THE FOLIO SOCIETY
BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Travel and Exploration
From the daring exploits of great navigators and adventurers, to the happy meanderings of those with restless feet, each of these books is a wonderful journey you can make with the author again and again.
Britain & Ireland’s Best Wild Places
Christopher Somerville
Presenting ‘500 ways to discover the wild’, this eye-opening guide reveals the many magical, unspoilt destinations that still remain on these islands.
Your price US$45.00
An Illustrated Journey Round the World
Compiled, edited and introduced by Katherine Prior
This sumptuous book, commissioned specially for The Folio Society, is the most extensive colour collection of the Daniells' work to have been published in nearly 200 years.
Your price US$69.95
In Trouble Again
Redmond O'Hanlon
How the intrepid ornithologist O'Hanlon and his sidekick managed to survive some serious travelling trouble makes for gripping, and hilarious, reading.
Your price US$54.95
The Lost Continent
Bill Bryson
Seized with ‘a curious urge to go back to the land of my youth and make what the blurb writers like to call a journey of discovery’, Bill Bryson set off across the USA in his mother’s ageing Chevrolet. His account sparked an entirely new kind of travel-writing, delighting in the unexpected oddities of normal life.
Your price US$47.95
The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Glyn Williams
This compelling new book by the bestselling authority on the history of the Northwest Passage, Glyn Williams, charts the epic quest through the testimony of the explorers themselves.
Your price US$74.95
The Silk Road
Frances Wood
The 'Silk Road' is one of the most evocative of all geographical names. Frances Wood's thrilling account of these ancient lands, is sometimes horrifying, sometimes humorous, but always compelling.
Your price US$59.95
The Spice Route
John Keay
No other trade has been so shrouded in myth and mystery. Few commodities have been so fiercely fought over. Evocatively illustrated and brought back to bustling life, this is the most romantic and dramatic of all travellers' tales.
Your price US$59.95
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Kevin Crossley-Holland's Desert Island Companion
It was 1933, the year that Hitler came to power in Germany. Armed with a borrowed sleeping bag, a battered Oxford Book of English Verse and a volume of Horace, Fermor set out looking for a new life, freedom, 'something to write about'.
Your price US$54.95
Touching The Void
Joe Simpson
Mountaineers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates had successfully scaled the 21,000-foot Siula Grande in the heart of the Peruvian Andes, but on their descent disaster struck. Touching the Void, also an acclaimed film, is one of the most remarkable tales of survival ever told.
Available now.
Your price US$39.95
A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Daniel Defoe
When Daniel Defoe embarked on his Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain in the early 1720s, the traditional rural society that he knew and loved was already vanishing, soon to be engulfed forever by the pulsating forces of the Industrial Revolution.
Your price US$69.95
Travels in West Africa
Mary Kingsley
In 1893, Mary Kingsley embarked for West Africa. She knew neither French nor any African languages, she had no experience, no contacts, and she took just £300 with which to make her way around one of the least explored and most dangerous regions in the world. Enormously enjoyable, this is a witty and brave account from a pioneer of travel writing.
Your price US$49.95
The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Chronicling the thirteenth-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, Tibet, India, and, finally, China.
Your price US$52.95
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley is at once an affectionate account of life on the road and a great writer's last look at an America entering a turbulent time in its history.
Your price US$39.95
A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain
William Daniell
The coast of Britain has exhilarated generations of painters, poets and travellers across the years, but only one artist has succeeded in capturing every aspect of their teeming diversity – William Daniell.
Your price US$64.95
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