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China, Portrait of a Country

China, Portrait of a Country

$90.00 AUD$40.00 AUD
This book brings together a vast selection of images by Chinese photographers since 1949, giving readers a visual journey across the great People's Republic; edited by esteemed photojournalist Liu Heung...
The Duchess of Windsor: Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson

The Duchess of Windsor: Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson

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In 1936, King Edward VIII renounced the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American divorcee. From her birth in Pennsylvania to her lonely end in Paris, this book traces...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War

The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War

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The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most visible, infamous manifestation. Since the Cold War ended and these borders came...
A Celebration of Olives

A Celebration of Olives

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THE OLIVE FARM and THE OLIVE SEASON are television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical accounts of a new life in France; about her house Appassionata and the trials and tribulations of...
Walking to Jerusalem: Blisters, hope and other facts on the ground

Walking to Jerusalem: Blisters, hope and other facts on the ground

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2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee

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'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles 'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition...
Crocodile Safari Man

Crocodile Safari Man

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Recounts Keith Adams' Tasmanian childhood in the Great Depression and fifty years of extraordinary desert and crocodile safaris in an old Buick to the Gulf of Carpentaria and Borroloola.
Gone Away: A John Murray Journey

Gone Away: A John Murray Journey

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Introduced by Jeet Thayli, author of Booker Prize shortlisted novel Narcopolis. At the age of 20, Dom Moraes - already a celebrated poet who would go on to be regarded...
Gone Away: A John Murray Journey

Gone Away: A John Murray Journey

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Introduced by Jeet Thayli, author of Booker Prize shortlisted novel Narcopolis. At the age of 20, Dom Moraes - already a celebrated poet who would go on to be regarded...
Twelve Cities: A Personal Memoir

Twelve Cities: A Personal Memoir

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Roy Jenkins follows up Churchill with a book of a very different shape; short and semi-autobiographical, but also full of the wit and erudition which make that book such a...
Soho in the 1950s and 1960s

Soho in the 1950s and 1960s

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The National Portrait Gallery's "Character Sketches" series provides biographical sketches of a specific group of historical figures from the Gallery's collection of portraits. Each volume examines the public images and...
Mediterranea: Life-perfected Recipes from Grandmothers of the

Mediterranea: Life-perfected Recipes from Grandmothers of the

$55.00 AUD$46.75 AUD
Mediterranea is a delicious deep-dive into the kitchens of the Med's most qualified cooks: its grandmothers. A colourful, sensory journey through the coastal region, this book is a celebration of...
In Europe's Shadow

In Europe's Shadow

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Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. What ensued was a lifelong fascination with a...
Orientalist, the (Exp)

Orientalist, the (Exp)

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An extraordinary and hugely topical story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world. he Orientalist is the extraordinary story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world...
The Olive Tree of Provence

The Olive Tree of Provence

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THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that...
American Voyage

American Voyage

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Beautiful portrait of America in the 1960s, rediscovered after 50 years. In 1966, Mario Carnicelli won first place in an Italian national photography competition sponsored by Popular Photography magazine and...
Faraway Nearby: Photographs From The New York Times

Faraway Nearby: Photographs From The New York Times

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On the occasion of Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017, The Faraway Nearby presents a century of Canadian history through photographs. The book will take readers on a visual journey through...
Right To The Edge: Sydney To Tokyo By Any Means: The Road to the End

Right To The Edge: Sydney To Tokyo By Any Means: The Road to the End

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Charley Boorman is back in the saddle for a brand-new, adrenaline-fuelled adventure! He begins his journey racing north from Sydney up the Gold Coast, where he hitches a ride in...
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

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New to PMC for this reissue in Modern Classics, with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail...
Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania

Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania

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An immersive journey through the tumultuous past and fascinating present of Australia's nearest neighbours "We are the original people of the region ... This is a black region, it's not...
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan

The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan

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A classic of modern travel writing- the story of one man's epic trek across Japan, from north to south One sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set...
Erebus: The Story of a Ship

Erebus: The Story of a Ship

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Michael Palin brings to life one of the greatest adventures of all time _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror...
Survivors in Mexico

Survivors in Mexico

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West's narrative takes on all of Mexican history, from the conquest by Spain and the Mexican Revolution, to the muralist movement, and explores the inner lives of such figures as...
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

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No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global events.Today, there are more borders...
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global events.Today, there are more borders...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

$45.00 AUD$22.50 AUD
Author: Timothy PhillipsFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 695g, 480 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2022The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

$22.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in...