Worldwide Travel

Worldwide Travel
Travel books covering many regions, general travel literature and humour.

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PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS A.A. Gill - Assignments From Here and There (Worldwide)
PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS: travel writer A.A. Gill's collection of travel pieces and essays - 'opinionated, angry and painfully funny'.

Price: AUD $5.00

RACE AROUND THE SPORTS WORLD One man's travels to the greatest sporting events on the planet by Tony Hardy
A great read for sports nuts, a world tour of sporting events. Book is in good condition with light reading wear and age. See photos for condition, cover blurb and sample pages - enjoy!

Price: AUD $10.00

RANULPH FIENNES Mad, bad and dangerous to Know, The Autobiography
A scarce biography by a true adventurer. This is a used book in very good condition, very clean and rarely read with just a little corner wear, a lovely book. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages - the book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - enjoy!

Price: AUD $12.00

RECOLLECTIONS OF A RACKETEER Patrick Lane - Smuggling Hash and Cash Around The World
This true crime book looks like a cracker of a read and it's quite hard to find, the globe-trotting adventures of a drug smuggler.

Price: AUD $10.00

RED SEA PERIL Shirley Billing
Author's account of being taken at gunpoint while sailing around the world.

Price: AUD $8.00

RIDING THE MAGIC CARPET Tom Anderson - A Surfer's Odyssey to Find the Perfect Wave (Surfing Worldwide)
RIDING THE MAGIC CARPET is Tom Anderson's surf safari from Jeffrey's Bay in South Africa to Scotland, Indonesia, France, Sri Lanka, Cost Rica and Panama.

Price: AUD $8.00

ROAD TO KATMANDU Patrick Marnham
Road to Katmandu is an account of author PAtrick Marnham's three thousand mile journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1968.

Price: AUD $10.00

ROOTS SCHMOOTS Howard Jacobson - Journeys Among Jews
In Roots Schmoots author Howard Jacobson travels Israel, USA and Lithuania in search of his Jewishness, or Jewish roots. A scarce and unique travel book.

Price: AUD $8.00

ROUGH RIDE HOME M Cameron Pollock - New Zealand to Europe in a Renault Prarie Wagon
This book is very hard to find and looks like a cracker of a read. The author travels from New Zealand to England via Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Italy and France.

Price: AUD $20.00

RULE No. 5 NO SEX ON THE BUS Confessions of a Tour Leader by Brian Thacker (Europe)
RULE No. 5 NO SEX ON THE BUS - Brian Thacker is one of the funniest travel writers around and this book is his best in my humble opinion. It's memoir about his time as a tour leader on Europe 'Contiki' style bus tours. Better him than me!

Price: AUD $10.00

SALON.COM'S WANDERLUST Real Life Tales of Adventure and Romance edited by Don George
A scarce anthology of some great travel writers including Tony Wheeler (Lonely Planet co-founder), Pico Iyer, Peter Mayle and more. Book is in good condition with light reading wear. Pages are clean and tanning lightly with age. A small coffee drop stain on first page. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $9.00

SAND IN MY BRA Funny women write from the road
A great collection of travel yarns. This is used travel book in good, read condition: pages are clean and tanning at edges with age; owners name on inside cover; cover lightly worn around the edges. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - enjoy!

Price: AUD $8.00

SEAWORTHY by T.R. Pearson - Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Seaworthy is amazing looking book. Author TR Pearson tells of the strange adventures of William Willis who twice crossed the Pacific in home made rafts.

Price: AUD $10.00

SEIZED Max Hardberger - A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates & Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Trouble Waters (Worldwide)
SEIZED looks like a cracker of a read. Outpirating the pirates with one of the most interesting men alive: Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships and sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok.

Price: AUD $9.00

SHOOTING STARS AND FLYING FISH Nancy Knudsen - Swapping the Boardroom for the Seven Seas (Sailing Around the World)
SHOOTING STARS AND FLYING FISH: Nancy Knudsen and her husband escape their high pressure corporate lives to sail around the world in a small yacht.

Price: AUD $10.00

SLOW JOURNEY SOUTH Walking to Africa - A year in footsteps by Paula Constant (WORLDWIDE - AFRICA/EUROPE)
SLOW JOURNEY SOUTH: A great read for hikers - the author walks from London to Morocco, I find it hard enough just to get out of bed!

Price: AUD $9.00

SLOW TRAVEL Sell the house, buy the yacht and sail away by Mari Rhydwen
The Australian author and their hubby lived their dream of selling up and sailing the Indian Ocean for three years, drool... This is a used travel book in good condition with light wear and general age. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Price: AUD $10.00

SPICE TRAVELS Ian Hemphill - A Spice Merchant's Voyage of Discovery (Worldwide)
SPICE TRAVELS: A scarce and sought-after book, the author shares his experiences travelling the world as a spice merchant.

Price: AUD $20.00

SPINNING THE GLOBE Noel Purdon - Rivers and People (Worldwide - River Journeys)
SPINNING THE GLOBE - Noel Purdon describes a number of river journeys, clustered around one extraordinary trip down the Congo.

Price: AUD $8.00

SUPER CARGO A Journey Among Ports by Thornton McCamish
A scarce and interesting travel book, the author tours maritime port cities.

Price: AUD $10.00