Florence: A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Writer and the City
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so r ...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
On The Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Mexico
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers ...Show more
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
"...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto." The Guardian A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day. Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging me ...Show more
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Age by Daniel Klein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
Travels with Epicurus- A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Ageis a humorous, uplifting meditation on finding the pleasures of old age, by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. When philosopher, jokester and septuagenarian Daniel Klein goe ...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
Camino de Santiago: The ancient Way of Saint James pilgrimage route from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela by Sergi Ramis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Trail Guides
The first one-volume walking guide in English to the most popular long-distance route in Europe walked by tourists. El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the ancient Christian pilgrimage route has been travelled for over a thousand years to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, where, legend has i ...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
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
Amazing Journeys by AA Publishing
$44.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: AA Illustrated Reference
Read about spectacular journeys across the world's most breathtaking scenery. In the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, 'To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive', and the authors of this book have all given accounts of the fascinating sights and sounds along the way, whether the journey is fr ...Show more