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The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing by Debbie Lisle 9780521867801
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $116.09To what extent do best-selling travel books, such as those by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Bruce Chatwin and Michael Palin, tell us as much about world politics as newspaper articles, policy documents... -
The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany by Michael Gorra 9780691126173
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.48Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust,... -
The Undiscover`d Country - W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel by Markus Zisselsberger
Booksplease Price: $43.24The first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives. W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) is the most prominent and perhaps... -
Literature and the Experience of Globalization: Texts Without Borders by Svend Erik Larsen
Booksplease Price: $47.50How does literature represent, challenge and help us understand our experience of globalization? Taking literary globalization studies beyond its traditional political focus, Literature and the... -
An Inside Passage by Kurt Caswell 9780803232143
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Although finding a way to feel at home in the world is ultimately the life's work of us all, rarely has the search ranged as far or found as precise and moving an expression as it does in An Inside... -
Duende: A Journey In Search Of Flamenco by Jason Webster
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some... -
Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail by Mark Abley
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark... -
The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future by Jonathan Chatwin 9781350324053
Booksplease Price: $91.45A History Today Book of the Year 2024On a freezing January afternoon in 1992, Deng Xiaoping, China's former paramount leader and now a revered elder statesman, set off on a month long trip around... -
Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China by Jonathan Chatwin 9781526131577
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.21Through the centre of China's historic capital, Long Peace Street cuts a long, arrow-straight line. It divides the Forbidden City, home to generations of Chinese emperors, from Tiananmen Square, the... -
The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland Hugh Thomson 9780753813584
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75One man goes in search of the lost cities of the Amazon in the Inca heartland.The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The ruins of the Incas... -
Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China by Jonathan Chatwin
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.44Through the centre of China's historic capital, Long Peace Street cuts a long, arrow-straight line. It divides the Forbidden City, home to generations of Chinese emperors, from Tiananmen Square, the... -
Frame 37 by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781787305212
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.40Ex-journalist John Dyer must take on a dangerous political conspiracy to bring a killer to justice.IN A WORLD OF LIES, PROOF IS POWER.John Dyer is living a quiet life when he receives a call that... -
Frame 37 by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781787305229
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.41Ex-journalist John Dyer must take on a dangerous political conspiracy to bring a killer to justice.IN A WORLD OF LIES, PROOF IS POWER.John Dyer is living a quiet life when he receives a call that... -
Shannon Country Paul Clements 9781843517832
RRP: $16.77Booksplease Price: $14.42In August 1939 the Irish travel writer Richard Hayward set out on a road trip to explore the Shannon region just two weeks before the Second World War broke out. His evocative account of that trip,... -
Winter in Fireland: A Patagonian Sailing Adventure by Nicholas Coghlan 9780888645470
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.85After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic and... -
Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals?And an Ancient Way of Life by Michael Benanav 9781643131382
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $22.12Following his vivid account of traveling with one of the last camel caravans on earth in Men of Salt, Michael Benanav now brings us along on a journey with a tribe of forest-dwelling nomads in India... -
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man Nicholas Shakespeare 9781529920604
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.58A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. *WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR... -
Patria: Lost Countries of South America Laurence Blair 9781847924681
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.19An adventurous, dazzling and original history that brings South America's epic past and fascinating present to life'A magnificent contribution to the Latin American canon' MARIE ARANA, author of... -
The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life David Coggins 9781668004692
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.83The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist shares new wisdom, humor, and experience in seven extraordinary fly-fishing expeditions-"an engaging personal journey about finding what you... -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.28A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French... -
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099555667
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees... -
Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood by Robin Hemley 9781496220417
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.33In Borderline Citizen Robin Hemley wrestles with what it means to be a citizen of the world, taking readers on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity. As a polygamist of... -
A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful Gideon Lewis-Kraus 9780957548824
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A young secular writer's journey along ancient religious pilgrimage routes in Spain, Japan and Ukraine leads to a surprise family reconciliation in this literary memoir Gideon Lewis-Kraus arrived in... -
Imagine a City: A Pilot's Love Letter to the World's Greatest Cities Mark Vanhoenacker 9781529112023
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us... -
Solid Ivory by James Ivory
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77'Over 20 films. Over 40 years. What collaboration in any medium has lasted so long, been so successful, so personal, so happy? Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life... -
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Junger 9780231127417
Booksplease Price: $25.22Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of... -
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper: A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year Roland Allen 9781788169332
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51A 'Best Book of the Year 2023' in the New Statesman, Spectator and Waterstones 'Excellent' Ian Samson, TLS 'From plans for flying machines to philosophy - the remarkable joy of jotting things... -
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Junger
Booksplease Price: $111.16Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of... -
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright 9780811238014
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.31WINNER OF THE 2024 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER OF THE 2024 STELLA PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2024 JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2023 QUEENSLAND AWARD FOR LITERARY FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024... -
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas by Harley Rustad 9780062965974
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.89"A layered inquisition and a reportorial force...a technicolor mystery.... In prose that moves like a clear river....Rustad has done what the best storytellers do: tried to track the story to its... -
Berlin: Imagine a City Rory MacLean 9781780224589
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.35The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs,...