The Mindful Traveller: A memoir about travelling with a full heart, a light foot and a clear conscience by Nina Karnikowski
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A stunningly-written memoir and manifesto about the ethics of modern travel, The Mindful Traveller is written by someone best-placed to write about it. In this unique and inspiring book, travel journalist Nina Karnikowski takes an expedition to the very essence of travel, reflecting on the profound and ...Show more
The Modern Explorers: Epic Journeys to the Ends of the World by Robin Hanbury-Tenison; Robert Twigger
$21.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. Most of the accounts are written by the explorers themselves, and they all vividly describe challenging and extraordinary expeditions to ...Show more
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
$27.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its disti ...Show more
The Orwell Tour - Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell by Oliver Lewis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived, worked and wrote. Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places to have inspired and been lived in by George Orwell.Over three years he trav ...Show more
The Po - An Elegy for Italy's Longest River by Tobias Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture. The River Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling for 650 kilometres from its source in the Alps across the entire width of the peninsula until it reaches the Adriatic Sea in the east. Flowing through ...Show more
The Raven's Nest by Sarah Thomas
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A breathtaking mix of nature writing, memoir and travel, this is the story of the making and unmaking of a marriage, and the search for home among the elemental landscape of Iceland's bewitching Westfjords. In 2008, on a week-long trip to a film festival in Iceland, Sarah Thomas was spellbound by the st ...Show more
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Bryson Ser.
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation?s heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC ...Show more
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
One sunny spring morning in the seventies, an unlikely Englishman set out on a pilgrimage that would take him across Japan's entire length. Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth travelled on foot from Soya, the country's northernmost tip, to Sata in the extreme south, traversing three island ...Show more
The Sea and The Snow: How We Reached and Climbed a Volcano at the Ends of the Earth by PHILIP TEMPLE
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
HEARD ISLAND, an improbably remote speck in the far Southern Ocean, lies four thousand kilometres to the south-west of Australia - with Antarctica its nearest continent. By 1964 it had been the object of a number of expeditions, but none reaching the summit of its 9000-foot volcanic peak "Big Ben'. In t ...Show more
The Seine - The River That Made Paris by Elaine Sciolino
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Blending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively characters?a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat ...Show more
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
$14.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more
The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination by Philip Marsden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A journey by sea along the western coasts of Ireland and Scotland in search of islands, both real and imagined.