How to Talk About Places You've Never Been On the Importance of Armchair Travel by Pierre Bayard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places we've never been. Practical, funny, and thought-provo ...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
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.
An Impossible Dream - A Non-Believer on the Camino by Peter Campbell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
We live in disturbed times. Seemingly more now than at any time in the previous five decades, the planet appears riven. Against this troubling global background, An Impossible Dream traces author Peter Campbell's six-week, eight-hundred-kilometre long walk along the Camino de Santiago across northern Sp ...Show more
Every Pilgrim's Guide to Walking to Santiago de Compostela by Peter Muller; Laurie Dennett (Translator); Angel Fernandez de Aranguiz
$42.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Every Pilgrim's Guide Ser.
Every year, some 200,000 people set out on the world's most famous pilgrimage route - 'the Camino', designated a World Heritage Site in 1993. Actually a network of paths with numerous starting places in France and throughout Europe, all routes converge to lead along Spain's northern coast to Santiago de ...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
The Lunatic Express by Charles Miller
$44.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at the east African post of Mombasa to perform an engineering miracle: the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway - a 600-mile route that was largely unmapped and barely explored. Behind Mombasa lay a scorched, waterless desert. Beyond, a horizonless scr ...Show more
Summers in France
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Like a beautiful scrapbook, Summers in France celebrates summer living and entertaining in the French countryside. On display is Ireland's renovated farmhouse, with fabulous fabrics and a casual chic flair. Come along to the French countryside with this energetic woman of taste, style and passion. Kathr ...Show more
A Journey Through Dali: With a Leg of Ham by Mei Zhang
$50.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'Velvet-red meat patterned with seams of fat like the finest Dali marble. Time has done its work.' Zhang Mei has always cherished the ham from her native province of Yunnan, China. Growing up in Dali on the banks of the Xi'er River, Mei relished the morsels of ham her father would toss into a dish of sp ...Show more
Coming into the Country: Travels in Alaska by John McPhee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Plunge into the wild climate of unknown Alaska in this riveting travel account.
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
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