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Berlin - Imagine a City by Rory MacLean
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams real ...Show more
Berlin - Imagine a City by Rory MacLean
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody ce ...Show more
Falling for Icarus by Rory MacLean
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
On a windy spring morning in an ancient village surrounded by mountains on Crete, Rory MacLean fell to earth.His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen from his grief: the notion to build a feather-light flying machine. And so, on the island where Daedalus and Icarus had m ...Show more
Falling for Icarus: A Journey Among the Cretans by Rory MacLean
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel
On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen from his grief: the notion to build a feather-light flying machine. And so, MacLean journeyed back to beginnings, back into the Greek myths, and b ...Show more
Magic Bus : On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India by Rory MacLean
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap dope. Since the Summer of Love, the countries that offered so much to these dreamers have confronted t ...Show more
Pravda Ha Ha - True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le CarréIn 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands ...Show more
Under the Dragon by Rory MacLean
$32.00 AUD
Category: Travel
The memory of a brief visit to Burma had haunted Rory MacLean for years. A decade after the violent suppression of an unarmed national uprising, which cost thousands of lives and all hopes for democracy, he seized the chance to return. Travelling from Rangoon to Mandalay and Pagan, into the heart of the ...Show more
Under the Dragon:Travels in a Betrayed Land by Rory MacLean
$25.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
It is just over ten years ago since Burmese people rose up against their military government. The unarmed demonstrators were cut down, leaving more than five thousand people dead. Under the Dragon, is a brilliant evocation of contemporary Burma in which Rory Maclean travels from a decaying Rangoon to th ...Show more
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