Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'The reason why the 80-day journey retains its appeal is that it is still the minimum time needed to go round the world and notice it. To see it, smell it and touch it at the same time . . .' More than a century on from Phileas Fogg's fictional adventure around the world, Michael Palin sets out from the ...Show more
Back Roads by Heather Ewart; Karen Michelmore (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A road trip around Australia, discovering towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside big Australian cities - and indeed off the beaten track altogether. Defi ...Show more
Chasing Music - My Crazy Campervan Adventures in America by Jan Dale
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In 1992, one woman packed up her life, headed to America and bought herself a little campervan. She hit the open road travelling 160,000 miles across 48 states, discovering Bluegrass and Cajun music, attending festivals, honky-tonks and rodeos, dancing and romancing, camping in rather strange places. ...Show more
Climbing the Seven Volcanoes: A Search for Strength by Sophie Cairns
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Everything changed for Sophie Cairns when she was thirty and a party-loving journalist in China. Her father died so suddenly that she arrived at his bedside two hours too late. In her grief, she defied her chronic asthma and climbed the world's seven highest volcanoes to raise funds for charity in his m ...Show more
Eat Pray Love: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Elizabeth Gilbert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Eat Pray Love, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. Newly divorced journalist Elizabet ...Show more
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
An unsparing memoir of the city in the 21st century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as ...Show more
Mountains Before Mountaineering - The Call of the Peaks Before the Modern Age by Dawn L. Hollis
$54.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Today, mountains are spaces for adventure: treasured places for people to connect with nature, encounter the sublime and challenge themselves, whether it be skiing in the Italian Alps or scaling the heights of the Matterhorn in Switzerland. Some regard our love of mountains as relatively new, claiming t ...Show more
Ms. Adventure - My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life by Jess Phoenix
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"Jess Phoenix's work encompasses science and representation in such a delightful melding that it could only come from as spry and playful a soul as hers! Open this book and jump into the volcano!" --Patton OswaltAs a volcanologist, natural hazards expert, and founder of Blueprint Earth, Jess Phoenix has ...Show more
Pole to Pole by Michael Palin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Three years after the epic adventure described in Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again. Not circumnavigating the globe, but journeying from one end to the other: the North Pole to the South Pole. Following the 30 degree east line of longitude and using aircraft only as a last resort, ...Show more
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"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 Mountains Are High: a year of escape and discovery in rural China by Alec Ash
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, 'reverse migrating' from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China - and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey of self-discovery. In 2020, Alec Ash left behind ...Show more