Reunion in Barsaloi by Corinne Hofmann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Following the phenomenal success of her bestselling memoirs, Corinne Hofmann returns to her beloved Africa after many years. Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she ...Show more
Wild Asparagus, Wild Strawberries: Two Years in France by Barbara Santich
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
I drank Normandy farmhouse cider, ate strawberries dipped in red wine then sugar, and tasted truffles and soft goat cheeses for the first time. I returned to Australia inspired to become a food writer. France bewitched Barbara Santich as a student in the early 1970s. She vowed to return, and soon e ...Show more
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Drawing together classic Theroux pieces from the past 14 years, this new collection offers a comprehensive and deeply searching portrait of its acclaimed author - a kind of autobiography through work.Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Wil ...Show more
The Border: a Journey Around Russia by Erika Fatland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Living next door to Russia - a cultural encounter with each of its neighbours. An extraordinary odyssey through the fourteen countries that border Russia todayFrom North Korea into China, through former Soviet states and breakaway republics in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian and Black Seas, ...Show more
The Virago Book of Women Travellers by Mary Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' Guardian Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this collection as women travel for peril or pleasure, whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French countryside, to challenge the fierce Sahara or c ...Show more
Antlers of Water - Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland by Kathleen Jamie (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The first ever collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, Antlers of Water showcases the diversity and radicalism of new Scottish nature writing today.Edited, curated and introduced by the award-winning Kathleen Jamie, and featuring prose, poetry and photography, this inspiring ...Show more
A Savage Dreamland - Journeys in Burma by David Eimer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
David Eimer journeys to the heart of Burma and out to its unexplored vistas, bringing to vivid life all its riches and complexities.For almost fifty years Burma was ruled by a paranoid military dictatorship and isolated from the outside world. At this time, Burma became Myanmar without local accord. Eim ...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
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Reissue) by Peter Hessler
$32.99 AUD
$33.99 (2% off)
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: The\Hungry Student Ser.
412 pages, maps, notes This text presents an account of American aid worker Peter Hessler's time spent in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River during the late 1990s, a time of great change for China. He observes the natural beauty of the area and shares the lives of the local people. He directs a pro ...Show more
Under a Venice Moon by Margaret Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Life isn't a sort of practice run, something you can afford to play around with. They don't offer second and third chances to get it right. Use it better. Live it fuller. A week in Venice ignites Margaret Cameron's interest in the private city behind the tourist facade and the obscure tales from its hi ...Show more
Low Life in the High Desert by David Hirst
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Low Life in the High Desertrecounts the adventures of an Australian journalist, his girlfriend, and their dog, who moved across the world to make the California High Desert their new home. Moving into Boulder House - a huge, rambling edifice constructed from giant boulders to withstand a Russian invasio ...Show more
Touching the Void (Vintage Voyages) by Joe Simpson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few da ...Show more