Sicilian Summer: A Story of Honour, Religion and the Perfect Cassata by Brian Johnston
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Family honour, religion, tragedy, sex, mayhem and most of all food - this memoir of a Sicilian summer is full of eccentric personalities, family clashes and revelations that are at once amusing and sad - and never short of surprises. 'I came to Sicily an idle bystander and found myself bewitched by ...Show more
French Phrasebook 3rd - OUT OF PRINT by Michael Janes
$14.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Phrasebook
Women of the Gobi by Kate James
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Young Australian writer Kate James, armed with a copy of Monkey, a Mandarin phrasebook and a craving for skewered lamb, travels across the deserts of north-west China in search of three early-20th century Christian missionary women and their Mongolian adopted daughter.
Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Have tea with the Dalai Lama, meditate with Leonard Cohen and travel from Cambodia to Ethiopia all within the pages of this book.Pico Iyer - one of our most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers - invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, from L.A. and Yemen to Haiti ...Show more
The Lady and The Monk : Four Seasons in Kyoto by Iyer Pico
$32.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Monks who cherish Mickey Mouse and collect motorbikes, hardened businessmen who read love poetry and geishas who visit temples...Such was the paradoxical world that Pico Iyer was confronted with when he spent a year in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto. On a mission to learn the subtleties of Zen an ...Show more
New York's 50 Best Places to Find Peace and Quiet by Allan Ishac
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: New York's 50 Best Places to Find Peace & Quiet
The #1 bestselling title in City & Company history with 40,000 copies sold! Beyond the surface noise and chaos is a quiet New York of tranquility and blessed silence. NEW YORK'S 50 BEST PLACES TO FIND PEACE AND QUIET, takes the reader to 50 oases of serenity around the city--from gardens to spas, me ...Show more
In Search Of The Craic by Irwin, Colin
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel
There's nothing quite like hearing Irish music in Ireland. Not on big concert halls or grand arenas, but in the small pubs in remote areas where the locals habitually gravitate for those informal sessions that invariably develop into a serious social occasion universally known as the craic. For those wh ...Show more
From Rice to Riches by Jane Hutcheon
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Jane Hutcheon's connection to China goes back more than one hundred and fifty years, when her great-great-grand-uncle Phineas, a Scottish tea merchant, was drawn to its shores. When Jane became the ABC's China correspondent in 1995, she began her own journey through an ancient and intriguing culture tha ...Show more
Pilgrimage - A Traveller's Guide to Australia's Battlefields by Garrie Hutchinson
$44.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
There has never been a book like Pilgrimagebefore. Journeying through time and place, author Garrie Hutchinson visits the battlefields where Australians have fought and reveals their past and present. We hear the voices of those who fought in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Korea and East Timor and ...Show more
Indian Balm by Paul Hyland
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Travels amongst Fakirs and Fire Warriors Indian Balm is the captivating account of a journey Paul Hyland made along the little-known course of the sacred Godavari river in Southern India: a pilgrimage through both his past and India's present. It is the story of the search for his ancestors, missiona ...Show more