Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Having immersed himself in the islands of Rhodes, Corfu and Cyprus, Lawrence Durrell turns to Sicily, the largest of the Mediterranean islands, with its long and varied history and its spectacular archaeological remains. To equip himself for this formidable task, Durrell joined a tour, the 'Sicilian Car ...Show more
Walking the Himalayas: An Adventure of Survival and Endurance by Levison Wood
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Levison Wood has breathed new life into adventure travel.' Michael Palin 'Levison Wood is a great adventurer and a wonderful storyteller' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bestselling author of Walking the Nile 'Levison Wood is "bewildered ...Show more
See Naples and Die by Penelope Green
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: The\Hungry Student Ser.
Penny was looking for a new job and romance, and found work and perhaps love in the toughest Italian city of them all ? Napoli. Penny Green writes with a feeling of growing love for the Neapolitans, for the beauty of the city's waterfront, and the delights of the old town. But she is realistic ? she als ...Show more
Paris by Adam Roberts
37.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: CityScopes
Explore behind the tourist facade of the world's most visited city. In this book, Paris-based writer and Invisible Paris blogger Adam Roberts provides a concise and informative portrait of the iconic metropolis. He uncovers the story of how a provincial backwater rose up to become the richest and most p ...Show more
On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal by Mary Taylore Simeti
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
This is a year of Sicilian life, its seasons and its sacred festivals, its gorgeous fruits and demanding family life, its casual assassinations and village feasts, its weather and the neighbours. It chronicles a life divided between an apartment in the city of Palermo with the weekends and summer devote ...Show more
Sinning Across Spain by Ailsa Piper
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Walking has been the constant in Ailsa Piper's life. Setting down one foot after the other takes her to a transformative-and transcendent-place.Her bestselling memoir Sinning Across Spainwas inspired by the tradition of medieval walkers who were paid by others to carry their sins to holy places. The car ...Show more
Better than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction by Alexander McCall Smith
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
"...a brilliant collection of travel stories...threaded with great warmth, as readers are invited to travel in the company of these famous authors and experience their passions and revelations." BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHER We asked some of the world's most acclaimed fiction authors, including Isabel Allende, ...Show more
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Toibin
20.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
For four years from 1990, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. The result is this beautifully wrought book. He shows the complications and contradictions of the Catholic Church, and tries to unravel how they in turn influence a country's sense of nationalism. It is not quite a tra ...Show more
Sleeping for Pilots & Cabin Crew and other insomniacs by James Nixon
24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Being able to sleep when you want, for as long as you want, is the key to a successful airline career. No other shift-workers suffer the same type of rosters as flight crew: early start one day, fly to a new time zone, try to sleep in a noisy hotel (complete with bedbugs), then come back late the next d ...Show more
Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden World by Stephan Orth
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
In Couchsurfing in Iran, award-winning author Stephan Orth spends sixty-two days on the road in this mysterious Islamic republic to provide a revealing, behind-the-scenes look at life in one of the world's most closed societies. Experiencing daily the otwo Iranso that coexist side by side-the otheocracy ...Show more
The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964 by Joanne Kyger; Anne Waldman (Contribution by)
37.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
First published in 1981, The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964 is Joanne Kyger's journal of her four tumultuous years in Japan and India as a young poets in her late twenties. This book chronicles her developing poetic sensibility, emergent Buddhist practice, and what it meant to be a woman trying to ...Show more
Journeying by Claudio Magris; Anne Milano Appel (Translator)
39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys. A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the ...Show more