Books for the armchair traveller come to the rescue.

The tourist may find guide books excellent value, but an armchair traveller may be better served in other ways.

The armchair traveller for whom you are shooting these pictures does not want to visualize paradise under cloud.

Armchair travellers will be riveted to their seats while the more adventurous will get itchy feet.

(For the armchair traveller, Legend does offer delivery.)

For armchair travellers or Unesco geeks.

For armchair travellers - Get inspired by our lush pictorials like The Travel Book.

Big Fish was described by Spike Magazine as a must read for wannabe globe-trotters, armchair travellers and mystery fans, alike.

As having a reputation for its extensive collection of maps it is claimed to be "an essential first port of call for adventure and armchair travellers alike".

Alpine Points of View: A Collection of Images of the Alps (2004), by Kev Reynolds, entices armchair travellers with engaging short text and stunning photos.

On that journey the romance of travel must have seemed dead, and yet, reading his account of the journey in The Great Railway Bazaar, the armchair traveller longs to experience being on the edge, as travellers often are.

As the holiday season recedes and thoughts turn to adventures ahead, we do some footwork for the armchair traveller - transporting you to some of the hottest and coldest corners of the earth and the literary imagination.

Armchair travellers will appreciate Michael Palin's Pole To Pole (BBC, £16.95) which faithfully follows his TV series in which he raced through 17 countries in colourful style (there is also a video out).

If you're into flora and fauna, Richard Marpole tells you what to look out for in the countryside this month on page 36, while adventurers and armchair travellers alike can enjoy a walking trip to the Grand Canyon on page 27.

Dervla Murphy, the Irish traveller, who has written several books about her travels with a bicycle across India and Asia, travels purely to enjoy herself, and her books about her adventures give enjoyment and inspiration to armchair travellers.

Purpose-built as a bookshop at the turn of the century, the barrel-vaulted and galleried interior of DAUNT BOOKS, 83 Marylebone High Street, London W1, is rapidly becoming a pole-star for both actual and armchair travellers.

During his travels he noted that tourists were the main consumers of the views of Italy, but armchair travellers bought scenes from other parts of the world in the hope of obtaining a true record, "far beyond anything that is in the power of the most accomplished artist to transfer to his canvas."