Travel & Holiday Guides

The world's top 500 food experiences - ranked. For the follow-up to our bestselling Ultimate Travelist, we asked the planet's best chefs and food writers, as well as our food-obsessed authors, for their most delicious and thrilling gastronomic encounters. The result is a journey to Chinese hutongs, San Sebastian pintxos bars, Tokyo sushi counters, Texan BBQ joints, Singapore hawker markets, and unmissable restaurants around the world.

The home of trusted full-colour visual dictionaries for everyday use. A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in French. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to France and French language and culture.

Lonely Planet's Mongolia is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Visit monasteries for a slice of Buddhist history; hike through the rugged mountains, serene river valleys and fields of wildflowers; and travel by camel across the Gobi Desert -all with your trusted travel companion.

Emilia-Romagna Travel Guide - Travel information and holiday advice featuring Bologna, Ferrara, Modena, Parma, Ravenna, Rimini and the Republic of San Marino. Also included are art towns, beaches, accommodation, restaurants, FICO Eataly, local food and culture, history, architecture, maps, the Po Plain, Apennines, skiing and Italian cars.

If you are a keen photographer who can't miss a sunrise or are on holiday using a mobile phone camera, this guidebook will take you to the most beautiful and photogenic places in Scotland.

Lonely Planet's Trans-Siberian Railway is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Glimpse Lake Baikal, Russia's sacred sea, or gawk at Moscow's Kremlin at one end of your journey and Beijing's Forbidden City at the other end; all with your trusted travel companion.

Join award-winning beer writer Mark Dredge on his search for the world's best beer adventures and experiences.

The best-selling, award-winning Wild Guide series travels to Portugal. Guiding you to over 800 wild swims, ancient forests, lost ruins, hidden beaches, local festivals and more. Including traditional food eateries and wilder places to stay. Over 300 photos and 25 maps.

Monocle reports from around the globe. As its editors and correspondents dart from city to city, they get to know the best places to rest their heads, stretch their limbs, and kick back with a contact in a hard-to-find cocktail bar. That information is now available in The Monocle Travel Guide Series: a line-up of titles that speaks to readers in an informed but informal way about everything from architecture to art, late-night bars to early-morning markets. Designed to be compact and collectable, these books go beyond the traditional tourist beats to make sure visitors get the best out of a city¿-no matter how short their stay. The guides are also discerning: they will not list a hundred places to eat, but they will focus on what is best for any occasion.

The title says it all: one man, one bike, one long ride, the adventure, the pleasure, and the pain. It is simultaneously a travelogue and visual journey.Martijn Doolaard traded the convenience of a car and the distractions of daily life for a cross-continental cycling journey: a biped adventure that would take him from Amsterdam to Singapore. Leaving behind repetitive routines, One Year on a Bike indulges in slow travel, the subtlety of a gradually changing landscape, and the lessons learned through traveling.Venturing through Eastern European fields of yellow rapeseed to the intimate hosting culture and community in Iran, One Year on a Bike is a vivid chronicle of what can happen when the norm is pointedly replaced by exceptional self-discoveries and beautiful sceneries. Doolaard shares the gear and knowledge that made his trip possible alongside the passionate curiosities that served as his impetus.

Four travellers meet in Bolivia and set off into the Amazon rainforest on an expedition to explore places tourists only dream of seeing. But what begins as the adventure of a lifetime quickly becomes a struggle for survival when they get lost in the wilds of the jungle.

Classic journey from London to Singapore by Land Rover.

Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the thirty-seven-foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. It remains one of the major feats of single-handed voyaging and has since been the inspiration for the many who have gone to sea in small boats. Starting from Boston in 1895 and dropping anchor in Newport, Rhode Island, over three years after his journey began, Slocum cruised some forty-six thousand miles entirely by sail and entirely alone. Slocum's account of his voyage is a classic of sailing literature, acclaimed as an unequaled masterpiece of vital yet disciplined prose--here in a new edition for all admirers of his legendary achievement.

The author finds happiness in the little things. Millions of them, in fact. He tells us about living on a remote Swedish island, blissful long summer nights, lost loves, unexpected treasures, art, nature, slowness, and how freedom can come from the things we least expect.

Midnight in Sicily is a captivating work by renowned author Peter Robb. Published by Vintage Publishing in 2015, this book takes the reader on an enthralling journey through the heart of Sicily. Robb masterfully blends history, politics, art, and cuisine to create a vivid and insightful portrait of Sicily. His rich narrative and evocative descriptions bring the island's unique culture and complex past to life. This book is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the soul of Sicily. Midnight in Sicily is a testament to Robb's storytelling prowess and his deep understanding of the region. Published by Vintage Publishing, it stands as a significant contribution to the genre.

If you want to get away from it all , there is no surer way than strapping on your boots, shouldering your backpack, and embarking on a long distance path; and there are few long distance paths more beguiling and more crammed with adventure than Mallorca's GR221, La Ruta de Pedra en Sec or The Dry Stone Way.

A compact grammar section and a pronunciation guide are included, along with a phrasebook designed for travelers, businesspersons, students, and diplomats. The bilingual dictionary designates part of speech and case declension, and gives crucial everyday vocabulary.

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White''s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America''s foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.

In this book, the author of "Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful. The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, "Rockwell was sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing a few books on the side, when suddenly I got an inspiration and said, 'I've got the name for our publishing house. We just said we were go-ing to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House.' Donald liked the idea, and Rockwell Kent said, 'That's a great name. I'll draw your trademark.' So, sitting at my desk, he took a piece of paper and in five minutes drew Random House, which has been our colophon ever since." Throughout the years, the mission of Random House has remained consistent: to publish books of the highest quality, at random. We are proud to continue this tradition today. This edition is set from the first American edition of 1937 and commemorates theseventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.

This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago.

Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip.

Guidebook to trekking in Norway above the Arctic Circle, including the Lofoten Islands, the mountains around Narvik and Ofotfjord, Tromso and the Troms region, and Finnmarksvidda in the far north east. Treks range from 48 to 165km in length and take between four and ten days to walk. Includes 100:000 maps, itineraries and accommodation guide.

From savoury pies to biscuit tin favourites, cakes for every occasion and forgotten culinary gems, these recipes are woven together with a delectable and captivating narrative. The Hebridean Baker: The Scottish Cookbook is a celebration of tradition, innovation and the sheer joy of sharing delicious food.

Lonely Planet's Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Spot iguanas on Galapagos, surf at Montanita and hike Cotopaxi; all with your trusted travel companion.

Lonely Planet's Germany is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Visit castles in Bavaria, celebrate Oktoberfest and delve into Berlin's history; all with your trusted travel companion.

Lonely Planet's Sri Lanka is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Laze on an undiscovered beach, wander lost cities and ancient ruins, or hit the markets for exotic fruits and rich spices; all with your trusted travel companion.

"Just Go offers readers the adventure of a lifetime, presenting not only the tricks Drew himself used in his trips, but also the best-kept secrets from every corner of the world. Just Go is equally a practical handbook for globetrotters and aspiring travelers as it is an intimate and heartwarming celebration of people and cultures all over"--

Guidebook to walking the Cotswold Way National Trail. Between Chipping Campden and Bath, the 102 mile route explores the Cotswolds AONB. Described in both directions over 13 stages, the Cotswold Way can be walked year round and is suitable for beginner trekkers. Includes separate OS 1:25,000 map booklet of the route.