Don't Sleep, There are Snakes - Life and language in the Amazonian jungle by Daniel Everett
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the wor ...Show more
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by SHAH TAHIR
25.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
In the tradition of "A Year in Provence" and "Under the Tuscan Sun," acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family's move from the gray skies of London to the sun-dren ...Show more
Holidays by William McInnes
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
Remember those long, languid holidays when the only decisions to be made were what to pack in the Esky and who should get the front seat on the drive to the beach? Let William McInnes reignite your nostalgia for holidays past, and give you a taste of the boundless opportunities that await in holidays to ...Show more
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey—by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel—through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mount Sinai to touching the burning bush, Bruce Feiler's inspiring journey will forever ...Show more
Long Hitch Home by Jamie Maslin
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Tasmania to London. One end of the globe to the other. 800 hitchhiking rides. 18 thousand miles. Four seasons. Three continents. 19 countries. How many rides does it take to hitch from Tasmania to London? Rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin decides to find out, propelling him into a high stakes adventure of a l ...Show more
Venice: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-Jose Gransard
44.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: The\I. B. Tauris Literary Guides for Travellers Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Based on the author's popular seminars and walking tours of Venice, this entertaining and comprehensive "guide for literary travelers" is a work of literature itself, chronicling the writers and artists who have worked in or travelled to Venice over the centuries. Organized around six themes, such as Lu ...Show more
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cur ...Show more
How to Talk About Places You've Never Been On the Importance of Armchair Travel by Pierre Bayard
35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places we've never been. Practical, funny, and thought-provo ...Show more
Paris Time Capsule by Ella Carey
29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
New York based photographer Cat Jordan is ready to begin a new life with her successful, button-down boyfriend. But when she learns that she s inherited the estate of a complete stranger a woman named Isabelle de Florian her life is turned upside down.Cat arrives in Paris to find that she is now the own ...Show more
Ubuntu: One Woman's Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa by Heather Ellis
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
As you travel Africa, you will find the way of ubuntu - the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one. At the age of twenty-eight, while sitting in a friend's backyard in the remote mining township of Jabiru, Heather Ellis has a light-bulb moment: she is going to ride a motorcycle across A ...Show more
Tangier: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Josh Shoemake
39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Literary Guides for Travellers
An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa, just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe and overlooking both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, and the Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws ...Show more