In the Spell of the Barkley - Unravelling the Mystery of the World's Toughest Ultramarathon by Michiel Panhuysen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'A wonderful, compelling read' - Vassos Alexander, radio presenter and ultrarunner Welcome to the Barkley Marathons, a fever dream of an ultra running event, inspired by a prison break, heralded by a conch blast and paid for in cigarettes and socks. Since the race began in 1986, just 15 people have suc ...Show more
Days in the Caucasus by Banine (tr. Anne Thompson-Ahmadova)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman’s determined struggle for freedom We all know families that are poor but ‘respectable’. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not ‘respectable’ at all… This is the extraordinary memoir of an ‘odd, rich, exotic’ childhood – of growing ...Show more
Imagine a City - A Pilot's Love Letter to the World's Greatest Cities by Mark Vanhoenacker
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTONGrowing up in ...Show more
High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China by Erika Fatland
$27.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by internationally bestselling, prizewinning writer Erika Fatland.The Himalayas meander for more than two thousand kilometres through many different countries, from Pakistan to Myanmar via Nepal, India, Tibet and Bhutan, where the world religions of Islam, Bud ...Show more
Hidden Japan: An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests by Alex Kerr
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"A sharp-tongued spokesman for Japan's environment and traditions" --The New York TimesIn Alex Kerr's critically acclaimed Lost Japan and Dogs and Demons, he documented the decline of the traditional landscapes of Japan, his adopted home of many years. Here, in Hidden Jappan he makes a journey of redisc ...Show more
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This is Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Acclaimed and beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to his own country - America - for the first time in Deep South. For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islan ...Show more
Artist Quarter Modigliani, Montmartre and Montparnasse by Charles Douglas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their heyday, roughly between 1904, when the youthful Picasso had just arrived on the Hill of Martyrs, and 1920, when Amedeo Modigliani, justly called "the prince of Bohemians," died of consumption and dissipation in Montparnasse? This book, written b ...Show more
Barcelona: The Passenger by Unnamed
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
Thirty years after the 1992 Olympics, which redefined the city’s contemporary identity and changed its destiny, The Passenger travels to Barcelona to understand the history and future of one of the cradles of political, cultural, and urban change in Europe. From the debate about the impact of mass touri ...Show more
A Waiter in Paris - Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'This astonishing book describes a cruel, feral existence and is worthy of standing on the shelf next to George Orwell's Down And Out In Paris And London (1933) as another classic about human exploitation.' - Daily Mail'Chisholm's story is immersive and often thrilling ... He's a fine writer.' - WSJ'Kit ...Show more
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and finding moments of transcendental calm. This aberrant quest for peak experiences leads, ultimately, to the Black Rock ...Show more
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho by Meredith McKinney
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual works together weave a dense and beautiful brocade of repeated patterns and motifs, tones and textures. Here are asobi, the wandering performers who pre ...Show more
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levinson Wood
$50.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Explorer and bestselling author Levison Wood selects 100 extracts about the most astonishing acts of human endurance, adventure and survival. This collection encompasses classics of the genre and new, diverse voices, from tales of the heroic age of exploration and incredible acts of dering-do, to pione ...Show more