Travel

'My favourite book about the wilderness' Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service.

It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly.Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country.

On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome...

A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work.

Lonely Planet's Greek Islands is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Island-hop around the Cyclades, watch sunsets in Santorini and hike the Samaria Gorge- all with your trusted travel companion.

The acclaimed exploration of the iconic 'park in the sky' in New York that reshaped global perceptions of urban space - back in print

Jon Krakauer's acclaimed account of a disastrous expedition on Mt Everest