Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest by Ankit Babu Adhikari, Pradeep Bashyal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'Tendi Sherpa had been on the summit of Everest twelve times already before 2019. He was guiding a 60-year-old American climber during one of the busiest periods the mountain had ever seen. On the face of it, his task was simple: to make sure that he and his client did not end up dead on the mountain... ...Show more
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of Outstanding Travel Storytelling from Around the World by Jessica Vincent
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the most respected travel writers in the world: Levison Wood, Monisha Rajesh, Jessica Vincent and Simon Willmore The world has c ...Show more
The Collector of Leftover Souls - Dispatches from Brazil by Eliane Brum; Diane Grosklaus Whitty (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From Brazil's answer to Svetlana Alexeivich: a powerful glimpse into the lives of ordinary Brazilians.
Footnotes - A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'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
Pagan Light - Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri by Jamie James
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Pagan Light is mesmerizing. Every detail is compelling. I felt I was reading a family history of a family far more interesting than mine." --Edmund White, author of Our Young ManA rich, intimate embrace of Capri, which was a magnet for artistic renegades and ...Show more
Sealand - The True Story of the World's Most Stubborn Micronation by Dylan Taylor-Lehman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The raucous, stranger-than-fiction tale of Sealand - the tiny island nation off the Suffolk coast. In 1967, retired army major and self-made millionaire Paddy Roy Bates inaugurated himself ruler of the Principality of Sealand on a World War II Maunsell Sea Fort near Felixstowe - and began the peculiar s ...Show more
The Journey Matters - Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style by Jonathan Glancey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
What was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS Normandie, to fly with Imperial Airways from Southampton to Singapore, to steam from Manhattan to Chicago on board the New York Central's 20th Century Limited or to ...Show more
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the C te d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world and life they found there, they soon decided to uproot their lives in England and settle in Provence. They h ...Show more
A Short History of Trains (PB) by DK
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A fascinating journey through the history of railways, packed with first-hand accounts of innovation, triumph, and tragedy. From the earliest steam engine to the high-speed bullet trains of today, A Short History of the Railway reveals the hidden stories of railway history across the world - the inspire ...Show more
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | 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
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter--who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagab ...Show more
Fearless Footsteps - True Stories That Capture the Spirit of Adventure by Nathan James Thomas (Editor); Jennifer Roberts (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Travelling the world is an exhilarating, eye-opening, life-affirming experience. But it can also be scary to even think about. There are language barriers, borders to cross, planes to fly in, and of course, the mystery of an unknown land. It can be difficult to take the chance, even when you're yearni ...Show more