Up Pohnpei

Paul Watson

Penguins Stopped PlaymeetsCool Runningsin this hilarious and uplifting true story of footballing ...

After one too many late night discussions, football journalist Paul Watson and his mate Matthew Conrad decide to find the world's worst national team, become naturalised citizens of that country and play for them - achieving their joint boyhood dream...

The New North

Laurence Smith

A book that literally turns the world upside down

The New Northis a book that turns the world literally upside down. Analysing four key'megatrends'- population growth and migration, natural resource demand, climate change and globalisation - UCLA professor Larry Smith projects a world that by mid-century will have shifted its political and economic axes radically to the north.The beneficiaries of ...

Wild Coast

John Gimlette

John Gimlette travels to Guyana, to the Wild Coast in South America, and discovers his ancestral ...

Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark trees. Shunned by the conquistadors, it was ...

Up Pohnpei

Paul Watson

Penguins Stopped PlaymeetsCool Runningsin this hilarious and uplifting true story of footballing ...

After one too many late night discussions, football journalist Paul Watson and his mate Matthew Conrad decide to find the world's worst national team, become naturalised citizens of that country and play for them - achieving their joint boyhood dream...

An Iceberg As Big As Manhattan

David Shukman

Reporting from science's new frontlines

An Iceberg as Big as Manhattanis a gripping report on the new frontlines of science and the environment from the BBC's own correspondent, David Shukman. His skill is to get the big picture and to present it amid the everyday details of life and people. And these are the major stories of our day, whether Shukman is journeying up the fabled North West ...

OxTravels

OxTravelsis a collection of travel writing, which will act as a focus for the Oxfam Bookfest in 2011...

You have to go back to the 1980s andGranta'sbestselling travel issue to find a book that compares toOxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin,OxTravelsfeatures original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, ...

A Voyage For Madmen

Peter Nichols

Already a classic among sailors, Nichols tell the true story of the inaugural 1968 Golden Globe ...

It lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done. In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an Italian - set out to try, a race born of coincidence ...

Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

'A fascinating and inspiring true adventure story ... destined to become a classic.'Ranulph ...

At the heart ofBorn to Runlies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race ...

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes

Daniel Everett

'An astonishing book: a work of exploration, into the most distant place and language, but also a ...

Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs,theyconvertedhim. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its ...

Japan Through the Looking Glass

Alan MacFarlane

This entertaining and endlessly surprising book takes us on an exploration into every aspect of Japanese society from the most public to the most intimate. A series of meticulous investigations gradually uncovers the multi-faceted nature of a country and people who are even more extraordinary than they seem. Our journey encompasses religion, ritual, martial arts, manners, eating, drinking, hot ...

Palestinian Walks

Raja Shehadeh

Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2008

Over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. This new edition includes a previously unpublished epigraph in the form of a walk.When Raja Shehadeh first started hill walking in Palestine, in the late 1970s, he was not aware that he was travelling through a vanishing landscape. ...

In Search of Kazakhstan

Christopher Robbins

Borat has got it all wrong. Kazakhstan is far more interesting and entertaining than he'd have us ...

The only thing most people know about Kazakhstan is that it is homeland to Borat - and he isn't even real. Actually this vast place - the last unknown inhabited country in the world - is far more surprising and entertaining. For one thing, it is as ...