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
Tasting Italy: A Culinary Journey by Alice Vollenweider
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Armchair Traveller
Since 1533, when Catherine de Medici was accompanied by numerous cooks when she travelled to France to marry King Henri I, Italian cuisine has been considered the mother of all European fine cooking. Alice Vollenweider wrote her doctoral thesis on the influence of Italian cooking as reflected in languag ...Show more
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers by Lonely Planet: various
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre. Exhilaratingly varied in place, plot, and vo ...Show more
Moron to Moron : Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure by Tom Doig
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In July 2010, Tom Doig and his best mate Tama Pugsley cycled 1487 kilometres across northern Mongolia from a small town called Moron to a smaller town also called Moron. Why? Because it was there. Armed with spandex unitards, Chinese steel-frame mountain bikes, unidentifiable meat product and a woefully ...Show more
Between the Woods and the Water by FERMOR Patrick
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in "A Time of Gifts" The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933--to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day--proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed int ...Show more
Berlin Now - The City After the Wall by Peter Schneider
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city. Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe's most vibran ...Show more
The Last Resort : A Zimbabwe Memoir by Douglas Rogers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In The Last Resort, journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing and, at times, surprisingly funny story of his parents' struggle for survival in war-torn Zimbabwe.
Granada: The Light of Andalucia by Steven Nightingale
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Yearning for a change, Steven Nightingale took his family to live in the ancient Andalucian city of Granada. But as he journeyed through its hidden courtyards, scented gardens and sun-warmed plazas, Steven discovered that Granada's present cannot be separated from its past, and began an eight-year quest ...Show more
Atlas of Cursed Places - A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations by Olivier Le Carrer
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This alluring read includes 40 locations that are rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity, and death. The locations gathered here include the dangerous Strait of Messina, home of the mythical sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis; the coal town of Jharia, where the ground burns constantly with fire; ...Show more
Silly Isles by Eric Campbell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the bestselling author of Absurdistan, a hilarious tour through small but very strange places. No man is an island. But lots of strange men live on them. In the Kurils, off northern Japan, World War II is still being fought between Japan and Russia, both hell-bent on claiming this tiny island group ...Show more
How to Be a Travel Writer 4 by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; Don George
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
Bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide, fully revised and updated in this new edition, is a must for anyone who yearns to write about travel - whether they aspire to make their living from it or simply enjoy jotting in a journal for posterity. You don't have to make money t ...Show more
Twilight of Love by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Travel Writing
For forty years, until the day he died, Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest novelists of Russia’s Golden Age, was passionately devoted to the diva Pauline Viardot. He followed her and her husband around Europe, even living with them amicably at times as part of their household. Yet as far as we know, the ...Show more