Roaming through history: New travel books

While traveling offers the chance to explore historical sites, books ignite the imagination and can transport readers to historical moments in our world’s past. In this month’s new travel books, we can sail the seven seas with pirates in The Penguin Book of Pirates or investigate George Mallory’s last expedition in Fallen. You can also learn of some incredible sites to visit like the places in Zen Gardens and Temples of Kyoto. Check them out now!

• The Penguin book of pirates
• Fallen : George Mallory and the tragic 1924 Everest expedition / Conefrey, Mick
• Zen gardens and temples of Kyoto : a guide to Kyoto’s most important sites / Dougill, John
• The Antipodean Express : a journey by train from New Zealand to Spain / Hill, Gregory
• All you’ll see is sky : resetting a marriage on an adventure through Africa / Wilson, Janet
• Between the chalk and the sea / Simmons, Gail
• A history of the world in 47 borders : the stories behind the lines on our maps / Elledge, Jonn
• Hidden Japan : an astonishing world of thatched villages, ancient shrines and primeval forests / Kerr, Alex