The Artist's Journey: The travels that inspired the artistic greats by Travis Elborough
39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Vicarious | Series: Journeys of Note Ser.
In the Artist's Journey, follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous painters, and the journeys which inspired some of their greatest works. Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous painters in this fascinating work from the Journeys of Note series. Some truly remarkab ...Show more
The Ravens Nest - An Icelandic Journey Through Light and Darkness by Sarah Thomas
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Vicarious
A breathtaking mix of nature writing, memoir and travel, this is the story of the making and unmaking of a marriage, and the search for home among the elemental landscape of Iceland's bewitching Westfjords.
Gone Away by Dom Moraes
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Category: Travel Vicarious
Introduced by Jeet Thayli, author of Booker Prize shortlisted novel Narcopolis.At the age of 20, Dom Moraes - already a celebrated poet who would go on to be regarded as one of India's finest writers - returned to his native India after finishing education in England. After spending time in Delhi, meeti ...Show more
In Search of Sheba by Barbara Toy
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Category: Travel Vicarious
Introduced by Lois Pryce, author of Lois on the Loose, Red Tape & White Knuckles and Revolutionary Ride.In 1959 Barbara Toy, famous for her solo overland travels in North Africa and Arabia, set out in her trademark Land Rover to drive from Libya to Ethiopia.Alone, she crossed the Sahara Desert and t ...Show more
Abroad in Japan: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Chris Broad
35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Vicarious
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a ...Show more
If Venice Dies by SALVATORE SETTIS
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Vicarious | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Completely Mad - Tom Mcclean, John Fairfax, and the Epic Race to Row Solo Across the Atlantic by James R. Hansen
49.99 AUD
Category: Travel Vicarious
From the New York Times bestselling author of The First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary--and extraordinarily different--adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . . . alone. In this bracing adventure tale, the story of John Fair ...Show more
Wild Call One Man's Voyage in Pursuit of Freedom by MARTYN MURRAY
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Category: Travel Vicarious
Martyn Murray was finding modern life, with all its restrictions and controls, suffocating. Following years of soul-searching, his father's death triggered him into opening the old logbooks and charts to retrace the sailing trips they had once shared together. He determined to revisit those waters and b ...Show more
Bread & Henna My Time with the Women of a Yemeni Mountain Town by IANTHE MARY MACLAGAN
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Category: Travel Vicarious | Series: BradtTravel Guides (Journey Book) Ser.
Bread and Henna: an engaging travel narrative relating a social anthropologist's experiences of eighteen months living among the women of a small mountain town in Yemen during the early 1980s. Through insights into the life and cuisine of a remote community, Ianthe Maclagan offers an authentic window on ...Show more
537 Days of Winter: An Australian Antarctic Expedition Leader Stranded During the Pandemic by David Knoff
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Category: Travel Vicarious
What would you do if you were stranded in the coldest place on earth as the world you knew back home changed forever ? As station leader at the Davis Research Station in Antarctica, David Knoff was leading 24 expeditioners in a standard mission when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, international travel came t ...Show more
Unravelling the Silk Road - Travels and Textiles in Central Asia by Chris Aslan
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Category: Travel Vicarious
Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter steppes. Then came the Cotton Road, marked by greed, c ...Show more
Hidden Japan: An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests by Alex Kerr
27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Vicarious
"A sharp-tongued spokesman for Japan's environment and traditions" --The New York TimesIn Alex Kerr's critically acclaimed Lost Japan and Dogs and Demons, he documented the decline of the traditional landscapes of Japan, his adopted home of many years. Here, in Hidden Jappan he makes a journey of redisc ...Show more