Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
"Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic." --Pico Iyer A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road--an illuminating and thought-pr ...Show more
Arabia: A Journey Through the Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula. Starting in September 2017 in a city in Northern Syria, a stone's throw away from ...Show more
In Europe (Vintage classics Europeans Series) by Geert Mak
34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Vintage Classic Europeans Ser.
The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury. In 1999, journalist and historian Geert Mak criss-crossed the continent in the simpl ...Show more
Finding Valentino by Angela di Sciascio
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Valentino Di Sciascio can no longer describe his past or his culture, and his family's heritage may be lost to the ravages of Alzheimer's disease.
To Shake the Sleeping Self - A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins
49.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: near fine
From travel writer Jedidiah Jenkins comes a long-awaited memoir of adventure, struggle, and lessons learned while bicycling the 14,000 miles from Oregon to Patagonia. On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent ...Show more
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
18.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. In Morocco is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually associated with American high society, explored the country for a ...Show more
The Kingdom By The Sea by Paul Theroux
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
After eleven years as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to suprise the British into talking about themse ...Show more
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kasakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Journey through former Soviet Republics
Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How have these countries developed since ...Show more
Perth Then and Now Mini by Richard Offen
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Archival photographs of Perth have been carefully matched with specially commissioned colour photos to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city. Perth Then and Now accurately matches historic photographs of the city with specially commissioned contemporary views that show how each site looks ...Show more
Epic Continent - Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe by Nicholas Jubber
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: near fine
'A thought-provoking treatise interwoven with blistered-feet-on-the-ground accounts of spots both pretty and gritty' National Geographic 'Compelling, thought-provoking, and courageous, this epic-poetic journey peels back layers of collective emotional and imaginative inheritance. Jubber gets under the s ...Show more
Sahara: My Journey of Love, Loss and Survival in the Desert by Paula Constant
34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: good
Having walked more than 5000 kilometres from Trafalgar Square to Morocco, Paula Constant finds herself at the westernmost edge of the Sahara Desert - and the brink of sanity. The wheels have fallen off her marriage and her funds are quickly drying up, but she is determined to complete the second stage: ...Show more
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.Unlikely friends Sam and Graham begin their journey in the heart ...Show more