Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020 An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning author of international reportage Erika Fatland ta ...Show more
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The "Old Patagonian Express" tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan cit ...Show more
Clanlands - Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan; Graham McTavish
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
With a foreword by Diana Gabaldon. From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of Outlander Sam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. Unlikely friends Sam and Gr ...Show more
The Angel Tree by Alex Dingwall-Main
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
From the bestselling author of The Luberon Garden comes a second horticultural adventure that takes the author through France, Spain, Greece and Italy in search of an ancient olive tree
My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream by Janine Marsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: The\Good Life France Ser.
Janine Marsh takes a day trip to France to pick up some cheap wine. A few hours later, she returns to England, having put in an offer on a rickety old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas-de-Calais. Giving up her job in London, she moves to France with her husband in order to enjoy the good life ...Show more
Life Lived Wild - Adventures at the Edge of the Map by Rick Ridgeway
$60.91 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild. At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he's spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: "And most of that in small tents pi ...Show more
Lost Japan by Alex Kerr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
This is an enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his i ...Show more
Under a Big Sky - Facing the elements on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
The joys and challenges of day-to-day farming in extraordinary circumstances. Tim Saunders writes about his life and work on the farm that's been in his family for five generations. He encompasses drought, farming during lockdown, illness, financial pressure and the drive to become more viable and envir ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Canons Ser.
Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable lands ...Show more
Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus by Charmian Clift
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family led in Greece in the 1950's in one volume. For Charmian Clift, Greece was the Promised Land. In 1954 she and her husband, George Johnston, abandoned their sophisticated London existence and set off with two new ...Show more
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter--who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagab ...Show more
Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking by Kerri Andrews (Editor)
$37.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
A sweeping collection of women's writing on the wandering path, moving across genres, geographies, and centuries. The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews's Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from Elizabeth Carter's correspondence with Catherine Ta ...Show more