The Architecture Lover's Guide to Rome by Elizabeth F. Heath
$39.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: City Guides
Rome's architectural remains date as far back as the city's founding in the 8th century BCE. The primitive settlement that began on the Palatine Hill grew over the next thousand years to the caput mundi--the capital of the world--the largest, most powerful presence in the ancient Western world. Along th ...Show more
BRENDAN VOYAGE by SEVERIN T
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Modern Library Exploration Ser.
Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built ...Show more
West with the Light by Brian Jackman
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
'Don't send him to Torremolinos; it's not his kind of tundra.' Such was the mantra of The Sunday Times when considering assignments for Brian Jackman, for whom deserts, rain forests and mountain ranges have always been more enticing habitats.After decades spent travelling and writing about the places an ...Show more
Mischief in Patagonia: An intolerable Deal of Sea, One Halfpennyworth of Mountain by H. W. TILMAN
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
THE BOOK ' So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives' heads steam when they eat marmalade.' So responded H. W. 'Bill' Tilman to his own realisation that the ...Show more
Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The classic account of a woman's extraordinary journey to Tibet in the 1920s.
The Sea and The Snow: How We Reached and Climbed a Volcano at the Ends of the Earth by PHILIP TEMPLE
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
HEARD ISLAND, an improbably remote speck in the far Southern Ocean, lies four thousand kilometres to the south-west of Australia - with Antarctica its nearest continent. By 1964 it had been the object of a number of expeditions, but none reaching the summit of its 9000-foot volcanic peak "Big Ben'. In t ...Show more
Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
$18.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
"We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world-all, too, travellers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879)Travels with a Do ...Show more
The Best Place to be Today: 365 Things to Do & the Perfect Place to Do Them by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; Sarah Baxter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Lonely Planet | Series: General Reference Ser.
Find the best thing to do every day of the year, from one-day events like India's Holi festival or the cheese-rolling race at Cooper's Hill in England, to seasonal events like Alaska's caribou migration and weather-dependent adventures like completing the Tour de Mont Blanc. This vibrant, practical and ...Show more
The Kindness of Strangers by Don George
$24.95 AUD
Category: Lonely Planet | Series: Lonely Planet Anthology
A collection of original stories by acclaimed writers, including Jan Morris, Tim Cahill, Simon Winchester, Dave Eggers and Anthony Sattin, exploring the theme of finding good fortune on the road. With a preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
India's Disappearing Railways by Angus McDonald
$59.95 AUD
Category: General
INDIA'S DISAPPEARING RAILWAYS is a vibrant photo-essay by Australian photographer Angus McDonald, capturing for the first time in print the sub-continent's unique narrow-gauge hill railways in all their vivid colour, character and chaos. It is an intimate and humorous portrait of life on the trains, evo ...Show more
Explore Australia: 2015 by Explore Australia
$59.95 AUD
Category: General
TRAVEL & HOLIDAY GUIDES. AUSTRALIAN. Packed with information for over 700 towns, as well as detailed capital city sections, Explore Australia 2015 shares information on all the places you've heard so much about, alongside many new destinations to discover for yourself. As well as helping you to plan ...Show more
1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die by Barry Stone
$49.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: 1001
The ever-increasing passion for recreational walking is given fresh impetus with the creation of each new national park and wilderness area, the construction of every new walkway, and the clearing of another fresh, never-before-trodden trail. The exponential growth of pathways and woodland walks, the ut ...Show more