The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in Eastern India: Bihar and Orissa by Norman Lewis
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Category: Travel Writing
Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar - the scene of a brutal caste war between the untouchables and higher-caste ...Show more
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast by Dorthe Nors
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Category: Travel Writing
Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct.
Glowing Still: A woman's life on the road by Sara Wheeler
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Category: Travel Writing
Sara Wheeler is Britain’s foremost woman travel writer. Glowing still is the story of her travelling life - what is ‘important, revealing or funny’ - in a notoriously testosterone-laden field. Growing up among blue-collar Conservatives in Bristol where ‘we didn’t know anyone who wasn’t like us’, Wheeler ...Show more
A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World by González Macías
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Category: Travel Writing
There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. They have been the homes and workplaces of men and women whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas. Yet while that way of life fades away, as the lights go out and the buildings crumble, we s ...Show more
In the Spell of the Barkley - Unravelling the Mystery of the World's Toughest Ultramarathon by Michiel Panhuysen
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Category: Travel Writing
'A wonderful, compelling read' - Vassos Alexander, radio presenter and ultrarunner Welcome to the Barkley Marathons, a fever dream of an ultra running event, inspired by a prison break, heralded by a conch blast and paid for in cigarettes and socks. Since the race began in 1986, just 15 people have suc ...Show more
Days in the Caucasus by Banine (tr. Anne Thompson-Ahmadova)
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Category: Travel Writing
A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman’s determined struggle for freedom We all know families that are poor but ‘respectable’. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not ‘respectable’ at all… This is the extraordinary memoir of an ‘odd, rich, exotic’ childhood – of growing ...Show more
History of the Caucasus - Volume 2: in the Shadow of Great Powers by Christoph Baumer
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Category: Travel Writing
In the Shadow of Great Powers is the second volume of Christoph Baumer's History of the Caucasus. It covers the period from the Seljuk domination of the Southern Caucasus around 1050 CE to the present day. After the Kingdom of Georgia's golden age of independent power and cultural blossoming in the 12th ...Show more
Imagine a City - A Pilot's Love Letter to the World's Greatest Cities by Mark Vanhoenacker
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Category: Travel Writing
A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTONGrowing up in ...Show more
Hidden Japan: An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests by Alex Kerr
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Category: Travel Writing
"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
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
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Category: Travel Writing
This is Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Acclaimed and beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to his own country - America - for the first time in Deep South. For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islan ...Show more
Artist Quarter Modigliani, Montmartre and Montparnasse by Charles Douglas
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Category: Travel Writing
What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their heyday, roughly between 1904, when the youthful Picasso had just arrived on the Hill of Martyrs, and 1920, when Amedeo Modigliani, justly called "the prince of Bohemians," died of consumption and dissipation in Montparnasse? This book, written b ...Show more