Books for The Armchair Traveller

My Katherine Mansfield Project
My Katherine Mansfield Project

Kirsty Gunn

In this lyrical essay, Gunn explores the ideas of home and belonging – and of her own deep connection to a place where every flower and gatepost seems embroidered with the memory of some story or another.

Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons
Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons

John Wilson Foster

This is a story of the rapid and brutal extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, once so abundant that they ‘blotted out the sky’, until the last bird died on 1st September 1914. It is also an evocative story of wild America.

Nairn’s Towns
Nairn’s Towns

Ian Nairn

These essays show the late, great architectural critic Ian Nairn, writing about cities and towns as a whole rather than as collections of individual buildings.

The Road to Apocalypse: The Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way
The Road to Apocalypse: The Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way

Stanley Price Munro Price

In 1811 eccentric millionaire Lewis Way had an epiphany on the road to Exmouth. From that moment he devoted himself to one goal: the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, revealing a forgotten life story.

Journey to Armenia & Conversation About Dante
Journey to Armenia & Conversation About Dante

Osip Mandelstam

At once a travel narrative, an allegorical journey, a withering comment on State-Building, a humanist philosophy of life, a preparation for death and a prophecy of resurrection (both for Armenia and for himself). This edition also includes the companion-piece, ‘Conversation about Dante’.

Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland
Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland

Lavinia Greenlaw William Morris

The great Victorian William Morris was fascinated by Iceland, which inspired him to write one of the masterpieces of travel literature. Poet Lavinia Greenlaw follows in his footsteps, combining excerpts from his Icelandic writings with her own eye-witness response to the country and creates a highly original meditation – part memoir, part prose poem, part criticism, part travelogue.

The Foreigner: Two Essays On Exile
The Foreigner: Two Essays On Exile

Richard Sennett

Sennett explores displacement through two vibrant historical moments: mid-19th century Paris and the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice uncovering surprising consequences.

The Portable Paradise
The Portable Paradise

Jonathan Keates

Prize-winning author Jonathan Keates has a secret passion: collecting vintage guidebooks. These Victorian volumes contain an entire archeology of cultural loss and longing as Keates takes us on a poignant, enlightening, and at times hilarious tour of that mysterious country, the past.

Limited Edition Set Number One
Limited Edition Set Number One

This beautifully produced, limited-edition gift box contains our seven launch titles from Spring 2011. Only 500 sets were created and individually numbered for the perfect gift.  All our books are exquisitely designed and bound in vibrant high-quality linen.

Limited Edition Set Number Two
Limited Edition Set Number Two

This beautifully produced, limited-edition gift box contains our eight titles from Autumn 2011. Only 500 sets were created and individually numbered for the perfect gift. All our books are exquisitely designed and bound in vibrant high-quality linen.

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