Hills and the Sea – Hilaire Belloc

Hills and the Sea – Hilaire Belloc

Hills and the Sea, first published in 1906 to critical acclaim, collects thirty-eight of Hilaire Belloc’s essays, spanning several periods of time and travel. Author Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during…

Sailing Alone Around the World – Joshua Slocum

Sailing Alone Around the World – Joshua Slocum

The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas the first man to circumnavigate the world single handedly. Author Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey ‘Sailing…

The Old Ways – Robert MacFarlane

The Old Ways – Robert MacFarlane

The final book in his trilogy about landscape and the human heart. Robert Macfarlane reveals to us a forgotten world: routes, roads, trade routes and routes that pilgrims once followed. Author Robert Macfarlane is a British nature writer and literary critic. Educated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is…