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Explore hard-to-find quiet spots in urban jungles, ultimate wilderness hideouts, the world’s best mindfulness and meditation retreats, and ancient centers of spiritual succour and artistic solace – perfect for whether you want to find yourself or get completely lost.
First published in 1981, Old Glory tells of a journey down the Mississippi in an open-topped boat. No one who has read this book can possibly complain about being surprised by Trump’s election victory. Thirty years later we see it as not just wry, funny, brave, immersed and beautifully observed but prophetic. A book to be read and re-read.
First published in 1990, Hunting Mister Heartbreak is a discovery of the many faces of America, from New York to Florida, from rural Alabama to Seattle.
First published in 1987, Raban writes about reading and travelling, fleshing out London literary life in the ’70s and ’80s.
A.A. Gill takes another look at the America he knew in the 1970s, a place that seemed to hold promise, practical energy and a plan for the future. The book is a collection of linked essays based around places that will open up truths and mythologies about America and Americans.
‘The Olive Route’ recounts the author’s passion for the olive tree and the culture that has grown up around it. In search of its secrets and traditions she embarked on a solo adventure around the Mediterranean basin, tracking trade routes and unearthing unlikely stories.
This work is about the remotest, the wildest and the most isolated region of Greece. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus, and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, this rocky central prong of the Peloponnese is the southern most point of Mediterranean Europe.
In this text, Norman Lewis describes how, after Mussolini came close to destroying the Mafia, the U.S. army returned them to power in 1944.
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