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Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Forty years ago, Tim Parks made the bel paese his home. Italian Life is his reckoning with his adopted country, an attempt to get to the core of it, to make sense of it, to fold others' stories in with his own experience - now that he is, in his own words, 'to some degree Italian' himself. The result i ...Show more
From Snow to Ash: One Man's 500-Kilometre Trek Through an Iconic Australian Landscape by Anthony Sharwood
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The incredible, inspiring story of a solo journey through Australia's toughest and most beautiful hiking trail - the Australian Alps Walking Track - for fans of INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer or Cheryl Strayed's WILD and anyone who dreams of iconic wilderness walks. At the start of the hellish, fiery Au ...Show more
Sydney by Delia Falconer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City Ser.
Part memoir, part guide to Sydney, Australia, this melancholic, moving, and funny exploration intertwines novelist Delia Falconer's own stories with the city's historical and literary past, showing how the city has evolved from the 1970s through today. From mad clergymen and amateur astronomers to Indig ...Show more
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Adventures of the Comma Queen
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in the New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers ...Show more
Hiking with Nietzsche by John J. Kaag
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A man goes in search of himself in the Swiss Alps with the help of Nietzsche.
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In The Bells of Old Tokyo, Anna Sherman explores Japan and revels in all its wonderful particularity. As a foreigner living in Tokyo, Sherman's account takes pleasure and fascination in the history and culture of a country that can seem startlingly strange to an outsider. Following her search for the l ...Show more
The Border: a Journey Around Russia by Erika Fatland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Living next door to Russia - a cultural encounter with each of its neighbours. An extraordinary odyssey through the fourteen countries that border Russia todayFrom North Korea into China, through former Soviet states and breakaway republics in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian and Black Seas, ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. Travellers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their he ...Show more
Like Streams to the Ocean - Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are by Jedidiah Jenkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"As inviting, wide-ranging, and philosophical as an all-night conversation with a best friend, and as revealing and thought-provoking as the diary of a curious adventurer."--Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We We aren't born into a self. It is created without our consent, built out of ...Show more
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier; Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures. The world he describes sprawls all the way from the Caribbean west across the Pacifi ...Show more
Paris Match: Falling in (love) with the French by John von Sothen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An American falls in love and becomes a Parisian - just not the way he imagined. In Brooklyn, John von Sothen fell in love with Anais, a French waitress. And then, one night in Paris, on the Pont Neuf, she agreed to marry him ("Bah, we can always get divorced!"). A couple of decades in, the two have be ...Show more