Duende:A journey in Search of Flamenco by Jason Webster
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a crossroads. Abandoning the world of libraries and th ...Show more
The Comfort of Water: A River Pilgrimage (PB) by Maya Ward
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
This is the joyful yet heartbreaking true story of four friends who walk a 21-day pilgrimage from the sea to the source of Melbourne's Yarra River. This is no path for most of the way, but offers of campsite and boats, and free access to private lands, illustrates the generosity shown to pilgrims even i ...Show more
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue by WILKINSON Gina
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Myanmar in Moments by Leo Lazarus
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Borrow my eyes and see a part of the world recently revealed. This is a story of observation and curiosity in a place which engenders confusion and marvel in turn. Travel without itineraries, without grand plans, without expectations. Travel for the thrill of discovery and the experience of moving and s ...Show more
The One That Got Away: Travelling in the Time of Covid by Ken Haley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'A moving and funny chronicle of questing and courage in the age of coronavirus.' Margaret Simons, author of Cry Me A River and Penny Wong: Passion and Principle In 2020, Australian author Ken Haley mapped out an enticing menu of travel destinations, comprising the Caribbean island states for main cours ...Show more
Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan: A Journey by Train from Hokkaido to Kyushu by John Dougill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Observations on the people, culture, and history of Japan from a long-time resident riding the rails along the less-traveled western coastline. This journey the length of Japan takes the reader off the beaten tracks to explore some of the country's remoter regions along the Japan Sea-from Wakkanai in n ...Show more
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World by Pico Iyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul ... A masterpiece' Elizabeth Gilbert 'A work of spiritual evolution [and] inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors' Washington Post One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we ...Show more
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
The acclaimed author of The Wild Places examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we moveIn this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography, geology, and literature, Robert Macfarlane sets off to follow the ancient routes that crisscross both ...Show more
The Pursuit of Art - Travels, Encounters and Revelations by Martin Gayford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Travels, Encounters & Revelations
In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, critic Martin Gayford has traveled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayford's journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and outcomes, w ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world ...Show more
Map Reading: The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers - He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel CommitteeDelivered in London on 7 December 2021, 'Writing ...Show more
A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
A young secular writer's journey along ancient religious pilgrimage routes in Spain, Japan and Ukraine leads to a surprise family reconciliation in this literary memoir Gideon Lewis-Kraus arrived in free-spirited Berlin from San Francisco as a young writer in search of a place to enjoy life to the fulle ...Show more