A Very French Affair by Maria Hoyle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A transcontinental, romantic memoir in the vein of A Year in Provence and Eat, Pray, Love. What do you say when a man you've dated a handful of times asks you to go live with him in a mill by a river in France? The obvious answer is: 'Are you out of your mind?' Maria Hoyle's was: 'Okay.' At the age of ...Show more
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A Second Edition of Thomas Friedmanâe(tm)s stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award. âe~If youâe(tm)re only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it.âe(tm) Seymour Hersh In this lucid, incisive and memorable book, acclaimed on both sides of the Atlant ...Show more
The Half Bird by Susan Smillie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
One woman's solo sailing odyssey - from Land's End to the shores of Greece - explores the unexpected joy of solitude. When Susan set sail from the south-west coast of England on her beloved sailboat, Isean, she was unaware this spontaneous departure would lead to a journey spanning several years and co ...Show more
Amuse Bouche: How to Eat Your Way Around France by Carolyn Boyd
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A charming guide to French cuisine by an award-winning food writer
Beyond the Snow Leopard: Travels Through the Himalayas, Buddhism, Mountaineering and Possible Paths to Enlightenment by Bill Crozier
$36.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"You should come with me to Dolpo next year," said Ade. No further encouragement was required. Dolpo was the land of the snow leopard immortalised by the American author Peter Matthiessen. Without hesitation I said I was going. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Matthiessen and I dared to hope that ...Show more
In Italy : Venice, Rome, and Beyond by Cynthia Zarin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on four Italian spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ – a traveller moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied, sometimes solo. With her we see anew the Venice Bienna ...Show more
Pardon My French: Food, faux pas and Franglish - one family's riotous year in the south of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'beautiful man-horse', Rachael realised that small-town France could hardly be more different to beach-side Australia. The smell of cigarettes replaced the tang of bone-broth and sprouted sourdough, the neig ...Show more
Running with Pirates by Kári Gíslason
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
At the age of eighteen, Kari Gislason arrives on the island of Corfu after a life-altering meeting with his father in Iceland. Looking for adventure, he decides to stay after meeting 'the Pirate', a mysterious Greek stranger who offers him work - only to find himself eventually fleeing the island, leavi ...Show more
Taking the Risk - Adventures in Travel and Publishing by Hilary Bradt
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
Taking the Risk is Hilary Bradt's engaging, insightful, amusing and sometimes alarming memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishing. A travel industry trail-blazer who co-founded Bradt Guides, Hilary looks back on 50 years of escapades, surprises, mishaps, disasters... and success. Fro ...Show more
The Granite Kingdom - A Cornish Journey by Tim Hannigan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 2024 Tim Hannigan undertakes an epic east-west journey on foot through his own homeland, from the woodlands of the Tamar Valley to the remote western region of Penwith. As he walks, he explores how the Cornwall of the popular imagination ...Show more
The Lost Paths by Jack Cornish
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A journey across Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, revealing key moments throughout history Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. More than just a practical way for us to walk, ride and cycle around, they are an inheritance fro ...Show more
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.' In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on hi ...Show more