Stories of Southern Italy by Ella Carr (Editor); Elena Ferrante (Contribution by); Elsa Morante (Contribution by); Ovid (Contribution by); Virgil (Contribution by); Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Contribution by); Somerset Maugham (Contribution by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the ...Show more
In Italy Venice, Rome and Beyond by Cynthia Zarin
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on four Italian spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ – a traveller moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied, sometimes solo. With her we see anew the Venice Bienna ...Show more
The Watermill by Arnold Zable
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
Ranging from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Arnold Zable's quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, the ancient and the contemporary. And ever- ...Show more
In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City by John Kampfner
36.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obses ...Show more
Abroad in Japan: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Chris Broad
35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: \
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring suc ...Show more
Sunset in Spain by Erna Walraven
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
A warm, funny and poignant story of a couple's search for new challenges while pursuing a long-held dream of living la vida loca in northern Spain.
How To Be French: Eat, Drink, Dress, Travel and Love la Vie Française by Janine Marsh
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: How to Be... Ser.
What does it mean to be French?Is it pausing to enjoy a glass of good wine or a spread of cheese? A flâneur down laneways steeped in history? Knowing just how to dress so you always look effortlessly chic?This book is a celebration of the French lifestyle – an education in drinking to savour the moment, ...Show more
Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe by Duncan Minshull
29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
This latest collection of walking literature from Notting Hill Editions celebrates the allure of the Continent.On foot the world comes our way. We get close to the Continent's alpine ranges, arterial rivers, expansive coastlines. Close to its ancient cities and mysterious thoroughfares; and close to the ...Show more
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A. J. Mackinnon
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand - a year later I had reached Romania and was still going . . . ' Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an am ...Show more
Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
Mexico: The Passenger by Various
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Underground Tenochtitlan by Guadalupe Nettel * Crime and (No) Punishment by Juan Villoro * The Birth of Fridolatry by Valeria Luiselli * plus: the cocaine that washes in ...Show more