Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
As Ingrid Horrocks takes swims in rivers, oceans and pools around the world, she considers her relationship with water and with the world around her. The question didn't seem to be so much why we swim, as where and how we swim, and with whom. Also, where we fail to swim, water threatening to flood our ...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
Berlin - Imagine a City by Rory MacLean
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams real ...Show more
Without Ever Reaching the Summit by Paolo Cognetti
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
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
Windswept - Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women by Annabel Abbs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
The story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild. A feminist exploration of the power of walking in nature, following in the footsteps of Gwen John, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frieda Lawrence, Clara Vyvyan, S ...Show more
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A.J. Mackinnon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow.Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of No ...Show more
Spinoza's Overcoat: Poets by Subhash Jaireth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'It starts to rain as I step out of my hotel ....' So begins Subhash Jaireth's striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The works of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, Hiromi Ito, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and othe ...Show more
Bondi to the Baltic by John McCombe
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Two antique cars, a few old mates and the journey of a lifetime. Take a couple of vintage cars and their owners’ determination to drive them on a pilgrimage from Australia to Finland and you have a fascinating story told through photos and the distillation of blogs and diary entries by some foolhardy, a ...Show more
The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia by Melissa Harper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Australians have always loved to step out in nature, whether off-track or along a marked route. Bushwalking – an organised long-distance walk in rugged terrain that requires maps and camping equipment, or a family day out – is one of our most popular pastimes. This landmark book, now updated, was the fi ...Show more
A Thing of Beauty - Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece by Peter Fiennes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'There's an infectious enthusiasm and self-deprecating authority to Fiennes's insights and he's a most agreeable companion.' Guardian on FootnotesIt's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what's the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were ...Show more
The Piano Shop On The Left Bank by T E Carhart
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
"Ever since the piano was invented, people have longed to own one. In the nineteenth century, an age without recorded music or television, this craze reached its apex. Pianos were everywhere- they swelled and shrank in the heat of the colonies, they were in every genteel home, in restaurants, on steamsh ...Show more
Eat Pray Love: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Elizabeth Gilbert
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Eat Pray Love, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. Newly divorced journalist Elizabet ...Show more