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
Force of Nature: Racing around the world - a true story of courage and adventure by Robin Knox-Johnston
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
In January 1969, aboard his home-built wooden boat Suhaili, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston became the first person ever to sail solo, non-stop around the world. 25 years later, Sir Robin again completed a record-breaking circumnavigation, co-skippering Enza with Kiwi yachting legend Sir Peter Blake. His place ...Show more
Into the Wild (FS) by Jon Krakauer
$21.99 AUD
Category: Travel
By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limi ...Show more
Do Travel Writers Go To Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Hired to contribute to Lonely Planet's Brazil guidebook, Kohnstamm fled his Wall Street job to pursue his dream of being a travel writer. This book is the story of the adventure that followed. He goes beyond the narrow slice of experience squeezed into the guidebook format and for the first time offers ...Show more
Elvis is Titanic by Ian Klaus
$26.95 AUD
Category: Travel
In the spring of 2005, Ian Klaus, a twenty-six-year-old Rhodes Scholar, traveled eight hours from Turkey, via broken-down taxi and armed convoy, to reach Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan. Elvis Is Titanic is the poignant, funny, and eye-opening story of the semester he ...Show more