WELCOME TO ELAND BOOKS

Eland houses an unrivalled collection of books about the world and its societies. The titles explore the magic of our cultures, their humour, their common humanity and their inspiring differences. For the price of a good bottle of wine our travel books offer inspiration for passionate exploration – in the company of authors who really know, and who know how to tell it. Eland (1982-2022): Celebrating our differences for 40 years

We have an annual subscription service, where for an annual fee we send you all our books, as they come hot from the printing press – for full details go to our books page

Our most recent titles: A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis, edited by John Hatt and Welcome to Paradise by Mahi Binebine.

LISTEN WITH ELAND

Dervla Murphy: 1931–2022
Dervla is celebrated on both BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives series and on the Slightly Foxed podcast, links below

BBC Radio 4, Great Lives: Dervla Murphy. Chosen by Hilary Bradt, founder of Bradt Guides, with presenter Matthew Parris and editor Rose Baring. To listen click here

The Slightly Foxed Podcast: Dervla Murphy, A Life at Full Tilt. With presenter Rosie Goldsmith and guests, Ethel Crowley, Rose Baring, Gail Pirkis and Steph Allen. To listen click here

Celebrating and remembering the life-force that was Dervla Murphy, who died at home at the age of 90. Thank you for your friendship, your principled wisdom, your questing conversation and your unflinching books. 22nd May 2022 To hear tributes to Dervla Murphy, winner of the Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2021, from Michael Palin, Colin Thubron, Hilary Bradt, Lois Pryce and the Eland team click here Read Ethel Crowley in The Irish Times on the anniversary of Dervla’s death here

Travel Writing World is an award-winning podcast with wide-ranging interviews with Jeremy Bassetti featuring a number of Eland authors, to listen to his conversations click here

Al Hakawati (the Storyteller) The HandsUp Foundation is a charity raising funds & awareness for aid to Syria.  Anthony Sattin joins Petroc Trelawny and Brigid Keenan in reading from an Eland classic. To listen click here

The Slightly Foxed podcast Listen to our publisher Barnaby Rogerson on the art of travel writing here and Justin Marozzi on his bookshelf in Tripoli and Gerald Hanley’s Warriors here

To listen to Barnaby Rogerson talking about the Eland list listen here to Anthropology-lite on Ryan Murdock’s Personal Landscape’s podcast

Upcycling Travel Writing at Eland Publishing in AramcoWorld. Thank you to Matthew Teller for this superb glimpse behind the scenes at Eland Publishing in AramcoWorld’s Words from Matthew Teller, photographs from Andrew Shaylor. “Travel writing … is “a highly adaptable form” that looks outward. “Our readers relish the spirit of place and like to understand other communities.” … “The very act of remaining independent is a virtue every morning,” Rogerson says,“We don’t want to grow. We want to carry on.” To read more click here

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