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.
A Touch of India: Chutney Mary, Charming Irregularities and an Unlikely Romance by Valerie Britton-Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
In A Touch of India, Valerie Britton-Wilson discovers the challenges and charms of modern India whilst uncovering the life of her mother Pearl, a young Anglo-Indian woman growing up in end-of-Empire Bombay.Pearl was a journalist with the Times of India in the 1940s who unexpectedly fell in love with a b ...Show more
A Traveller's Year by Travis Elborough (Compiled by); Nick Rennison (Compiled by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
A Traveller's Year is an anthology of extracts from diaries, journals and letters, two or three for each day of the year, on the subject of travel and exploration. The extracts convey men and women's experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, with an emph ...Show more
A Vagabond for Beauty: A John Murray Journey by W L Rusho
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Overcoming Bks.
INTRODUCED BY PAUL KINGSNORTH, Booker-shortlisted author of The Wake'I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.' Artist and wanderer Everett Ruess left home at the age of sixteen to immerse himse ...Show more
A Year in Paris: Season-By-Season in the City of Light by John Baxter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From the incomparable John Baxter, the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter. When the common people o ...Show more
Abroad in Japan: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Chris Broad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a ...Show more
Adventures in Caravanastan: Around Australia at 80ks by Greg Bearup
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
One car, one caravan, one kid, one continent. Greg Bearup and his partner Lisa Upton survived three years living together in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but life with the Taliban was nothing compared to taking a toddler to Caravanastan.
Adventurous Soul: Empowering Words of Wisdom & Stories from Women Who Get Outside by Kiki Ely
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Everyday Inspiration Ser.
Adventurous Soul inspires you to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world with stories of incredible outdoor adventures, uplifting quotes, and beautiful photography. Find strength and motivation for your next outdoor journey with this beautiful book of inspiring quotes and empoweri ...Show more