offering insights into the city's history and lost monuments. It is a tribute to Ebersolt's scholarship and the city.

Anthem guide to the opera, concert halls and classical music venues of europe

This guide is a unique resource for music lovers with a passion for travel. Europe’s foremost concert halls and opera houses are presented here in a comprehensive, accessible and attractive collection.

What i saw in america

‘What I Saw in America’ is an eloquent record of the polymath G. K. Chesterton’s experiences on a lecture tour of the US in 1921. This is a persuasive, revealing and essential work that overflows with wry humour, sympathy and intelligence playing devilishly against an irrepressible mischievousness.

Long peace street

Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the city’s recent history, explaining how the present and future of the world’s rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty in 1912 ...

Studying and working in france

Replacing the highly-acclaimed first edition, this second, newly-researched, fully-revised, expanded and updated edition now includes details of 29 major University centres and their Institutions of Higher Education. It takes full advantage of the recent technological revolution, highlighting a w...

Cairo collages

With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo’s grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi.

World film locations: prague

Prague, the 'Hollywood of the East', has played an important role in the history of cinema and World Film Locations: Prague traverses the city’s topography to examine an internationally diverse range of movies made in the Czech capital: landmark early films such as Ecstasy, controversial due to t...

World film locations: liverpool

Outside of London, no other British city has attracted more film-makers than Liverpool. Sometimes standing in for other cities or acting as a version of its own past, Liverpool is an adaptable filmic backdrop. From the earliest makers of moving images – among them the Lumière brothers – Liverpool...