Italian Lessons: Fifty Things We Know About Life Now by Beppe Severgnini
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel
One-of-a-kind timeless lessons for handling challenges and living with joy, the Italian way-"with unparalleled insight and brilliant wit, Severgnini's book not only transports us to Italy but deep into the Italian mind and spirit" (Stanley Tucci, host of Searching for Italy).Is there an Italian way to d ...Show more
Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel
GHOST EMPIRE is a rare treasure - an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, realised by a master storyteller. In 2014, Richard Fidler and his son Joe made a journey to Istanbul. Fired by Richard's passion for the rich history of the dazzling Byzantine Empire - centred around ...Show more
The Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey Through a City's Poor and Bohemian Past by Luc Sante
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white facades, discreet traffic and well-mannered exchanges. But there was another Paris, hidden from view and virtually extinct today - the Paris of the working and criminal classes that shaped the city over the ...Show more
New Map France: Unforgettable Experiences for the Discerning Traveller by Herbert Ypma
$59.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Today's discerning traveler is looking not merely for luxury but for a unique experience. But in this age of low-cost flights and easy travel, how do you avoid the crowds and find the hidden gems? Not via sponsored search results or thousands of indistinguishable reviews. What you need is on-the-ground, ...Show more
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Drawing together classic Theroux pieces from the past 14 years, this new collection offers a comprehensive and deeply searching portrait of its acclaimed author - a kind of autobiography through work.Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Wil ...Show more
The Frayed Atlantic Edge - A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel by David Gange
$44.99 AUD
Category: Travel
The story of a breathtaking kayak journey along the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland, undertaken by a leading historian and nature writer. In a book of staggering range and beauty, read how wind, rock and ocean have shaped the diverse communities of coastal Scotland, Ireland, Wales ...Show more
Songlines and Fault Lines by Morrison, Glenn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing- wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of home, and the confusing countenance of the Australian frontier, a meeting place of black and white, ancient and modern. Songlines and Fault Lines ...Show more
The White Darkness by David Grann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z'A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration' Sunday Times on The Lost City of Z'Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones' Daily Telegr ...Show more
Van Cat Meow: A Lost Man, a Rescue Cat, a Road Trip Like No Other by Richard East; Richard East
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A lost man. A rescued cat. A road trip like no other. People everywhere have fallen in love with Willow, the van cat, as she explores the wilds of Australia with Richard, her devoted owner. Now for the first time, Richard and Willow tell the true story behind the images that have captured our hearts ... ...Show more
Bradshaw's Handbook (Premium Edition) by George Bradshaw
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Shire Ser.
A new, luxury edition of the bestselling Bradshaw's Handbook 1863, this is a facsimile of the actual book, often referred to as 'Bradshaw's Guide,' that inspired 'Great British Railway Journeys' with Michael Portillo. Printed on superior quality paper, and leatherbound with a page-marker, this is a true ...Show more
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Forty years ago, Tim Parks made the bel paese his home. Italian Life is his reckoning with his adopted country, an attempt to get to the core of it, to make sense of it, to fold others' stories in with his own experience - now that he is, in his own words, 'to some degree Italian' himself. The result i ...Show more
The Food and Wine of France: Eating & Drinking from Champagne to Provence by Edward Behr
$31.50 AUD
$45.00 (30% off)
Category: Food, Wine and Cooking
France remains the greatest country for bread, cheese and wine, and its culinary techniques are the foundation of the training of nearly every serious Western cook and some beyond. In The Food and Wine of France, acclaimed food writer Edward Behr talks with chefs and goes to see top artisanal producers ...Show more