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  • The Edge of Paradise

    by P. F. Kluge ...
    In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise - or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that paradise would have prosperity and freedom as well as physical beauty. He immersed himself in the lives of the diverse peoples of the islands. He ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Omoo

    A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

    Melville’s continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville’s personal experiences as a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Songlines

    by Bruce Chatwin ...
    International Bestseller: The famed travel writer and author of In Patagonia traverses Australia, exploring Aboriginal culture and song—and humanity’s origins.Long ago, the creators wandered Australia and sang the landscape into being, naming every rock, tree, and watering hole in the great desert. Those songs were passed down to the Aboriginals, and for centuries they have served not only as a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palau Travel Guide - Tiki Travel

    by Tiki Travel ...
    Palau Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected. Table of contents: - Tiki Travel Guide Books - Copyright - Palau - Understand - Regions - Cities - Other ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • She'll be right!

    Tales and thoughts of a woman's motorcycle adventure Down Under

    At the age of twenty-six, Chantal Simons, born and raised in the Netherlands, can no longer contain her adventurous spirit. Having seen enough of everyday life, she makes the bold decision to take to the roads of the vast Australian continent on her 250CC motorbike, lovingly known as the ‘Chook Chaser’. Starting her travels in Perth, Chantal heads east in the company of her father. After crossing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Melbourne

    Series series The City Series
    Melbourne's a city you get to know from the inside out—you have to walk it to love it. My favourite time to do this is at night. That's when you capture glimpses of people—eating, laughing, talking, arguing, watching TV, and reading—through half-open terrace house doors and windows...it is a city of inside places and conversation. Of intimacy. Melbourne begins on Black Saturday, the day that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adelaide (Australia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel

    by Tiki Travel ...
    Adelaide (Australia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected. Table of contents: - Tiki Travel Guide Books - Copyright - Adelaide - Get in - Get around - See - Do ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • In a Sunburned Country

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Savage Harvest

    A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art

    by Carl Hoffman ...
    The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story.Despite exhaustive searches, no trace of Rockefeller was ever found. Soon after his disappearance, rumors surfaced that he'd been killed and ceremonially ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Sex Lives of Cannibals

    Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

    The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey in the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati—possibly The Worst Place on Earth.At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs—decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Tracks

    One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback

    The incredible true story of one woman’s solo adventure across the Australian outback, accompanied by her faithful dog and four unpredictable camels.I arrived in the Alice at five a.m. with a dog, six dollars and a small suitcase full of inappropriate clothes. . . . There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns.For Robyn Davidson, one of these moments comes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boy Who Talked to Dogs

    A Memoir

    When Martin McKenna was growing up in Garryowen, Ireland, in the 1970s, he felt the whole world knew him as just that stupid boy.” Badly misunderstood by his family and teachers, Martin escaped from endless bullying by running away from home and eventually adopting-or being adopted by-six street dogs. Camping out in barns, escaping from farmers, and learning to fend for himself by caring for his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Getting Stoned with Savages

    A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

    From the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, the laugh-out-loud true story of his years on the islands of Vanuatu and Fiji, among cannibals, volcanoes . . . and the world’s best narcotics.With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Outback Calls You Back

    One man's journey into Outback Australia rekindles distant memories. Forty two years earlier in 1976, the land was harsh and unforgiving, in 2018 he finds that not much has changed, the land is still harsh and unforgiving, some towns have grown while others have become a ghost of their past. This is the true story of a camping trip to the outback that didn't go according to plan. ... Read more

    Free

  • Grief in the Van

    An Adult Orphan, A Cat and a Tiny Home-On-Wheels

    “…a love letter to the land, to adventure and to the healing power of solitude”.Self-Publishing Review ★★★★When a middle-aged unmarried woman experiences the death of her parents, she embarks on a journey in a motorhome – with her cat – through Australia’s changing landscape and the bewildering culture shock that is the grief experience. Learning to navigate the Van, the land and the grief, she ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

  • The Journal of An Uncultured Fool

    A young wanderer on the threshold of adulthood scribbles events involved in his personal perspective progression via exposure to multifarious novel external environments. Travelling from the lows to the highs of the natural and economical worlds, a wider lens through which to view the vicissitudes of existence is acquired. ... Read more

    $5.23 USD

  • Robber Crabs, A Wiki Coffin Mystery Story

    by JOAN DRUETT ...
    Wiki had been enjoying life in the East Indies and the South China Sea. He could speak the local language, so had sailed happily on coastwise craft in the company of Bugis rogues and pirates. But then George Rochester had arrived on the Potomac, and while it had been delightful to get together with his old college friend, it had also ruined Wiki’s current existence.Because of that twice-damned dog ... Read more

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  • Kiwis Might Fly

    A New Zealand Adventure

    by Polly Evans ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPolly Evans was a woman with a mission. Before the traditional New Zealand male hung up his sheep shears for good, Polly wanted to see this vanishing species with her own eyes. Venturing into the land of giant kauri trees and smaller kiwi birds, she explores the country once inhabited by fierce Maori who carved their enemies’ bones into cutlery, bushwhacking pioneers, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation

    "A spectacular achievement and one of the very best travel books I have read." —Simon Winchester, Wall Street JournalDeclaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would "work out the details of the transfer of power etc. as soon as possible." With over 300 ethnic groups spread across over 13,500 islands, the world’s fourth most populous nation has been working on that "etc." ever since. Author ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Carnivorous Nights

    On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger

    Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, authors Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson take off with renowned artist Alexis Rockman on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. This mysterious, striped predator was once the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial. It had a pouch like a kangaroo and a jaw that opened impossibly wide to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Questions of Travel

    A Novel

    Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe -- exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by.Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Happy Isles of Oceania

    Paddling the Pacific

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly).In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Australia Travel Guide - Tiki Travel

    by Tiki Travel ...
    Australia Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected. Table of contents: - Tiki Travel Guide Books - Copyright - Australia - Understand - Regions - Cities - Other ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Travel Stockholm, Sweden: Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook, And Maps. (Mobi Travel)

    This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining, history and much more. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus