Tokyo Local: Cult recipes from the streets that make the city by Caryn Liew; Brendan Liew
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Local Ser.
This gorgeous cookbook captures the vibrant heartbeat of a city obsessed with food.It's the chicken-skin yakitori you eat at 2 a.m. in a bar the size of a cupboard. It's the pork curry you devour after having to line up for 45 minutes with a bunch of excited teenagers. It's the yuzu ramen you slurp afte ...Show more
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
$26.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Rory Stewart's moving account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 was immediately hailed as a classic. Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirely on foot and following the ina ...Show more
Parisian Days by Banine; Anne Thompson-Ahmadova (Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
"Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten." -- Evening Standard A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle to realize her dreams of "freedom and fantasy" in 1920s Paris, appearing in ...Show more
In Italy Venice, Rome and Beyond by Cynthia Zarin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel
From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on four Italian spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ – a traveller moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied, sometimes solo. With her we see anew the Venice Bienna ...Show more
Old Glory - A Voyage down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the asto ...Show more
The Hard Way Around - The Passages of Joshua Slocum by Geoffrey Wolff
$27.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon ...Show more
Coming into the Country: Travels in Alaska by John McPhee
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Plunge into the wild climate of unknown Alaska in this riveting travel account.
Hungary - A Short History by Norman Stone
$27.00 AUD
Category: Travel
The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the ninet ...Show more
Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
$31.00 AUD
Category: Travel
In this dazzling debut, Polly Barton reflects on her experience of moving to the Japanese island of Sado at the age of twenty-one and on her journey to becoming a literary translator. Written in fifty semi-discrete entries, Fifty Sounds is a personal dictionary of the Japanese language that draws togeth ...Show more
The Turkish Embassy Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel
In 1716 Mary Montagu traveled across Europe to take up residence in Istanbul as the wife of the British ambassador. Her letters remain as fresh as the day they were penned: enchanted by her discoveries of the life of Turkish women behind the veil, by Arabic poetry and by contemporary medical practices - ...Show more
Wheels Within Wheels by Dervla Murphy
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel
A first-hand account of the life of travel writer Dervla Murphy in which she tells of her early life in Lismore, Co. Waterford, in her rather unusual household. Her father was the county librarian and her mother a chronic invalid. An only child, Dervla was allowed from the age of seven to freely roam on ...Show more
Borderlines - A Journey in Thailand and Burma by Charles Nicholl
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Eland Classics Ser.
In 1986, Charles Nicholl travels through Thailand to learn about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism in the north of the country. But interesting things have a habit of getting in the way. When Nicholl meets Harry, an old French Indochina hand, on the night train north with his tales of Kachin j ...Show more