Toujours la France! - Living the Dream in Rural France by Janine Marsh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: The\Good Life France Ser.
Following on from her hugely popular books, My Good Life in France and My Good Year in France, ex-pat Janine Marsh shares more heart-warming and entertaining stories of her new life in rural France. Since giving up their city jobs in London and moving to rural France over ten years ago, Janine and h ...Show more
Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
'Touching the Void' is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that ...Show more
Under a Venice Moon by Margaret Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Life isn't a sort of practice run, something you can afford to play around with. They don't offer second and third chances to get it right. Use it better. Live it fuller. A week in Venice ignites Margaret Cameron's interest in the private city behind the tourist facade and the obscure tales from its hi ...Show more
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.' In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on hi ...Show more
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time by Craig Taylor
$34.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
TerrorBlackoutHurricane RecessionPandemicA symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people - from the best-selling author of Londoners.In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, rece ...Show more
Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell.Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Ge ...Show more
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia - Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on) by Chris Stewart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
A special anniversary edition with a new chapter 25 years on.Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Spanish mountain farm to print. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn enough money to buy a se ...Show more
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
The essential book for anyone visiting Bangkok - a wonderful mixture of history and culture - from the author of Lost JapanOne of Asia's most extraordinary cities, Bangkok is also one of the most baffling. It is filled with remarkable people and glittering golden palaces and temples, but is also a maze ...Show more
Bridge to the Gods - Tales from Kyushu by Andrew Peter Thomson; Graeme James Ryan (Editor); Luke Kenneth Harris (Designed by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Kyushu - Japan's original birthplace. Bridge To The Gods: Tales From Kyushu is a look inside Japan's history, culture, and modern travails.
Travels on My Elephant by Mark Shand
$32.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
With the help of a Maratha nobleman, Mark Shand buys an elephant named Tara and rides her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indi ...Show more
Cry of the Kalahari by Delia Owens, Mark Owens
$32.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
'A remarkable story beautifully told... Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist' Chicago Tribune Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhan ...Show more