When We're Not Afraid: My 12,000 Km Bike-Packing Ride Through South America by Leonie Katekar, Gregory Hill
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
What would you do if you were not afraid?During a difficult time in what had already been a difficult life, Leonie Katekar decided to plunge herself into the unknown, embarking on a 12,0000-kilometre solo bike-packing expedition. When We're Not Afraid is her story of facing her fears and daring to leave ...Show more
Trieste by Jan Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Jan Morris has crafted a meditation on a most unusual city. James (as she was then) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of World War II. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Paperback (B-Format)
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
This is a portrait of Italy unlike any other, a heady blend of travel, history, art and food that takes us from Lake Garda's lemon houses through the gardens of Tuscan villas to Calabria's scented bergamot groves and a Sicilian marmalade kitchen, from top to bottom of the land where lemons grow. 'Unmiss ...Show more
The Cow Book: A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm by John Connell
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
The intimate account of a year on an Irish farm - and a keyhole history of man's relationship with the cow. Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the w ...Show more
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania's utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter - a ...Show more
Notes from A Small Island by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
"In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literar ...Show more
A Paris Year by Janice MacLeod
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman's French sojourn in the world's most beautiful city. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris Letters, began a journa ...Show more
Marco Polo: A Photographer's Journey by Michael Yamashita
$44.99 AUD
Category: General
Armchair travellers and history and photography buffs will thrill to this trimmer, more affordable edition of the 2002 bestseller. "National Geographic" shooter Michael Yamashita traces the footsteps of Marco Polo's fabled journey, from the Grand Canal in Venice through the mountains and deserts of Iraq ...Show more
The Riads of Marrakech by Elan Fleisher
$79.99 AUD
Category: General
Today's Marrakech is a thriving and trendy destination. Tourists are pouring into the city - Europeans, Americans and Australians thirsting for an exotic getaway. Five-star hotels (Raffles, Mandarin Oriental, Four Seasons) are currently under development in the sands around the city. The Medina, the cen ...Show more
One Man's Climb - A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2 by Adrian HAYES
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
He was also one of the last people to speak to highly renowned mountaineering guide Marty Schmidt, and his son Denali, who tragically died on K2 in 2013 during Adrian's first attempt. Adrian was the one to break the news of this tragedy to the outside world. The author frankly discusses the true reason ...Show more
Australia's Best 100 Bike Rides by Australian Geographic
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
There are so many incredible bike rides in Australia, but do you know them all?