Tibetan Foothold by Dervla Murphy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Dervla Murphy's first epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, "Full Tilt", is a complete adventure in itself. It is also the first volume of a trilogy of experience that continues with Tibetan Foothold. For the young Irish woman, once she had got herself to India by July 1963, immersed herself in ...Show more
The Waiting Land by Dervla Murphy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In "The Waiting Land" (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country's natural grandeur and beauty. This is the third of Dervla Murphy's early travel books: an exploration of Nepal by ...Show more
Why China Will Never Rule the World: Travels in the Two Chinas by Troy Parfitt
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
After having lived in Taipei for ten years, Troy Parfitt sets out on an epic journey to test the theory that China is ascending toward a position of global hegemony. The result is a whirlwind tour of the Chinese world, one that enlightens, astonishes, and entertains. Parfitt shows us that he is the perf ...Show more
Holidays in Heck by P.J. O'Rourke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The long-awaited follow up to the classic Holidays in Hell, P.J. O'Rourke's Holidays in Heck is the middle-aged version of his classic travel pieces, featuring journeys to China, Venice, the UK and beyond. Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including Chi ...Show more
San Francisco 2012 Wallpaper* City Guide by Wallpaper*
$12.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or fi ...Show more
Surfari by Tim Baker
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
All surfers dream of shedding responsibilities and answering the siren song of the ocean swells. For most, it is an ideal that recedes as age advances - as family, career and provider commitments overwhelm the wanderlust of youth. But what if you could defy the slow march of age? Shelve all your worldly ...Show more
Adelaide by Kerryn Goldsworthy
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City series
A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert tickets, tourist maps - Kerryn Goldsworthy's Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a personal guide to the city through a collection of iconic objects. Adelaide navigates her ...Show more
Riding the Trains in Japan - Travels in the Sacred and Supermodern East by Patrick Holland
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Arriving late in Kyoto Patrick Holland cannot find a room for the night. Homeless and disorientated and in a place where loitering is not encouraged his only solution is to ride the trains. The train journey is the starting point for a book that also describes travels through Vietnam, mountains in the C ...Show more
Eat Pray Eat by Michael Booth
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Terminally disappointed, fatally distracted and more often than not considerably the worse for wine, journalist Michael Booth really needed to make some major changes to his life. Instead, he embarks on an ambitious, self-indulgent but ultimately doomed attempt to write the definitive book on Indian foo ...Show more
Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture by Jose Saramago
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
When Jose Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he has certainly succeeded. Recording the events and observations of a journey across the length and breadth of the country he loves dearly, Saramago brings Portug ...Show more
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Reissue) by Peter Hessler
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The\Hungry Student Ser.
412 pages, maps, notes This text presents an account of American aid worker Peter Hessler's time spent in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River during the late 1990s, a time of great change for China. He observes the natural beauty of the area and shares the lives of the local people. He directs a pro ...Show more
Tell Them to Get Lost by Brian Thacker
$27.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
When Tony Wheeler wrote Lonely Planet's first-ever Shoestring guidebook, South-East Asia offered 'cheap and interesting travel without the constantly oppressing misery of some of the less fortunate parts of Asia'. Certain 'hotspots' in the region attracted the tourist crowds, but there were many 'untouc ...Show more