Quaint Deeds: Unlikely Adventures in Teaching and Treasure-hunting: A Memoir by A.J. Mackinnon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your own way in life. A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon is best known to readers as a much-loved travel writer. But between eccentric voyages, he has for almost forty ye ...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
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 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
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 - 10th Anniversary Edition by Bill Bennett; Jennifer Cluff (Foreword by)
$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 Unnamed
$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; Anne Thompson-Ahmadova (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
"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
A City Runs Through Them - Dublin and Its Twenty River Bridges by Fergal Tobin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges. Dublin's twenty bridges cross the tidal section of the River Liffey flowing through its centre; they were built over a span of a thousand years. Each has made a contribution to the city's development ove ...Show more
Tourists - How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves by Lucy Lethbridge
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
*FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH*'I really can't recommend this enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom Holland'Delightful ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book' Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on Sunday'It is the paramount wish of every English heart, ever addicted to vag ...Show more