Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'Touching the Void' is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that ...Show more
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | 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
Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking by Kerri Andrews (Editor)
$37.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A sweeping collection of women's writing on the wandering path, moving across genres, geographies, and centuries. The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews's Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from Elizabeth Carter's correspondence with Catherine Ta ...Show more
Wild Women: A collection of first-hand accounts from female explorers by Mariella Frostrup
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup. From Constantinople to Crimea; from Antarctica to the Andes. Throughout history adventurous women have made epic, record-breaking journeys under perilous circumstances. Whether escaping constricte ...Show more
150 Restaurants You Need to Visit Before You Die by Amelie VINCENT
$62.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: 150
- A selection of the 150 loveliest international restaurants, that each have a unique story to tell - Each selection features 20 signature dishes - An exclusive selection made by popular food blogger Am lie Vincent "I am lucky to be surrounded by inspiring chefs from all over the world. They are all dif ...Show more
52 Loaves by William Alexander
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
William Alexander is determined to bake the perfect loaf of bread. He tasted it long ago, in a restaurant, and has been trying to reproduce it ever since. Without success. Now, on the theory that practice makes perfect, he sets out to bake peasant bread every week until he gets it right. He bakes his lo ...Show more
A Hundred Words for Butterfly: A novella by Sophie Masson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
It was meant to be the experience of a lifetime, for Australian twin sisters Helen and Alex Dorian, to walk the famous Camino from Saint Jean Pied de Port in the French Basque country, to Santiago del Compostella in Spain. But Helen injures her leg on the very day they arrive in Saint Jean and has to st ...Show more
A Month By The Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, the people she met were touched by her genuine, unflinching interest and spoke ...Show more
A Room with a View by E M Forster, E.M. Forster, E. M. Forster, E.M. Forster And Malcolm Bradbury
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Penguin Essentials
'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you ...'. Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters ...Show more
A Thing of Beauty - Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece by Peter Fiennes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'There's an infectious enthusiasm and self-deprecating authority to Fiennes's insights and he's a most agreeable companion.' Guardian on FootnotesIt's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what's the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were ...Show more
A Thousand Golden Cities 2,500 Years of Writing from Afghanistan and Its People by Justin Marozzi
$69.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in recent decades, most of them bad. Partly thanks to the relentless media coverage of the "War on Terror", it has become synonymous above all with war and terrorism - from the Taliban to Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State - crushing le ...Show more
A Time of Gifts - On Foot to Constantinople - From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: BK 1
'A Time of Gifts' sees Patrick Leigh Fermor setting out in 1933, at the age of 18, on his epic journey across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This first volume takes the reader as far as Hungary.