Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Countries

100 Things to See in Tropical North Queensland is a guide to the best of the far north and Great Barrier Reef, according to people who live there. This remarkable part of Australia is home to the oldest rainforest on earth, the world's largest living organism and three world heritage sites, and t...

Discover 100 inspiring short trip itineraries for adventures in Europe from cultural city breaks, to fun family escapes, and epic outdoor getaways. Each weekend itinerary is plotted and mapped. They feature the destination's top experiences, from enjoying art and sampling food to the best enterta...

There are more than 40 million miles of highway, dirt track, ice road, tunnels and bridges wrapped around the globe and waiting to be discovered. 1001 Road Trips You Must Take Before You Die strives to inspire like-minded explorers to strike out on their own adventures and sample some of the most...

The ever-increasing passion for recreational walking is given fresh impetus with the creation of each new national park and wilderness area, the construction of every new walkway, and the clearing of another fresh, never-before-trodden trail. The exponential growth of pathways and woodland walks,...

Beautifully illustrated as well as informative, One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy: Shops and Crafts focuses on two of the most popular reasons to visit Italy: shopping and the artisanal products for which Italy is famous.

Beautifully illustrated, this compendium uncovers the many extraordinary, notable and surprising places to be found on Britain's waterways. Our canals and rivers link into a diverse 3,000-mile-long network, and 101 Wonders of the Waterways shows you that wherever you find yourself in the country,...

"Paris is known as the City of Lights, but it is really the City of Museums. Explore iconic centres of fine art with fresh eyes and dig deeper to uncover a world of museums dedicated to art and artists, science and industry, literature and film and curiosities both unusual and fascinating. Can yo...

Pay homage to the city that birthed a wrestling dynasty. Search for sidewalk stamps and manhole covers. Eat prairie oysters (that's code for cow balls). Learn all about a flamboyant madam named Diamond Dolly. Fish - or surf- on a downtown river. Find a poem about a frog in a university stairwell....

Chicago. City of the Big Shoulders. What started off as a small fur-trading settlement is today a bustling metropolis. Once considered the"hog butcher of the world", "stacker of wheat", and "player with railroads", Chicago's colourful past remains hidden in the nooks and crannies of this wonderfu...