Corners of Melbourne by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Melbourne's favourite historian, as seen in the acclaimed documentary, The Lost City of Melbourne, takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city's streets and corners, telling stories about the events and people that have made these the most interesting places to be.What better defines a city than its stre ...Show more
Rome As a Guide to the Good Life - A Philosophical Grand Tour by Scott Samuelson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome's great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city. This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the vita beata--the good life. Philosopher Scott Samuel ...Show more
The Gathering Place - A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times by Mary Colwell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'Deeply poetic.' CAROLINE LUCAS MP 'A masterpiece of storytelling.' NICK MAYHEW-SMITH 'Mary Colwell is a candle of open-minded curiosity.' PATRICK LAURIE 'An unforgettable story.' MICHAEL MCCARTHY 'Inspiring.' JEREMY MYNOTT 'Brave, tough and surprisingly funny.' ROGER MORGAN-GRENVILLE- Mary Colwell mak ...Show more
They Went to Portugal - A Travellers Portrait by Rose Macaulay
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the author of the beloved novel The Towers of Trebizond, a book about Portugal that is part travel-ogue, part history and wholly personal.
One Place de l'Eglise: A Year in Provence for the 21st century by Trevor Dolby
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A joyous and life-affirming story of one family's move from London to a rural French villageOne day a Londoner and his wife went a little crazy and bought a crumbling house in deepest Languedoc. It was love at first sight.Slowly the family make this house a home, they get to know the locals and these bu ...Show more
The Hotel Years - Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars by Joseph Roth; Michael Hofmann (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A tender, unsettling collection of writing capturing a continent on the brink of further upheaval.
The Walker - On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambl ...Show more
The Virago Book of Women Travellers by Mary Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' Guardian Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this collection as women travel for peril or pleasure, whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French countryside, to challenge the fierce Sahara or c ...Show more
Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus by Charmian Clift
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family led in Greece in the 1950's in one volume. For Charmian Clift, Greece was the Promised Land. In 1954 she and her husband, George Johnston, abandoned their sophisticated London existence and set off with two new ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: \
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring suc ...Show more
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Age by Daniel Klein
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Travels with Epicurus- A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Ageis a humorous, 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 goe ...Show more
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
$15.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Vintage Classics
IN PATAGONIA is a Quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, as he goes along, describes his encounters with other people whose stories delay him on the road.