Couchsurfing in China: Encounters and Escapades Beyond the Great Wall by Stephan Orth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
China can be a challenging travel destination, with its strict visa conditions, the language barrier and internet censorship. Couchsurfer Stephan Orth chooses a different path than most and gains an insider view of the nation, directly from the living rooms of locals. He talks to them about their dreams ...Show more
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-five years after she left, Kassabova returns to Bulgaria to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece in an immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and ex ...Show more
Bondi to the Baltic by John McCombe
$17.00 AUD
$32.95 (48% off)
Category: Travel
Two antique cars, a few old mates and the journey of a lifetime. Take a couple of vintage cars and their owners’ determination to drive them on a pilgrimage from Australia to Finland and you have a fascinating story told through photos and the distillation of blogs and diary entries by some foolhardy, a ...Show more
Bewildered - leaving everything behind for 3000km in the wilds of New Zealand by Laura Waters
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
What would move you to ditch your life and take off into the wild for six months? For Melbourne woman Laura Waters, it took the implosion of a toxic relationship and a crippling bout of anxiety. Armed with a compass, a paper map and as much food as she could carry, she set out to walk the untamed landsc ...Show more
Beneath the Fig Leaves by Olympia Panagiotopoulos
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel
In 1955, in a village in Greece that was marred by war and poverty, Giannoula and Fotios Panagiotopoulos dreamed of providing a better life for their children. Australia, it was rumoured, was a land of opportunity where hard work brought reward. Leaving behind family and friends, they set off to make a ...Show more
Berezina by Sylvain Tesson
$14.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Lire Magazine Best Travel Book Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history's most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you've got Sylvain Tesson's Berezina, a riotous and ...Show more
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In The Bells of Old Tokyo, Anna Sherman explores Japan and revels in all its wonderful particularity. As a foreigner living in Tokyo, Sherman's account takes pleasure and fascination in the history and culture of a country that can seem startlingly strange to an outsider. Following her search for the l ...Show more
Around the World on 50 Bucks - How I Left with Nothing and Returned a Rich Man by Christopher Schacht
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Christopher Schacht shares his incredible experiences, revealing what he has learned along the way about life, love, and God, describing touching and bizarre encounters and insights that aren't found in any travel guide. Christopher Schacht was only nineteen years old and had just finished school when ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure by Monisha Rajesh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK 'Monisha Rajesh has chosen one of the best ways of seeing the world. Never too fast, never too slow, her journey does what trains do best. Getting to the heart of things. Prepare for a very fine ride' Michael PalinWhen Monisha Rajesh ...Show more
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'Hisham Matar has the quality all historians - of the world and the self - most need: he knows how to stand back and let the past speak' Hilary Mantel on The Return ____________________________________ When Hisham Matar was nineteen years ...Show more
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerisingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic.
Accidental Tour Guide: Adventures in Life and Death by Mary Moody
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Eat, Pray, Love meets The Year of Magical Thinking in this powerful memoir of love, loss and taking risks from a true adventurer The irrepressible Mary Moody knows better than anyone the joy of breaking new ground and discovering new frontiers. She is the bestselling author of Au Revoir and Last Tango I ...Show more