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Coasting: A Private Journey by Jonathan Raban
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage which coincided with the ...Show more
Elephant Complex - Travels in Sri Lanka by John Gimlette
$31.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
"Brilliant." --The Daily Telegraph No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones wh ...Show more
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the C te d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world and life they found there, they soon decided to uproot their lives in England and settle in Provence. They h ...Show more
Old Glory - A Voyage down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the asto ...Show more
The Hard Way Around - The Passages of Joshua Slocum by Geoffrey Wolff
$27.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon ...Show more
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