The Emperor Far Away - Travels at the Edge of China by David Eimer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Emperor far away', meaning Beijing's grip on power is tenuou ...Show more
Better Than Fiction 2: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers by Lonely Planet
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
Lonely Planet's Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012's Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world's best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley, Alexander McCall Smith, Karen Joy Fowler and New Zealand authors Lloyd Jones and Fiona Kidma ...Show more
Here and There by A.A. Gill
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From acclaimed writer AA Gill comes this collection of travel pieces selected from his monthly column in Australian Gourmet Traveller - 'AA Gill is away'. Witty, acerbic and often moving, these pieces are far from standard travel writing fare. Touching on tourism, airports, world cuisine and countries i ...Show more
The Voices Of Marrakesh: A Record Of A Visit by Elias Canetti
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In "The Voices of Marrakesh", he captures the essence of that place: the crowds, the smells - of spices, camels and the souks - and, most importantly to Canetti ...Show more
Billy Connolly's Tracks Across America by Billy Connolly; Matt Whyman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
In 2011, we published Billy Connolly's Route 66 - the story of the legendary Scottish comedian's journey along the most famous road in America. The book (which tied-in to an ITV series), performed really well - clearly, armchair travelling with Billy Connolly as your guide is an appealing prospect to ma ...Show more
Gringo Trail: A Darkly Comic Road Trip Through South America by Mark Mann
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
'...there I was in the middle of Bogota, coked up to my eyeballs, in a hallway holding two machetes, while some drunk Colombians argued about whether or not to blow up a bar with a live hand grenade...' Asia has the hippie trail. South America has the gringo trail. Mark Mann and his girlfriend Melissa s ...Show more
Food Trails 1 - Lonely Planet by Lonely Planet Food Staff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: 52 Perfect Weekends Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher For everyone who loves travel and trying the local delicacies, this beautifully illustrated hardback is the must-have handbook to a year's worth of perfect weekends around the world for food lovers. Featured trails include the an homage to Bueno ...Show more
Better than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction by Alexander McCall Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
"...a brilliant collection of travel stories...threaded with great warmth, as readers are invited to travel in the company of these famous authors and experience their passions and revelations." BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHER We asked some of the world's most acclaimed fiction authors, including Isabel Allende, ...Show more
Beyond the Map - Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias by Alastair Bonnett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
New islands are under construction or emerging because of climate change. Eccentric enclaves and fantastic utopian experiments are multiplying. Once-secret fantasy gardens are cracking open their doors to outsiders. Our world is becoming stranger by the day--and Alastair Bonnett observes and captures ev ...Show more
North Korea Journal by Michael Palin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: travel writing bio | Reading Level: very good
A glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, as told by Britain's best-loved travel writer. In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without interne ...Show more
Go Here Instead: The Alternative Travel List by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Ready to escape the crowds? This bucket list of amazing places off the tourist trail will have you itching for your next adventure.Bursting with beautiful photography, this alternative bucket list takes some of the world's best-known sights, experiences and destinations - everything from over-visited na ...Show more
Only Two Seats Left : The Incredible Contiki Story by John Anderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
In 1962 a young New Zealander left home for a one year trip to Europe. He returned some 20 years later with a wife, four children and the internationally renowned tour company - Contiki Holidays.Written by the founder of Contiki, Only Two Seats Left is the incredible story of how a simple idea with a ...Show more