All Aboard! True Train Tales by Pauline Deeves
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Jack loves visiting Grandpa in his old train carriage. He loves helping him in the train museum. And he loves hearing his stories about trains and railways. From runaway engines to people-powered carriages, train-robbing bushrangers and lifesaving pointsmen, Grandpa always has a tale to pass the time. B ...Show more
The Journey Matters: Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style by Jonathan Glancey
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A celebration of the best journeys that ordinary passengers could take by rail, road, sea and air throughout the twentieth century, by the bestselling author of Spitfire: The Biography.
Return to Moscow by Tony Kevin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Forty-eight years ago, a young and apprehensive Tony Kevin set off with his family on his first diplomatic posting, to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In the Russian winter of 2016 he returns alone, a private citizen, aged 73. What will he find? How has Russia changed since those grim Soviet days? ...Show more
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
$35.00 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
Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
After backpacking her way around India Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. When a beggar reads her palm and insists she will one day return - and for love - she screams 'Never!'. But twelve years later the prophecy comes true. When the love of her life is posted to India, Sarah ...Show more
Yorkshire A lyrical history of England's greatest county by Richard Morris
$55.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'A restless, poetic, strange book, and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer 'Meticulously researched ... fascinating' Country Life Yorkshire, it has been said, is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, f ...Show more
Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace by Meg Fee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A beautiful memoir from an exciting young writer, Meg Fee, on finding her way in New York City. Full of the dramas and quiet moments that make up a life, told with humour, heart, and hope. InPlaces I Stopped on the Way Home,Meg Fee plots a decade of her life in New York City - from falling in love ...Show more
The Meaning of Rice - And Other Tales from the Belly of Japan by Michael Booth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
**Shortlisted for the 2017 AndrU Simon Food and Drink Book Awards** '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 ...Show more
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Drawing together classic Theroux pieces from the past 14 years, this new collection offers a comprehensive and deeply searching portrait of its acclaimed author - a kind of autobiography through work.Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Wil ...Show more
Dalvi by Laura Galloway
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Part memoir, part travelogue, this is the story of one woman's six years living in a reindeer-herding village in the Arctic Tundra, forging a life on her own as the only American among one of the most unknowable cultures on earth.
Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell; Kate Humble (Foreword by); Mark Adlington (Illustrator)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1960, the story of Gavin Maxwell's life with otters on the remote west coast of Scotland remains one of the most lyrical, moving descriptions of a man's relationship with the natural world. And with more than one million copies sold, as well as a be ...Show more
Landlines: The remarkable story of a thousand-mile journey across Britain by Raynor Winn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Raynor knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he - can he? - set out with her on another healing walk?Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic agai ...Show more