Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other sid ...Show more
1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die by Barry Stone (General Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An essential reference guide for all those who love to get out of their cars, get off their bikes, and lace up their walking shoes.
Imagine a City: A Pilot Sees the World by Mark Vanhoenacker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The bestselling author of Skyfaring celebrates the world's cities from his perspective as a pilot'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTON___________________A l ...Show more
Life Plans on Dive Bar Napkins - A Guide to Travelling Recklessly, Living Stupidly by Paul Manser
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Kidnapped in the most expensive taxi in Mexico. Living like Frank Sinatra with a UTI in Palm Springs. Avoiding exploding rubbish bins in new Tokyo. Sleeping with man-eating spiders in Guatemala. For better or (usually) worse, major life decisions start as a scribble on the back of a bar napkin for Paul ...Show more
A Year in Paris: Season-By-Season in the City of Light by John Baxter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the incomparable John Baxter, the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter. When the common people o ...Show more
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world's religions. They are also a plant h ...Show more
Walking in Berlin: a Flaneur in the Capital by Franz Hessel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A timeless guide to one of the world's greatest cities. Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In Walking in Berlin, originally published in Germany in 1929, he captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording evidence of t ...Show more
The Meaning of Rice: And Other Tales from the Belly of Japan by Michael Booth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"The next Bill Bryson." (New York Times). In this often hilarious yet deeply researched book, food and travel writer Michael Booth and his family embark on an epic journey the length of Japan to explore its dazzling food culture. They find a country much altered since their previous visit ten years earl ...Show more
Yak on Track - An unforgettable adventure in the last Himalayan kingdom by Heather McNeice
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
It seemed like a good idea to Heather at the time: organise a challenging trek to raise funds for the education of young Bhutanese girls. Heather had walked in the Himalayas before, so how hard could it be on the trail to Lunana, Bhutan's most remote plateau? On the 240-kilometre trek, she discovers tha ...Show more
The Art of Being a Tourist at Home: Expand Your World Without Leaving Your Home Town by Jenny Herbert
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In The Art of Being a Tourist at Home, Jenny Herbert takes us on a journey through our neighbourhood streets and our local parks, through museums and libraries, art galleries and bookshops. There’s wonder to be found in the theatre and music-making all around us, vibrancy in fresh-food markets, new frie ...Show more
Voyage of the Southern Sun : An Amazing Solo Journey Around the World by Michael Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
With limited flying experience, no support team, and only basic instruments in his tiny single-engine flying boat, Smith risked his life to make modern aviation history. His historic flight lasted seven months, and took him from Australia all around the world. In 2016 he was named "Australian Geographic ...Show more
Shannon Bennett's Paris by Shannon Bennett
$44.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This unique guidebook includes reviews of Shannon's favourite three-star restaurants, bistros, bars and hotels, and his pick of the best places to buy macaroons, bread, wine, chocolate, truffles and caviar. He also provides recipes for classic French dishes such as Tarte Tatin and Duck-leg Confit. Lavis ...Show more