Lost Japan by Alex Kerr
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experience in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr takes us on a backstage tour, as he explores the ritualised world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, tells ...Show more
Spain by Jan Morris
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"Spain" is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain's pride and misery, the adventurous glory of a history that set its seal upon half the world ...Pass ...Show more
Beijing Blur : A head-spinning journey into modern China by James West
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'I was in China and I wanted something more Chinese than Chinese: bigger, better, badder, redder. China held the promise of dragons' heads, acrobatics, mahjong and brothels. I was also expecting a display of kitsch, old-school communism: messages daubed on walls, Mao sculptures propped up against cash r ...Show more
Swimming with Crocodiles: An Australian Adventure by Will Chaffey
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Will Chaffey was 18 when he boarded a plane in New York bound for Australia. Though he had recently graduated from one of Boston's most prestigious private schools, a disastrous senior year meant that he hadn't been accepted into college. Instead, he took what the college counsellors grimly called "time ...Show more
Persia by David Blow
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Through Writers' Eyes
The land of the Iranians, known to European travelers for centuries as Persia, is a land riven by mountain-ranges, made inhospitable by deserts, yet rich in plains, forests and jewel-like gardens. Home to the most sublime architecture in the world, and a breeding ground for poets, Empires, Mystics and s ...Show more
Egypt by Deborah Manley
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Through Writers' Eyes
No land on earth has been so long observed as Egypt, which was attracting awestruck travelers back in the days of Herodotus and Julius Caesar. Then came pilgrims to Sinai, crusaders and Napoleon, followed by the grand tourists of the eighteenth century, and those less grand with Thomas Cook in the ninet ...Show more
Cat of Portovecchio by STRANI-POTTS Maria
$26.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The sea and Greek landscape play an important part in the story. So does an abandoned black and white cat. Every character has a story to tell, and very often their lives intersect.
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn't know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp, now known as 'the Father of Tasmania', or that ...Show more
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The Writer and the City
After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. Here, he draws the reader into a journey of discovery and re-discovery. It offers you a private glimpse of Sydney and what lies behind the glitter ...Show more
Istanbul - Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination. This is a supremely moving account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his ho ...Show more
Carnivorous Nights - On The Trail Of The Tasmanian Tiger by Mittelbach/crewdson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Three young naturalists journey to the wilder corners of Tasmania in a mission to track down the elusive Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, once the world's largest carnivorous marsupial. They brave a series of bizarre misadventures and uproarious wildlife encounters in their obsessive search for the long-l ...Show more
Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The sequel to the bestselling Travels with a Tangerine, follows the journey of Moroccan traveller Ibn Battutah. All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah