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
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan by Donald (FRW) Lafcadio; Richie Hearn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Tuttle Classics
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A. J. Mackinnon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand - a year later I had reached Romania and was still going . . . ' Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an am ...Show more
Riding with Giants by Peter Holmes à Court
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
In 2011, international businessman Peter Holmes Court left the executive world and found himself living deep in rural France with only his seven-year-old twin girls for company. Peter was struggling as a single father in a foreign country - unsettled by the sudden move away from a traditional job, and c ...Show more
Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds As They Were and As They Are Today by Travis Elborough
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Unexpected Atlases Ser.
Maps offer us a chance to see not just how our world looks today, but how it once looked. But what about the places that are no longer mapped?Cities forgotten under the dust of newly settled land? Rivers and seas whose changing shape has shifted the landscape around them? Or, even, places that have seem ...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
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations by Pico Iyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness--one of our most engaging and discerning travel writers--a unique, indispensable guide to the enigma of contemporary Japan. After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer can use everything from anime to Oscar Wilde to show how his adopted home is both haunt ...Show more
North Korea Journal by Michael Palin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: travel writing bio | Reading Level: very good
A glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, as told by Britain's best-loved travel writer. In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without interne ...Show more
Paris and Other Disappointments by Adam Rozenbachs
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Sick of going overseas and enjoying himself, comedian Adam Rozenbachs decided he should take his father on the trip of a lifetime to Europe. For his dad, it was a chance to return to the place he hasn't seen fleeing post-war Germany as an immigrant. For Adam, it was a chance to repay his dad for everyth ...Show more
Incredible Journeys: Discovery, Adventure, Danger, Endurance by Levison Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Alongside real-life explorer Levison Wood, travel around the world, meet some of history's most daring pioneers, and be inspired to go on your very own adventures! Embark on 20 epic expeditions alongside Levison Wood, from the Silk Road and medieval pilgrimages to the Holy Land to Nellie Bly's trip aro ...Show more
The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts by Edmund De Waal
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de W ...Show more
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
$19.99 AUD
$22.99 (13% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Anniversary Edition
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' S ...Show more