Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing - and to their magnificent land.' New York Times Book Review 'This book combines an irresistible author with an irresistible subject: Tim Flannery, a great zoologist an ...Show more
To Venice with Love - A Midlife Adventure by Philip Gwynne Jones
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'An inspiring, life-affirming story' Reader's Digest Philip and Caroline Jones, a middle-aged couple living in Edinburgh, found themselves facing redundancy and an uncertain future. Until they received some advice from a complete stranger in a pub. Their response was to sell everything in order to mo ...Show more
Too Late to Turn Back: Barbara and Graham Greene in Liberia by Barbara Greene
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'It was stimulating and exciting, and I wrote down that hewas the best kind of companion one could have for a tripof this kind. I was learning far more than he realized.' It had been Graham Greene's idea to explore tropical West Africa. The map of Liberia was virtually blank, the interior marked 'cannib ...Show more
Tough Women Adventure Stories - Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination by Jenny Tough (ed.)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
It's time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being physically fit and mentally resilient. Perhaps it's doing something no one else has done before. Perhaps it's breaking down boundaries and proving what you can do, in spite of the naysayers. Perhaps it's tr ...Show more
Toujours la France! - Living the Dream in Rural France by Janine Marsh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: The\Good Life France Ser.
Following on from her hugely popular books, My Good Life in France and My Good Year in France, ex-pat Janine Marsh shares more heart-warming and entertaining stories of her new life in rural France. Since giving up their city jobs in London and moving to rural France over ten years ago, Janine and h ...Show more
Trans-Europe Express - Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'A scathing, lively and timely look at the "European city," from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today' Owen Jones A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the past twenty years European cities have ...Show more
Travel Write - Select Entries from 20 Years of the Bradt Travel-Writing Competition by Celia Dillow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
For over 20 years Bradt Travel Guides has been running an annual travel-writing competition which now attracts hundreds of entrants each year. Thanks to Bradt's status as the largest remaining independently owned travel publisher in the UK and one of the most respected travel publishing brands in the wo ...Show more
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960, the author set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states. Th ...Show more
Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago by Tim Moore
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Britain's indefatigable traveling Everyman, sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela with a donkey named Shinto as his companion. Armed only with a twelfth-century handbook to the ro ...Show more
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: and Other Travel Writings by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
$11.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Temperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and before he was celebrated as the author of Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other immortal works, he was known for his travelogues. This collection presents some of his finest wri ...Show more
Treasure Palaces - Great Writers Visit Great Museums by The The Economist; Maggie Fergusson (Editor); Nicholas Serota (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Mus e Rodin in Paris, and the Prado in Madrid. These essays, c ...Show more
Trieste by Jan Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Jan Morris has crafted a meditation on a most unusual city. James (as she was then) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of World War II. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Paperback (B-Format)