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
Abroad, Broke and Busted by Matt Towner (Compiled by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Abroad, Broke and Busted: Travellers' Tales from Around the World is a collection of stories from Australian travellers who have trekked the path least travelled and returned to tell their stories.
China Days - A Visual Journal from China's Wild West
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The nation of China is a constant source of fascination, yet we rarely glimpse life beyond its urban centres. Far west of Beijing and Shanghai, in the remote Chinese province of Yunnan, pioneering artist Henrik Drescher settled over a decade ago. While residing in his adopted home, Drescher records his ...Show more
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Landscapes Ser.
From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways--a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from ...Show more
Another Kyoto by Kathy Arlyn Sokol; Alex Kerr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Another Kyoto is an insider's meditation on the hidden wonders of Japan's most enigmatic city. Drawing on decades living in Kyoto, and on lore gleaned from artists, Zen monks and Shinto priests, Alex Kerr illuminates the simplest things - a temple gate, a wall, a sliding door - in a new way. 'A rich boo ...Show more
History of the World in 500 Walks by Sarah Baxter
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
History is never more alive than when youre walking through it. The smell of earth long-trodden by pilgrims; mountain vistas unchanged for millennia; the feel of weathered wall, built centuries before...To hike amid such echoes of the past is as close as youll come to travelling back in time. This book ...Show more
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest (Maurice Wilson) by Ed Caesar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest. Alone.In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan. He wo ...Show more
Clanlands - Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander- Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of O ...Show more
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The essential book for anyone visiting Bangkok - a wonderful mixture of history and culture - from the author of Lost JapanOne of Asia's most extraordinary cities, Bangkok is also one of the most baffling. It is filled with remarkable people and glittering golden palaces and temples, but is also a maze ...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
High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China by Erika Fatland
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by internationally bestselling, prizewinning writer Erika Fatland.The Himalayas meander for more than two thousand kilometres through many different countries, from Pakistan to Myanmar via Nepal, India, Tibet and Bhutan, where the world religions of Islam, Bud ...Show more
Learning To Be French (and Failing) - A New Zealander, a Tiny Village & an Ancient Stone House by Anna Bibby
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
What happens when an art gallery owner from New Zealand buys a dilapidated French house on a whim? Anna Bibby owned a successful art gallery in New Zealand until one day, on holiday in France, she bought a falling-down house in a picturesque medieval village. So began the process of renovating her beaut ...Show more