The Caliph's House : A year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Look into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul... Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s, married, with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash, cramped, ennervating British city life. Flying in the face of friends' advice, he longed to fulfil his dream ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the lost city one step at a time by Mark Adams
$24.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to recreate the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and 'discovered' Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit fo ...Show more
Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Five years after "Findings" broke the mould of nature writing, Sort of Books presents "Sightlines". The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to "Findings", prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jami ...Show more
Two Middle-aged Ladies in Andalusia by Penelope Chetwode
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. Together the travellers brought out the best in their Spanish hosts and Chetwode's compelling account - warm, witty and candid - is informed by her infectious pe ...Show more
Sinning Across Spain by Piper,/Piper, Ailsa Ailsa
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
With these words Ailsa Piper's journey begins. Less than a month later she finds herself hiking through olive groves and under translucent pink blossoms, making her way from the legendary city of Granada, towards the cliffs at Finisterre in the far north-west of Spain. On her back she carries an unusual ...Show more
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of t ...Show more
An Indian Attachment by Sarah Lloyd
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"An Indian Attachment" tells the story of a love affair between Sarah, a young British woman of adventurous spirit, and Jungli, an impoverished, opium-addicted Sikh temple servant. But this is not just a cross-cultural love story. With totally convincing authority, it immerses the reader in the realitie ...Show more
Holding on by Mervyn Jones
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: History and Politics
Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis by Gerald Hanley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen, is Rageh Omer's favorite book on his native land. A grueling description of a little-known aspect of WWII. Warriors describes a group of British Army soldiers charged with preventin ...Show more
Lighthouse by Tony Parker
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
What was it that led a man to make lighthouse-keeping his life's occupation - to select a monotonous lonely job, which takes him away from his family for months at a time, leaving him in a cramped, narrow tower with two other men not of his own choosing? Lighthouse-keepers and their families opened thei ...Show more