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
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.Unlikely friends Sam and Graham begin their journey in the heart ...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
The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination by Philip Marsden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A journey by sea along the western coasts of Ireland and Scotland in search of islands, both real and imagined.
Atlas of Improbable Places - A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners by Travis Elborough
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Unexpected Atlases Ser.
'This engrossing book traverses the heights and depths, the beauty and terror, of our world.'THE OBSERVER Travis Elborough goes in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and arcane. His unique atlas shows you the modern world from surprising new vantage points. Discover the secret Soviet city ...Show more
A Trip of One's Own: Hope, heartbreak and why travelling solo could change your life by Kate Wills
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Are you dreaming of leaving behind the 9 to 5 and floating off into the sunset, but not sure where to start? Constantly searching for dream holidays but never getting anywhere near them?
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
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
The Secret History of Here : A Year in the Valley by Alistair Moffat
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A personal investigation into the history that surrounds us, from the historian and award-winning author of The Hidden Ways. The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place, a farm in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has been occupied since pre-historic ...Show more
Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'In its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.' - New York Times In his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Law ...Show more
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto." The Guardian A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day. Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging me ...Show more
A Vagabond for Beauty: A John Murray Journey by W L Rusho
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Overcoming Bks.
INTRODUCED BY PAUL KINGSNORTH, Booker-shortlisted author of The Wake'I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.' Artist and wanderer Everett Ruess left home at the age of sixteen to immerse himse ...Show more
The Valleys of the Assassins: A John Murray Journey by Freya Stark
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Overcoming Bks.
INTRODUCED BY MONISHA RAJESH, award-winning author of Around the World in 80 Trains 'If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them - that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature.' Growing up in near-poverty and denied a formal e ...Show more