Author and photographer John Lander takes the magnificent UNESCO World Heritage sites of Japan as a starting point for exploring the country's architecture, history, customer and festivals. Lander, who has lived in Japan for 35 years, travelled to al...

Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During...

Sometimes funny, sometimes elegant, always exquisitely drawn; this annotated travel journal, portraysFrench illustrator Lapin’s adopted home city of Barcelona. Lapin is a French illustrator, an artist, a French urban sketcher based in Barcelona. He c...

A fresh, well-observed, annotated, carnet de voyage about the City of Lights by French illustrator Lapin. A must-have art book for all Paris lovers and visitors with streak of creativity.

For sale in CIS only! Founded by Viking adventurers around AD 870, Reykjavik, the most northerly capital city in the world, is paradoxically a young city. Though it is home to the Althing, one of the oldest existing democratic institutions in the wo...

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, "An Empire of Ice" presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of N...

"How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures... trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once kno...

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...

For sale in CIS only! Since 1997 John Lichfield, The Independent 's correspondent in France, has been sending dispatches back to the newspaper in London. More than transient news stories, the popular 'Our Man in Paris' series consists of essays on a...

For sale in CIS only! The philosopher and writer Krystin Lach-Szyrma came to Britain in 1820 as tutor to two Polish princes, as their Grand Tour took them to Enlightenment Scotland, where they spent two years studying at Edinburgh University. After...