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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
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
Brisbane by Matthew Condon
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City series
In this book, the third in a series on Australian cities in which leading Australian authors write about their home city, novelist and journalist Matthew Condon rediscovers the city of his childhood, Brisbane. Having returned there after many years, Condon takes the reader on a unique and personal journ ...Show more
City-pick New York by Heather Reyes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City-Pick Series
F Scott Fitzgerald journeys up Fifth Avenue Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo arrive in Greenwich Village Alistair Cooke looks out over Central Park David Byrne does the Five Boro Bike Tour Edmund White finds a city of freedoms Jan Morris recalls Manhattan 1945 Ian Frazier hears it for Brooklyn Teju Cole encoun ...Show more
Come with Me to Paris by Gloria Fowler; Min Heo
$33.50 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: City Series
This charming rhyming book is a great introduction to the sights and culture of Paris. The book begins by inviting the reader tocome along on the journey and ends with a good night wish: "Paris is a beautiful city in France;Please come visit, should you have the chance.The French call it Paree, and the ...Show more
London - City-Lit by Heather Reyes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City-Lit Series
London is the world's most happening, most exciting and most diverse city. From Roman stronghold and mighty capital of the British Empire to financial powerhouse and city of the 2012 Olympics, London has always looked to the past and the future. And no one reflects this brilliant complexity better than ...Show more
Melbourne by Sophie Cunningham
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City series
Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city's life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degrees to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. She walks through Melbourne's oldest suburb to its largest market, she goes to the footy and to th ...Show more
Paris city-lit by Heather Reyes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City-Lit Series
Introduction by Stephen Clarke, author of A Year in the Merde
Perth by David Whish-Wilson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: City series
David Whish-Wilson's Perth is a place of surprising beauty, of sand-swept peace and brilliant light, yet a place where the deeper historical currents are never too far beneath the surface. Like the Swan River that flows in two directions at once at certain times, with the fresh water flowing seawards ab ...Show more
Sydney by Delia Falconer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: City series
"Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, whose bright notes, especially at their most joyous, seem to cast themselves out across a great abyss." Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of our cities. In this book, the third in a series in which leading Australian authors w ...Show more
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