Hidden Japan: An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests by Alex Kerr
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
"A sharp-tongued spokesman for Japan's environment and traditions" --The New York TimesIn Alex Kerr's critically acclaimed Lost Japan and Dogs and Demons, he documented the decline of the traditional landscapes of Japan, his adopted home of many years. Here, in Hidden Jappan he makes a journey of redisc ...Show more
In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City by John Kampfner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obses ...Show more
A Year in Provence: Popular Penguins by Peter Mayle
$14.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence is the much-loved account of an English couple living their dream abroad. When they buy a 200-year-old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them - from six-course lunches and epic games of boule, to encounters w ...Show more
Andreas H. Bitesnich India by Andreas H. Bitesnich
$195.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
They say India changes lives. More than a country, it is a state of mind. This title explores various aspects of Indian existence. It uncovers the contradictions at the core of the nation's soul. It probes both the subcontinent's changes and lingering hardships. It documents different facets of life, de ...Show more
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A. J. Mackinnon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand - a year later I had reached Romania and was still going . . . ' Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an am ...Show more
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Canons
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, histo ...Show more
Untidy Towns by Kate O'Donnell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Seventeen-year-old Adelaide is sick of being expected to succeed on other people's terms. She knows she just has to stick it out at school for one more year and then she'll be free. Instead, she runs away from her fancy boarding school back to her sleepy hometown to read and dream.But there are no free ...Show more
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in--or spent time--in the greatest of American ...Show more
My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of a ...Show more
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
This is a portrait of Italy unlike any other, a heady blend of travel, history, art and food that takes us from Lake Garda's lemon houses through the gardens of Tuscan villas to Calabria's scented bergamot groves and a Sicilian marmalade kitchen, from top to bottom of the land where lemons grow. 'Unmiss ...Show more
North Korea Journal by Michael Palin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: travel writing bio
A glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, as told by Britain's best-loved travel writer. In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without interne ...Show more
The Passenger: Brazil by A. A. . AA.VV.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
A new series from Europa Editions, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Order and Progress? by Jon Lee Anderson・Funk, Pride and Prejudice by Alberto Riva・On the River, I Was King by Eliane Brum・Also: the road that dissects th ...Show more