Barcelona: The Passenger by Unnamed
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
Thirty years after the 1992 Olympics, which redefined the city’s contemporary identity and changed its destiny, The Passenger travels to Barcelona to understand the history and future of one of the cradles of political, cultural, and urban change in Europe. From the debate about the impact of mass touri ...Show more
A Waiter in Paris - Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'This astonishing book describes a cruel, feral existence and is worthy of standing on the shelf next to George Orwell's Down And Out In Paris And London (1933) as another classic about human exploitation.' - Daily Mail'Chisholm's story is immersive and often thrilling ... He's a fine writer.' - WSJ'Kit ...Show more
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and finding moments of transcendental calm. This aberrant quest for peak experiences leads, ultimately, to the Black Rock ...Show more
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho by Meredith McKinney
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual works together weave a dense and beautiful brocade of repeated patterns and motifs, tones and textures. Here are asobi, the wandering performers who pre ...Show more
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levinson Wood
$50.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Explorer and bestselling author Levison Wood selects 100 extracts about the most astonishing acts of human endurance, adventure and survival. This collection encompasses classics of the genre and new, diverse voices, from tales of the heroic age of exploration and incredible acts of dering-do, to pione ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more
Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story by Ejnar Mikkelse, Ejnar Mikkelsen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Soon to be a Netflix feature film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar Mikkelsen was ...Show more
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An insight into the calm and contemplative world of the monastery.
A Florence Diary by Diana Athill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
Heading South by Tim Richards
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Featuring some of Australia's most iconic rail journeys, Heading South celebrates the unique joys of train travel and is the perfect book for the armchair traveller. Freelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor Tim Richards decides to shake up his life by taking an epic rail journey a ...Show more
Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'In its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.' - New York Times In his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Law ...Show more
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan Slaght
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russia's remote far eastern forest, and of the world's most extraordinary owlThe forests near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire are the only place on earth where brown bears, leopards and tigers co-e ...Show more