The Virago Book of Women Travellers by Mary Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'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
The Walker - On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual ramble ...Show more
The White Darkness by David Grann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z'A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration' Sunday Times on The Lost City of Z'Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones' Daily Telegr ...Show more
The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes by Mia Kankimäki
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In this "thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women's studies, and travelogue", (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. What can a forty-something childless woman do? B ...Show more
The World of Venice - Revised Edition by James Morris; Jan Morris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. "A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess" (The Observer). New Fo ...Show more
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cur ...Show more
The Years Thunder By - A Voyage Across Two Oceans and a Continent by Nick Jaffe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
An exhilarating story of one man's solo sailing adventure from England to Australia by small boat, Nick Jaffe's very personal account of his journey is by turns thrilling, melancholic, funny, and philosophical. The book invites readers to contemplate the questions a vast ocean might pose to us - not mer ...Show more
They Went to Portugal - A Travellers Portrait by Rose Macaulay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From the author of the beloved novel The Towers of Trebizond, a book about Portugal that is part travel-ogue, part history and wholly personal.
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing - and to their magnificent land.' New York Times Book Review 'This book combines an irresistible author with an irresistible subject: Tim Flannery, a great zoologist an ...Show more
To Venice with Love - A Midlife Adventure by Philip Gwynne Jones
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'An inspiring, life-affirming story' Reader's Digest Philip and Caroline Jones, a middle-aged couple living in Edinburgh, found themselves facing redundancy and an uncertain future. Until they received some advice from a complete stranger in a pub. Their response was to sell everything in order to mo ...Show more
Too Late to Turn Back: Barbara and Graham Greene in Liberia by Barbara Greene
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
'It was stimulating and exciting, and I wrote down that hewas the best kind of companion one could have for a tripof this kind. I was learning far more than he realized.' It had been Graham Greene's idea to explore tropical West Africa. The map of Liberia was virtually blank, the interior marked 'cannib ...Show more
Tough Women Adventure Stories - Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination by Jenny Tough (ed.)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
It's time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being physically fit and mentally resilient. Perhaps it's doing something no one else has done before. Perhaps it's breaking down boundaries and proving what you can do, in spite of the naysayers. Perhaps it's tr ...Show more