To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Canons
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and ...Show more
Into Iraq by Michael Palin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A fascinating and rare insight into the history and culture of Iraq, by Britain's best-loved travel writer. In March 2022, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin journeyed along the River Tigris and into Iraq to gain a glimpse of life in an area of the world that can claim ...Show more
Only in New York by Lily Brett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
New York is a walker's city. You can walk for hours. The streets slip by. There is so much to look at, so much to take in. I walk a lot. Especially when I am not writing ...Lily Brett's love affair with New York began as an outsider in her late teens when she was posted on assignment there as a young Au ...Show more
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
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Category: Travel Writing
Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James Rebanks with a pretty decent camera and a pre-loaded Twitter app--the tools to share his way of life with the world. And what began as a tentative experim ...Show more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
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Category: Travel Writing
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levinson Wood
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Explorer and bestselling author Levison Wood selects 100 extracts about the most astonishing acts of human endurance, adventure and survival. This collection encompasses classics of the genre and new, diverse voices, from tales of the heroic age of exploration and incredible acts of dering-do, to pione ...Show more
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing every ...Show more
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Landscapes Ser.
From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways--a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from ...Show more
Accidental Tour Guide: Adventures in Life and Death by Mary Moody
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Eat, Pray, Love meets The Year of Magical Thinking in this powerful memoir of love, loss and taking risks from a true adventurer The irrepressible Mary Moody knows better than anyone the joy of breaking new ground and discovering new frontiers. She is the bestselling author of Au Revoir and Last Tango I ...Show more
Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad
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Category: Travel Writing
From YouTube sensation Chris Broad, the hilarious and insightful memoir of a Brit trying assimilate into life in Japan as he unravels the wonders and eccentricities of one of the world's most mysterious cultures. When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if h ...Show more
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The essential book for anyone visiting Bangkok - a wonderful mixture of history and culture - from the author of Lost JapanOne of Asia's most extraordinary cities, Bangkok is also one of the most baffling. It is filled with remarkable people and glittering golden palaces and temples, but is also a maze ...Show more
The Half Bird by Susan Smillie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
One woman's solo sailing odyssey - from Land's End to the shores of Greece - explores the unexpected joy of solitude. When Susan set sail from the south-west coast of England on her beloved sailboat, Isean, she was unaware this spontaneous departure would lead to a journey spanning several years and co ...Show more