Travel by Foot Horse Car Motorbike Plane Train Boat & Cycling Travel Books

Travel by Foot Horse Car Motorbike Plane Train Boat & Cycling Travel Books
Travel books on travelling by car, train, motorbike, bicycle, horse, boat, plane, dog sled etc. Lots of cycling books (these go fast) as well as walking and hiking.

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1434 Gavin Menzies - The Year A Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
A popular history book. 'In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world.'

Price: AUD $12.00

A HELL OF A PLACE TO LOSE A COW An American Hitchhiking Odyssey by Tim Brookes
A hard to find travelogue. This is an ex-library book in good condition with clean white pages and some reading wear to cover and corners. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $4.00

A LAND OF TWO HALVES After fifteen years in New Zealand Joe Bennett asked himself where on earth he was.
A Land of Two Halves is cult author Joe Bennett's account of hitchhiking around New Zealand, after living there for fifteen years.

Price: AUD $9.00

A THOUSAND MILES FROM NOWHERE Graham Coster
In A Thousand Miles from Nowhere author Graham Coster hitch-hikes with truckers through USA and Europe.

Price: AUD $9.00

A WALKING TOUR OF BANGKOK 9 exciting itineries to explore the city by G Byrne Bracken
Bangkok is a great city to walk around, I just go wandering for hours there. This is a nifty book of walks, a few years old but still full of great ideas. Book is in good condition with little reading wear, aging lightly. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $10.00

ADVENTUROUS PUB WALKS IN OXFORDSHIRE Roger Noyce
A rare and nifty book for anybody off on a walking (or stumbling) tour of England.

Price: AUD $12.00

ARCTIC DIARY Sam and Richard Branson - Surviving on Thin Ice
ARCTIC DIARY: Sir Richard Branson and a bunch of doggies in the Arctic.

Price: AUD $8.00

AROUND AND ABOUT PARIS Thirza Vallois - How to See the real Paris on Foot - Volume One From the Dawn of Time to the Eiffel Tower
AROUND AND ABOUT PARIS: Thirza Vallois - a dense guide to walking arrondissements 1-7 and history.

Price: AUD $12.00

AROUND THE WORLD ON A PENNY-FARTHING Thomas Stevens
A classic travel cycling book. Thomas Stevens set off from San-Francisco in 1884 to journey around the world on a penny-farthing bicycle. It took him nearly three years to complete.

Price: AUD $9.00

AT SEA AND BEYOND M Ruth Smith - QE2 Passenger Memories
A scarce self published memoir of times aboard the QE2 Ocean Liner.

Price: AUD $10.00

BETWEEN EXTREMES Brian Keenan & John McCarthy
Between Extremes looks like a most interesting looking Chile \ South America memoir.

Price: AUD $6.00

BICYCLE TOURING IN AUSTRALIA Leigh Hemmings - An Environmentally Friendly Way to See The Country
A very scarce Australian cycling travel book including specific routes and itinaries. This book is from 1991 so it's a bit out of date but certainly still handy for trip planning.

Price: AUD $15.00

BOARD FREE The story of an incredible skateboard journey across Australia by Dave Cornthwaite (signed).
This book is very hard to find and looks like a cracker of a read: the author skateboards Australia. Signed by author on first page. Skateboarding travel books are hard to find!

Price: AUD $15.00

BORDER CROSSING Rosie Thomas - On The Road From Paris to Peking (In a 1968 Volvo Amazon)
BORDER CROSSING: Bestselling novelist Rosie Thomas takes a 1968 Volvo Amazon from London NW5 across the roof of the world.

Price: AUD $10.00

BY ANY MEANS Charley Boorman - His Brand New Expedition from Wicklow to Wollongong
By Any Means is a very popular travel memoir by Charley Boorman, best known for his travels with Ewan McGregor in the Long Way Down series.

Price: AUD $10.00

BYPASS Michael McGirr - The Story of a Road (Australia)
BYPASS THE STORY OF A ROAD: a popular and scarce Australian cycling travel book. Australian author Michael McGirr cycles the Hume Highway from Sydney to Melbourne.

Price: AUD $12.00

CARIBBEAN PORTS OF CALL Kay Showker - A Guide for Today's Cruise Passengers
Published in 2002, this book is getting a bit long in the tooth but is cheap, scarce and handy for trip research. Covers Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, St Maarten/St Martin, Eastern Caribbean, Southern Caribbean, South America's Caribbean.

Price: AUD $8.00

CITY WALKS: WASHINGTON D.C. - 50 Adventures on Foot - Boxed Card Set (USA)
A box of 50 cards each with a different walk in Washington DC, a great find for the urban hiker.

Price: AUD $8.00

CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE Anne Mustoe - Two Wheels by The Water to Cairo
A cycling travel book by the very popular bike riding author. An account of a phenomenal lone cycle ride - to the original site of Cleopatra's Needle at Heliopolis in Egypt. Leaving behind home comforts, Anne set herself the challenge of travelling close to water wherever possible - via the Seine and the Rhone, then alongside the Burgundy canal, the Po and the Venetian Lagoon.

Price: AUD $9.00

COCAINE TRAIN Stephen Smith - Tracing My Bloodline Through Columbia
In the summer of 1998, journalist Stephen Smith finds himself boarding the Cocaine Train out of Cali, home of Columbia's infamous drugs cartel. The Cocaine Train is one of the last remnants of a once great railway system, and Smith is riding in it in search of a grandfather he barely knew: Fred Leslie Frost, pioneering railwayman.

Price: AUD $9.00