Quaint Deeds: Unlikely Adventures in Teaching and Treasure-hunting: A Memoir by A.J. Mackinnon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your own way in life. A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon is best known to readers as a much-loved travel writer. But between eccentric voyages, he has for almost forty ye ...Show more
The Race to the Future by Kassia St Clair
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float th ...Show more
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World by Anthony Sattin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
‘In a book of sensitivity and grace, Sattin does not just describe the nomadic way of life, but also evokes it … This is A BOOK OF BEAUTY AND BEGUILING RHYTHM that offers unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders’ The Times ‘Thoughtful, lyrical yet ambitiously panoramic … As fleet and li ...Show more
The Po: An Elegy for Italy's Longest River by Tobias Jones
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture. 'Delightful... A wonderful cornucopia of history' TLS'Uncovers the Po's fascinating history' GuardianThe Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling for 652 kilometres from one end of the country to the ot ...Show more
Illuminated by Water - Nature, Memory and the Delights of a Fishing Life by Malachy Tallack
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Malachy Tallack has been passionate about fishing since he was young. Growing up in Shetland, with its myriad lochs, he and his brother would roam the island in search of trout, and in so doing discovered a sense of freedom, of wonder, and an abiding passion. But why is it that catching a fish - or si ...Show more
The Mindful Traveller: A memoir about travelling with a full heart, a light foot and a clear conscience by Nina Karnikowski
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A stunningly-written memoir and manifesto about the ethics of modern travel, The Mindful Traveller is written by someone best-placed to write about it. In this unique and inspiring book, travel journalist Nina Karnikowski takes an expedition to the very essence of travel, reflecting on the profound and ...Show more
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child - the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then there is the Cornwall she discovers when, feeling increasingly dislocated in London, she moves to Newlyn, a fishing town near Land's End. This Cornwall is messier and harder; i ...Show more
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast by Dorthe Nors
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct.
A City Runs Through Them - Dublin and Its Twenty River Bridges by Fergal Tobin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges. Dublin's twenty bridges cross the tidal section of the River Liffey flowing through its centre; they were built over a span of a thousand years. Each has made a contribution to the city's development ove ...Show more
A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World by González Macías
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. They have been the homes and workplaces of men and women whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas. Yet while that way of life fades away, as the lights go out and the buildings crumble, we s ...Show more
Tourists - How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves by Lucy Lethbridge
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
*FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH*'I really can't recommend this enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom Holland'Delightful ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book' Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on Sunday'It is the paramount wish of every English heart, ever addicted to vag ...Show more
Corners of Melbourne by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Melbourne's favourite historian, as seen in the acclaimed documentary, The Lost City of Melbourne, takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city's streets and corners, telling stories about the events and people that have made these the most interesting places to be.What better defines a city than its stre ...Show more