Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany: And Other Revelations from a Mediterranean Sea Change by Shamus Sillar
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Packed with history, culture, misadventure, and a little Mafioso action, the story of a newly married couple and the year they spent in Sicily Gill and I had dreamt of living in Italy for as long as we'd been together. This is the story of an Aussie couple who sought a Mediterranean Sea change only to ...Show more
Paris In Love by Eloisa James
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'What a beautiful and delightful tasting menu of a book: the kids, the plump dog, the Italian husband. Reading this memoir was like wandering through a Parisian patisserie in a dream. I absolutely loved it.' - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love After years of living vicariously for years throu ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
An intrepid explorer who earned his living by collecting bird skins, Wallace also catalogued the vast number of plant and animal species that inhabited this unique geographical area. In addition he includes numerous observations on the people, their languages, and ways of living and social organisation ...Show more
Goodbye Buenos Aires by Andrew Graham-Yooll
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A celebration of Argentina that chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the 20's and 30's through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives - a hard-drinking, womanising, emigre Scotsman, who cut his way through the bars and brothels of the city whilst trading wit ...Show more
The Last Expedition by Captain Robert Falcon Scott
$12.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Captain Scott's expedition, carried in the Terra Nova, pitted him and his team not only against the elements but also against the Norwegian explorer, Amundsen. Ultimately, Scott was beaten by both. This title provides an account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12.
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
Cleopatra's Wedding Present by Robert Tewdwr Moss
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Cleopatra's Wedding Present is the rare book that captivates its reader from the very first page. Tewdwr Moss, a brilliant young writer who was murdered in London the day he finished the book, left this lyrical gem as his legacy. He adeptly captures an essence of the Middle East that is foreign to most ...Show more
San Francisco Top 10 - DK Eyewitness Travel Guide by Jeffrey Kennedy
$16.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide
Leads you to the best of this waterfront city - San Francisco. This title includes the liveliest bars and clubs, day trips to the Bay Area, and the best restaurants or shopping malls in San Francisco. It is divided by area and includes restaurant reviews for every area, as well as recommendations for ho ...Show more
The Grand Canyon Reader by Lance Newman
$23.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An anthology that brings together writing about the Grand Canyon - stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the 'Great Unknown'.
City-pick New York by Heather Reyes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City-Pick Series
F Scott Fitzgerald journeys up Fifth Avenue Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo arrive in Greenwich Village Alistair Cooke looks out over Central Park David Byrne does the Five Boro Bike Tour Edmund White finds a city of freedoms Jan Morris recalls Manhattan 1945 Ian Frazier hears it for Brooklyn Teju Cole encoun ...Show more
Single White Female in Hanoi by Carolyn Shine
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Sydney-based musician Carolyn Shine moves to Hanoi virtually on a whim, expecting to find romance and available culture. She's in for some big surprises. Funny, warm and engaging, her travel memoir introduces us to a cast of memorable Vietnamese characters as well as her fellow foreigners searching for ...Show more
Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation by J Maarten Troost
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The bestselling author of "The Sex Lives of Cannibals" returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China--a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.