The Shadow of the Sun - My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In this study, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen as both a whole and as a location, defying generalized explanations, and avoiding the official routes, palaces and big politics. First publi ...Show more
Mediterranean Winter : A journey through history by Robert D. Kaplan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
"Mediterranean Winter" is a lyrical account of Robert Kaplan's journey in the off season around the Mediterranean, retracing the footsteps of his youth. A beautifully written meditation on the golden age of travel and the pleasures of history, it takes us from Tunisia, once proud Carthage, rival to Rome ...Show more
The Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Lost Cosmonaut documents Daniel Kalder's travels in the bizarre and mysterious worlds of Russia's ethnic republics. Obsessed with a quest he never fully understands, Kalder boldly goes where no man has gone before: in the deserts of Kalmykia, he stumbles upon a city dedicated to chess and a forgotten tr ...Show more
Strange Telescopes by Daniel Kalder
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel
'Kalder is a rough guide to the parts that Michael Palin's well-upholstered odysseys don't reach ...a new voice from the black holes of the world' - "The Times". When Daniel Kalder, acclaimed author of one of the most unusual and feted travel debuts of the twenty-first century, "Lost Cosmonaut", descend ...Show more
MOON LIVING ABROAD IN JAPAN by KANAGY RUTH
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Moon Guides
Born and raised in Tokyo, Ruthy Kanagy is an expert on Japanese culture and currently works as a travel systems consultant, leading cycling tours of Japan. Ruthy provides insight and first-hand advice on navigating the language and culture of Japan, outlining all the information needed in a smart, orga ...Show more
City Secrets: Rome by Robert Kahn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: City Secrets Ser.
Organized by area, this insider's guide reveals the art, architecture and antiquities of Rome through the eyes of those who know them best. A renowned painter shows the way to an overlooked masterpiece; an archaeologist walks the reader through an intriguing ancient ruin; a Renaissance scholar tells whi ...Show more
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
$9.95 AUD
Category: Travel
October 1991. The 'perfect storm' was that rare event, a once-in-a-century gale of such immense power and ferocity that it was perfect - that is, it could not have been any worse. One-hundred-foot waves and winds of 120 miles an hour transformed the ocean into a lethal maelstrom, the kind of nightmare s ...Show more
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
$21.95 AUD
Category: Travel
The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island - Sable Island - and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: Hurricane Grace. This is the story of that storm, told through the accoun ...Show more
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones
$22.95 AUD
Category: Travel
In 1999 Tobias Jones emigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment. The Dark Heart of ...Show more
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones
$26.95 AUD
Category: Travel
In 1999, Tobias Jones emigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment. "The Dark Heart o ...Show more
Sicilian Summer: A Story of Honour, Religion and the Perfect Cassata by Brian Johnston
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Family honour, religion, tragedy, sex, mayhem and most of all food - this memoir of a Sicilian summer is full of eccentric personalities, family clashes and revelations that are at once amusing and sad - and never short of surprises. 'I came to Sicily an idle bystander and found myself bewitched by ...Show more