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.
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities o ...Show more
Perfume from Provence by Winifred Fortescue
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Revival
The original story of falling for France, "Perfume from Provence" was first published in 1935 and became a best-seller. Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome and George Bernard Shaw when she married Sir John Fortescue, the king's librarian and archivis ...Show more
Travelling with Pomegranates by Ann Kidd Taylor, Sue Monk Kidd
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the New York Times bestselling author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES and THE INVENTION OF WINGS and her daughter comes a touching and perceptive memoir about mothers and daughters that will resonate with women of all ages. Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann chronicle their travels together at a time wh ...Show more
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, "The Tao of Travel" enumerates 'The Contents of Some Travellers' Bags' and expose ...Show more
Landfalls by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls in rem ...Show more
Ox Travels - Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers by Mark Ellingham (ed.); Peter Florence (ed.); Barnaby Rogerson (ed.)
$17.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"OxTravels" is a collection of travel writing, which will act as a focus for the Oxfam Bookfest in 2011 donated by world class travel writers. Proceeds will be given to Oxfam. You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to "OxTravels". Introduced b ...Show more
Venetian Navigators: The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the Far North by Andrea Di Robilant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In the 14th century, Nicolò and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. The story of their adventure travelled throughout Europe, from the workshop of the gre ...Show more
Chasing the Devil: On Foot Through Africa's Killing Fields by Tim Butcher
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Big Book of Big Animals (The Usborne Big Book of Big Things) by Hazel Maskell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The Usborne Big Book of Big Things
PICTURE BOOKS. This is a great big book crammed with huge illustrations and facts about some of the biggest animals on the planet. Each gorgeously illustrated double page is arranged in exciting themes, including the largest creepy crawlies, most dangerous animals and biggest marine creatures. With each ...Show more