To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
Cleopatra's Wedding Present by Robert Tewdwr Moss
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Cleopatra's Wedding Present is the rare book that captivates its reader from the very first page. Tewdwr Moss, a brilliant young writer who was murdered in London the day he finished the book, left this lyrical gem as his legacy. He adeptly captures an essence of the Middle East that is foreign to most ...Show more
San Francisco Top 10 - DK Eyewitness Travel Guide by Jeffrey Kennedy
$16.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide
Leads you to the best of this waterfront city - San Francisco. This title includes the liveliest bars and clubs, day trips to the Bay Area, and the best restaurants or shopping malls in San Francisco. It is divided by area and includes restaurant reviews for every area, as well as recommendations for ho ...Show more
The Grand Canyon Reader by Lance Newman
$23.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An anthology that brings together writing about the Grand Canyon - stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the 'Great Unknown'.
City-pick New York by Heather Reyes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: City-Pick Series
F Scott Fitzgerald journeys up Fifth Avenue Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo arrive in Greenwich Village Alistair Cooke looks out over Central Park David Byrne does the Five Boro Bike Tour Edmund White finds a city of freedoms Jan Morris recalls Manhattan 1945 Ian Frazier hears it for Brooklyn Teju Cole encoun ...Show more
Single White Female in Hanoi by Carolyn Shine
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Sydney-based musician Carolyn Shine moves to Hanoi virtually on a whim, expecting to find romance and available culture. She's in for some big surprises. Funny, warm and engaging, her travel memoir introduces us to a cast of memorable Vietnamese characters as well as her fellow foreigners searching for ...Show more
Extreme Frontiers: Racing Across Canada from Newfoundland to the Rockies by Charley Boorman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
EXTREME FRONTIERS: CANADA is Charley Boorman's brand-new adventure/travel book. Travelling mainly on his much-loved bike, Charley will explore the world's second largest country - home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man. Along the way he will work with Alberta's famous 'Be ...Show more
Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation by J Maarten Troost
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The bestselling author of "The Sex Lives of Cannibals" returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China--a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.
Tibetan Foothold by Dervla Murphy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Dervla Murphy's first epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, "Full Tilt", is a complete adventure in itself. It is also the first volume of a trilogy of experience that continues with Tibetan Foothold. For the young Irish woman, once she had got herself to India by July 1963, immersed herself in ...Show more
The Waiting Land by Dervla Murphy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In "The Waiting Land" (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country's natural grandeur and beauty. This is the third of Dervla Murphy's early travel books: an exploration of Nepal by ...Show more
Why China Will Never Rule the World: Travels in the Two Chinas by Troy Parfitt
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
After having lived in Taipei for ten years, Troy Parfitt sets out on an epic journey to test the theory that China is ascending toward a position of global hegemony. The result is a whirlwind tour of the Chinese world, one that enlightens, astonishes, and entertains. Parfitt shows us that he is the perf ...Show more
Holidays in Heck by P.J. O'Rourke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The long-awaited follow up to the classic Holidays in Hell, P.J. O'Rourke's Holidays in Heck is the middle-aged version of his classic travel pieces, featuring journeys to China, Venice, the UK and beyond. Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including Chi ...Show more