A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena De Blasi
$23.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'This true midlife romance reads like a fairytale.' - Sunday Life..'Replete with details of food and markets, with recipes appended, this is a sumptuous addition to the escape to Italy/France genre.' - Sydney Morning Herald..When Fernando spots her in a Venice cafe and knows immediately that she is The ...Show more
A Time in Rome by Elizabeth Bowen
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome between February and Easter is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its hisotry, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions of former inhabitants and their oft ...Show more
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An amazing story about a journey, and - more importantly - a return home. Snow geese spend their Summers in the Canadian Arctic, on the tundra. Each autumn they migrate south, to Delaware, California and the Gulf of Mexico. In the Spring they fly north again. William Fiennes decided to go with them and ...Show more
Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
After backpacking her way around India Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. When a beggar reads her palm and insists she will one day return - and for love - she screams 'Never!'. But twelve years later the prophecy comes true. When the love of her life is posted to India, Sarah ...Show more
Remote People by Evelyn Waugh
$22.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, "Remote People" begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for "The Times". It continues with subsequent travels throughout Africa ...Show more
Homage to Barcelona by Colm Toibin
$22.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities -- a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city's founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the lives of Gaudi, Miro, Picasso, Casals and Dali. It also explores the hist ...Show more
The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India by William Dalrymple
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The fourth book from the most acclaimed and gifted young travel writer of his generation, author of the best-selling In Xanadu, City of Djinns and From the Holy Mountain.
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other sid ...Show more
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
$19.95 AUD
$24.95 (20% off)
Category: Travel Writing
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to'. And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the ki ...Show more
Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson
$18.55 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In 1992, a climber was left to die by other climbers on Mount Everest, which horrified Joe Simpson who was himself left for dead in Peru in 1985. In this book Simpson explores anecdotally and in heated debates with his climbing companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s.
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journey across the entire Byzantine world, and William Dalrymple has followed in their footsteps.
Neither Here Nor There - Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hamemrfest, the norther ...Show more