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An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul: City of Forgetting and Remembering by Richard Tillinghast
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Armchair Traveller
The author is an old Istanbul hand who has seen it change over the years from a provincial backwater to today's vibrant metropolis. With Tillinghast as a guide through Istanbul's caf s, mosques and palaces, and along its streets and waterways, readers will feel at home both in the Constantinople of bygo ...Show more
Hemingway in Italy by Richard Owen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Armchair Traveller
Morocco: In the Labyrinth of Dreams and Bazaars by Walter M. Weiss; Stefan Tobler (Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Armchair Traveller Ser.
While much of the Middle East is now engulfed in conflict and repression, Morocco remains a curious anomaly: peaceful and open to the West, it has provided refuge for artists and writers for generations, and it remains an exotic destination for many curious travelers. The country has been influenced by ...Show more
Smile of the Midsummer Night: A Picture of Sweden by Lars Gustafsson
$41.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Haus Publishing - Armchair Traveller
In "Smile of the Midsummer Night," best-selling author Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist present a very personal guide to their Swedish homeland. Setting off from the far South, their journey takes them up to Norrland, from the farms of Scania to Laponian, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it is the ...Show more
Tasting Italy: A Culinary Journey by Alice Vollenweider
$19.95 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Armchair Traveller
Since 1533, when Catherine de Medici was accompanied by numerous cooks when she travelled to France to marry King Henri I, Italian cuisine has been considered the mother of all European fine cooking. Alice Vollenweider wrote her doctoral thesis on the influence of Italian cooking as reflected in languag ...Show more
Troubled Water - A Journey Around the Black Sea by Jens Muhling; Simon Pare (Translator)
$50.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Armchair Traveller Ser.
A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live there. Fringing the Black Sea is a diverse array of countries, some centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Jens Mühling travels through this region, telling the sto ...Show more
Umbria: The Heart of Italy by Patricia Clough
$37.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Armchair Traveller Ser.
When Patricia Clough, a former foreign correspondent, bought a house in Umbria, she knew that buying her dream home did not mean that life would become a dream. By the end of this book, in which she describes the journey of making Umbria her home, she is sure that "if one has basic requirements for bein ...Show more
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