Sinning Across Spain by Ailsa Piper
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"Pilgrim seeks sinners for mutually beneficial arrangement. Seven Deadlies a specialty." With these words Ailsa Piper's journey begins. Less than a month later she finds herself hiking through olive groves and under translucent pink blossoms, making her way from the legendary city of Granada, towards th ...Show more
Best Women's Travel Writing (Volume 8) by Lavinia Spalding
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women's travel writing of t ...Show more
Walking the Camino: a Modern Pilgrimage to Santiago by Tony Kevin
$27.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In May 2006, armed only with a small rucksack and a staff, Tony Kevin, an overweight, sedentary, 63- year-old former diplomat, set off on an eight-week trek across Spain. But this was not just a very long walk - it was a pilgrimage. From Granada, in the southeast, to Santiago de Compostela, in the far n ...Show more
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1940, the author sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. This book offers a log of the expedition, combining combines science, philosophy and adventure.
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Venice
Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a unique and unforgettable portrait of Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world's most beautiful historic city, scandal, corruption and venality are rampant, a ...Show more
Antonia and Her Daughters by Marlena De Blasi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The renovations to 34 via del Duomo now complete, Marlena de Blasi, the best-selling international author and 'the woman with the fairytale life' needs to find time and space to finish a book. Lured by the offer of a simple stone cottage in the remote, mountainous region of western Tuscany, distant from ...Show more
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
$26.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to ...Show more
Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany: And Other Revelations from a Mediterranean Sea Change by Shamus Sillar
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Packed with history, culture, misadventure, and a little Mafioso action, the story of a newly married couple and the year they spent in Sicily Gill and I had dreamt of living in Italy for as long as we'd been together. This is the story of an Aussie couple who sought a Mediterranean Sea change only to ...Show more
Paris In Love by Eloisa James
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'What a beautiful and delightful tasting menu of a book: the kids, the plump dog, the Italian husband. Reading this memoir was like wandering through a Parisian patisserie in a dream. I absolutely loved it.' - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love After years of living vicariously for years throu ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
An intrepid explorer who earned his living by collecting bird skins, Wallace also catalogued the vast number of plant and animal species that inhabited this unique geographical area. In addition he includes numerous observations on the people, their languages, and ways of living and social organisation ...Show more
Goodbye Buenos Aires by Andrew Graham-Yooll
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A celebration of Argentina that chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the 20's and 30's through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives - a hard-drinking, womanising, emigre Scotsman, who cut his way through the bars and brothels of the city whilst trading wit ...Show more
The Last Expedition by Captain Robert Falcon Scott
$12.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Captain Scott's expedition, carried in the Terra Nova, pitted him and his team not only against the elements but also against the Norwegian explorer, Amundsen. Ultimately, Scott was beaten by both. This title provides an account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12.