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Biography
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THE DANCE OF DESTINY Raja Arasa Ratnam (Singapore / Malaysia / Australia) See photos & details
THE DANCE OF DESTINY Raja Arasa Ratnam (Singapore / Malaysia / Australia)
THE DANCE OF DESTINY: Raja Arasa Ratnam's autobiography. Ratnam was born in British Malaya of Ceylon Tamil parents, surviving Japanese occupation in World War II, and spent 60 of his 80 years in Australia.
Price: AUD $18.00
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF DITH PRAN Sydney H. Schanburg - The Original Account on Which the Killing Fields is Based - Cambodia See photos & details
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF DITH PRAN Sydney H. Schanburg - The Original Account on Which the Killing Fields is Based - Cambodia
A very hard to find biography of Dith Pran, Cambodia Year Zero survivor and the subject of the brillian film, The Killing Fields.
Price: AUD $15.00
THE GLOBAL SOUL Pico Iyer - Jet-Lag, Shopping Malls and the Search for Home (Worldwide) See photos & details
THE GLOBAL SOUL Pico Iyer - Jet-Lag, Shopping Malls and the Search for Home (Worldwide)
In the Global Soul popular and critically acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer travels around the world in search of a place to call home, finally choosing Japan.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES SOBHRAJ by Richard Neville and Julie Clarke (Thailand) See photos & details
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES SOBHRAJ by Richard Neville and Julie Clarke (Thailand)
A scarce and classic true crime \ travel book. The story of Charles Sobhraj, a charismatic and dangerous young man who, during the 1960s and 70s, murdered a number of young backpackers while running a gem business in Bangkok,
Price: AUD $10.00
THE LIFE OF MY CHOICE Wilfred Thesiger Autobiography See photos & details
THE LIFE OF MY CHOICE Wilfred Thesiger Autobiography
An autobiography of Wilfred Thesiger, a legendary travel writer and 'the last of the great British eccentric explorers'.
Price: AUD $9.00
THE PHEASANTS' REVOLT Brian Viner - More Tales of the Country (England) See photos & details
THE PHEASANTS' REVOLT Brian Viner - More Tales of the Country (England)
THE PHEASANTS' REVOLT is Brian Viner's English treechange memoir, a funny look at life in country England.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE SUM OF OUR DAYS Isabel Allende (Chile / USA ) See photos & details
THE SUM OF OUR DAYS Isabel Allende (Chile / USA )
THE SUM OF OUR DAYS: memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist Isabel Allende on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE TERMINAL MAN The extraordinary true story of the man who has lived in an airport terminal for sixteen years by Alfred Mehran See photos & details
THE TERMINAL MAN The extraordinary true story of the man who has lived in an airport terminal for sixteen years by Alfred Mehran
This looks like a brilliant read, the author lived in the departure lounge of Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris for 16 years.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE THORN OF LION CITY Lucy Lum - A Memoir (Singapore) See photos & details
THE THORN OF LION CITY Lucy Lum - A Memoir (Singapore)
THE THORN OF LION CITY: Lucy Lum's memoir of wartime Singapore.
Price: AUD $10.00
THROUGH THE JUNGLE OF DEATH Stephen Brookes - A Boy's Escape From Wartime Burma (Myanmar) - Hardcover First Edition See photos & details
THROUGH THE JUNGLE OF DEATH Stephen Brookes - A Boy's Escape From Wartime Burma (Myanmar) - Hardcover First Edition
A very hard to find wartime Burma memoir, a lovely hardcover first edition.
Price: AUD $15.00
TILL THE SUN GROWS COLD Maggie McCune - A Mother's Compelling Memoir of the Life of Her Daughter (Sudan Africa India) See photos & details
TILL THE SUN GROWS COLD Maggie McCune - A Mother's Compelling Memoir of the Life of Her Daughter (Sudan Africa India)
Till the Sun Grows Cold is the biography of Emma McCune, and aid worker who married a Sudanese war lord, survived the civil war and was killed in a car accident later in Nairobi. Also the subject of the book Emma's War.
Price: AUD $8.00
TOO LONG IN THE BUSH Len Beadell (Australia) See photos & details
TOO LONG IN THE BUSH Len Beadell (Australia)
A scarce and popular book by Len Beadell who is considered Australia's last great explorer.
Price: AUD $8.00
TRAVELLING LIGHT Robyn Davidson See photos & details
TRAVELLING LIGHT Robyn Davidson
Travelling Light is Robyn Davidson's collection of various articles from her amazing travels over the years.
Price: AUD $8.00
TROPIC TIDE Mandalay Perkins - V.B. Perkins, An Adventurer's Life (Worldwide) See photos & details
TROPIC TIDE Mandalay Perkins - V.B. Perkins, An Adventurer's Life (Worldwide)
Tropic Tide is the biography of adventurer, POW survivor, shipping pioneer, restless spirit and visionary, Bruce 'VB' Perkins.
Price: AUD $9.00
TWILIGHT OF LOVE Robert Dessaix - Travels With Turgenev (Germany Russia France) See photos & details
TWILIGHT OF LOVE Robert Dessaix - Travels With Turgenev (Germany Russia France)
Part travel memoir, biography and literary memoir by the celebrated Australian author.
Price: AUD $6.00
TWILIGHT OVER BURMA Inge Sargent - My Life as a Shan Princess (Burma \ Myanmar) See photos & details
TWILIGHT OVER BURMA Inge Sargent - My Life as a Shan Princess (Burma \ Myanmar)
TWILIGHT OVER BURMA: This looks like an amazing read, the Austrian author Inge Sargent arrives in Rangoon in 1953 to begin a new life with her Burmese husband, who turned out to be the Prince of Hispaw, ruler of an autonomous state in Burma's Shan mountains.
Price: AUD $10.00
UNDER MY SKIN Kathryn Riding - A Journal of Pregnancy, A Travelogue, A Love Story (Portugal Spain) See photos & details
UNDER MY SKIN Kathryn Riding - A Journal of Pregnancy, A Travelogue, A Love Story (Portugal Spain)
UNDER MY SKIN: Kathryn Riding's memoir of travel and life.
Price: AUD $8.00
VEERAPPAN India's Most Wanted Man by Sunaad Raghuram See photos & details
VEERAPPAN India's Most Wanted Man by Sunaad Raghuram
A scarce biography of a famous Indian criminal. Book is in good condition with nice clean pages, a little wear to dust jacket. Price marked on bottom edge. See photos for condition, sample page and cover blurb - enjoy!
Price: AUD $9.00
WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA Carlos Eire - Confessions of a Cuba Boy (Cuba) See photos & details
WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA Carlos Eire - Confessions of a Cuba Boy (Cuba)
WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA: This haunting memoir of the Cuban Revolution, seen through the eyes of a small boy, is the heartbreaking story of the author's privileged childhood in pre-Revolution Havana, and how he lost everything, including his father.
Price: AUD $5.00
WAVE MAN Robert Redenbach (Malaysia / South Africa / Iraq) See photos & details
WAVE MAN Robert Redenbach (Malaysia / South Africa / Iraq)
What makes a successful and happily married man risk the streets of post-invasion Baghdad to provide protection for foreign aid workers? From an Australian country town to teach his own brand of 'empty handed combat', to the bodyguards on Nelson Mandela's immaculate lawn, the author takes us through realms most of us see only on screen.
Price: AUD $9.00
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