Yak on Track - An unforgettable adventure in the last Himalayan kingdom by Heather McNeice
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
It seemed like a good idea to Heather at the time: organise a challenging trek to raise funds for the education of young Bhutanese girls. Heather had walked in the Himalayas before, so how hard could it be on the trail to Lunana, Bhutan's most remote plateau? On the 240-kilometre trek, she discovers tha ...Show more
Van Cat Meow: A Lost Man, a Rescue Cat, a Road Trip Like No Other by Richard East; Richard East
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A lost man. A rescued cat. A road trip like no other. People everywhere have fallen in love with Willow, the van cat, as she explores the wilds of Australia with Richard, her devoted owner. Now for the first time, Richard and Willow tell the true story behind the images that have captured our hearts ... ...Show more
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
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 memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads David ...Show more
A Beer in the Loire by Tommy Barnes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Tommy Barnes was at breaking point, frustrated by a dead-end job, fed up with renting in London and, to cap it all, failing to make it as a stand-up comedian. But he didn’t break - instead he made himself redundant and took off to France with girlfriend Rose to pursue his dream of brewing beer. Settled ...Show more
Horizon by Barry LOPEZ
$37.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Taking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the earth's most remote regions -- and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that describes his travels to six regions of the world- from Western Oregon to ...Show more
Just Another Mountain by Sarah Jane Douglas
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
An uplifting memoir from a strong female voice that shows the redemptive power of mountain walking.
Mud and Stars - Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of TheGolden Age by Sara Wheeler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
To write this book award-winning writer Sara Wheeler travelled across eight time zones in Russia, from rinsed north-western beetroot fields and far-eastern Arctic tundra where Chukchi still hunt walrus to the cauldron of ethnic soup that is the Caucasus. Her guides were the writers of the Golden Age, Pu ...Show more
A Savage Dreamland by DAVID. EIMER
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
David Eimer journeys to the heart of Burma, bringing to vivid life all of its riches and complexitiesFrom 1962, the people of Burma were marooned in a paranoid military dictatorship, effectively cut off from the outside world. It was only in late 2015 that the National League for Democracy, led by Aung ...Show more
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kasakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Journey through former Soviet Republics
Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How have these countries developed since ...Show more
Shanghai Free Taxi - Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China by Frank Langfitt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
As any traveler knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when a longtime NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab-and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change.The Chinese economic boom, with its impa ...Show more
Puligny-Montrachet - Journal of a Village in Burgundy by Simon Loftus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"What Simon Loftus does in this captivating story of a Burgundy village is to explore the mystery of how seven and a half acres of impoverished soil became the most precious agricultural land on earth, producing the grandest of all white wines: Puligny-Montrachet. " "He immerses us first in the village ...Show more
More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor; Adam Sisman (Volume Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh FermorThe first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume, More Dashing, presents a further selection of letters that exude a zest ...Show more