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
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
Travels with a Donkey & The Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a note ...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
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.' In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on hi ...Show more
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips
39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
A landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey's eastern border - tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy. The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most ...Show more
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
14.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Vintage classics
Hemingway's passion for Spain and for the bullfight is renowned. In DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON he shares the sights, the sounds, the excite-ment and, above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for the 'the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an an ...Show more
Between the Woods and the Water - On foot to Constantinople - The middle Danube to the Iron Gates by Patrick Leigh Fermor
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we trave ...Show more
A Philosophy of Walking by Frederic Gros
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
This book will change how you think about walking and how you walk while you are thinking. In an updated new edition, Frédéric Gros leads readers on an entertaining and insightful ramble in the company of great philosophers - Kant, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Kierkegaard - who understood that great ideas came t ...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
Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and Loss by Nick Gadd
29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Over two years, writer Nick Gadd and his wife Lynne circled the city of Melbourne on foot, starting at Williamstown and ending in Port Melbourne. Along the way they uncovered lost buildings, secret places and mysterious signs that told of forgotten stories and curious characters from the past. Soon afte ...Show more
The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes by Mia Kankimäki
26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
In this "thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women's studies, and travelogue", (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. What can a forty-something childless woman do? B ...Show more