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Eames has written five books, and edited many more.
Crossing the Shadow Line (published by Hodder & Stoughton and Sceptre paperback) is an account of his travels in southeast Asia as a young man, and includes a long journey by junk from Indonesia to Australia.<
Four Scottish Journeys (published by Hodder & Stoughton and Sceptre paperback) describes four seasonal journeys around Scotland, which Eames has long regarded as a spiritual home.
The 8.55 to Baghdad
(published by Bantam and Corgi paperback)
is an account of a
train
journey from
London to Baghdad just before the war in Iraq in the footsteps of
Agatha
Christie.
It was described as the
best travel book of the year by the Daily
Mail,
and serialised as book of the week on BBC Radio 4.
Something for the Weekend is a compendium of 52
Eames has also recently commissioned and edited Great Train Journeys Of The World,
weird and wonderful weekends collated from many years of travel, published by
Bradt in 2008.
Blue River, Black Sea is Eames'
account of his journey down the Danube from source to delta, by bicycle, horse,
barge and on foot. It was published in paperback by Black Swan in February 2010.
Picked as one of the best travel of books of 2009 by the Sunday Times. The book has
been well reviewed both in the UK (particularly the Daily Telegraph) and in the United States (The Nation).
a large format book published by Time Out.