The Table Comes First: France, Family, and the Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Our modern society is very particular about what constitutes good food: local, seasonal, organic produce that doesn't overly impact on the environment. But throughout history every generation has believed that it alone knows the true value of food, and looked with distaste on the culinary practices of i ...Show more
Harry's Bar - The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark by Arrigo Cipriani
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Now in paperback, the inside story of one of the world's most renowned watering holes, legendary since the days of Hemingway.Harry's Bar in Venice has remained one of the world's most storied watering holes, as entrenched a fixture of the Venetian landscape as the Doge's Palace, the Basilica, and the Pi ...Show more
Clanlands in New Zealand - Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under by Sam Heughan; Graham McTavish; Charlotte Reather
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Buckle up, grab a dram, and get ready for another unforgettable wild ride. They're back! Stars of Outlander, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish are no strangers to the rugged beauty of Scotland. But this time they're setting their sights on a new horizon: New Zealand. Join our intrepid Scotsmen on their la ...Show more
California: The Passenger by Various
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. 'These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home.' - TLS'Fresh and diverting, informative and topical without being slight or ephemeral. This suprem ...Show more
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Bryson
'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the ki ...Show more
Pardon My French: Food, faux pas and Franglish - one family's riotous year in the south of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland by Tom Parfitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about how British journalist Tom Parfitt walked a thousand miles across Russia's Caucasus mountains to lay to rest a ghost after witnessing the carnage of the Beslan school siege in 2004. 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt ...Show more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'Stunningly written' Sunday Times ... 'Richly absorbing' Guardian... 'Hooks you in from the start' Times... 'Masterful' Independent... 'Hugely compelling' Observer... 'Wonderful' Financial Times Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell. ...Show more
A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena De Blasi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'This true midlife romance reads like a fairytale.' - Sunday Life..'Replete with details of food and markets, with recipes appended, this is a sumptuous addition to the escape to Italy/France genre.' - Sydney Morning Herald..When Fernando spots her in a Venice cafe and knows immediately that she is The ...Show more
The Umbrian Supper Club by Marlena de Blasi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The true story of the Umbrian Supper Club, four country women who gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy's Orvieto to cook, eat, drink and talk. Each woman's passions, disappointments and hopes are artfully recounted in this earthy celebration of life's 'small delights'.
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world's religions. They are also a plant h ...Show more
The Shark and the Albatross: Adventures of a Wildlife Film-Maker by John Aitchison
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
For twenty years John Aitchison has been travelling the world to film wildlife for the BBC and other broadcasters, taking him to far-away places on every continent. The Shark and the Albatross is the story of these journeys of discovery, of his encounters with animals and occasional enterprising individ ...Show more