For sale in CIS only! In 1927, Paul Morand – a French diplomat and noted European author – made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a diary about his experience o...

For sale in CIS only! "There are four roads leading to Santiago, which combine to form a single road". So begins "The Pilgrim's Guide", the world's first guidebook. Written early in the twelfth century by Benedictine monks, it served travellers tak...

For sale in CIS only! John Henry Newman was in many ways the Catholic Church's Duke of Wellington in Victorian times-except that he fought his campaigns and won his battles with his pen rather than the sword. Similar in appearance, both were very gr...

For sale in CIS only! Cambodia is a long way from Germany – thousands of miles, as it turns out. And in between are some of the world's highest mountains, most inhospitable deserts and least welcoming countries. Trying to make the journey overland w...

For sale in CIS only! "The Long Road to Heaven", the annual pilgrimage to the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela has taken place for over a thousand years. In the great cathedral of Santiago are said to lie the bones of St. James of the Great,...

For sale in CIS only! From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated...

For sale in CIS only! Frankfurt is a city that punches well above its weight. Despite its diminutive size – it has fewer than a million inhabitants – it is a financial centre of global importance, named alongside metropolises and capitals such as To...

For sale in CIS only! In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned...

For sale in CIS only! Brittany's richly layered landscape has contributed depth and character to the region's traditional oral culture, from stories of the sea and shore to tales of misty moors, sacred hill-tops and secretive forests. Evangelizing D...

For sale in CIS only! Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart. "Poetry was his other world and he explored it as eagerly as he did the great Antarctic spaces",...