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Coasting: A Private Journey by Jonathan Raban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage which coincided with the ...Show more
In an Antique Land - History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale by Amitav Ghosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Once upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even a ...Show more
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the C te d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world and life they found there, they soon decided to uproot their lives in England and settle in Provence. They h ...Show more
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