The Border: a Journey Around Russia by Erika Fatland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
Living next door to Russia - a cultural encounter with each of its neighbours. An extraordinary odyssey through the fourteen countries that border Russia todayFrom North Korea into China, through former Soviet states and breakaway republics in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian and Black Seas, ...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
Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems and pa ...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
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
The Incidental Tourist by Peter Doherty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Join Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty on his extraordinary adventures around the globe.Doherty has kept a journal about the far-flung destinations his work has taken him over more than thirty years. He shares his observations, thoughts and discoveries, which make perfect in-flight reading.Scientists tra ...Show more
En Route by Juliana Engberg
$14.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
It's almost impossible to get lost these days; the fastest and most direct route arrives with the press of a few keys. But what of the joys of unexpected discoveries off the grid?En Route is an ode to wandering through time and place, meeting personalities with no fixed addresses. Assisted by her GPS or ...Show more
City Secrets: Rome by Robert Kahn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
If a standard guidebook has never given you entree to the Rome you seek, let City Secrets unlock the door. See the world's most magnificent art, architecture and antiquities through the eyes of the people who know them best: a renowned painter shows the way to an overlooked masterpiece; an archaeologist ...Show more
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
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
The Virago Book of Women Travellers by Mary Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' Guardian Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this collection as women travel for peril or pleasure, whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French countryside, to challenge the fierce Sahara or c ...Show more