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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The Writer and the City
After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. Here, he draws the reader into a journey of discovery and re-discovery. It offers you a private glimpse of Sydney and what lies behind the glitter ...Show more
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Writer and the City
Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native Peter Carey returns to Sydney after a seventeen-year absence. Examining the urban landscape as both a tourist and a prodigal son, Carey structures his account ...Show more
A Very Peculiar Plague (#2 City of Orphans) by Catherine Jinks
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: City of Orphans
'Bogles ain't like pigeons. They don't travel in flocks. So why is this corner o' London crawling with 'em?'Eleven-year-old Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a canny old crook named Sarah Pickles. Now she's betrayed him, and Jem wants revenge. He also wants to work for bogler ...Show more
A Very Singular Guild (City of Orphans #3) by Catherine Jinks
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: City of Orphans
Twelve-year-old Ned Roach used to scavenge for scraps along the Thames riverbank. But the recent plague of child-eating bogles in London means that he's now working as an apprentice to Alfred Bunce, the bogler.Alongside Jem Barbary and (sometimes) Birdie McAdam, Ned must lure bogles out of their lairs s ...Show more
A Very Unusual Pursuit (#1 City of Orphans) by Catherine Jinks
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: City of Orphans
Monsters have been infesting London's dark places for centuries, eating every child who gets too close. That's why ten-year-old Birdie McAdam works for Alfred Bunce, the bogler. With her beautiful voice and dainty looks, Birdie is the bait that draws bogles from their lairs so that Alfred can kill them. ...Show more
Adelaide by Kerryn Goldsworthy
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City series
A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert tickets, tourist maps - Kerryn Goldsworthy's Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a personal guide to the city through a collection of iconic objects. Adelaide navigates her ...Show more
Adelaide : Updated Edition by Kerryn Goldsworthy
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City Ser.
Consisting of a painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert tickets, and tourist maps, this book is a museum of sorts--a personal guide to the city of Adelaide, Australia, through a collection of iconic objects. Th ...Show more
Alice Springs by Eleanor Hogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City series
Alice Springs, Alice, The Alice, Mparntwe is the most talked about but least familiar place in Australia. It is a town of extremes and contradictions: searingly hot and bitterly cold, thousands of miles from anywhere, the heart of black Australia and the headquarters of the controversial NT Intervention ...Show more
Amsterdam: 2010 by Wallpaper* Magazine
$12.95 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: "Wallpaper*" City Guides
"Wallpaper City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or fi ...Show more
Amsterdam: 2011 by Wallpaper* Group
$12.95 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: "Wallpaper*" City Guides
Wallpaper* City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up and coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centres, and the best shops to buy item ...Show more
Amsterdam City Guide 8e by Karla Zimmerman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: Lonely Planet City Guide
Amsterdam s compact core is laced by atmospheric lanes and quarters. You never know what you ll find: a hidden garden, a "jenever" distillery, even an old monastery turned music venue. Karla Zimmerman, Lonely Planet WriterOur PromiseYou can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visi ...Show more
Amsterdam Lonely Planet (9th ed.) by Karla Zimmerman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: Lonely Planet City Guides
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Amsterdam is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip and what hidden discoveries await you. Feast your eyes on Rembrandts and Vermeers at the reopened Rijksmuseum, ease into the mell ...Show more