Author, historian and broadcaster, James Holland, describes the brilliance of Evelyn Waugh in this wistful and serious novel. Reading it as a seventeen year-old on the cusp of adulthood, it had a deeply profound and lasting effect on James.

Highly acclaimed journalist and friend, Sophy Roberts, details her love for the brilliant 'Wind, sand and stars' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

If it wasn't for this book, Richard may have found himself living in the American Southwest, already in love with enormous landscapes this book nurtured his desire for solitary adventures and time in the wilderness.

Award winning travel writer, Stanley Stewart, reveals his life changing read about an epic journey through Afghanistan in 1969.

Dr Amy Dickman of the Ruaha Carnivore Project recalls the inspiration she found after reading Cry of the Kalahari by Delian Owens, a autobiographical book detailing two young American zoologists in the mid-1970s.

The Travel Book Company founder, Alex Edwards, talks about an early childhood read