Microcosms by Claudio Magris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste cafe, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic, tragic, picaresque, nostalgic - from life's minor characters. Their worlds might be small, but they are far from m ...Show more
White Butterflies (Updated edition) by Colin Mcphedran
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Reading Level: General Adult
A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic. After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. Over a three-month period, Colin, along with his mother, elder brothe ...Show more
VenicePure City by Peter Ackroyd
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial--a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city. The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the l ...Show more
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
$26.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Vintage Departures
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know--of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sump ...Show more
Adventures of the Wollongong Schooner and Her Owners'SS Mathew Kirven Aka Tiki by Regina Lee
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Islands: Nature and Culture by Stephen Royle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Earth
Islands are contradictory places: they can be remote, mysterious spots, or lively centres of holiday revelry. They are associated alternately with escape, imprisonment, holiday and exile, and their alluring natural beauty and remoteness has inspired artists and writers across the centuries. Islands have ...Show more
No Destination: Autobiography of a Pilgrim by Satish Kumar
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The new hardback 4th edition of Satish Kumar's inspirational autobiography is published in 2014 to commemorate 25 years since the foundation of Schumacher College, with new chapters about the college and bringing Satish's story up-to-date. When he was only nine years old, Satish Kumar renounced the worl ...Show more
The Sierra High RouteTraversing Timberline Country by Steve Roper
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Guide to a spectacular 195-mile timberline route in the sub-alpine region of California's High Sierra.
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made by Gaia Vince
$37.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 ** We live in epoch-making times. Literally. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.5 billion-year history -- we have become a force on a par with earth-shatterin ...Show more