Shanghai Free Taxi - Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China by Frank Langfitt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
As any traveler knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when a longtime NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab-and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change.The Chinese economic boom, with its impa ...Show more
Puligny-Montrachet - Journal of a Village in Burgundy by Simon Loftus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"What Simon Loftus does in this captivating story of a Burgundy village is to explore the mystery of how seven and a half acres of impoverished soil became the most precious agricultural land on earth, producing the grandest of all white wines: Puligny-Montrachet. " "He immerses us first in the village ...Show more
More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor; Adam Sisman (Volume Editor)
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Category: Biography
The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh FermorThe first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and public alike. This second volume, More Dashing, presents a further selection of letters that exude a zest ...Show more
Off the Rails: 10000 km in fourteen months by Tim Cope and Chris Hatherly
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Category: Travel Narrative
It is as much a story of perseverance, passion, and belief as it is about the people and remarkable landscapes of Siberia and Mongolia. Tim and Chris are not just fearless adventurers but philosophers on wheels, willing and able to open themselves up to everything from the voice of the Steppes to the Ru ...Show more
The Outermost House by Henry Beston
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Category: Travel Narrative
A rediscovered classic of American nature writing: the poetic account of a solitary year observing the wild beauty of Cape Cod.
Sicily - Island of Beauty and Conflict by Jeremy Dummett
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
This book delves into the fascinating and diverse history and culture of Sicily. With settlers from early tribes to the Greeks and Romans, through the Arabs, Normans, French, Spanish and finally Italians, the island's culture has been changed dramatically by each of the foreign powers. In this book, Je ...Show more
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick
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Category: Travel Narrative
For centuries, Tibet was known as a hermit kingdom. Its charms were hidden by the natural barrier of the Himalayas to its west and by a reclusive theocratic government ruled by a succession of Dalai Lamas...Nowadays it is not the Tibetans shutting the door, but a paranoid Chinese Communist Party. China ...Show more
Small Steps: A Physio in Ethiopia by Julie Sprigg
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Category: Travel Narrative
This heartfelt memoir and travel story is about an idealistic young woman forced to confront the limitations of how much difference she can make in a country rich in culture but stark in its deprivations. Julie Sprigg spent three years in Ethiopia, volunteering at a convent clinic and then teaching the ...Show more
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: Travel Narrative
The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor.A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. ' ...Show more
The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders by Ben Aitken
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Category: Travel Narrative
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED A CHIP SHOP IN POZNAŃOne millennial, six coach trips, one big generation gap.When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of lag ...Show more
Traveling Literary America - A Complete Guide to Literary Landmarks by B. J. Welborn
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Category: Travel Narrative
Readers and travelers are guided to more than 200 homes and historic sites of America’s greatest writers—from the Jack London Ranch in northern California to William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi. Clear driving directions and visitor instructions are combined with unique tidbits about each site ...Show more
The Best American Travel Writing 2020 by Jason Wilson (Editor)
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Category: Travel Narrative | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
The year's best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane. An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2019, collected by esteemed guest editor Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind and Underland. The Best Americ ...Show more