When We're Not Afraid: My 12,000 Km Bike-Packing Ride Through South America by Leonie Katekar, Gregory Hill
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
What would you do if you were not afraid?During a difficult time in what had already been a difficult life, Leonie Katekar decided to plunge herself into the unknown, embarking on a 12,0000-kilometre solo bike-packing expedition. When We're Not Afraid is her story of facing her fears and daring to leave ...Show more
Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul by Sylvie Bigar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Cassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession and transcended into a quest for identity. Set in the stunning southern French countryside, this honest and poignant memoir ...Show more
The Lost Paths by Jack Cornish
$36.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A journey across Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, revealing key moments throughout our historyHundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. More than just a practical way for us to walk, ride and cycle around, they are an inheritance f ...Show more
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
Desert Soul by Isabelle Eberhardt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: JM Journeys
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM ATKINS, author of The Immeasurable World'I am merely an eccentric, a dreamer who wishes to live far from the civilized world, as a free nomad.'Isabelle Eberhardt's writing chronicles, in passionate prose, her travels in French colonial North Africa at the turn of the 20th century. ...Show more
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is' Michael Palin History has not been kind to Himalaya. Empires have collided here, cultures have clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the no ...Show more
A Month By The Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, the people she met were touched by her genuine, unflinching interest and spoke ...Show more
They Went to Portugal - A Travellers Portrait by Rose Macaulay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From the author of the beloved novel The Towers of Trebizond, a book about Portugal that is part travel-ogue, part history and wholly personal.
Out of Sheer Rage - In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Sitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write. In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexi ...Show more
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing every ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Canons Ser.
Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable lands ...Show more