How to Be Italian: Eat, drink, dress, travel and love la dolce vita by Maria Pasquale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: How to Be... Ser.
What does it mean to be Italian?Is it pausing to enjoy an aperitivo or gelato? A passeggiata down a laneway steeped in history? An August spent tanning at the beach?This book is a celebration of the Italian lifestyle - an education in drinking to savour the moment, travelling indulgently, and cherishing ...Show more
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most ...Show more
Louis Vuitton: Extraordinary Voyages by Francisca Mattéoli
$110.00 AUD
Category: Travel Pictorial
The mid-19th and early 20th centuries heralded new means of transport and equipment and, with them, new and original ways of exploring the world. Transatlantic liners, automobiles, long-haul airplanes, zeppelins, and express trains unfurled new horizons and changed travel itself into an adventure. Dista ...Show more
In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City by John Kampfner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obses ...Show more
Egyptian Mythology - A Traveler's Guide from Aswan to Alexandria by Garry J. Shaw
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Garry J. Shaw guides us on an entertaining and inventive tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris and their enemies and allies, stories of vengeance, tragedy and fantastic metamorphoses. This traveller's guide to ...Show more
Hidden Japan: An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests by Alex Kerr
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
"A sharp-tongued spokesman for Japan's environment and traditions" --The New York TimesIn Alex Kerr's critically acclaimed Lost Japan and Dogs and Demons, he documented the decline of the traditional landscapes of Japan, his adopted home of many years. Here, in Hidden Jappan he makes a journey of redisc ...Show more
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A. J. Mackinnon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand - a year later I had reached Romania and was still going . . . ' Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an am ...Show more
One Year on a Bike: From Amsterdam to Singapore by Martijn Doolaard (Editor); Gestalten (Editor)
$95.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
The title says it all: one man, one bike, one long ride, the adventure, the pleasure, and the pain. It is simultaneouslya travelogue and visual journey. Martijn Doolaard traded the convenience of a car and the distractions of daily life for a cross-continental cycling journey: a biped adventure that wou ...Show more
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations by Pico Iyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness--one of our most engaging and discerning travel writers--a unique, indispensable guide to the enigma of contemporary Japan. After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer can use everything from anime to Oscar Wilde to show how his adopted home is both haunt ...Show more
Lost Japan by Alex Kerr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
This is an enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his i ...Show more
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
An unsparing memoir of the city in the 21st century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as ...Show more
Hidden Valley - Finding Freedom in Spain's Deep Country by Paul Richardson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'A beguiling book about a lifestyle that many of us dream about' Daily MailPaul Richardson fled the city to live on the land in a rough-and-tumble village on the edge of Europe. Immersing himself in the culture of his remote Spanish community, he learned the traditional arts of animal husbandry and vege ...Show more