The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders by Ben Aitken
$29.99 AUD
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
$7.99 AUD
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)
$39.99 AUD
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
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa by Joseph Farrell
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Category: Travel Narrative
Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's tre ...Show more
The Art of Patience by Frank Wynne Sylvain Tesson
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Category: Travel Narrative
"The Art of Patience sees the renowned French adventurer and writer Sylvain Tesson undertake an expedition to the mountains of Tibet in search of the famously elusive snow leopard. After the publication of The Consolations of the Forest (2014), Sylvain Tesson had a devastating climbing accident that br ...Show more
Faces of Indonesia: 500 Postcards 1900-1945 by SCOTT MERRILLEES
$49.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Faces of Indonesia: 500 Postcards 1900-1945 highlights the remarkable diversity among the people of Indonesia before independence was declared on 17 August 1945, and before the concept of the nation of 'Indonesia' was widely discussed or understood outside elite political and intellectual circles. The 5 ...Show more
Eating Viet Nam : Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table by Graham Holliday
$18.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"Graham Holliday is one of the great gastronauts, a charming and intrepid try-anything explorer who makes the rest of us food writers feel hopelessly inadequate (and woefully underfed). You'd be a fool to delve into Viet Nam's spectacular cuisine without him as your guide."--Peter J. Lindberg, editor at ...Show more
The Modern Explorers: Epic Journeys to the Ends of the World by Robin Hanbury-Tenison; Robert Twigger
$21.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. Most of the accounts are written by the explorers themselves, and they all vividly describe challenging and extraordinary expeditions to ...Show more
Surviving the Storms - Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea by The RNLI
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Category: Travel Narrative
'There's water in the engine, ' he said. 'The engine has stopped.'This changed everything... Surviving the Storms brings together incredible first-hand accounts of rescues carried out by the remarkable RNLI lifesavers. In this collection of heart-wrenching and life-affirming missions, we hear blow-by- ...Show more
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland by Edited by Kathleen Jamie
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Category: Travel Narrative
'Luminous' The Times'Beautiful' Caught by the River Bringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens, through prose, poetry and photography. E ...Show more
The Cruel Way: A John Murray Journey by Ella K Maillart
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Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Overcoming Bks.
INTRODUCED BY FIONA MOZLEY, Booker-shortlisted author of ElmetWITH EXCERPTS FROM ALL THE ROADS ARE OPEN BY ANNEMARIE SCHWARZENBACH'We were both travellers - she always running away from an emotional crisis (not seeing that she was already wishing for the next), I always seeking far afield the secret of ...Show more
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: Travel Narrative
INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.' In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on hi ...Show more