The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain by Gregory Hill
44.99 AUD
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An epic train journey from New Zealand to Spain, across 19 countries in 89 days on 33 different trains. From New Zealand's Northern Explorer to the Eurostar, the book captures the romance of rail travel, exploring cultures, cuisines, history and people along the way. An epic journey from New Zealand to ...Show more
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
34.99 AUD
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Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking by Kerri Andrews (Editor)
37.99 AUD
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A sweeping collection of women's writing on the wandering path, moving across genres, geographies, and centuries. The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews's Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from Elizabeth Carter's correspondence with Catherine Ta ...Show more
Alone: The First Australian Woman to Row the Atlantic by Michelle Lee
29.99 AUD
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The inspiring true story of Michelle Lee, the first Australian woman to solo row the Atlantic Ocean. From the two-year preparation for launch to the 68-day, 5,000km journey across the Atlantic in 2018, Solo details the thrilling highs and challenging lows Michelle faced on the open waters. This is the s ...Show more
National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History and the Meaning of Home by Anya von Bremzen
34.99 AUD
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In National Dish, acclaimed food writer Anya von Bremzen sets out to investigate the eternal cliche that "we are what we eat". Travelling from Paris to Tokyo, from Seville, Oaxaca and Naples to Istanbul, she investigates the rapid decline of France's pot-au-feu, the misconstrued beginnings of pizza, th ...Show more
Black Dog, Blue Sea: Circumnavigating the Caribbean with a Grumpy Old Man by Danforth Slater
29.95 AUD
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Twenty years after leaving home, serial traveller Dan Slater feels the need to reconnect with his loving, yet impassive, father. To this end, he hatches an ambitious plan to take the old man on a three-month long circumnavigation of the Caribbean Sea. This will be no luxury cruise though; a modest budge ...Show more
Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum
32.99 AUD
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A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. Eliane Brum reveals the direct links between structural inequities rooted in gender, race, class, and even species, and the suffering that capitalism and climate breakdown wreak on those who a ...Show more
Pardon My French: Food, faux pas and Franglish - one family's riotous year in the south of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
34.99 AUD
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At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'beautiful man-horse', Rachael realised that small-town France could hardly be more different to beach-side Australia. The smell of cigarettes replaced the tang of bone-broth and sprouted sourdough, the neig ...Show more
The Way, My Way - 10th Anniversary Edition by Bill Bennett; Jennifer Cluff (Foreword by)
34.95 AUD
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A revised 10th Anniversary edition of the classic memoir that many say is the best Camino book they´ve read. Bill Bennett´s book has now been made into a major movie, and reading it you´ll see why. Written in a humorous self-deprecating style reminiscent of Bill Bryson, it tells the story of a stubbor ...Show more
The Mountains Are High: A Year of Escape and Discovery in Rural China by Alec Ash
39.99 AUD
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What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, 'reverse migrating' from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China - and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey of self-discovery. In 2020, Alec Ash left behind ...Show more
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levison Wood
44.99 AUD
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100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying experiences. In this anthology, explorer and bestselling author Levison Wood has gathered 100 of the most ...Show more
Le Coq by Peter Bills
24.99 AUD
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A definitive and affectionate history of French rugby published to coincide with 6Nations in Feb 2023 and France hosting the Rugby World Cup in Sept/Oct 2023 'An impassioned tour around France which is best enjoyed with a bottle of red... or two.' - The Sunday Times 'I've known Peter for some years and ...Show more