Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Countries

Daniel Houghton, the former CEO of Lonely Planet, is on a mission to spread the word about travel's unique power to change hearts and minds. He speaks for, and to, a new generation who want more out of travel than a list of experiences. They use it to develop empathy and cultural awareness, whet...

Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for 30+ years with quotations, insights, reflections and ...

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration - the fateful final journey of Captain James Cook. On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook began his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, in Hawa...

From the moment French-born Alienor encountered a pair of wild horses in the Australian outback, she was transfixed. Fiercely loved by some and considered a scourge by others, brumbies have a complicated place in Australian culture and history. Inspired to celebrate their character, Alienor tamed...

From getting back to nature with a tent, some matches and a few litres of bottled water, to enjoying a pub dinner and camping out in the garden afterwards, this book shows how to get stuck into wild camping in all its forms. Beautiful wildernesses; tiny budgets; environmentally-friendly...What's ...

A book filled with underwater adventures, Wild Dives will take you to remote locations where you can experience some of the best, and sometimes weirdest, underwater spectacles from around the world. Nick and Caroline Robertson-Brown take you through more than 20 of their most memorable diving exp...

"You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, perhaps not. There are no plaques to explain ...

"A series of accounts of journeys in New Zealand, from sailing round the North and South Capes to tramping through the Southern Alps and walking along Auckland's main thoroughfare, Queen Street"--Publisher information.

An epic journey of discovery into the heart of a vast and contested Australian wilderness. In Wild Nature John Blay laces up his walking boots and goes bush to explore Australia's rugged southeast forests - stretching from Canberra to the coast and on to Wilsons Promontory - in a great circle fro...

Get back to nature and explore sites unspoilt by humankind with the latest addition to the Inspired Traveller's Guide series. We humans don't just love wild places. We need them; we need their scale, their breath, their drama and enigma. Wild places can be a balm and a solace; an escape or a retu...