The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archite ...Show more
Ultimate Walks & Hikes: Australia by Laura Waters
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Ultimate Ser.
Ultimate Walks & Hikes: Australia is your inspirational and practical guide to 40 of the best walking tracks across Australia. Author Laura Waters has hiked thousands of kilometres to put together her ultimate list of walking tracks in all states and territories. Whether you're looking for a bite of ...Show more
Paris: a Literary Anthology (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Zachary Seager
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Take a literary stroll through the streets of Paris, visit its world-famous monuments, delve into its history and wander amongst its poets and artists. Countless author and poets have found home on the streets of Paris. In Paris: A Literary Anthology, author and academic Zachary Seager compiles beaut ...Show more
Running with Pirates by Kári Gíslason
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
At the age of eighteen, Kari Gislason arrives on the island of Corfu after a life-altering meeting with his father in Iceland. Looking for adventure, he decides to stay after meeting 'the Pirate', a mysterious Greek stranger who offers him work - only to find himself eventually fleeing the island, leavi ...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
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
A Year in Provence: Popular Penguins by Peter Mayle
$14.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence is the much-loved account of an English couple living their dream abroad. When they buy a 200-year-old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them - from six-course lunches and epic games of boule, to encounters w ...Show more
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow: The Bestselling Travel Memoir - Sailing from North Wales to the Black Sea in a Mirror Dinghy by A.J. Mackinnon
$24.99 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
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