Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia by Marcia Langton by Marcia Langton

$40.00 AUD

Category: Travel Guides

Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country is a curated guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, respected Elder and author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights into Indigenous languages and customs, history, native title, art and dance, storytelling, and cu ltural awareness and etiquette for visitors. There is also a directory of Indigenous tourism experiences, organised by state or territory, covering galleries and festivals, national parks and museums, communities that are open to visitors, as well as tours and performances. This book is essential for anyone travelling around Australia who wants to learn more about the culture that has thrived here for over 50,000 years. It also offers the chance to enjoy tourism opportunities that will show you a different side of this fascinating country - one that remains dynamic and is filled with openness and diversity. ...Show more

Paris: A Handbook to One of the Most Amazing Destinations by Alexandra Carroll

$35.00 AUD

Category: Travel Guides

Paris is thrillingly unique. No other city has captured the hearts and imaginations of artists and lovers quite like this historic metropolis. Whether you're visiting Paris for the first time, or you're a seasoned Francophile looking to escape the crowds and discover the lesser-known streets that hide b ehind the grand Haussmann façades - the tucked-away squares, bars, eateries and shops that only the locals know about - Paris has it all. This lovingly curated guide invites you into the city's famous arrondissements and the distinctive charms of its quartiers. Lose yourself in the endless museums and galleries, from the imposing and monumental Louvre to lesser-known gems, such as the delightful Musée de Montmartre. Discover a world of haute couture, local markets and ateliers, and enjoy the finest cuisine courtesy of the chefs and bartenders championing oldeworlde classics alongside the neo-bistro movement and craft-cocktail scene. Filled with stunning photography that showcases the elegance and beauty that only Paris can offer, Paris will whisk you away and enthral you time and again. Here is the ultimate travel guide for wanderers, travellers and dreamers alike. ...Show more

New York City 8 - LUXE City Guides by City Guides, Luxe Staff

$25.00 AUD

Category: Travel Guides

All LUXE print guides will be relaunched in 2017, the first major evolution since we published our first Bangkok print guide in late 2002. While keeping our iconic accordion format and opinionated insider knowledge, we are refreshing the guides with updated front covers, useful new content features and, most excitingly of all, a complementary digital guide that is now included with the print guide purchase. The re-launch will be supported by an extensive PR campaign. ...Show more

Paris Precincts - A Curated Guide to the City's Best Shops, Eateries, Bars and Other Hangouts by Donna Wheeler

$40.00 AUD

Category: Travel Guides | Series: The\Precincts Ser.

Discover where the hippest Parisians eat, drink, and shop in this insider's guide Welcome to Paris, city of light. Hidden behind its grand boulevards and majestic buildings is a tapestry of streets where past and present blend. Paris Precincts is your guide to the treasures within. Weave your way among speciality shops, bars, cafes, and eateries, where you will find style, elegance, and a vibrant creativity to awaken your senses and inspire your imagination. As the many movies and books tell us, Parisians know how to eat, drink, and shop. Here's your chance to find out where they go... and maybe begin your own love affair with Paris. ...Show more

The Immeasurable World - Journeys in Desert Places by William Atkins

$33.00 AUD

Category: Travel Guides

In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places.   One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unh appy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, William Atkins decided to travel in eight of the world's driest, hottest places: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi Desert and Taklamakan deserts of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazkahstan, the Black Rock and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest, and Egypt's Eastern Desert. Each of his travel narratives effortlessly weaves aspects of natural history, historical background, and present-day reportage into a compelling tapestry that reveals the human appeal of these often inhuman landscapes. ...Show more

London 7 - LUXE City Guides by Luxe City Guides

$25.00 AUD

Category: Travel Guides | Series: Luxe City Guide

Hey there, Georgie Girl... What's with the Russian accent? London may be gripped by new-monied affluenza and a serious outbreak of chainstore-itis, but at 2,000 years of age, she's positively bursting at the seams with history and culture. What's more, ballsy Brit-dish cooking and the resurgence of vill agey nabes and artisanal pride are breathing new life into the Old Smoke. LUXE London. Absolutely sooper dooper. ...Show more

Amsterdam Style Guide: Eat Sleep Shop by Monique van den Heuvel

$40.00 AUD

Category: Travel Guides

An insider's guide to the special places to eat, sleep and shop in Amsterdam

Love Mumbai 5th Edition by Fiona Caulfield

$64.95 AUD

Category: Travel Guides

Luxe Shanghai (12th Edition) by Luxe City Guides

$25.00 AUD

Category: Travel Guides

All LUXE print guides will be relaunched in 2017, the first major evolution since we published our first Bangkok print guide in late 2002. While keeping our iconic accordion format and opinionated insider knowledge, we are refreshing the guides with updated front covers, useful new content features and, most excitingly of all, a complementary digital guide that is now included with the print guide purchase. The re-launch will be supported by an extensive PR campaign. ...Show more

Love Delhi (4th Edition) by Fiona Caulfield

$49.95 AUD

Category: Travel Guides

This must-have guide series to India is packed with savvy insider knowledge. The best experiences in India are hidden in the narrow lanes of the old city where the five-star chef eats on his day off. They are in the home studios of designers and the workshops of seventh generation craftsmen. The highly successful Love Travel Guides series is the only luxury travel guide series dedicated to India. Entries are personally sourced from in-the-know locals including chefs and fishermen, artists and architects, writers and taxi drivers, before being personally tested. All information presented made it there under one simple criterion: if it makes you fall in love with the city, it is included in this book; otherwise it's out. Each book is divided into various sections such as: Musts; Delicious; Fabulous; Gorgeous; Adventurous; Wildly Adventurous; Essential; and Share With Love. Completely hand-made, each guide is lovingly bound using old Indian paper making techniques and covered with khadi, the fabric of India's independence. Truly unique in its presentation and style, these are beautifully presented guides for the independent-minded traveller with time to spare and money to spend. ...Show more

Epic Hikes of the World 1 by Lonely Planet Publications Staff

$45.00 AUD

Category: Travel Guides | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.

With stories of 50 incredible hiking routes in 30 countries, from New Zealand to Peru, plus 150 more suggestions, this guide is sure to inspire a lifetime of adventure on foot. From one-day jaunts and urban trails to month-long thru-hikes, cultural rambles and mountain expeditions, each journey featured is truly epic. ...Show more

Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days by Witold Szablowski; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)

$33.00 AUD

Category: Travel Writing

'One of the truest and most beautiful things I've read.' Tim Flannery I used to bottle-feed my father's two bears. When my son was born, they were kept together. There were plenty of times when I got it wrong--the baby drank from the bear's bottle, and the bear from his. So when they fired me from the c ollective farm, I knew one thing: if I wanted to go on living, I had to find a bear. A brilliant, funny and heartbreaking account of people in formerly Communist countries who are nostalgic for how they used to live. For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, after the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But, even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist Witold Szablowski tells remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria's dancing bears, are now free but long for when they were not. He describes hitchhiking through Kosovo as it declares independence, arguing with the guides at the Stalin Museum, and sleeping in London's Victoria Station alongside a homeless Polish woman. Dancing Bearsis a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval, and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule. Witold Szablowskiis an award-winning Polish journalist. His 2013 book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won the Beata Pawlak Award and an English PEN award, and was nominated for the Nike Award, Poland's most prestigious book prize. Antonia Lloyd-Jonesis a leading translator from Polish, and has twice won the Found in Translation Award. She is a mentor for the UK's Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and a former co-chair of the Translators Association. 'Heartrending...A sharply drawn account of people in "newly free societies" who long for life to be the same as it was in the unfree past...Connected by the allegory of performing bears, Szabłowski's melancholy personality studies underscore freedom's challenges and the seductions of authoritarian rule.' Publishers Weekly 'Elegantly pulling together the varied threads, Szabłowski combines personal histories, letting his interviewee do the talking, with a unique storytelling device. As a result, Dancing Bearsis both a compelling social history and a stunning example of literary journalism.' AU Review 'Polish journalist Witold Szabłowski uncovers life after communism with a curious, humorous and, at times, tender account of regular folk struggling to come to terms with the new world.' Adelaide Review 'Witold Szabłowski is a born storyteller. His reports from the post-Communist world read like fairy-tales with the stench of reality. Absurd, darkly funny, compassionate, his book is a literary jewel.'Ian Buruma 'Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr Szablowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.'Timothy Snyder 'Utterly original...Provokes a far-reaching and unresolved conversation about what freedom might really mean.' New York Times Book Review 'Fascinating.' Otago Daily Times 'A compelling and nuanced portrait of the push between the freedoms of modernity and nostalgia for the old communist system...[Szablowski ] displays the qualities of a top-notch reporter: an eye for telling detail and - inherent sympathy for his subject.' Australian 'Riveting.' Overland ...Show more