On Track Searching Out the Bundian Way by John Blay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
On Track tells the story of John Blay's long-distance search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. The 360-kilometre route traverses some of the nation's most remarkable landscapes, from the highest pl ...Show more
On Trails: From Anthills to the Alps, How Trails Make Sense of a Chaotic World by Robert Moor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A strikingly original debut from a tremendous new talent, Robert Moor explores how trails help us understand the world, from the biological phenomenon of how ant trails are formed to hiking paths that span continents and oceans, from migration routes to the Internet. In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appal ...Show more
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums by Maggie Fergusson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Who doesn't love a good museum? Whether grand and impressive, or irreverent and amusing, museums are places to lose - and find - ourselves, palaces of the imagination. And they have long been sources of inspiration to the most creative among us. Treasure Palaces brings together over twenty of the world' ...Show more
The Modern Explorers: Epic Journeys to the Ends of the World by Robin Hanbury-Tenison; Robert Twigger
$21.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. Most of the accounts are written by the explorers themselves, and they all vividly describe challenging and extraordinary expeditions to ...Show more
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland by Edited by Kathleen Jamie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'Luminous' The Times'Beautiful' Caught by the River Bringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens, through prose, poetry and photography. E ...Show more
A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood by Helen Mort
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A stunning memoir of motherhood and mountaineering by one of Britain's most gifted poets, for readers of H is for Hawk and The Outrun. Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death. Helen Mort has always been ...Show more
Yak on Track - An unforgettable adventure in the last Himalayan kingdom by Heather McNeice
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
It seemed like a good idea to Heather at the time: organise a challenging trek to raise funds for the education of young Bhutanese girls. Heather had walked in the Himalayas before, so how hard could it be on the trail to Lunana, Bhutan's most remote plateau? On the 240-kilometre trek, she discovers tha ...Show more
Van Cat Meow: A Lost Man, a Rescue Cat, a Road Trip Like No Other by Richard East; Richard East
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A lost man. A rescued cat. A road trip like no other. People everywhere have fallen in love with Willow, the van cat, as she explores the wilds of Australia with Richard, her devoted owner. Now for the first time, Richard and Willow tell the true story behind the images that have captured our hearts ... ...Show more
Horizon by Barry LOPEZ
$37.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Taking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the earth's most remote regions -- and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that describes his travels to six regions of the world- from Western Oregon to ...Show more
Mud and Stars - Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of TheGolden Age by Sara Wheeler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
To write this book award-winning writer Sara Wheeler travelled across eight time zones in Russia, from rinsed north-western beetroot fields and far-eastern Arctic tundra where Chukchi still hunt walrus to the cauldron of ethnic soup that is the Caucasus. Her guides were the writers of the Golden Age, Pu ...Show more
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
**A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021**Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. ...Show more
On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty- ...Show more