Wandering with Intent: essays by Kim Mahood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt -- and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life. In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Aust ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
Icons of England by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub sign ...Show more
The Border: A Journey Around Russia by Erika Fatland
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Erika Fatland travels along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way.The Border is a book about Russia and Russian history without its author ever enterin ...Show more
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
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Category: Travel Literature
The classic bestseller of British nature writing 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.
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Bryson Ser.
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation?s heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC ...Show more
Clanlands - Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
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Category: Travel Literature
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
The Bush by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a livi ...Show more
One, Place de l'Eglise: A Year or Two in a French Village by Trevor Dolby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
A joyous and life-affirming story of one family's move from London to a rural French villageThere it stands, a thousand-year-old ruin ignored by the Languedoc villagers of Causses-et-Veyran who pass by it on their way to the church next door. But for Londoners Trevor and Kaz it's coup de foudre - love a ...Show more
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania's utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter - a ...Show more
Tschiffely's Ride - Ten Thousand Miles in the Saddle from Southern Cross to Pole Star by Aimé Tschiffely
$27.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
From the southeast coast of South America through an expanse of Peruvian sands en route to the West Coast, then onward through Central American jungles and rainforest, and finally to New York, Tschiffely's journey was considered impossible and absurd by many newspaper writers in 1925. However, after two ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy #1) by Gerald Durrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell.Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Ge ...Show more