This charming book asks us to reassess how and why we travel. As we stress out in departure lounges and take cheap flights to somewhere warm are we really travelling at all?

Dan Kieran argues that we need to glide rather than fly and presents various persuasive arguments for slow travel including, avoiding airports, ditching the traditional guidebooks and reading books written by locals or travellers who have lived for some time in the place you are visiting.

‘If you find yourself heading in the opposite direction to most of the people around you it’s usually a sign you’re going a more interesting way.”