From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journey across the entire Byzantine world, and William Dalrymple has followed in their footsteps.
Neither Here Nor There - Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hamemrfest, the norther ...Show more
Honey from a Weed - Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, the Cyclades and Apulia by Patience Gray
$80.00 AUD
Category: Food
This book is perhaps the jewel in Prospect's crown. Within a few months of its first appearance in 1986 it was hailed as a modern classic. Fiona MacCarthy wrote in The Times that, 'the book is a large and grandiose life history, a passionate narrative of extremes of experience.' Jeremy Round called Pati ...Show more
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because h ...Show more
Mystery Of Mallory & Irvine by Tom Holzel
$30.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The compelling story of the greatest mystery in mountaineering, first published in 1996, has now been revised in the light of the discovery of Mallory's body on Everest. In 1924 Mallory and Irvine set off from camp, bound for the summit. But they were never seen alive again. Did they conquer the mountai ...Show more
A Tuscan Childhood by Kinta Beevor
$23.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between the world wars. "Wonderful . . . I fell immediately into her world, and was sorry when I reached the end."--Frances Mayes, author of "Under the Tuscan Sun." 63 illustrations throughout.
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities o ...Show more
Perfume from Provence by Winifred Fortescue
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Revival
The original story of falling for France, "Perfume from Provence" was first published in 1935 and became a best-seller. Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome and George Bernard Shaw when she married Sir John Fortescue, the king's librarian and archivis ...Show more
Travelling with Pomegranates by Ann Kidd Taylor, Sue Monk Kidd
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the New York Times bestselling author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES and THE INVENTION OF WINGS and her daughter comes a touching and perceptive memoir about mothers and daughters that will resonate with women of all ages. Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann chronicle their travels together at a time wh ...Show more
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, "The Tao of Travel" enumerates 'The Contents of Some Travellers' Bags' and expose ...Show more
Landfalls by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls in rem ...Show more
Ox Travels - Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers by Mark Ellingham (ed.); Peter Florence (ed.); Barnaby Rogerson (ed.)
$17.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"OxTravels" is a collection of travel writing, which will act as a focus for the Oxfam Bookfest in 2011 donated by world class travel writers. Proceeds will be given to Oxfam. You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to "OxTravels". Introduced b ...Show more