Meeting the Medicine Men : An Englishman's travels among the Navajo by Charles Langley
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel
'I thoroughly endorse this book and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did' - From the foreword by Emerson Jackson Sr, Navajo Elder Navajo Indian Nation, Window Rock, Arizona. A chance meeting with a young Navajo Indian propels an English traveller out of his middle-class life and into the world o ...Show more
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Unbelievable but true account of the legendary Ernest Shackleton's epic Antarctic survival adventure.
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Voyages Promotion Ser.
Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of t ...Show more
NEW UNDER THE SUN by FAGENBLAT MICHAEL & LANDAU MELANIE ET. AL.
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands by Christina Lamb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
An extraordinary collection of reportage that tells the story of some of the most important world events of the past 16 years, from one of the most talented and intrepid female journalists at work today.Since leaving England aged 21 with an invitation to a Karachi wedding and a yearning for adventure, C ...Show more
Inhaling the Mahatma by Christopher Kremmer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
'When a Gandhi dies, nobody is safe.' An assassination and a romance. A hijacking, several nuclear explosions and a religious experience ...just some of the ingredients in the latest tour de force from the bestselling author of The Carpet Wars. In the searing summer of 2004, Christopher Kremmer returns ...Show more
The Carpet Wars by Christopher Kremmer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
This tells of foreign correspondent Christopher Kremmer's, fascinating and timely account of over a decade spent living, travelling, and reporting from Asia, and the Middle East. During this time he formed an obsession with carpets and the 'perfect rug' - an obsession that saw him trace the threads of c ...Show more
Inhaling the Mahatma by Christopher Kremmer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good-very good
In the searing summer of 2004, Christopher Kremmer returns to India, a country in the grip of enormous and sometimes violent change. As a young reporter in the 1990s, he first encountered this ancient and complex civilisation. Now, embarking on a yatra, or pilgrimage, he travels the dangerous frontier w ...Show more
Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jet ...Show more
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel
The story of Chris McCandless, a young man who embarked on a solo journey into the wilds of Alaska and whose body was discovered four months later, explores the allure of the wilderness.
The Carpet Wars : A Journey Across the Islamic Heartlands by Christopher Kremmer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In 1990, Christopher Kremmer arrived in Afghanistan to interview the doomed communist president, Dr Najibullah as rampaging factions of mujahideen massed on the outskirts of Kabul. He found himself intrigued by the politics and culture of the land, and his book provides revealing, often first-hand portr ...Show more