Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This is Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Acclaimed and beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to his own country - America - for the first time in Deep South. For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islan ...Show more
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Drawing together classic Theroux pieces from the past 14 years, this new collection offers a comprehensive and deeply searching portrait of its acclaimed author - a kind of autobiography through work.Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Wil ...Show more
On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty- ...Show more
Greece: The Passenger by Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
'On the Greek island of Ikaria, life is sweet . . . and very, very long. What is the locals' secret?' - from "The Island of Long Life" by Andrew Anthony
Japan: The Passenger by Various
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
'Some Japanese stories end violently. Others never end at all, but only cut away, at the moment of extreme crisis, to a butterfly, or the wind, or the moon.' - Brian Phillips
The Passenger: India by Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
"Essential in these times of narrowing national horizons."- The Bookseller
Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and Loss by Nick Gadd
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Over two years, writer Nick Gadd and his wife Lynne circled the city of Melbourne on foot, starting at Williamstown and ending in Port Melbourne. Along the way they uncovered lost buildings, secret places and mysterious signs that told of forgotten stories and curious characters from the past. Soon afte ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
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Category: Travel Writing | Series: \
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring suc ...Show more
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.Unlikely friends Sam and Graham begin their journey in the heart ...Show more
Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus by Charmian Clift
$27.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family led in Greece in the 1950's in one volume. For Charmian Clift, Greece was the Promised Land. In 1954 she and her husband, George Johnston, abandoned their sophisticated London existence and set off with two new ...Show more
Back Roads #2: The Scenic Route by Heather Ewart
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the ABC Back Roads team, Australia's inspiring rural communities in splendid, vivid colour During the five years it has been appearing on our screens, ABC TV's Back Roads has taken us across Australia, through scorched deserts, along sapphire coasts, up breathtaking mountains and over gentle, roll ...Show more
Riding with Giants by Peter Holmes à Court
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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