Armchair Exploration: Timeless Travel Books!

Travelling without moving. Discover a collection of timeless travel stories guaranteed to take you there.

1. Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America with Interruptions by Jenny Diski (Virago)

2. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux (Penguin)

3. Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy (Eland)

4. Driving the Trans-Siberian by The Raven Brothers (Samosir)

5. Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-mile Adventure by Monisha Rajesh (Bloomsbury)

6. A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush Eric Newby (HarperCollins)

7. French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France by Tim Moore (Yellow Jersey)

8. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West (Canongate)

9. Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City by Guy de Lisle (Jonathan Cape)

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Hike, Drive, Stayin' Alive!

by The Raven Brothers

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Out of shape and unprepared, The Raven Brothers return to the road in a collection of ten quests to travel to their dream destinations against all odds! After two decades pioneering new routes across the globe, you would expect the authors of 'Driving the Trans-Siberian' to be hotshot explorers, with a sixth sense and an ability to survive in almost any situation. Think again! With virtually zero knowledge of the workings of the internal combustion engine and very limited skills of wilderness survival, Simon and Chris struggle into their hiking boots and power across three continents by river, tarmac and trail.

Venture to the top of Norway, cruise the road to Damascus, hike the Camino trail into Spain’s Wild West, row the Ganges, explore Frida Kahlo’s world in Mexico City, hangout with the dead in Sicily’s eerie catacombs, crawl deep inside Bolivia’s notorious silver mine, seek lions in Gujarat, wellness in Berlin and journey into the Naga Hills where tribal kings still rule.

Noted by Lonely Planet for their talent to portray an “accurate view of what to expect”, 'Hike, Drive, Stayin’ Alive!' signals a return to the duo writing “buttock clenching” travel comedy with the first in a series of candid stories of adventure by The Raven Brothers.