Pardon My French: Food, faux pas and Franglish - one family's riotous year in the south of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
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
Have You Eaten Yet - Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World by Cheuk Kwan (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From Cape Town, South Africa, to small-town Saskatchewan, family-run Chinese restaurants are global icons of immigration, community, and delicious food. The cultural outposts of far-flung settlers, bringers of dim sum, Peking duck, and creative culinary hybrids, Chinese restaurants are a microcosm of gr ...Show more
Wild Women: A collection of first-hand accounts from female explorers by Mariella Frostrup
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup. From Constantinople to Crimea; from Antarctica to the Andes. Throughout history adventurous women have made epic, record-breaking journeys under perilous circumstances. Whether escaping constricte ...Show more
Hadrian's Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall, by a bestselling author and expert on Ancient Rome. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretching from the east to ...Show more
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
$36.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favourite Parisian street. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs", Sciolino explains as she celebrates the area's rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the levelling effects of ...Show more
The Red Wake: A Hybrid of Travel, History and Journalism by Kurt Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A hybrid of history, travel and journalism. Kurt has long been captivated by 'the communists' from his immigrant grandparents' past, transfixed by stories of the Soviet Union, the place where history happened. In the West, the Soviet universe has long been consigned to the dustbin of history, no longer ...Show more
An Italian Education by Tim Parks
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Tim Parks's best seller, Italian Neighbors, offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate's life in a small village outside of Verona. Now in An Italian Education, Parks continues his chronicle of adapting to Italian society and culture, while raising his Italian-born childre ...Show more
Traveling Literary America - A Complete Guide to Literary Landmarks by B. J. Welborn
$7.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Readers and travelers are guided to more than 200 homes and historic sites of America’s greatest writers—from the Jack London Ranch in northern California to William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi. Clear driving directions and visitor instructions are combined with unique tidbits about each site ...Show more
Eating Viet Nam : Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table by Graham Holliday
$18.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"Graham Holliday is one of the great gastronauts, a charming and intrepid try-anything explorer who makes the rest of us food writers feel hopelessly inadequate (and woefully underfed). You'd be a fool to delve into Viet Nam's spectacular cuisine without him as your guide."--Peter J. Lindberg, editor at ...Show more
Puligny-Montrachet - Journal of a Village in Burgundy by Simon Loftus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"What Simon Loftus does in this captivating story of a Burgundy village is to explore the mystery of how seven and a half acres of impoverished soil became the most precious agricultural land on earth, producing the grandest of all white wines: Puligny-Montrachet. " "He immerses us first in the village ...Show more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
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
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other sid ...Show more