The Art of Being a Tourist at Home: Expand Your World Without Leaving Your Home Town by Jenny Herbert
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
In The Art of Being a Tourist at Home, Jenny Herbert takes us on a journey through our neighbourhood streets and our local parks, through museums and libraries, art galleries and bookshops. There’s wonder to be found in the theatre and music-making all around us, vibrancy in fresh-food markets, new frie ...Show more
Is That Thing Diesel?: One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil by Paul Carter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, no longer toiling on offshore drilling rigs, was Paul Carter happily nestled in the cotton wool of suburban life enjoying the fruits of his labour? Was he f**k! With his manic life left far behind and the perfect opportunity to take it easy st ...Show more
Tracks (Film Tie-In Edition) by Robyn Davidson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
WITH A NEW POSTSCRIPT BY THE AUTHOR AND A STUNNING COLOUR PICTURE SECTION 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' So begins Robyn Davidson's perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian des ...Show more
Billy Connolly's Route 66: The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip by Billy Connolly
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Britain's best-loved comedian hits the most famous highway in the world on an unforgettable journey. Billy Connolly, music-lover, biker, and scourge of the beige and bland the world over, has dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66 since he heard Chuck Berry belting out one of the greatest ...Show more
Hidden Nature : A Voyage of Discovery by Alys Fowler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart. Her book is about noticing the wild everywhere and what it means to see beauty wh ...Show more
Great Cities Through Travelers' Eyes by Peter Furtado (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
This entertaining new anthology includes travelers' tales from thirty-eight cities spread over six continents, ranging from Beijing to Berlin, Cairo to Chicago, and Rio to Rome. The volume features commentators across the millennia, including the great travelers of ancient times, such as Greek geograph ...Show more
Couchsurfing in China: Encounters and Escapades Beyond the Great Wall by Stephan Orth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
China can be a challenging travel destination, with its strict visa conditions, the language barrier and internet censorship. Couchsurfer Stephan Orth chooses a different path than most and gains an insider view of the nation, directly from the living rooms of locals. He talks to them about their dreams ...Show more
The Map Tour: A History of Tourism Told Through Rare Maps by Hugh Thomson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Published in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society in London, this exquisite collection of maps traces the evolution of tourism, from the elite realms of the Grand Tour to beyond the boundaries of the known world. It charts a course across the globe on the first steam voyages, captures the r ...Show more
The New Granta Book of Travel by Liz Jobey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely unfamiliar territory, bringing back tales of the beautiful ...Show more
Johnson's Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World by Boris Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
London is special. For centuries, it has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This sparkling new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners shows in one personality-packed book that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterpri ...Show more
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
The acclaimed author of The Wild Places examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we moveIn this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography, geology, and literature, Robert Macfarlane sets off to follow the ancient routes that crisscross both ...Show more
Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Twenty years ago, Frances Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook and travel writer - introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned villa called Bramasole in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. With glorious descriptions of the vibrant local markets, food, wine ...Show more