Vodka and Apple Juice - Travels of an Undiplomatic Wife in Poland by Jay Martin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
When Jay's husband lands a diplomatic job in Warsaw, she jumps at the chance to escape a predictable life in Canberra for adventure in the heart of central Europe. From glamorous cocktail parties and dining with presidents, to snowy sleigh rides and drinking vodka in smoky bars, Jay is thrown into all t ...Show more
The World's Great Wonders (Lonely Planet) by Jheni Osman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* Go beyond the visual spectacle of the world's 50 greatest wonders, and discover what makes them such amazing places. With stunning images and expert illustrations, experience and appreciate the most famous sights on earth in an exciting new way. ...Show more
New York Times: Footsteps from Ferrante's Naples to Hammetti's San Francisco, Literary Pilgrimages Around the World by New York Times Staff
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald vacationed in the French Riviera, where a small green lighthouse winked at ships on the horizon. Before the nameless lovers began their illicit affair in The Lover, Marguerit ...Show more
Florence: A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Writer and the City
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so r ...Show more
Running with the Blood God by Matthew Thompson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Troubled by a growing sense that life's vastness is shrinking as the physical and imaginative limits of our crowded, polluted, late-in-the-day civilization close in, Matthew Thompson roams the world seeking out those who would force the horizons back - the mavericks. In doing so, he hits the streets to ...Show more
Cry of the Kalahari by Delia Owens, Mark Owens
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'A remarkable story beautifully told... Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist' Chicago TribuneCarrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand ...Show more
Three Tigers, One Mountain - A journey through the bitter history and current conflicts of China, Korea and Japan by Michael Booth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Reading Level: near fine
'The next Bill Bryson' (New York Times) explores international relations past and present between three East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea and China - in this lively, absorbing travelogue China, Korea and Japan are the neighbours who love to hate each other. But why? More than neighbours, these ...Show more
Consolations of the Forest : Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga by Sylvain Tesson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In "Consolations of the Forest", Sylvain Tesson explains how he found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. From February to Jul ...Show more
Gringo Trail: A Darkly Comic Road Trip Through South America by Mark Mann
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'...there I was in the middle of Bogota, coked up to my eyeballs, in a hallway holding two machetes, while some drunk Colombians argued about whether or not to blow up a bar with a live hand grenade...' Asia has the hippie trail. South America has the gringo trail. Mark Mann and his girlfriend Melissa s ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
New York City in 3D - the Gilded Age - A Book Plus a Stereoscopic Viewer, and 50 3D Photos from the Turn of the Century by Dinah Dunn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
This innovative package includes a metal stereoscopic viewer and 50 stereoscopic photographs. The kit includes an accompanying 112-page paperback that provides a brief history of the stereograph craze and an overview of the city's evolution. New York City in the Gilded Age paperback details the rapid gr ...Show more
Couchsurfing in Russia: Friendships and Misadventures Behind Putin's Curtain by Stephan Orth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Reading Level: 5.5 Travel
'In the late summer of 2016' writes award-winning travel writer Stephan Orth, 'a journey to Russia feels like visiting enemy territory.' In this humorous and thought-provoking book, Orth ventures through that vast and mysterious territory to uncover the real, unfiltered Russia not seen in today's headl ...Show more