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Exiles - Three Island Journeys by William Atkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. 'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.'EDMUND DE WAAL'Atkins spins a marvellous tapestry of co ...Show more
Exiles: Three Island Journeys by William Atkins
$42.09 AUD
Category: Travel
A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. 'One of the best makers of sentences around.' - OLIVIA LAING 'An erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze'. - ...Show more
Granta 157 - Should We Have Stayed at Home? - New Travel Writing by William Atkins (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
In 1984 Granta published its first issue devoted to travel writing. Nearly forty years after that genre-defining volume, a new generation of writers from around the globe offers a new vision of what travel writing can be.
The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey by William Atkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (UK) "William Atkins is an erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze and this is a new and exciting beast of a travel book."--Joy Williams In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written accoun ...Show more
The Immeasurable World - Journeys in Desert Places by William Atkins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel
In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy ...Show more
The Moor: Lives Landscape Literature by William Atkins
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and natural history, and an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivatin ...Show more
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