Wild Swimming: Sydney Australia by Sally Tertini, Steve Pollard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Stories | Series: Wild Swimming Ser.
Dip in to the dazzling array of wild swimming spots in and around Sydney. Inside you'll find details of over 250 amazing places to swim within a three-hour drive of the city. Every rock pool and tidal bath from Jervis Bay to Newcastle has been reviewed, as well as dozens more beaches, rivers, lakes and ...Show more
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Stories
This title comes with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane. Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises. A hostile landscape of ice, freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes. Home to millions of diverse animals and people. The stage to massive migrations by l ...Show more
Venice: Recipes Lost and Found by Katie Caldesi
$45.00 AUD
Category: Cooking Food and Wine
There's an old Venetian saying - magna e bevi che a vita xe un lampo - 'Eat and drink because life is a lightning flash'. With this in mind, Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi have dodged the tourists and unearthed some of the most delicious and authentic recipes that the romantic, alluring city of Venice has ...Show more
Saint-Germain-Des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter by John Baxter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Stories | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods | Reading Level: General Adult
From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative "biographies" of Paris's great neighborhoods, beginning with Saint-Germain-des-Pres-the city's "rebel quarter," for centuries a center of artistic, intellectual, and revolutio ...Show more
When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'We spoke to each other in endearments. My darling, my love, mon amour, ma cherie, poussin, mouton, bebe ...People we knew, I think, made fun of us. What they didn't know was that we couldn't say each other's names.' After a lifetime spent living firmly in English, Lauren Collins finds herself adrift in ...Show more
The Alps - A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond by Stephen O'Shea
$38.95 AUD
Category: Travel Stories | Reading Level: very good
The Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers-and some 14 million people live among their peaks today. In The Alps, Stephen O'Shea takes readers up and down these majestic mountains, journeying through their 500-mile arc ...Show more
Eastern Horizons: Hitchhiking the Silk Road by Levison Wood
$23.99 AUD
Category: Travel Stories
BY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS, WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Download Levison Wood's Silk Road odyssey, Eastern Horizons, onto your splash-proof kindle. Then read on a sun-lounger, between dozes, wishing you were doing those terribly adventurous th ...Show more
Back Roads by Heather Ewart; Karen Michelmore (As told to)
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
A road trip around Australia, discovering towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside big Australian cities - and indeed off the beaten track altogether. Defi ...Show more
Paris and Other Disappointments by Adam Rozenbachs
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Sick of going overseas and enjoying himself, comedian Adam Rozenbachs decided he should take his father on the trip of a lifetime to Europe. For his dad, it was a chance to return to the place he hasn't seen fleeing post-war Germany as an immigrant. For Adam, it was a chance to repay his dad for everyth ...Show more
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Stories
**A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021**Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. ...Show more
Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals by Satyajit Das
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Stories
An interrogation of ecotourism, a celebration of animals and an impassioned call for the need to protect our natural world Thirty years ago, two trips to iconic destinations, Africa and the Antarctic, profoundly changed Satyajit Das’s life. Ecotourism — watching wildlife in nature — became his gravitati ...Show more
Hippie by Paulo Coelho
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Stories
A journey to the past. A map for the future.Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, bestselling author Paulo Coelho relives the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and challenged the established social order.In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a skinny Brazilian with a goatee, learn ...Show more