The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World (Lonely Planet)

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Enduring hunger, cold, injury, and illness, Slavomir Rawicz and six fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp near Yakutsk in 1941. He made his way back via the Trans-Siberian Railway and soon after wrote one of the best travel books of all time for train travel. Dense, yet enjoyably readable, Alistair Horne takes us through the Parisian history of seven ages of turmoil and change.

Following a case of ‘Millennial Miserables’, Ben shakes off the blues by leaping the (big) generation gap to join (and learn from) a more venerable age group on a series of coach trips, taking him from Scarborough to Lake Como.An illuminating, informative read from the most authoritative voice in the business, and an essential read for anyone dreaming of adding a whale-watching stop off on a forthcoming adventure. Travelling with kids can feel like you’re lugging a slightly unstable hand grenade, not knowing which innocent bystanders are going to get caught in the inevitable blast. All our journalism is independent and is in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative.

Subtitled ‘A Human History of the Worlds Beneath our Feet’, Will Hunt’s journey isn’t always as it seems. This read traces her (not always easy) journey to becoming a frequent traveller at “zero altitude”, detailing what she’s learned so far and how she’s managed trips as diverse as the Scilly Isles and Croatia. They also look to the future, he seems to say, by questioning what fables the Anthropocene era will leave behind for our antecedents to find, buried deep in the darkness. Travelling along the sacred Indus River isn’t a decision taken lightly – its impossible rapids spell out a risk that most people would rather avoid. If you want a proper adventure from your armchair, this compendium of travel articles by some of the country’s best storytellers will fit the bill.All brand new, incredible photography illustrates each country, depicting what life is like in each nation from photographic portraits of people, beautiful landscape photographs and vibrant street photography. She duly conquered them all, chronicling the achievement in a successful blog, with the peaks becoming a constant presence in her life – much like a parent. Following her dream to set up a social enterprise in Nigeria’s largest city, she finds challenges at every corner, but adventure, too – sunny getaways to the Badagry Creek beach havens, thrilling rescues from the floodplains of the Niger River and tense paper chases with the Nigerian police. As the lone seasonal park ranger at Arches National Monument in 1956 and 1957, he desired to experience nature in its truest form.