Europe & UK

Europe & UK
We love Europe, we just can't afford to go there (dang mortgage!). So buy heaps of our books from our fine range of secondhand travel books covering such fine destinations as France, Italy, England, Ireland, Germany, Holland, Finland, Denmark, Turkey, Spain and more.

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CHEWING GUM IN HOLY WATER Mario Valentini's Childhood in the Abruzzo Mountains by Cheryl Hardacre (Italy)
A very hard to find Italy travel memoir, apparently it is very funny.

Price: AUD $9.00

CHICKENS MULES AND TWO OLD FOOLS Victoria Twead - Tuck Into a Slice of Andalucian Life (Spain)
CHICKENS MULES AND TWO OLD FOOLS: Victoria Twead relocates to a tiny village in the Alpujarra mountains, Spain.

Price: AUD $10.00

COLLINS PORTUGUESE PHRASEBOOK
A nifty pocket sized phrase book for anybody off to Portugal, even you.

Price: AUD $8.00

CULTURE SHOCK FRANCE Sally Adamson Taylor - A Guide to Customs and Etiquette
CULTURE SHOCK FRANCE - Culture Shock books are very popular amongst travellers and expats.

Price: AUD $9.00

CULTURE SHOCK SWEDEN Charlotte Rosen Svensson - A Guide to Customs and Etiquette
CULTURE SHOCK SWEDEN - A most popular guide to doing things right in the land of stinky fish and Ikea.

Price: AUD $9.00

CULTURE SHOCK TURKEY Arun Bayraktaroglu - A Guide to Customs and Etiquette
CULTURE SHOCK TURKEY: a most popular guide to Turkish culture and etiquette for travellers and expats. The Culture Shock series if very highly regarded.

Price: AUD $9.00


CYCLING THE MEDITERRANEAN Kameel Nasr - Bicycle Tours in Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Beyond
CYCLING THE MEDITERRANEAN: this 1996 cycling travel guide book is a bit out of date but still handy for research and trip planning.

Price: AUD $8.00

DANCING GIRL Thordis Simonsen - Themes and Improvisations in a Greek Village Setting
Dancing Girl is a hard to find Greece travel\expat memoir, this book is quite hard to find.

Price: AUD $9.00

DEATH AND THE SUN A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spain by Edward Lewine
Good condition with some reading wear and creasing to corners. Pages tanning lightly with age. Small tears on spine bottom. Not mint but a good clean reading copy. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages.

Price: AUD $7.00

DEATH IN THE MOUNTAINS The true story of a Tuscan Murder by Lisa Clifford (Italy)
A scarce travel\memoir\historical true crime book set in Tuscany, Italy.

Price: AUD $9.00

DESIRING ITALY Edited by Susan Cahill - Women Writers Celebrate The Passions of a Country and Culture
This collection of passionate travel writings about Italy includes works by George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Mary McCarthy, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Patricia Hampl, and 23 others who reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European civilization is so seductive to women.

Price: AUD $8.00

DISCOVERING THE BLACK ISLE Douglas Willis (Scotland)
A scarce Scottish travel book.

Price: AUD $10.00

DIVORCED & GONE TO EUROPE Nancy Cawley
DIVORCED & GONE TO EUROPE - the title says it all... Nancy Cawley sews her wild oats in Europe AFTER raising a family.

Price: AUD $8.00

DO NOT PASS GO From Old Kent to Mayfair by Tim Moore
A great book on travelling London via the Monopoly board. This is a used book in average condition but cheap: pages are browning with age; cover is clean but worn around the edges; reading wear to corners, first page has clipped top corner to remove owners name. A bit worn but perfectly readable, scarce and cheap. 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 $6.00

DRIVING OVER LEMONS Chris Stewart - An Optimist in Andalucia (Spain)
A popular rural Spanish travel\expat memoir, interestingly the author was a former drummer from Genesis, preceding Phil Collins.

Price: AUD $8.00

EASY GREEK PHOTO PHRASE BOOK The Essential Companion for Hassle-Free Travel (Greece)
A phrasebook that includes photos so you can point to what you want, genius!

Price: AUD $10.00

EAT PRAY LOVE One Woman's Search For Everything by Elizabeth Gilbert (Italy India Bali)
EAT PRAY LOVE - Elizabeth Gilbert's best-seller that inspired the Julia Roberts movie. The author gets divorced in her thirties and travels Rome, India and Bali.

Price: AUD $5.00

EVERY DAY IN TUSCANY Frances Mayes - Seasons of an Italian Life (Italy)
EVERY DAY IN TUSCANY: is Frances Mayes' follow-up to Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany.

Price: AUD $8.00

EXTRA VIRGIN Annie Hawes - Amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria (Italy)
EXTRA VIRGIN - Two English sisters move to the olive growing regon of Liguria, North Western Italy.

Price: AUD $8.00