The Hotel Years by Joseph Roth review – Europe’s interwar era brought to life
The first appearance in English of a wonderful collection of articles by Joseph Roth captures his wanderings in cosmopolitan society before the rise of Nazism
Top 10 books about the Himalayas
From true accounts of harrowing ascents, to more fantastic ventures in Shangri-La and Shambhala, here are some of the best tales about the Himalayas
Blots and all: Gustave Flaubert’s travel diary among rare books at historic sale
Handwritten book full of crossings-out and comments reveals Madame Bovary author’s literary struggles
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 40 – The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron (1937)
Much admired by Graham Green and Evelyn Waugh, Robert Byron’s dazzling, timeless account of a journey to Afghanistan is perhaps the greatest travel book of the 20th century
The Marches by Rory Stewart review – father and son go walking
Stewart reflects on empire, identity and landscape in this memorable account of his frustrating journey with his father along Hadrian’s Wall
Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris by Derek Johns; Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor – review
The lives of two colourful veterans of British travel writing are uncovered with contrasting success
Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World by Andrew Solomon – review
The passage of time makes Andrew Solomon’s elegant collection of travel pieces even more poignant
‘I’m in love with a whole continent’ – Colin Thubron on his passion for Asia
The continent that ‘both invites and resists understanding’ has always fascinated the travel writer. And his favourite country is today the saddest: Syria
Colin Thubron: ‘Life is in the detail’
It is 14 years since Colin Thubron’s last novel but, he explains, there was research to do, which meant a lot of travelling…
White Sands: Experiences From the Outside World by Geoff Dyer – review
The less promising his subject, the more brilliant Geoff Dyer gets in this collection of essays on travel and art
10 of the best new travel books
There’s nothing like quality travel writing to transport a reader into distant realms. We pick entertaining, inspiring and challenging books that offer a different kind of journey
How to Talk About Places You’ve Never Been: On the Importance of Armchair Travel by Pierre Bayard – review
The academic is on familiar ground with this irreverent, occasionally jargon-heavy, bluffer’s guide
Walking the Welsh Marches with a Victorian clergyman
Time has stood still in this corner of Wales, as our writer discovers when he retraces a 19th-century walk across green hills and pristine moorland
Amy Liptrot: ‘I swam in the cold ocean and dyed my hair a furious blue… I was moving upwards slowly’
Amy Liptrot on how writing and living alone on a remote Orkney island helped her beat alcoholism and rebuild her life
The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea review – across the sea that shaped us
Tom Blass proves a compelling guide as he travels through the myth and history of northern Europe’s marginal waters