Paris for Beginners: A memoir by Rachael Coopes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Gorgeous travel memoir set in Paris from Play School presenter, award-winning screenwriter and author of Find Your Strength, Rachael Coopes. For fans of Eat Pray Love,Almost French and Emily In Paris. 'Enchanting, amusing, life-affirming and wise.' Toni Pearen Sometimes the best compass to follow is you ...Show more
The Mountains Are High: A year of escape and discovery in rural China by Alec Ash
$39.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
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
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charit ...Show more
Everest, Guns and Money by CHRIS DEWHIRST
$39.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
In the autumn of 1973, Chris Dewhirst was living and working in Yosemite National Park, and part of a counterculture group of rock climbers tackling some of the most difficult climbs on the planet. One night, while four friends were perched high on the side of El Capitan, a plane crashed into a back-cou ...Show more
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peak's histor ...Show more
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Rory Stewart's moving account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 was immediately hailed as a classic. Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirely on foot and following the ina ...Show more
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
$49.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of t ...Show more
The Ravens Nest - An Icelandic Journey Through Light and Darkness by Sarah Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
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.
Out of the LoopScenes from Samui and Other Seascapes by Morgan McFinn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
The Po - An Elegy for Italy's Longest River by Tobias Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture. The River Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling for 650 kilometres from its source in the Alps across the entire width of the peninsula until it reaches the Adriatic Sea in the east. Flowing through ...Show more
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', 'Love and War in the Apennines' is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year. He evaded ...Show more