Holidays by William McInnes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Remember those long, languid holidays when the only decisions to be made were what to pack in the Esky and who should get the front seat on the drive to the beach? Let William McInnes reignite your nostalgia for holidays past, and give you a taste of the boundless opportunities that await in holidays to ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness?In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
Istanbul - Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination. This is a supremely moving account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his ho ...Show more
Sydney by Delia Falconer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: City Ser.
Part memoir, part guide to Sydney, Australia, this melancholic, moving, and funny exploration intertwines novelist Delia Falconer's own stories with the city's historical and literary past, showing how the city has evolved from the 1970s through today. From mad clergymen and amateur astronomers to Indig ...Show more
Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'An enduring cultural icon. Every story conveys Sanmao's infectious capacity for wonder' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Stories of the Sahara has endured for generations of young Taiwanese and Ch ...Show more
Horizon by Barry Lopez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From the National Book Award-winning author of the classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us from pole to pole and across decades of lived experienc ...Show more
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia - Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on) by Chris Stewart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A special anniversary edition with a new chapter 25 years on.Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Spanish mountain farm to print. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn enough money to buy a se ...Show more
The Hero's Way - Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
This is a widely appealing idea for a travel/history book from the bestselling author of Italian Ways, in which Tim follows the hair-raising journey of Garibaldi, revolutionary and future architect of a united Italy, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna across the Apennines, to look at Italy past and ...Show more
Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
As Ingrid Horrocks takes swims in rivers, oceans and pools around the world, she considers her relationship with water and with the world around her. The question didn't seem to be so much why we swim, as where and how we swim, and with whom. Also, where we fail to swim, water threatening to flood our ...Show more
The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Lose yourself in this dazzling travelogue of the idyllic Greek Islands by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Incandescent.' - Andre Aciman 'Nobody knows the Greek islands like Durrell.' - New York Times White-washed houses drenched in pink bougainvillea; da ...Show more
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe, where the surrounding forests and mountains are a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Kapka Kassabova finds a story with vast resonance for us all. Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, ...Show more