Travel related fiction books for armchair travelling and killer bus rides.
Travel Related Fiction
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THE WHALE RIDER Witi Ihimaera (New Zealand)
The New Zealand novel (fiction) that inspired the film of the same name - 'Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny'.
Price: AUD $10.00
TOKYO NO HANA Robert Allen - Novel Set in Japan
A scarce novel (fiction) by an Australian author set in Tokyo. Signed by author on title page.
Price: AUD $7.00
TOWARDS ASMARA Thomas Keneally - An African Novel (Eritrea Ethiopia Africa)
Towards Asmara is Thomas Keneally's novel (fiction) from 1980 that draws attention to the long-running Eritrean struggle for independence from Soviet-back Ethiopia.
Price: AUD $7.00
TRAIN MAN Hitori Nakano - The Internet Generation Love Story From Japan
TRAIN MAN - An instant bestseller when it was first published in Japan, Train Man by Hitori Nakano became a multimedia sensation, generating a smash-hit TV series, a blockbuster film, and multiple manga series. Now here' s the novel that started it all.
Price: AUD $8.00
TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN - 1941 Nelson Edition
A collection of very tall stories by German nobleman Freiherr von Münchhausen, better known as Baron Munchausen. This cult classic was first published in 1785 and the inspiration of the Terry Gilliam film, The Adventures of Barpn Munchausen.
Price: AUD $15.00
TUSCANY FOR BEGINNERS Imogen Edwards-Jones - Love and War in a Hot Climate (Italy)
TUSCANY FOR BEGINNERS: a funny novel based on a B&B owner in Tuscany, looks like a satire on "Under the Tuscan Sun" type books.
Price: AUD $6.00
UNDER A TIN-GREY SARI by Wayne Ashton
A scarce novel set in Pakistan in 1967. This is a used paperback book in very good condition: nice and clean and rarely read, near new, light shelf marks. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD $8.00
UP IN THE AIR Walter Kirn (Business Travel \ USA)
UP IN THE AIR was made into the great movie starring George Cloonie as the rootless business traveller.
Price: AUD $5.00
UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE IN THE INDIES by P.A. Daum - A Novel (Dutch Indonesia)
A novel depicting Dutch colonial life in Indonesia during the nineteenth century.
Price: AUD $12.00
VAGABOND by AP Wolf
A novel set in Singapore, looks like a cracker of a read, quite debauched. Book is in good condition with light reading wear, some wear to corners, pages tanning with age. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages - enjoy!
Price: AUD $8.00
WELL-REMEMBERED DAYS Arthur Mathews - Eoin O'Ceallaigh's Memoir of a Twentieth Century Catholic Life - From the Co-Writer of Father Ted (Ireland)
Well Remember Day's is a satirical Irish memoir by Arthur Mathews, a spoof on 'Oirish' culture by the co-writer of Father Ted.
Price: AUD $8.00
WOMEN OF SAND AND MYRRH Hanan Al-Shaykh (Middle East)
WOMEN OF SAND AND MYRRH is a novel (fiction) about four women living in an Arab desert society and the diverse effects of male rule on these women.
Price: AUD $5.00
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