The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The acclaimed author of The Wild Places examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we moveIn this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography, geology, and literature, Robert Macfarlane sets off to follow the ancient routes that crisscross both ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Reading Level: good
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levison Wood
$44.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying experiences. In this anthology, explorer and bestselling author Levison Wood has gathered 100 of the most ...Show more
Waypoints by Sam Heughan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Journey deep into the Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of Outlander Sam Heughan - exploring his life and reflecting on the waypoints that define himIn this intimate journey of self-discovery, Sam Heughan sets out along Scotland's rugged West Highland Way to ...Show more
In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City by John Kampfner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obses ...Show more
Walks, Tracks and Trails of New South Wales by Derrick Stone
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 140 of the best walks, tracks or trails in New South Wales, which can be walked by the moderately fit individual. They are located in national parks, coastal parks, state forests, conservation reserves, historic parks and local g ...Show more
RIVER OF TIME by SWAIN, JON
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
"A splendid memoir...a tale, at once tragic and beautiful, of love and loss, of coming of age and of witnessing the end of Indochina as the West had known it for more than a century."--"Los Angleles Times Book Review." From the writer immortalized in the Academy Award-winning film "The Killing Fields." ...Show more
Bushido: the Soul of Japan (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Inazo Nitobe
$9.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding 'the soul of Japan'. O ...Show more
The Mindful Traveller: A memoir about travelling with a full heart, a light foot and a clear conscience by Nina Karnikowski
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A stunningly-written memoir and manifesto about the ethics of modern travel, The Mindful Traveller is written by someone best-placed to write about it. In this unique and inspiring book, travel journalist Nina Karnikowski takes an expedition to the very essence of travel, reflecting on the profound and ...Show more
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathan Slaght
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
When wildlife researcher Jonathan Slaght was a young Peace Corps volunteer in the Russian Far East, he caught a brief glimpse of a Blakiston's fish owl. It was the furthest south the species had been documented in over a hundred years, and a chance encounter that would change his life. In Owls of the E ...Show more
What the Monsoon Knows by Ian Browne
$44.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The Monsoon shakes and shudders within many a varied landscape... Come and find yourself along the back lanes of the world's most intense cities. Visit the tribal longhouses of the headhunter tribes of Borneo; be enchanted by the steaming hot jungle ruins of Asia. Ponder the lives of the women of India ...Show more