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
The Mountains Are High: a year of escape and discovery in rural China by Alec Ash
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, 'reverse migrating' from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China - and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey of self-discovery. In 2020, Alec Ash left behind ...Show more
Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking by Kerri Andrews (Editor)
$38.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A sweeping collection of women's writing on the wandering path, moving across genres, geographies, and centuries. The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews's Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from Elizabeth Carter's correspondence with Catherine Ta ...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
Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story by Sophie Elmhirst
$43.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'One of those very special books that makes you put everything on hold so you can get back to it' RACHEL JOYCE'Beautiful, moving and genuinely unputdownable' JOANNA CANNON'Easily one of the most captivating works of narrative nonfiction I've ever read' OLIVER BURKEMAN What begins as an eccentric Englis ...Show more
Terra Nova: Ambition, jealousy and simmering rivalry in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration by Harrison Christian
$37.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
‘A riveting account about Scott of Antarctica and the machinations of his demise. Of the food depots that were diminished and the rescue that never came.’ Peter Hillary, mountaineer and explorer For a long time it seemed Antarctica would remain the sole holdout in a nearly fully explored world. The app ...Show more
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A. J. Liebling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
While on a year of study in Paris in 1927, Liebling acquired the friendship and tutelage of Yves Mirande, 'one of the last great gastronomes of France', beginning a joyous apprenticeship in the fine art of eating. Told with gluttonous joie de vivre, Between Meals expounds on the delights and pitfalls of ...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
The Way, My Way by Bill Bennett
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A revised 10th Anniversary edition of the classic memoir that many say is the best Camino book they´ve read. Bill Bennett´s book has now been made into a major movie, and reading it you´ll see why. Written in a humorous self-deprecating style reminiscent of Bill Bryson, it tells the story of a stubbor ...Show more
Mediterranean: The Passenger by David Abulalfia, Leila Slimani, Nick Hunt, et al
$37.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
Fully illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leila Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by Nick Hunt - plus: the sounds and ...Show more
Parisian Days by Banine
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Pushkin Press Classics
"Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten." -- Evening Standard A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle to realize her dreams of "freedom and fantasy" in 1920s Paris, appearing in ...Show more