The Women I Think about at Night - Traveling the Paths of My Heroes by Mia Kankimäki; Douglas Robinson (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In The Women I Think About at Night, Mia Kankimki blends travelogue, memoir, and biography as she 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? Bored with her life and ...Show more
One Italian Summer by Pip Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food, and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their chooks died, their fruit rotted, and Pip ended up depressed and in therapy. So they did the only reasonable t ...Show more
Microcosms by Claudio Magris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste cafe, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic, tragic, picaresque, nostalgic - from life's minor characters. Their worlds might be small, but they are far from m ...Show more
The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up by Michael Meyer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent t ...Show more
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky
$36.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has co ...Show more
30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey
$22.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful very as bracing as the southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beac ...Show more
Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
During a culture-shocked exchange year in Japan, fifteen-year-old Lisa Dempster's imagination is ignited by the story of the henro michi, an arduous 1200 kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan.Perfectly suiting the romantic view of herself as a dusty, travel-worn explorer (well, on ...Show more
Stranger Country by Monica Tan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Tracks meets Wild in this account of Chinese Australian journalist Monica Tan's 6 month odyssey though outback Australia. 'Will I ever really belong to this country? As a Chinese Australian? As a non-Indigenous Australian? . . . I was 32 years old and barely knew the country of my birth. It was time to ...Show more
Letter from Paris by Louisa Deasey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The letters, dated 1949, detail a passionate affair between Louisa's father, Denison, and Coralie's grandmother, Michelle, in post-war London. They spark Louisa to find out more about her father, who died when she was six. From the seemingly simple question 'Who was Denison Deasey?' follows a trail of d ...Show more
Naples: A Way of Love by Carla Coulson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Naples: City of Blood, City of Miracles. City of Contradictions and Secrets, Luck and Superstition, Danger and Incredible Kindness. Photographer Carla Coulson and writer Lisa Clifford know this dazzling, magical city intimately: in this book they take you on a journey through the Naples most tourists ne ...Show more
The White Darkness by David Grann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'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
Voyage of the Southern Sun : An Amazing Solo Journey Around the World by Michael Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
With limited flying experience, no support team, and only basic instruments in his tiny single-engine flying boat, Smith risked his life to make modern aviation history. His historic flight lasted seven months, and took him from Australia all around the world. In 2016 he was named "Australian Geographic ...Show more