Behind the Veil : An Australian nurse in Saudi Arabia by Lydia Laube
$17.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia - and managed to avoid getting killed or chraged with murder. This is the story of how she kept her sanity and got her passport back First published 1991.
Travels with a Tangerine by Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
$62.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Ibn Battutah, the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned 29 years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo allegedly covered. Spiritual backpacker, tire ...Show more
A Writer's World. Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris
$49.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
What the Traveller Saw by Eric Newby
$21.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head ...Show more
Un Amico Italiano: Eat, Pray, Love in Rome by Luca Spaghetti
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
In September 2003, Luca Spaghetti got an email from an American friend that would change his life: 'A friend from university is about to move to Rome for three months. She'll contact you. She's a writer and her name is Elizabeth Gilbert.' Luca did not have high hopes for this bookish tourist but he need ...Show more
Best Women's Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World: v. 9 by Lavinia Spalding
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Women have been writing about the world for generations but until 2005 never had a book been published that celebrated the best women's travel writing. This is the ninth volume in the series that was long-awaited by readers of women's travel literature. Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's ...Show more
A Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he m ...Show more
The Virago Book of Women Travellers by Mary Morris
$26.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured here as women travel for peril or pleasure, whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French countryside, to challenge the fierce Sahara or climb an impossible mountain.
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
The kind of tour guide you really want - a unique and ecclectic view of Paris through the eyes of a fierce and witty intellect.