Asia

A witty and irreverent look at the world and a celebration of the glory of train travel. Rajesh offers a wonderfully vivid account of life, history and culture in an audiobook that will make you laugh out loud - and reflect on what it means to be a global citizen.... 

Umesh Pant’s travelogue Inner Line Pass is the story of a journey that goes on in the outer world and the inner world of the heart. It is an account of an 18-day journey of over 200 kilometres on foot that takes the traveller to the heights of beauty - and danger....

Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta....

William Dalrymple's highly praised and greatly entertaining account of his 1986 trip made while a student at Cambridge which retraced Marco Polo's route across land from Jerusalem to Xanadu....

When city dwellers meet the mountains, stories manifest themselves. Of narrow escapes from remote valleys, encounters with the wild, treks across snow-covered passes and flower-filled meadows, blended with the kindness of locals and their food, culture and festivals....

A Brief History of China tells of the development of a rich, complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money, and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metal implements, and other products were produced and exported around the globe....

Available for the first time in audio, Steve Coll's trek across a socially and politically damaged South Asia....

This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist....

Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road....

Beyond the Border, based on two journeys that Yoginder Sikand undertook to Pakistan, is a strikingly unconventional account of what life is like for "ordinary" Pakistanis.....

A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer....