Footnotes - A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I started.' Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of twelve inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through the lens of the past. The journey starts in Dorset, shaped by the childhood visions of Enid Blyt ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia and the Sea of Japan A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writer Colin Thubron, at 79, will ...Show more
Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand by Nic Low
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngāi Tahu’s ancient oral maps and modern satellite atlas, I crossed the Southern Alps more than a dozen times, trying to understand how our forebears saw the land. What did it mean to define your identity by sacred mountains, or actually see th ...Show more
No. 91/92: a Parisian Bus Diary by Lauren Elkin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A LOVE LETTER TO PARIS, A MEDITATION ON COMMUNITY AND THE BEAUTY OF OBSERVING OTHERS Your telephone is precious. It may be envied. We recommend vigilance when using it in public. - Paris bus public notice In Autumn 2014, Lauren Elkin began keeping a diary of her bus commutes in the Notes app on her iP ...Show more
Only Two Seats Left : The Incredible Contiki Story by John Anderson
$16.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In 1962 a young New Zealander left home for a one year trip to Europe. He returned some 20 years later with a wife, four children and the internationally renowned tour company - Contiki Holidays.Written by the founder of Contiki, Only Two Seats Left is the incredible story of how a simple idea with a ...Show more
Walking the Americas by Levison Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Levison Wood's famous walking expeditions have taken him from the length of the Nile River to the peaks of the Himalayas, and in Walking the Americas, Wood chronicles his latest exhilarating adventure: a 1,800-mile trek across the spine of the Americas, through eight countries, from Mexico to Colombia.B ...Show more
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This is a portrait of Italy unlike any other, a heady blend of travel, history, art and food that takes us from Lake Garda's lemon houses through the gardens of Tuscan villas to Calabria's scented bergamot groves and a Sicilian marmalade kitchen, from top to bottom of the land where lemons grow. 'Unmiss ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: \
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring suc ...Show more
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Mountains of the Mind is a beautifully written synthesis of climbing memoir and cultural history. Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride.In this ground-breaking, cl ...Show more
Ireland: The Passenger by Various
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
'These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home.' - The TLS
The Raven's Nest by Sarah Thomas
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A breathtaking mix of nature writing, memoir and travel, this is the story of the making and unmaking of a marriage, and the search for home among the elemental landscape of Iceland's bewitching Westfjords. In 2008, on a week-long trip to a film festival in Iceland, Sarah Thomas was spellbound by the st ...Show more
The Virago Book of Women Travellers by Mary Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' Guardian Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this collection as women travel for peril or pleasure, whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French countryside, to challenge the fierce Sahara or c ...Show more