An Extraordinary Theory of Objects A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris by Stephanie LaCava
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An awkward, curious girl growing up in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava finds solace and security in strange and beautiful objects. When her father's mysterious job transports her and her family to the Parisian suburb of Le Vesinet, the young American embarks on a life of discovery. Tasting the encha ...Show more
Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the New Colombia by Tom Feiling
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now travel to Colombia and South America is on the rise, and it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? Writer and journalist Tom Feiling, author of the acclaimed study of cocaine "The Candy Machine", has journeyed th ...Show more
Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Age is a humourous, uplifting meditation on finding the pleasures of old age, by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. When philosopher, jokester and septuagenarian Daniel Klein g ...Show more
Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"Voices of the Old Sea" is Lewis' masterly description of the Costa Brava on the cusp of tourist development in the 1950s, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and mad ...Show more
The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down by Andrew McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Andrew McCarthy explores the tumultuous, complicated, and circuitous route he's travelled to finally settle down with one woman, whom he married last August. Telling this story through the lens of a series of seven exotic trips he's recently taken all over the world (Patagonia, the Amazon, Costa Rica, B ...Show more
Among the Russians by Colin Thubron
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and relays his extraordinary journey in characteristically ly ...Show more
They Eat Puppies Don't They? by Christopher Buckley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre and sexy Neo-Con wonkette Angel Templeton start a rumour that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Their outrageous scheme provokes a series of crises involvin ...Show more
The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the Diplomatic Bag by Matthew Parris
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson bring together some of the funniest despatches from British Ambassadors abroad, in this sequel to their acclaimed Parting Shots. Based on a new BBC Radio 4 series, it features some classic stories, from the horse given to John Major by the authorities in Turkmenistan whi ...Show more
The Trouble I've Seen by Martha Gellhorn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House. From these pages, we understand the real cost of sudden destitution on a vast scale. We taste the dust in th ...Show more
Adventures of a Compulsive Traveller by Dominic Dunne
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Journalist Dominic Dunnes travels have rarely been ordinary, despite his best intentions. He has been travelling all his life, from the time his parents started their annual pilgrimage to the opal fields of Lightning Ridge. Since then he has trekked all over Australia and to some 60 countries, spending ...Show more
Canberra by Paul Daley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City
An implicit sense of public service and 'otherness' has now come to permeate Canberra's identity to a point that there is a great smugness, arrogance even, that the rest of Australia can hate us - but they'll never know how good it is to live here. Canberra is a city of orphans. People arrive temporaril ...Show more
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers by Lonely Planet: various
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre. Exhilaratingly varied in place, plot, and vo ...Show more