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
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
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
Mediterranean: The Passenger by David Abulalfia, Leila Slimani, Nick Hunt, et al
36.99 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: The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leila Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by Nick Hunt - plus: the sounds and ...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
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
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.
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
A Clear Flowing Yarra by Harry Saddler
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
A passionate, evocative love letter to an iconic waterway, and an opportunity to appreciate the natural beauty right on our doorsteps. They say you can't step in the same river twice, and it's true that the Yarra has been hugely changed - but this book is a glorious and timely reminder that things can ...Show more
Pardon My French: Food, faux pas and Franglish - one family's riotous year in the south of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'beautiful man-horse', Rachael realised that small-town France could hardly be more different to beach-side Australia. The smell of cigarettes replaced the tang of bone-broth and sprouted sourdough, the neig ...Show more
An Istanbul Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries by Kaya Genc
32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
For centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in AD 330, Istanbul served as the capital of three great empires: Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. The city's maze-like streets and high balconies, its steep alleys, flower gardens, and forested hillsides remain soaked in the vestiges of that i ...Show more