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
My First New York Early Adventures in the Big City by New York Magazine
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A book as effervescent and alive as the city itself, "My First New York" features candid accounts of coming to New York by more than fifty remarkable people who have called the city home. The contributors - a mix of actors, artists, comedians, entrepreneurs, musicians, politicians, sports stars, writers ...Show more
Arctic Dreams : Imagination and desire in a Northern landscape by Barry Lopez
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Barry Lopez has been hailed as a "master nature writer" by The New York Times Book Review, and "Arctic Dreams" is undoubtedly his masterwork. Based on 15 extended trips to Canada's far north, Artic Dreams is part adventure tale and part meditation on the art of exploration. This magical book dazzles wit ...Show more
Alice Springs by Eleanor Hogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City series
Alice Springs, Alice, The Alice, Mparntwe is the most talked about but least familiar place in Australia. It is a town of extremes and contradictions: searingly hot and bitterly cold, thousands of miles from anywhere, the heart of black Australia and the headquarters of the controversial NT Intervention ...Show more
Todo in Tuscany: The Dog at the Villa by Louise Badger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A dream house in Tuscany ...and a dog named Todo This is Todo - he is the dog of the houes. he has been waiting a long time ...Questa e Todo - lui e il cane della casa. Sta aspettando da molto tempo ...Todo had been waiting at Poggiolino since his mistress died over two years before. The house lay empty ...Show more
Thin Paths - Journeys in and Around an Italian Mountain Village by Julia Blackburn
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This title is shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought her close to the old people o ...Show more
Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A foot-stamping, full-on firecracker of a travel memoir, crackling with energy, dance, gypsies, love, food and the occasional donkey. Nellie Bennett fell in love with flamenco one hot summer day in a Sydney dance studio. Longing to get closer to the authentic experience, she packed her suede dance shoes ...Show more
Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. The result is an immersive, ...Show more