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Angry White Pyjamas by Robert Twigger
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary JapanAdrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese high school girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he'd never been fit. In a bid to escape the cockroach infestation and swe ...Show more
Lost Oasis: Adventures In And Out Of The Egyptian Desert by Robert Twigger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Last night my son wanted to appease me because of some annoyance he had caused. "Show me your desert things," he said, "show me your crystals and stones." However tired and grumpy I might be, he knew how to revive me. I unwrapped everything from its newspaper roll. The chipped flint knives, the silica g ...Show more
Red Nile: The Biography of the World's Greatest River by Robert Twigger
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. 'A tour de force' FINANCIAL TIMES. So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the legends a ...Show more
Red Nile: The Story of the World's Greatest River by Robert Twigger
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'Not long ago, in a small rubber boat more suited to a beach than the Nile, I floated downstream for ten kilometres, from my suburb to the city centre. I passed an island where, according to legend, Moses was left in his basket; a few kilometres farther downstream was the spot where Joseph and Mary land ...Show more
Voyageur by Robert Twigger
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Fifteen years before Lewis and Clark, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, looking to open up a trade route, set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie travelled by bark canoe and had a cache of rum and a crew of Canadian voyageurs, hard-living backwood ...Show more
Voyageur - Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe by Robert Twigger
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Fifteen years before Lewis and Clark, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, looking to open up a trade route, set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie travelled by bark canoe and had a cache of rum and a crew of Canadian voyageurs, hard-living backwoodsmen ...Show more
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world's religions. They are also a plant h ...Show more
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world's religions. They are also a plant h ...Show more
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