By the time he reaches the river’s desolate end, where Russia’s nineteenth-century imperial dream petered out, a whole, pivotal world has come alive. The Amur River is a shining masterpiece…

This work is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives - find themselves trekking through one of…

The ruins of Phoenician and Roman are the impressive in Lebanon. Crusader castles and Arab palaces stand together in the hills, and the people are a medley of races and…

Traveling alone, the author explored the Siberian territory, talking to everyone he met about the state of that country. What he found was a land whose natural resources have been…

The New York Times -bestselling author’s dazzling masterpiece, a deeply moving, elegantly written, intimate, and heartrendingly eloquent travel memoir.

Jan Morris pioneered a way of reporting the world, exotic and otherwise, which became the template for travel writing, and in this volume her colleagues and successors explore both the…