Calcutta - The City Revealed by Geoffrey Moorhouse
$17.55 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: good
Patagonia by Chris Moss
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the Ne ...Show more
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
Vietnam and Angkor Wat - DK Eyewitness Travel Guide by Richard Sterling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide
The DK Eyewitness Vietnam and Angkor Wat Travel Guide is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look ...Show more
The Last of the Bedu by Michael Asher
$21.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
The view of the Arab as a hospitable, honest, wild yet noble camel herder living the simple unfettered life in his black tent has been nurtured so strongly in our own culture that the myth has continued to outshine the reality. Michael Asher first encountered the reality of the Bedu during his work as a ...Show more
Antarctica and Back in Sixty Days by Tim Bowden
$21.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Broadcaster Tim Bowden's witty and exciting account of a voyage to Antarctica for the ABC's social history unit, based on interviews with Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition members, and diary notes. The author has published four books, and presents the ABC's TBackchat' program.
India India (Southerly 70-3): A Sub-Continental Feast by David (ed.) Brooks
$26.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
$17.55 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: good
Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz--also his wonderful sidekick in "A Walk in the Woods--he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. ...Show more
Swimming with Crocodiles: An Australian Adventure by Will Chaffey
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Will Chaffey was 18 when he boarded a plane in New York bound for Australia. Though he had recently graduated from one of Boston's most prestigious private schools, a disastrous senior year meant that he hadn't been accepted into college. Instead, he took what the college counsellors grimly called "time ...Show more