Hilaire Belloc takes a pilgrimage across his beloved home English county of Sussex writing as four distinct personalities, with a wide variety of songs, stories, and digressions.

Hilaire Belloc takes a walking pilgrimage to Rome from his hometown in France, writing of the journey, sketching the sights, and digressing on a wide variety of subjects.

An autobiographical memoir on Joseph Conrad’s maritime experiences and his relationship with the sea.

A British expedition sets off to cross Antarctica, but when their ship is wrecked they have to face a long struggle for survival.

A collection of Henry David Thoreau’s essays.

An ex-slave trader with an encrypted note schemes about its meaning, while a man with a secret past travels with his family down the Amazon in a giant raft to attend his daughter’s wedding.