Among the Russians by Colin Thubron
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and relays his extraordinary journey in characteristically ly ...Show more
They Eat Puppies Don't They? by Christopher Buckley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre and sexy Neo-Con wonkette Angel Templeton start a rumour that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Their outrageous scheme provokes a series of crises involvin ...Show more
The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the Diplomatic Bag by Matthew Parris
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson bring together some of the funniest despatches from British Ambassadors abroad, in this sequel to their acclaimed Parting Shots. Based on a new BBC Radio 4 series, it features some classic stories, from the horse given to John Major by the authorities in Turkmenistan whi ...Show more
The Trouble I've Seen by Martha Gellhorn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House. From these pages, we understand the real cost of sudden destitution on a vast scale. We taste the dust in th ...Show more
Adventures of a Compulsive Traveller by Dominic Dunne
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Journalist Dominic Dunnes travels have rarely been ordinary, despite his best intentions. He has been travelling all his life, from the time his parents started their annual pilgrimage to the opal fields of Lightning Ridge. Since then he has trekked all over Australia and to some 60 countries, spending ...Show more
Canberra by Paul Daley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City
An implicit sense of public service and 'otherness' has now come to permeate Canberra's identity to a point that there is a great smugness, arrogance even, that the rest of Australia can hate us - but they'll never know how good it is to live here. Canberra is a city of orphans. People arrive temporaril ...Show more
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers by Lonely Planet: various
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre. Exhilaratingly varied in place, plot, and vo ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
$15.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Classics Ser.
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho stri ...Show more
Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
To understand India you have to see it, hear it, breathe it and feel it. Living through the good, the bad and the ugly is the only way to know where you fit in and where India fits into you. In 1991 Monisha and her family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home again. ...Show more
Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy by Frances Mayes
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting international bestseller UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity and food. Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to ...Show more
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Holstun Lopez
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece. Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world--its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on its icy shores.
Francis Birtles: Australian Adventurer by Warren Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A narrative account of the life and times of one of Australia's most extraordinary adventurers - a man who crossed Australia more than 70 times in the early part of the 20th century - by bicycle and car. In 1927 he acheived the greatest motoring feat of the times, driving a car from London to Melbourne. ...Show more