An Indian Attachment by Sarah Lloyd
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"An Indian Attachment" tells the story of a love affair between Sarah, a young British woman of adventurous spirit, and Jungli, an impoverished, opium-addicted Sikh temple servant. But this is not just a cross-cultural love story. With totally convincing authority, it immerses the reader in the realitie ...Show more
Holding on by Mervyn Jones
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: History and Politics
Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis by Gerald Hanley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen, is Rageh Omer's favorite book on his native land. A grueling description of a little-known aspect of WWII. Warriors describes a group of British Army soldiers charged with preventin ...Show more
GOLDEN EARTH : TRAVELS IN BURMA by LEWIS NORMAN
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"a simple blueprint for Utopia" - the best travel book on Burma since World War II - despite travelling at a time of massive internal insecurity, Norman Lewis still found the eternal Burma, where pagodas are the only punctuation on the horizon and strangers are treated with an overwhelming friendliness ...Show more
Lighthouse by Tony Parker
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
What was it that led a man to make lighthouse-keeping his life's occupation - to select a monotonous lonely job, which takes him away from his family for months at a time, leaving him in a cramped, narrow tower with two other men not of his own choosing? Lighthouse-keepers and their families opened thei ...Show more
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris by Stephanie LaCava
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An awkward, curious girl growing up in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava finds solace and security in strange and beautiful objects. When her father's mysterious job transports her and her family to the Parisian suburb of Le Vesinet, the young American embarks on a life of discovery. Tasting the encha ...Show more
Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the New Colombia by Tom Feiling
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now travel to Colombia and South America is on the rise, and it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? Writer and journalist Tom Feiling, author of the acclaimed study of cocaine "The Candy Machine", has journeyed th ...Show more
Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Age is a humourous, uplifting meditation on finding the pleasures of old age, by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. When philosopher, jokester and septuagenarian Daniel Klein g ...Show more
Rio de Janeiro Top 10 - DK Eyewitness Travel Guide by Dorling Kindersley
$16.95 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide
"DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Rio De Janeiro" will lead you straight to the very best this much celebrated city has to offer. Whether you're looking to visit the iconic Cristo Redentor, experience the carnival parade at Sambodromo or soak up the atmosphere on the famous Copacabana beach; this guide ...Show more
Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"Voices of the Old Sea" is Lewis' masterly description of the Costa Brava on the cusp of tourist development in the 1950s, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and mad ...Show more
Miami & the Florida Keys by Time Out Guides Ltd
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
Time Out's resident team helps you get the best out of America's most flamboyant city, giving you the inside track on local culture plus hundreds of independent venue reviews. As well as covering visitor essentials, the Time Out Miami city guide is packed full of hot beaches, cool pools, Latin spice and ...Show more