Novel Destinations, 2nd Edition by Shannon McKenna Schmidt
$44.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, and many more. For vacationers who crave meaningful trips and unusual locales, cue National Geographic's Novel Destinations--a guide for bibliophiles to more tha ...Show more
On Track Searching Out the Bundian Way by John Blay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
On Track tells the story of John Blay's long-distance search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. The 360-kilometre route traverses some of the nation's most remarkable landscapes, from the highest pl ...Show more
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
$36.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favourite Parisian street. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs", Sciolino explains as she celebrates the area's rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the levelling effects of ...Show more
On Trails: From Anthills to the Alps, How Trails Make Sense of a Chaotic World by Robert Moor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A strikingly original debut from a tremendous new talent, Robert Moor explores how trails help us understand the world, from the biological phenomenon of how ant trails are formed to hiking paths that span continents and oceans, from migration routes to the Internet. In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appal ...Show more
Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The writer and satirist Teffi was a literary sensation in Russia until war and revolution forced her to leave her country for ever. Memories is her blackly funny and heartbreaking account of her final, frantic journey into exile across Russia-travelling by cart, freight train and rickety steamer-and the ...Show more
The Red Wake: A Hybrid of Travel, History and Journalism by Kurt Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A hybrid of history, travel and journalism. Kurt has long been captivated by 'the communists' from his immigrant grandparents' past, transfixed by stories of the Soviet Union, the place where history happened. In the West, the Soviet universe has long been consigned to the dustbin of history, no longer ...Show more
Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel by Thomas Cook
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.' Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but they are never straightforward. With ...Show more
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From one of Britain's most original writers, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, the linked journeys recall the themes of Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - - albeit with the wisdom of (middle) age. From a trip to the Ligh ...Show more
Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
During a culture-shocked exchange year in Japan, fifteen-year-old Lisa Dempster's imagination is ignited by the story of the henro michi, an arduous 1200 kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan.Perfectly suiting the romantic view of herself as a dusty, travel-worn explorer (well, on ...Show more
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums by Maggie Fergusson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Who doesn't love a good museum? Whether grand and impressive, or irreverent and amusing, museums are places to lose - and find - ourselves, palaces of the imagination. And they have long been sources of inspiration to the most creative among us. Treasure Palaces brings together over twenty of the world' ...Show more
An Italian Education by Tim Parks
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Tim Parks's best seller, Italian Neighbors, offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate's life in a small village outside of Verona. Now in An Italian Education, Parks continues his chronicle of adapting to Italian society and culture, while raising his Italian-born childre ...Show more