Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire charts Chekhov's journey to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Across the Empty Quarter charts Thesiger's amazing journey across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. In Adventures in the Rocky Mountains, pony-bound Isabella Bird travels the Colorado Territory. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or hunting Orang-Utans or sailing on a junk to the unbelievably remote Aru islands, Wallace ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Can-Cans, Cats and Cities of Ash is Mark Twain's account of his tour with a group of fellow Americans around the sights of Europe. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Escape from the Antarctic charts Shackleton's epic expedition to reach the South Pole, and his subsequent heroic and terrifying crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Nobody wrote more vividly or more painfully about the Spanish Civil War than Orwell. In Fighting in Spain he comes face to face with the reality of the civil war in Catalonia. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Mas'udi's matchless The Meadows of Gold has almost miraculously survived: a compendium of stories and information on what he knew of the worlds of the Middle East, the Far East and Europe. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. In Hunt for the Southern Continent, the second of his three great voyages, Cook took on the most frightening of all his challenges - to travel as far south as possible, in the hope of finding a new great continent which could be settled by the British. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. In the Heart of the Amazon Forest is Bates' account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon - battling great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in his quest for ever more obscure specimens. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Jaguars and Electric Eels is Humboldt's epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. In LIfe on the Golden Horn, Mary Wortley Montagu accounts her adventures in the mysterious, sophisticated culture of Ottoman palaces, bathing places and courts. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. In Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes William Dampier demonstrates the adventure writing that inspired both Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Sold as a Slave is Equiano's account of his life, one of the great documents of the abolition movement, and a startling, moving story of danger and betrayal. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. One of the most brilliant post-war journalists, this is Kapuscinski's account of decades spent criss-crossing Africa. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. Mary Kingsley's extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. The Customs of the Kingdoms of India details Polo's fabulous array of stories from sailors and merchants, about the peoples of the region, some reliable, some wholly implausible, but all fascinating. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. The Shipwrecked Men tells how a confident, well-equipped Spanish expedition to explore the Florida mainland swiftly turned into disaster. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. In To the Holy Shrines, Sir Richard Burton sets out to become the first Christian to penetrate the Muslim shrines of Medina and Mecca - a reckless stunt. More...

Great Journeys: allowing readers to travel around the planet and back through the centuries. In Snakes with Wings & Gold-digging Ants, Herodotus demonstrates his enormous, omnivorous, sometimes credulous appetite for stories of distant lands and strange creatures. More...