The Architecture Lover's Guide to Rome by Elizabeth F. Heath
$39.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: City Guides
Rome's architectural remains date as far back as the city's founding in the 8th century BCE. The primitive settlement that began on the Palatine Hill grew over the next thousand years to the caput mundi--the capital of the world--the largest, most powerful presence in the ancient Western world. Along th ...Show more
BRENDAN VOYAGE by SEVERIN T
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Modern Library Exploration Ser.
Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built ...Show more
50 Ways to Cycle the World by TRISTAN BOGAARD
$90.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
50 Ways to Cycle the World is the kind of book you'd give to a friend or family member who's considering cycling somewhere in the world but feels that there are too many obstacles to overcome. 50 Ways encapsulates 50 unique cycling projects accomplished by 75 cyclists from 23 countries. It serves as the ...Show more
Kinfolk Travel: Slower Ways to See the World by John Burns
$59.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Kinfolk Ser.
Explore the art of mindful travel with Kinfolk, the pioneers in "slow living," their philosophy of simplicity, authenticity, intentionality and community. With nearly 450,000 copies in print, the Kinfolk series has applied this philosophy to entertaining (The Kinfolk Table), interior design (The Kinfol ...Show more
West with the Light by Brian Jackman
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) Ser.
'Don't send him to Torremolinos; it's not his kind of tundra.' Such was the mantra of The Sunday Times when considering assignments for Brian Jackman, for whom deserts, rain forests and mountain ranges have always been more enticing habitats.After decades spent travelling and writing about the places an ...Show more
When We're Not Afraid: My 12,000 Km Bike-Packing Ride Through South America by Leonie Katekar, Gregory Hill
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
What would you do if you were not afraid?During a difficult time in what had already been a difficult life, Leonie Katekar decided to plunge herself into the unknown, embarking on a 12,0000-kilometre solo bike-packing expedition. When We're Not Afraid is her story of facing her fears and daring to leave ...Show more
Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The classic account of a woman's extraordinary journey to Tibet in the 1920s.
The Sea and The Snow: How We Reached and Climbed a Volcano at the Ends of the Earth by PHILIP TEMPLE
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
HEARD ISLAND, an improbably remote speck in the far Southern Ocean, lies four thousand kilometres to the south-west of Australia - with Antarctica its nearest continent. By 1964 it had been the object of a number of expeditions, but none reaching the summit of its 9000-foot volcanic peak "Big Ben'. In t ...Show more
Korea: the Impossible Country - South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: the Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon (Revised and Expanded) by Daniel Tudor
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today." --Martin Uden, Former British Ambassador to South Korea In just fifty years, South Korea has transformed itself from a failed state, ruine ...Show more
Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
$18.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
"We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world-all, too, travellers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879)Travels with a Do ...Show more
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Age by Daniel Klein
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Travels with Epicurus- A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Ageis a humorous, uplifting meditation on finding the pleasures of old age, by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. When philosopher, jokester and septuagenarian Daniel Klein goe ...Show more
The Cow Book: A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm by John Connell
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
The intimate account of a year on an Irish farm - and a keyhole history of man's relationship with the cow. Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the w ...Show more