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See How We Run
This is a book that infuses the zest of jogging into the adventure of travel. A wonderful world full of vitality emerges in Terry Henderson's account of his jogging journeys...
Bergerac's Jersey
As Sergeant Jim Bergerac on BBC TV, John Nettles has helped to make the island of Jersey familiar to over 14 million viewers. Here he offers a personal view of...
Eat the Rich
$12.00 AUD
In P.J. O'Rourke's classic best-seller, "Parliament of Whores," he attempted to explain the entire United States government. Now, in his most ambitious book since, he takes on an even broader...
The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places
The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going. Enter the world...
Into The Never-Never: Travels in Australia
A witty, affectionate and beautifully written account of Johnston's travels in 1990s Australia. After a long sojourn in China, Brian Johnston arrived in Cairns to join his sister on a...
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon
An account of Redmond O'Hanlon's four-month trip up the Orinico river and across the Amazon Basin. It includes details of the natural hazards which he encountered, some of which were...
The Spirit-Wrestlers
The new book from the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House. In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born....
Travels With My Trombone
From the siesta to fiesta, the lifeblood of the Caribbean is in the rhythms of the salsa, calypso and zouk. The author of this book left London for Trinidad seeking...
The Gastronomical Me
Beginning with her first food memory - the greyish-pink fuzz of her grandmother's strawberry jam - M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a voyage of gastronomical discovery, from her childhood in...
Rats, Rust and Two Old Ladies
Delivering two 38-year-old Mississippi river tugboats halfway around the world from Bahrain to Trinidad would not be every ship master's dream employment. However, for Captain David Creamer, the seven-week voyage...
The Many- Coloured Land
When Christopher Koch sets out on a journey through Ireland with his friend the folksinger Brian Mooney, each is seeking an aspect of the past. Mooney is returning to a...
Gorillas, Tea and Coffee
Kate Llewellyn is the author of 20 books. These comprise eight of poetry, four of travel and the others are memoir, nature writing and essays. Her book The Waterlily; A...
Let's Get Lost
He has walked along the Great Wall in China, communed with a sign-language-speaking orang-utan in Borneo and taken psychoactive pharmaceuticals with a witch doctor in the depths of the Amazon...
The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology: True stories from the world's best
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher A collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania,...
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland
The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle - a rare gem of travel writing which has inspired a...
Gone Bush
The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond...
Between Extremes
A moving and funny testament to a friendship born out of adversity. In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next...
Strange Country: Travels in a Very Different Australia
As anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in Good Weekend knows, he's an immensely funny, acute and vivid observer of Australian life. In Strange Country, he takes...
The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
From Ice Cube to You Tube via 'Singlish' and Bouncebackability - Mark Abley travels the globe to report on the dynamic new forces shaping the future of the English language...
The Penguin Lessons
Now a major film, this is the true story of an unlikely friendship between a flightless bird and a teacher out of his depth. . . When schoolteacher Tom Michell...
Can You Make This Thing Go Faster?
The eighth volume of Jeremy Clarkson's bestselling The World According to Clarkson series These days, you might know him better as a tractor-driving Gentleman Farmer, but Jeremy Clarkson wasn't always...
My Family and Other Animals
The bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood in Corfu by British conservationist Gerald Durrell Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian
'The next Bill Bryson.' New York Times Winner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers The Danes are the happiest people in the...
Facing East - Photos from the Heart
The book titled Facing East - Photos from the Heart by the author Roger Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Islands in the Sky: Scenes from the Colorado Plateau
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Magnificent collection of photographs which celebrate the beauty of majestic landscapes. Includes a descriptive and helpful introduction with evocative poetic texts.
The World's Heritage: The definitive guide to all World Heritage sites
Bestselling guide to all UNESCO World Heritage sites Fully updated to include the latest sites added to the World Heritage List. The List is managed by the World Heritage Committee...
All at Sea: Another Side of Paradise
"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy of his commitment to discover, observe and communicate makes for engrossing, often incandescent prose. We need writers...
A Girl's Own Adventure
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In a not quite mid-life crisis, Jacquie and Sarah - fancying themselves a bit rugged - head off to Africa in search of the deepest, darkest bits they'd seen on...
This is Australia
Author: Bruce Elder Australia is both the world's largest island and its smallest continent. In this superb portrait of Australia's many natural wonders and its people, you can witness...
Almost French: A New Life in Paris
Number 1 on the Bestseller list (Australia) with over 20,000 copies sold in the UK alone and over 250,000 world-wide! Almost French has been a huge success and now with...
A Bend in the Yellow River
Justin Hill was only twenty-one when he arrived starry-eyed in Yuncheng, central China, a small town hidden among the plains of dusty Shanxi province. He was greeted by a place...
Slowly Down the Ganges
The story of the 1,200 mile journey made by Eric Newby and his wife down the holy river of India, travelling in a variety of boats, and sometimes by rail,...
Old New World
In this text, Lucinda Lambton sets out to show that it is in America rather than in Britain that she finds a sense of living history, where the culture and...
Cubebook: the Earth
A volume of photographs dedicated to the Earth with a particular regard for its most spectacular and beautiful landscapes, and for the relationship man has created with it. The 15...
Dorset Privies
$10.00 AUD
This book presents a light-hearted look at Dorset's loos of yesteryear with local anecdotes and photographs of those buildings still standing. It is fully illustrated.
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized national leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual...
In the Land of Oz
_______________ 'A wildly funny account of his travels ... it actually is a book which makes you laugh out loud on almost every page' - Literary Review 'The most successful...
One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with
A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an...