Alumni Travel Programme Reading List
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The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: tales of big fish in small ponds
The Best Water Skier In Luxembourg is a quest to meet undiscovered heroes, apolemic against celebrity and a celebration of small worlds. Read more...
The Old Ways: a journey on foot
Lets readers follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove - roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. Read more...
Travel: A Literary History
The first general survey of the entire history of travel literature with illustrations reproduced from manuscripts and books in the Bodleian Library's collections. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book highlights over a hundred texts spanning more than 3,000 years from the ancient world to the present day. Read more...
The Farewell Glacier
Poems inspired by a journey to the High Arctic, calling up voices from across the Arctic past - explorers, whalers, mapmakers, scientists, financiers, the famous and the forgotten - as well as attempting to give voice to the confronting mysteries of the Arctic. Read more...
Mountains of the Mind: a history of a fascination
Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die climbing in this season in Scotland than they do on the roads. Read more...
The Wild Places
The Wild Places explores our ideas of the wild. This book also tells the story of a friendship, and of a loss. It mixes history, memory and landscape in a strange and beautiful evocation of wildness and its vital importance. Read more...
Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia
The autocratic rule of both tsar and church in imperial Russia gave rise not only to a revolutionary movement in the nineteenth century but also to a crisis of meaning among members of the intelligentsia. Read more...
Herculaneum: Past and Future
In AD 79, the volcano Vesuvius erupted, burying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and rock, and leaving them remarkably well preserved for centuries. Read more...
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Read more...
The Carolingian World
At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe – from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. Read more...
Tweets from Tahrir
The Twitter accounts of the activists who brought heady days of revolution to Egypt in January and February this year paint an exhilarating picture of an uprising in real-time. Read more...
Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
In ancient China, the preparation of food and the offering up of food as a religious sacrifice were intimately connected with models of sagehood and ideas of self-cultivation and morality. Read more...
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. Read more...
A Concise Companion to History
What is our relationship with the past? Read more...
Rome Across Time and Space
Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and as an idea with immense cultural capital, encapsulating the legacy of the ancient Empire, the glorious world of the martyrs and the triumph of Christian faith. Read more...
The Modern Middle East
Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region. Read more...
Archaeologies of Colonialism
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Read more...
Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe
Dressing Up shows why clothes made history and history can be about clothes. Read more...
Diversity and Pluralism in Islam
For more than fourteen hundred years Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. Read more...
Vanished Ocean
This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Read more...
The Way of the Panda
Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago. Read more...
Friends and Enemies
Friends and Enemies delivers a lucid and provocative history of one of the world’s largest and most successful political organizations, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Read more...
Rebel Land
What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? Read more...
The Young Charles Darwin
What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a half? Read more...
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
The ruins of Pompeii destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79 offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman empire. Read more...
Khrushchev's Cold Summer
Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. Read more...
