The Life Cycle - 8,000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike by Kate Rawles
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'A gripping read for anyone who cares about what we're doing to the planet and how we can change it' DAVID SHUKMAN, FORMER BBC NEWS SCIENCE EDITOR 'Searing observations focused on our need to protect biodiversity - A tour de force' SIR TIM SMIT OBE, CO-FOUNDER OF THE EDEN PROJECT 'An informative, uplift ...Show more
New York Style: Look, Shop, Eat & Play: As guided by locals by Giuseppe Santamaria
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Giuseppe Santamaria has photographed the evolution of street style across the world. As he’s snapped, he’s asked his subjects about the cities they live in and the places they love to visit. New York Style is the culmination: part fashion book, part city guide, and all NYC.New York Style features photos ...Show more
Foodie Places by Sarah Baxter; Amy Grimes (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
Eat your way around the globe with this mouthwatering tour of the tastiest, most inventive, most diverse food on the planet.A region's food is truly a window into its rich history and culture - nothing tells the story of a place so profoundly as the food it serves. Foodie Places is a stunning, hand-illu ...Show more
Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking by Kerri Andrews (Editor)
$37.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
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
Across a Waking Land - A 1,000-Mile Walk Through a British Spring by Roger Morgan-Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A veteran nature writer walks the length of Britain in pursuit of spring, and of hopeFed up with bleak headlines of biodiversity loss, acclaimed nature writer Roger Morgan-Grenville sets out on a 1,000-mile walk through a British spring to see whether there are reasons to be hopeful about the natural wo ...Show more
When the Ship Hits the Fan by Rob Anderson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Rob Anderson went to sea at 15. But when he became one of the youngest Australian Captains ever, it was suddenly his responsibility to keep everything afloat. Whether stashing a headless body in a cargo freezer, or nearly losing his scrotum in a Japanese spa, it was all part of the job for Captain Rob. ...Show more
Astray: A History of Wandering by Eluned Summers-Bremner
$37.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A meandering celebration of the indirect and unforeseen path, revealing that to err is not just human -- it is everything. This book explores how, far from being an act limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning -- a force as inti ...Show more
The Urge to Know by Jonathan C. Calvert
$59.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
It was love at first sight when Jonathan Calvert saw the Matterhorn in 1953. Something in the way the mountain held sway over him inspired a lifelong passion for natural beauty and adventure. Over the next fifty years, Calvert climbed, hiked, trekked, sailed, kayaked, and dog-sledded in wild places acro ...Show more
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A. J. Liebling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
While on a year of study in Paris in 1927, Liebling acquired the friendship and tutelage of Yves Mirande, 'one of the last great gastronomes of France', beginning a joyous apprenticeship in the fine art of eating. Told with gluttonous joie de vivre, Between Meals expounds on the delights and pitfalls of ...Show more
House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal by Ellen Parnavelas
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people. 'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better ...Show more
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe, where the surrounding forests and mountains are a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Kapka Kassabova finds a story with vast resonance for us all. Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, ...Show more
Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J. King
$55.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
What compels a person to set out to sea? A solo sailor explores the exhilarating and frightening world of the wide ocean Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morn ...Show more