Places We Swim California: The Best Beaches, Rock Pools, Waterfalls, Rivers, Gorges, Lakes, and Hot Springs by Caroline Clements, Dillon Seitchik-Reardon
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Places We Swim California is a travel guide that explores California's wilderness through swimming, documenting the state's best beaches, hot springs, rivers, lakes, waterfalls and canyons. This beautiful book is divided into six distinct regions (Northern California, Sierra Nevada, Gold Country, Cen ...Show more
Are We There Yet?: Rach and Jules Take to the Open Road by Rachel Weiss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Two girls who 'just wanna have fun', hit the open road in a quest to discover the perfect 'solo gal' holiday. Warm, engaging, and bloody funny, this is also an armchair traveller's guide to finding happiness in a couples' world. Rach and Jules, two thirty-something singles, hit the road in search of ...Show more
The Library of Ice - Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the reader a total immersion in the rimy realms she explores. Glaciers, Arctic floe, verglas, frost and snow -- I can think of no better or warmer guide to the icy e ...Show more
Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn by Nick Hunt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar. The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Ro ...Show more
Walking in Berlin: a Flaneur in the Capital by Franz Hessel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A timeless guide to one of the world's greatest cities. Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In Walking in Berlin, originally published in Germany in 1929, he captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording evidence of t ...Show more
The Hero's Way - Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
This is a widely appealing idea for a travel/history book from the bestselling author of Italian Ways, in which Tim follows the hair-raising journey of Garibaldi, revolutionary and future architect of a united Italy, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna across the Apennines, to look at Italy past and ...Show more
Mountains and Desire - Climbing vs. the End of the World by Margret Grebowicz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
On the 100th anniversary of the first attempt to climb Mt Everest, Margret Grebowicz shows how and why climbing and mountaineering are still important today.In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there". Today the question "why do this?" is include ...Show more
How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar and Other Essays by Josephine V. Roque
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A solo female traveller navigates the world and discovers that freedom is possible. How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar and Other Essays is a coming-of-age story of a woman who leaves home to work in Shanghai following the death of her mother. In a collection of ten travel essays, she writes about livin ...Show more
Travel Your Way: Rediscover the world, on your own terms by Nathan James Thomas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Travel is the opposite of prejudice; it is curiosity, openness, and connection. Now, when our world is in flux, travel matters more than ever. How we travel has changed, but why we travel has not. With barriers and restrictions coming and going at a dizzying rate, now is the time to learn how to eke t ...Show more
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A. J. Mackinnon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand - a year later I had reached Romania and was still going . . . ' Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an am ...Show more
Clueless in Tokyo: An Explorer's Sketchbook of Weird and Wonderful Things in Japan by Betty Reynolds
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A perfect introduction to Japan and Japanese culture, this illustrated culture and travel guide contains loads of original drawings as well as the Japanese script for key words and phrases.Some people take photos, but artist Betty Reynolds captures memories with her paintbrush and watercolours. Clueless ...Show more