A Break from the Motorways, Hugh Cantlie (Les Routiers £9.50)
Want to break free from fast-food service station hell? Help is at hand with this guide to over 200 places to eat, rest or sleep within five minutes of a motorway.
The Aloha Shirt, Dale Hope and Gregory Tozian (Thames & Hudson £18.95)
A fascinating book which, with over 700 illustrations, which provides a pictorial history of the Hawaiian shirt, a unique line of clothing that had its golden age from the 1930s through the 1950s, as tourism expanded and the shirt became an icon of relaxation.
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From pigging out - in pubs or meat-free - to cannibal grannies.
Classic journeys
Tourists have long flocked to places made famous by writers and their novels. Author Giles Foden looks at the lasting link between literature and holidays.
Chapter and verse
From Bath to Saigon and from the Brontës to Irvine Welsh, Desmond Balmer does it by the book...
A bellyful of auks
Gretel Ehrlich's obsession with romanticising hardships in This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland leaves Jenny Diski feeling queasy
A walk in the crocodile’s shoes
Benedict Allen tells John Cunningham about the role of the adventurer
A family affair
Dea Birkett on Lonely Planet's stirring tales to get families back on the road, kids and all.
Just say no
Ian Penman follows Decca Aitkenhead around the world but finds that The Promised Land: Travels in Search of the Perfect E is too full of dull drug-taking to really capture the imagination
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Our roundup of the best family travel guides on a bookshelf near you.
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The best new titles out in January 2002
Waiter, there’s an iguana in my soup
Anthony Bourdain sells out and takes a television crew around the world in search of a good meal in A Cook's Tour
A Taste of Scotland 2002
If references to Scottish food conjure up images of smoked salmon, haggis and little else, then allow A Taste of Scotland 2002 to whet your appetite.
Lonely Planet Wales
Lonely Planet has published its first guide to Wales and the beleaguered country comes out of it very well indeed.