The Well at the World's End by A.J. Mackinnon
$27.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
When A.J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the Well at the World's End, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth. Determined not to fly ('It would feel like cheating'), he sets out with a ruc ...Show more
Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the 26 British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 m ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literar ...Show more
Rome Tales by Helen Constantine (ed.)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in the twentieth and contemporary new writers such as Melania Mazzucco and Igiaba Scego, offer the delight of ...Show more
Shooting Stars and Flying Fish by Nancy Knudsen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
When Nancy Knudsen and her architect husband Ted Nobbs decide to escape their high-pressure corporate lives and follow a dream of sailing around the world together, little do they guess where their journey will lead them.Nancy and Ted cross all the great oceans of the world and visit dozens of countries ...Show more
Paris to the Past: Traveling Through French History by Train by Ina Caro
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orleans to evoke the miraculous visions of Joan of Arc, to Versailles to experi ...Show more
In the Land of Oz by Howard Jacobson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
On what he calls 'the adventure of his life', Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle the wild life of the bush, the wild men of the outback, or the even wilder women of the seaboard cities. In pursuit of the best of ...Show more
1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke
$27.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Ten centuries of French historical 'facts' bite the dust in Stephen Clarke's Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller. Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sente ...Show more
A Time of Gifts - On Foot to Constantinople - From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: BK 1
'A Time of Gifts' sees Patrick Leigh Fermor setting out in 1933, at the age of 18, on his epic journey across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This first volume takes the reader as far as Hungary.
Castles, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers: Adventures along St Declan's Way by Burton Rosamund
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The fascinating and funny story of one woman's delightful ramble along St. Declan's Way the Camino de Santiago of Ireland battling the mist and the rain, with just an old photocopy of a map to guide herRosamund's adventures begin when she isloaned a map of the ancient highway and pilgrim route St Declan ...Show more
Paris Metro Tales by Helen Constantine
$19.95 AUD
$24.95 (20% off)
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City Tales
Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck- ...Show more
A Pattern of Islands by Sir Arthur Grimble
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"A Pattern of Islands" is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant octopus. Beyon ...Show more