Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, ...Show more
Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way by Michael Bond
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can walk through unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction, take shortcuts along paths we have never used and remember for many years places we have visited only once. These are remarkable ach ...Show more
Why Travel Matters - A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel by Craig Storti
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Category: Travel Narrative
When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Why Travel Matters is for those who want to change their lives. Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to ...Show more
High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China by Erika Fatland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by bestselling and prizewinning author Erika Fatland, on a journey along the Himalayas. The Himalayas meander through five very different countries, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are mixed with ancient shamanic religions. Countless ...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
Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand by Ella Christie; Caroline Eden (Introduction by)
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Category: Travel Narrative | Series: JM Journeys
INTRODUCED BY CAROLINE EDEN, award-winning author of Black Sea, Red Sands and Samarkand'Medieval pomp, splendour, and picturesqueness... a life that one can hardly even realize.'In 1912, Ella R. Christie - a veteran Scottish traveller who had made expeditions to Kashmir, Tibet, Malaya, Borneo, China, Ko ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
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Category: Travel Narrative | Series: The Canons
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd ...Show more
Turkey: The Passenger by Elif Shafak and Fattima Bhutto, et al.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: The Passenger
The Big Dig by Elif Batuman -A Story of Dust and Lightby Burhan Sönmez - An Author Recommends by Elif Shafak - plus: the thirty-year coup and the dam that is washing away 12,000 years of history, and more. The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own ...Show more
Without Ever Reaching the Summit by Paolo Cognetti
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Category: Travel Narrative
An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two ...Show more
Roadmap: The Get-it-Together Guide to Figuring Out What to Do with Your Life by Brian McAllister
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
This welcome antidote to the fusty, no-longer-relevant career guide answers an old questionâ"So, what are you going to do with your life?"âin a groundbreaking way. From the team behind the inspirational TV series and campus and online resource, it is presented in a motivational format that gets youn ...Show more
The Enlightened Cyclist: Finding the Path to Two-wheeled Transcendence by BikeSnobNYC
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Category: Travel Narrative
In Bike Snob, blogger BikeSnobNYC offered an overview of cycling and the various 'bike cultures.' This next book will focus on an experience that cyclists the world over are familiar with: commuting. With his trademark snark, humor and begrudging enthusiasm, BikeSnobNYC will take readers through the t ...Show more
Anatolian Days and Nights by Angie Joy E. & Brenner Stocker
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Category: Travel Narrative
When Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner meet on the balcony of a guesthouse in a small resort town on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, they think they have only a mutual friend and a summer dream in common. Soon, they discover a shared love of travel, history, culture, cuisine, and literature; and they begi ...Show more