Yak on Track - An unforgettable adventure in the last Himalayan kingdom by Heather McNeice
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: near fine
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
Calcutta - The City Revealed by Geoffrey Moorhouse
$17.55 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: good
Patagonia by Chris Moss
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the Ne ...Show more
Trekking in the Dolomites 4th Ed by Gillian Price
$42.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Northern Italy's famous Alta Via long-distance walking routes are spread across the Dolomites, running roughly north to south and reaching as far as the Austrian border. There are six of these routes, and they increase in difficulty: Alta Via 1 has few exposed sections and is suitable for novice alpine ...Show more
Slow River by Strevens Steve
$26.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Steve Strevens explores Australia's great waterways - the Murray - from its source in Victoria's high country to its mouth in the Great Southern Ocean. He tells the story of the people and communities who have lived along its banks and how the river has changed since European settlement.Steve Strevens h ...Show more
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See - Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland by Kendra Greene
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Iceland is home to only 330,000 people (roughly the population of Lexington, Kentucky) but more than 265 museums and public collections–nearly one for every ten people. They range from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to ex ...Show more
Vietnam and Angkor Wat - DK Eyewitness Travel Guide by Richard Sterling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide
The DK Eyewitness Vietnam and Angkor Wat Travel Guide is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look ...Show more
The Last of the Bedu by Michael Asher
$21.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
The view of the Arab as a hospitable, honest, wild yet noble camel herder living the simple unfettered life in his black tent has been nurtured so strongly in our own culture that the myth has continued to outshine the reality. Michael Asher first encountered the reality of the Bedu during his work as a ...Show more
Antarctica and Back in Sixty Days by Tim Bowden
$21.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Broadcaster Tim Bowden's witty and exciting account of a voyage to Antarctica for the ABC's social history unit, based on interviews with Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition members, and diary notes. The author has published four books, and presents the ABC's TBackchat' program.