Eva zu Beck is a Polish-born adventurer who usually tells her stories through YouTube, where she has 1.91 million subscribers. They have followed her on a solitary trek on horseback in Mongolia, through Covid lockdown on a remote island in Yemen and on a road trip in an 18-year-old Land-Rover across the United States. Now she’s moving into print with The Wilder Way (Century, £20) a memoir in which she tells how she first hit the road, having decided that “marriage, mortgage and lineage” weren’t for her, and, in 2018, bought a one-way ticket from London to Kathmandu at the age of 26. The book, her publisher says, is “a world-expanding, deeply human story of stepping off society’s prescribed path — and discovering the extraordinary life on the other side”.

Sir Michael Palin, who has been sharing his travels on TV screens since 1989 (starting with Around the World in 80 Days), was thinking of bringing them to a close as his 80th birthday approached. Then he was offered a three-week trip to one of Africa’s least-visited countries, for a series that aired in 2024. His journal of that trip, In Nigeria, will be published later this month (Hutchinson Heinemann, £20, May 28). “At one moment,” his publisher says, “he is in vibrant but chaotic Lagos, the next in the seemingly deserted streets of … Abuja, the next in the polluted oilfields of the Niger Delta… He hears the testimony of a kidnap victim of the terrorist group Boko Haram and experiences the collective spiritual ecstasy of one of Nigeria’s mega-churches… he experiences at first-hand the contradictions of a country that has so much natural wealth and human talent and yet simultaneously grapples with corruption, religious strife and deep inequality.”