Remote People by Evelyn Waugh
$22.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, "Remote People" begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for "The Times". It continues with subsequent travels throughout Africa ...Show more
Homage to Barcelona by Colm Toibin
$22.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities -- a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city's founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the lives of Gaudi, Miro, Picasso, Casals and Dali. It also explores the hist ...Show more
The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India by William Dalrymple
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The fourth book from the most acclaimed and gifted young travel writer of his generation, author of the best-selling In Xanadu, City of Djinns and From the Holy Mountain.
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other sid ...Show more
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
$19.95 AUD
$24.95 (20% off)
Category: Travel Writing
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to'. And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the ki ...Show more
Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson
$18.55 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In 1992, a climber was left to die by other climbers on Mount Everest, which horrified Joe Simpson who was himself left for dead in Peru in 1985. In this book Simpson explores anecdotally and in heated debates with his climbing companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s.
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journey across the entire Byzantine world, and William Dalrymple has followed in their footsteps.
Neither Here Nor There - Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hamemrfest, the norther ...Show more
Honey from a Weed - Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, the Cyclades and Apulia by Patience Gray
$80.00 AUD
Category: Food
This book is perhaps the jewel in Prospect's crown. Within a few months of its first appearance in 1986 it was hailed as a modern classic. Fiona MacCarthy wrote in The Times that, 'the book is a large and grandiose life history, a passionate narrative of extremes of experience.' Jeremy Round called Pati ...Show more
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because h ...Show more
Mystery Of Mallory & Irvine by Tom Holzel
$30.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The compelling story of the greatest mystery in mountaineering, first published in 1996, has now been revised in the light of the discovery of Mallory's body on Everest. In 1924 Mallory and Irvine set off from camp, bound for the summit. But they were never seen alive again. Did they conquer the mountai ...Show more
A Tuscan Childhood by Kinta Beevor
$23.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between the world wars. "Wonderful . . . I fell immediately into her world, and was sorry when I reached the end."--Frances Mayes, author of "Under the Tuscan Sun." 63 illustrations throughout.