The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more
Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story by Ejnar Mikkelse, Ejnar Mikkelsen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Soon to be a Netflix feature film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar Mikkelsen was ...Show more
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An insight into the calm and contemplative world of the monastery.
A Florence Diary by Diana Athill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
Heading South by Tim Richards
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Featuring some of Australia's most iconic rail journeys, Heading South celebrates the unique joys of train travel and is the perfect book for the armchair traveller. Freelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor Tim Richards decides to shake up his life by taking an epic rail journey a ...Show more
Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'In its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.' - New York Times In his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Law ...Show more
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan Slaght
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russia's remote far eastern forest, and of the world's most extraordinary owlThe forests near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire are the only place on earth where brown bears, leopards and tigers co-e ...Show more
The Border: A Journey Around Russia by Erika Fatland
$27.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Erika Fatland travels along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way.The Border is a book about Russia and Russian history without its author ever enterin ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the bestselling author and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize- the epic story of Colombia's Rio Magdalena and of the country's past, present and futureA captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the grea ...Show more
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The essential book for anyone visiting Bangkok - a wonderful mixture of history and culture - from the author of Lost JapanOne of Asia's most extraordinary cities, Bangkok is also one of the most baffling. It is filled with remarkable people and glittering golden palaces and temples, but is also a maze ...Show more
The Golden Maze: A biography of Prague by Richard Fidler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Beloved ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolu ...Show more