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There are 172 books in this catalogue.
A Feather on the Tide
Wolff-Wilson, Alison
Book Number: 23061
ISBN: 
Publisher: Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1985
8vo. hardcover. 234pp. + b/w plates. near fine. / near fine d/w.

Price: $12.00


Road To The Pyrenees
Higham, Roger
Book Number: 29426
ISBN: 0002164191
Publisher: London: The Travel Book Club, 1971.
8vo hardcover 156pp, b/w illus. good / very good d/w. '

Price: $10.00


The Two Impostors
Vare, Daniele
Book Number: 35451
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Murray 1949
8vo. green cloth hardcover. 292pp. very good. / no d/w.

Price: $18.00


Exploring Wales
Barber, W. T.
Book Number: 36772
ISBN: 0715381792
Publisher: Newton Abbot David & Charles 1982
8vo hardcover 208pp index, b/w illus. very good, fep clipped. / very good d/w.

Price: $10.00


Over the Hills and Far Away. An English Odessey
Green, Candida Lycett
Book Number: 43276
ISBN: 0385603312
Publisher: Doubleday 2002
8vo hardcover 212pp. very good+ / very good+ d/w.

Price: $12.00


Dolce e Salata : a bittersweet adventure in Tuscany
De Blasi, Marlena
Book Number: 45031
ISBN: 1741144671
Publisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin 2004
8vo softcover 325pp very good. Marlena and her Italian husband Fernando rent a stable with no telephone, no heating and a toy kitchen. There they meet Barlozzo, who shares his knowledge of farming traditions, sacred festivals, ancient helath potions and artisan food makers. Includes recipes.

Price: $15.00


Tuscany : An Anthology
Raison, Laura (compiled by)
Book Number: 49344
ISBN: 0946313032
Publisher: Cadogan Books, London 1983
Large 8vo. hardcover. 262pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good, foxed d/w.

Price: $18.00


Sebastiano : The Adventures of an Italian Priest Sebastiano Locatelli During His Journey from Bologna to Paris and Back 1664-1665
Blunt, Wilfrid
Book Number: 50300
ISBN: 
Publisher: James Barrie, London, 1956.
8vo. cream cloth hardcover. 293pp. index, b/w illus. fold-out map. Very good. / No d/w.

Price: $10.00


Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable Women in France, 1880-1945
Lancaster, Rosemary
Book Number: 51083
ISBN: 1921401133
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press September 5, 2008
8vo softcover 234pp very good. Index. Colour illustrations. Maps. Profiles extraordinary Australian women who travelled to France at different times through history and who formulated their impressions in fiction, diaries, letters, and autobiographies, between 1880 and 1945. The book explores how the women adapted to new environments in a world of changing attitudes to feminine education, professionalism and sexuality. It includes the narratives of a schoolgirl, an artist, novelists, nurses and a secret agent.

Price: $14.00


True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris
Holdforth, Lucinda
Book Number: 52401
ISBN: 1740512898
Publisher: Random House Australia 2004
8vo softcover 226pp very good. Meet the dazzling women of Paris, from Colette to Nancy Mitford, Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel, Napoleon's Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule Breakers and Style Setters, these women were utterly diverse, yet they shared one common passion - Paris.

Price: $8.00


Small Boat on the Moselle
Pilkington Rodger, Illustrated by David Knight
Book Number: 52804
ISBN: 
Publisher: Macmillan, London, 1968.
8vo. hardcover. 246pp. index. b/w illus. / no d/w.

Price: $10.00


Six Months in Sudan - A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
Maskalyk, James
Book Number: 52863
ISBN: 9781863256889
Publisher: Bantam
Trade paperback. 340pp. Good. An inspiring story of one doctor’s struggle in a war-torn village in the heart of Sudan. In 2007, James Maskalyk, newly recruited by Doctors Without Borders, set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan. An emergency physician drawn to the ravaged parts of the world, Maskalyk spent six months treating malnourished children, coping with a measles epidemic, watching for war, and struggling to meet overwhelming needs with few resources. Six Months in Sudan began as a blog that Maskalyk wrote from his hut in Sudan in an attempt to bring his family and friends closer to his experiences on the medical front line of one of the poorest and most fragile places on earth. It is the story of the doctors, nurses, and countless volunteers who leave their homes behind to ease the suffering of others, and it is the story of the people of Abyei, who endure its hardship because it is the only home they have.

Price: $10.00


With Dante in Florence - Walks in Florence to Places marked by Epigraphs recalling the history of Dante's day
Parrini, Amerigo - English Version by C. Daniell Tassinari
Book Number: 54051
ISBN: 
Publisher: Giulio Giannini & Son Publishers Florence.
8vo. Red decorated boards, with small chip at top extreme. Hardcover. Very good. 272pp. Illustrated by Professor Carlo Guerini, Professor Chiaramonti, Giulio Giannini Junior. This book has been written to explain the meaning of the thirty-one Dantesque Epigraphs affixed to old buildings in Florence, each one realling some great deed or famous name of Florentine history, at a period when the glorious destinies of our restless, energetic Commune were closely connected with the destinies of Italy.

Price: $15.00


The Sierras of the South. Travels in the Mountains of Andalusia
Boyd, Alastair
Book Number: 54813
ISBN: 0002154889
Publisher: HarperCollins 1992
8vo. hardcover. 470pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, spine slanted. / Very good d/w.

Price: $12.00


The Pass
White, Stewart Edward
Book Number: 59564
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton 1906.
8vo. green cloth hardcover. 198pp. b/w illus. map. colour frontis. Good, water stain to some page edges.

Price: $18.00


Venice: Pure City
Ackroyd, Peter
Book Number: 59900
ISBN: 9780701172855
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London 2009.
8vo. hardcover. 403pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, page edges slightly browned. / Very good+ d/w.

Price: $20.00


THE WATERS OF ROME.
Morton, H.V
Book Number: 60067
ISBN: 
Publisher: The Connoisseur and Michael Joseph, London, 1966.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 302pp. index. With 49 colour photographs by Mario Carrieri and other illustrations. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $22.00


A Year In Provence.
Mayle, Peter. illustrated by Leslie Forbes.
Book Number: 23476
ISBN: 
Publisher: London. Hamish Hamilton, 1989.
8vo. hardcover. 197pp. b/w illus. fine. / near fine d/w.

Price: $10.00


AT THE SIGN OF THE CLEIKUM: REMINISCENCES OF INNERLEITHEN, 1926-1932
ANDERSON, J. A
Book Number: 51969
ISBN: 1898654042
Publisher: BORDERSPRINT 1996
8vo softcover 198pp , b/w illus. very good, some underlining in pencil.

Price: $8.00


The Cevennes Journal. Notes on a journey through the French highlands.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Book Number: 54418
ISBN: 0800814142
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh
8vo hardcover 158pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.

Price: $12.00


Harlequin Set. Holidays in Many Lands
Leslie, Henrietta, Illustrated by Helen E Federn
Book Number: 6905
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Macdonald & Co. no date
8vo. hardcover. 245pp. colour plates. good, light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. rear endpaper creased with some tiny tears. owner's name on fep. / good_, chipped, clipped d/w.

Price: $12.00


More Country Talk.
Peel, J. H. B.; Illustrated by Biro, B. S.
Book Number: 22644
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Robert Hale, 1973 first edition
8vo. hardcover. 223pp. b/w illus. very good+. / very good+ clipped d/w.

Price: $12.00


A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
Spain, Nancy
Book Number: 22732
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Hutchinson, 1965
8vo. hardcover. 224pp. very good. / very good, clipped d/w.

Price: $12.00


British Canals. An illustrated History
Hadfield, Charles
Book Number: 22890
ISBN: 
Publisher: London David & Charles 1974
8vo. hardcover. 356pp. index, + b/w plates. near fine, minor foxing to outer page edges. / near fine d/w.

Price: $25.00


The Canals of South West England.
Hadfield, Charles.
Book Number: 22896
ISBN: 
Publisher: Newton Abbot. David & Charles. 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 256pp. index, + b/w plates. very good+. / very good d/w.

Price: $25.00


Yorkshire. The West Riding.
Pill, David.
Book Number: 23847
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Batsford, 1977
8vo. hardcover. 207pp. index, b/w illus. very good+. / very good+ d/w.

Price: $12.00


Derbyshire
Christian, Roy
Book Number: 23848
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Batsford, 1978
8vo. hardcover. 191pp. index, + b/w illus. very good+. / very good+ d/w.

Price: $15.00


Weymouth and Portland (Britain in Old Photographs)
Gosling, T.
Book Number: 34299
ISBN: 0750911409
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd 1995
8vo softcover 128pp, b/w illus. very good.

Price: $8.00


Mirror to Damascus
Thubron, Colin
Book Number: 47296
ISBN: 
Publisher: London. Heinemann 1967
Large 8vo. Hardcover. 226pp. Index, b/w illus. maps. Very good. / very good, lightly rubbed d/w with a few tiny tears on edges.

Price: $30.00


Butterflies and Late Loves: The Further Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Lady
Fountaine, Margaret
Book Number: 53651
ISBN: 0881623075
Publisher: Salem House, Massachusetts, 1987.
Large 8vo. hardcover.141pp. b/w frontis. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $12.00


House of Tears Westerners' Adventures in Islamic Lands
Hughes, Dr John
Book Number: 57586
ISBN: 1592287999
Publisher: Lyons Press, UK 2005
8vo. hardcover. 271pp. Very good+, owner's inscription on fep. / Very good+ d/w.

Price: $18.00


The Lycian Shore
Stark, Freya
Book Number: 59468
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: John Murray Publishers, 1956
8vo. hardcover. 204pp. index, b/w plates. very good, light foxing to endpapers. / very good lightly foxed d/w with some rubbing to corners.

Price: $45.00


The Great Himalayan Passage - Across the Himalayas by hovercraft.
Peissel, Michel:
Book Number: 2608
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Collins, 1974 1st edition,
8vo. hardcover. good. / good d/w.

Price: $10.00


Tupari
Caspar, Franz
Book Number: 4037
ISBN: 
Publisher:
G.Bell & Sons Ltd, London, 1956 First English edition. hardcover cloth. 8to. 224pp. + b/w plates. Very good copy, spine faded, light foxing to endpapers. Good + clipped d/w light wear to extremities.

Price: $10.00


A Sight of China
Nolan, Cynthia
Book Number: 4553
ISBN: 
Publisher: Macmillan, London 1969 First edition.
8vo. hardcover. 165pp. + 4 full-page drawings by Sidney Nolan printed in brown. Very good with light foxing to endpapers and outside page edges. Very good lightly chipped d/w designed by Sidney Nolan

Price: $15.00


Running Away to Sea: Round the World on a Tramp Freighter
Fetherling, Douglas
Book Number: 5930
ISBN: 
Publisher: Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998
8vo. hardcover. 245pp. b/w map, drawings. fine. / fine d/w.

Price: $12.00


Tic-Polonga.
Anderton, Russ
Book Number: 6178
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: The Quality Book Club, n.d.
8vo. hardcover. 224pp. very good, light foxing to endpapers. / fair, chipped d/w, small piece missing bottom spine corner.

Price: $12.00


The Voice of the Thunder.
Van der Post, Laurens.
Book Number: 28835
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1993
8vo. hardcover. 229pp. near fine. / near fine d/w.

Price: $15.00


Tekkin a Waalk: Along the Miskito Coast
Ford, Peter
Book Number: 29618
ISBN: 0006545122
Publisher: Flamingo 1993
8vo hardcover in d/w. 350pp index. very good, ex-library. / very good d/w covered in plastic, taped to endpapers. Travelling the length of the Caribbean-influenced Central American coastline from Belize, through Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama, Peter Ford tramped the still-untamed territories of the Garifuna and Miskito Indians, of pirates, guerrillas and former cannibals. In creole parlance, he was just "tekkin a waalk". Seasoned with historical accounts of the eccentric, often sad past of the Garifuna and Miskito kingdoms, tragic and hilarious in turns, and the oddities left behind by the exploitation and colonial rivalry of the imperial powers of the British "bouconiers" and "Spainyards" over the centuries, Peter Ford's travel memoir is a portrait of a people living historically, geographically and culturally on the border of two worlds.

Price: $12.00


An Egyptian journal
Golding, William
Book Number: 29992
ISBN: 0571135935
Publisher: London Faber 1985
8vo hardcover 207pp colour illus. good, pages browned / very good d/w. William Golding's interest in ancient Egypt has previously been expressed in two essays, and in the novella "The Scorpion God". This account covers his journey down the Nile in today's Egypt. He recalls his trip honestly and humorously, and shares his feelings about Egypt past and present.

Price: $10.00


Trekking in the United States of America (AA Adventure Travellers Guides)
Penati, Fabio
Book Number: 30866
ISBN: 0749500360
Publisher: AA Publishing May 1990
8vo hardcover 210pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w. Part of the "Adventurs Guides" series - guides for those who want a holiday with a difference - this book looks at trekking holidays in America. The book contains detailed tourist information, descriptions of local flora, fauna and geography, as well as information on sporting activities.

Price: $12.00


Wild Shore: Life and Death with Nicaragua's Last Shark Hunters
Marriott, Edward
Book Number: 33643
ISBN: 0330354493
Publisher: Picador 2000
8vo hardcover 304pp. very good+ / very good+ d/w. The author of this book travels up the course of the San Juan river from the East Coast of Nicaragua to Lake Nicaragua to meet the fishing communities whose lives are led by their proximity to the bull shark.

Price: $15.00


The Armchair Traveler (Armchair library)
Thorn, John (Other Contributor)
Book Number: 36181
ISBN: 0130461946
Publisher: New York Prentice Hall 1988
Large 8vo hardcover 351pp. very good / very good d/w. Essays that take the reader around the world, written by famous and bestselling authors such as Graham Greene, Paul Theroux, Philip Roth and Margaret Atwood.

Price: $12.00


Between Extremes: A Journey Beyond Imagination
McCarthy, Brian Keenan; John
Book Number: 43222
ISBN: 0593042646
Publisher: Bantam 1999
8vo hardcover 345pp colour illus. very good, outer page edges browned, owner's inscription on half-title. / very good d/w. For four years, Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with just each other and a few volumes of an ancient American encyclopaedia to sustain them, they could only wander the wide open spaces of their imagination. To displace the ugly confines of their existence, they imagined walking in the High Andes and across the wastes of Patagonia. Five years after their release, Brian and John chose to travel together again to see how the reality of Chile matched their imagination and to revisit their past experiences. Between Extremes is the story of that journey.

Price: $12.00


A Republic of Rivers: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon
John A. Murray
Book Number: 47230
ISBN: 0195061020
Publisher: Oxford 1990
8vo. hardcover. 325pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $12.00


An Empire of the East: Travels in Indonesia.
Lewis, Norman
Book Number: 54029
ISBN: 0224032305
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, 1993
8vo. hardcover. 237pp. Very good./ Very good d/w with slightly faded spine.

Price: $18.00


Bon Voyage. The Telegraph Book of River and Sea Journeys
Kerr, Michael
Book Number: 54075
ISBN: 9781845136031
Publisher: Aurum Press, London 2010
8vo. hardcover. 343pp. Near Fine. / Near Fine d/w.

Price: $15.00


Spinning the Globe - Rivers and People
Purdon, Noel
Book Number: 55578
ISBN: 1875989358
Publisher: Duffy & Snellgrove 1998
Trade paperback. 262pp. Very good. This book describes a number of river journeys, clustered around one extraordinary trip down the Congo.

Price: $12.00


The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles Barley, Nigel
Barley, Nigel
Book Number: 56861
ISBN: 0670836427
Publisher: Viking1991
8vo. hardcover. 275pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / no d/w.

Price: $12.00


Mona Lisa's Pajamas: Diverting Dispatches from a Roving Reporter
Copetas, A. Craig
Book Number: 56955
ISBN: 9781402757648
Publisher: Union Square Press, New York 2009.
8vo. hardcover. 257pp. index. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $12.00


The World of Farley Mowat: A Selection from His Works
Mowat, Farley
Book Number: 58148
ISBN: 771066139
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1980.
8vo. hardcover. 338pp. endpaper maps. Very good, small owner's details verso fep. / Very good d/w.

Price: $18.00


Hair Under a Hat
Hogan, J. P.
Book Number: 5112
ISBN: 
Publisher: London Chaterson (1949).
8vo. hardcover. 160pp. very good / good, chipped d/w with a very small peice missing from bottom of spine.

Price: $15.00


Roof of the Americas: From Alaska to Cape Horn
Warburton-lee, John
Book Number: 6033
ISBN: 
Publisher: Shrewsbury: Swan Hill, 1996
4to. hardcover. 192pp. index. + colour plates. b/w maps. near fine. / near fine d/w.

Price: $15.00


Venice an illustrated anthology.
Marqusee, Mike
Book Number: 25868
ISBN: 1850291381
Publisher: Conran Octopus 31 July, 1988
4to hardcover 192pp b/w illus. index, colour frontis. very good+.

Price: $25.00


Venice
Reato, Danilo
Book Number: 31854
ISBN: 1855019167
Publisher: Tiger Books, 1997
4to laminated boards, hardcover 135pp index, colour illus. fold-out frontis. near fine.

Price: $12.00


Walking Through History
Burton, Anthony
Book Number: 33471
ISBN: 0356151395
Publisher: Queen Anne Press 1988
4to hardcover 200pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.

Price: $12.00


The Himalayan experience: An introduction to trekking and climbing in the Himalaya
Chester, Jonathan
Book Number: 37083
ISBN: 073180029X
Publisher: Brookvale, N.S.W. Simon & Schuster 1989
4to softcover 224pp index, colour illus. Very good.

Price: $15.00


Whitewater Adventure: Running America's Great Scenic Rivers
Bangs, Richard
Book Number: 40361
ISBN: 0934429200
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press 1990
Large oblong 4to hardcover 144pp, colour illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w.

Price: $15.00


David Gentleman's London
Gentleman, David
Book Number: 44311
ISBN: 0297785745
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1985
4to hardcover 192pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w.

Price: $15.00


This Grand Beyond: Travels of Isabella Bird Bishop
Havely, Cicely Palser (Editor)
Book Number: 53221
ISBN: 0712603921
Publisher: Century November 1984
sm. 4to hardcover 176pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. This Grand Beyone shows Isabella at her best. A geographer of repute with excellent descriptive abilities, her writing is at once exact and dramatic, humorous and eloquent, and quaranteed to create an appetite for adventure in faraway places.

Price: $15.00


Viewpoints - Barvarian Swabia

Book Number: 59764
ISBN: 
Publisher: Endress & Hauser 2003
4to. Softcover. 164pp. Very good. Map. Illustrated throughout.

Price: $25.00


Cadfael Country
Talbot, Tob & Whiteman, Robin (intro. by Ellis Peters)
Book Number: 60456
ISBN: 
Publisher: Macdonald, UK. 1991.
Large Square 8vo. hardcover. 192pp. Index, colour illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $18.00


Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism: A Practical Guide
Veal, A. J.
Book Number: 61118
ISBN: 0273682008
Publisher: Prentice Hall 2006. 3rd edition.
Large 8vo. softcover. 421pp. index. Very good.

Price: $30.00


Leisure and Tourism Policy and Planning
Veal, A. J.
Book Number: 61122
ISBN: 0851995462
Publisher: CABI Publishing, 2002. 2nd edition.
Large 8vo. softcover. 287pp. index. Very good.

Price: $15.00


Australian Leisure
Lynch, Robert L.; Veal, Anthony James
Book Number: 61123
ISBN: 0733974481
Publisher: Pearson Longman, Australia, 2006.
Large 8vo. softcover. 494pp. index. Very good book covered in clear adhesive.

Price: $22.00


Gleanings in Buddha Fields. Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East.
Hearn, Lafcadio
Book Number: 41282
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Cape, 1927. The Travellers' Library series.
Small 8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 253pp. vey good, foxing to endpapers, owner's name and stamp on half-title.

Price: $18.00


EDEN TO PARADISE.
King, Margaret.
Book Number: 1462
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton 1963 Book Club Edtion
first book club edition. Clean copy with slightly shelf worn d/w. Unclipped.

Price: $8.00


Bert Brown of Papua
Saunders, Garry
Book Number: 2939
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph, 1965
Dustwrapper, clipped, shelf worn at top. pp. 208,Illustrated with photographs and sketches. 'This biography of the Rev. Herbert Alfred Brown introduces one of the truly inspiring missionary personalities of our time. His parish, set in 3,000 square miles of Sone Age New Guinea, includes some of the most primitive peoples on earth, living exactly as their ancestors lived a thousand years ago.

Price: $8.00


SECOND SPRING AND TWO POTATOES
Chase, Ilka
Book Number: 3800
ISBN: 
Publisher:
London, Allen, 1966. Cloth. 8to. 293pp. +34pp b/w plates. Endmaps. Good in a good price clipped d/w.

Price: $10.00


A Holiday History of Scotland
Hamilton, Ronald
Book Number: 4523
ISBN: 
Publisher: Chatto & Windus London 1975. First ed.
8vo. Hardcover. 223pp. Index. B/w illus. Very good, minor wear to corners. Small previous owner's signiture on title page. / very good d/w with wear to corners.

Price: $10.00


Skulduggery.
Shand, Mark & Don McCullin
Book Number: 5276
ISBN: 
Publisher: Jonathon Cape. London. 1987. First edition
8vo. hardcover. 145pp. + b/w plates. near fine / near fine d/w.

Price: $18.00


Men Against the Jungle.
Calder, Ritchie
Book Number: 21255
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954. 1st edition.
8vo. hardcover. 232pp. index. + b/w plates. endpaper maps. very good. / very good d/w.

Price: $10.00


Honey Pots and Brandy Bottles
Lewis, Eiluned, Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker Wood Engravings
Book Number: 21980
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Country Life Limited, 1954
8vo. hardcover. 96pp. b/w illus. very good, neat owner's details on top corner of contents & intro pages. / good, lightly chipped d/w.

Price: $22.00


Throwim Way Leg
Flannery, Tim
Book Number: 59119
ISBN: 
Publisher: Melbourne Text Publishing 1998
8vo softcover 326pp index, colour illus. very good, light foxing. The hilarious, riveting and sometimes terrifying adventures of an Australian field biologist in the jungles and mountains of New Guinea.

Price: $15.00


Golden Honeycomb
Cronin, Vincent
Book Number: 30259
ISBN: 0246111259
Publisher: London ; New York Granada 1980
8vo hardcover 267pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.

Price: $15.00


Wrong About Japan
CAREY, Peter
Book Number: 48696
ISBN: 1740513258
Publisher: Vintage January 1, 2004
8vo softcover 121pp very good. French flaps. For Peter Carey, a trip to Japan with his twelve-year-old son Charley would be a unique opportunity to share and learn something about his son's passion for Japanese comics and animated film, otherwise known as manga and anime. Convinced that there is 'a whole history and culture hidden between the frames', Carey hopes that this journey will help him to break the skin of Japanese culture. Charley, on the other hand, simply wants to buy cool manga. Either way, Carey looks forward to forging some indelible memories with his thoughtful, reticent son. And while some of the memories they create are not those that Carey might have wished for - such as Charley's ill-concealed boredom when forced to sit through four hours of traditional Japanese theatre, and Carey's own less-than-joyful reaction to Sega World - nonetheless it's an unforgettable and precious time, a time Carey considers a privilege, most especially for the pleasure of sharing his son's enchanted response to the adventure.

Price: $10.00


The Four Continents - Discussions on Travel, Art and Life
Osbert Sitwell
Book Number: 1938
ISBN: 
Publisher: Macmillan 1954 August
Excellent copy in d/w with shelf wear.

Price: $15.00


MIDDLE PASSAGE
NAIPAUL, V.S.
Book Number: 32964
ISBN: 0394746740
Publisher: New York Vintage; 1st Vintage Books ed 1981
8vo softcover 232pp. very good, cover creased. Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch - in the West Indies and South America

Price: $6.00


Landscape of King Arthur
Ashe, Geoffrey
Book Number: 37575
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Guild 1987
Small 4to. hardcover. 191pp. index, colour & b/w illus. near fine. / near fine d/w.

Price: $12.00


On The Road To Damascus
Baker, Glenn A.
Book Number: 35282
ISBN: 0670912212
Publisher: Viking 2001
Large 8vo softcover 316pp very good.

Price: $10.00


THE HACIENDA. My Venezuelan Years
ST AUBIN DE TERAN,, Lisa
Book Number: 35490
ISBN: 1860494595
Publisher: London, Virago, 1998
8vo. 342pp. Paperback. The author's memoir of her life on a Venezuelan plantation deep in the Andes.

Price: $8.00


Juliette's outback jaunt
Lawrence, Jack
Book Number: 38004
ISBN: 0646317911
Publisher: Woodford, QLD. Jack Lawrence 1999
8vo softcover 294pp colour & b/w illus. very good+.

Price: $8.00


Great British Bus Journeys - Travels Through Unfamous Places
McKie, David
Book Number: 54568
ISBN: 1843543419
Publisher: Atlantic Books 2007
8vo softcover 359pp index. Near Fine.

Price: $6.00


Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space
Nooteboom, Cees
Book Number: 47142
ISBN: 0099453789
Publisher: Vintage 2007
8vo softcover 232pp, b/w illus. very good+.

Price: $6.00


Baghdad without a map and other misadventures in Arabia
Horwitz, Tony
Book Number: 47267
ISBN: 0207171688
Publisher: Angus & Robertson 1992
8vo softcover 276pp very good. This is the story of ordinary people caught in extraordinary conflict written with wit and insight. From the Ayatollah's funeral to the Cairo politeness police, Yemeni arms traders and present day Iraq, this is a human portrait of a territory few Westeners ever understand.

Price: $8.00


Head Over Heel : Seduced By a Southern Italian
Harrison, Chris
Book Number: 50053
ISBN: 9781741964073
Publisher: Pier 9, Australia 2008
large 8vo. softcover. 320pp. Very good+.

Price: $10.00


Reunion in Barsaloi
Hofmann, Corinne
Book Number: 50493
ISBN: 1905147295
Publisher: Bliss Books 2006
8vo softcover 162pp colour illus. very good+.

Price: $10.00


Off the Rails: 10,000 km in fourteen months - Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, and China
Cope, Tim and Chris Hatherly
Book Number: 51051
ISBN: 0670040460
Publisher: Penguin Global February 15, 2004
8vo softcover 400pp very good. Illustrated with photo's. It was one of those moments when you become so deeply involved with the experience that you begin to blend with the dirt. This is the story of two twenty year old boys who travel on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia, the Gobi Desert, Mongolia to Beijing, in China. The journey takes fourteen months to complete across some of the world's most hard-to-access terrain.

Price: $8.00


Hotel Heaven - Confessions of a Luxury Hotel Addict
Brace, Matthew
Book Number: 53585
ISBN: 9781741665079
Publisher: Random House 2007
8vo. softcover. 339pp. Hotel Heaven is the fascinating, glamorous and hilarious account of more than a decade of relentlessly posh travel, painstaking research and an awful lot of fun. Jetting into far-flung airstrips, being chauffeured in Rolls Royces, sharing lifts with movie stars and tents with hyenas, stalking TV celebrities from behind lobby pot-plants, sipping cocktails with multi-millionaires in Hollywood, Bali and Bora Bora, and being able to smile and say "good evening, how utterly delightful to make your acquaintance" in 7 different languages: all part of the daily grind of the five-star hotel reviewer. In Hotel Heaven, Brace takes you inside the hallowed walls of the world's most fabulous and expensive luxury hotels. He walks you through their corridors and lush gardens, lets you plunge into their pools and luxuriate in their best suites. But things do not always go to plan for the jet-set travel writer and Brace recounts hilarious and humiliating incidents which have almost ended his career as a professional bon viveur.

Price: $8.00


The Blind Leading the Blind
Andrews, Stuart
Book Number: 53759
ISBN: 1741101794
Publisher: Sydney New Holland 2004
8vo softcover 240pp colour illus. very good.

Price: $9.00



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