An epic bike ride from London to Tehran sheds light on links between the East and West

Going mano e mano with the malady of Montevideo

Old Europe lives on in the new world

Perhaps a little less introspection will see a renaissance of the troubled genre

Thubron shows an unyielding willingness to listen to those he meets and attempt to understand their worlds

Is Europe losing its interesting edges as temperatures climb year by year?

Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?

In his new book on Madagascar, John Gimlette tells of trouble in paradise

The end of one writer’s life as a vivid dream