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A champion of the colonies writes about Western Australia in the 1840's.

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1847 work about life in the colonies. "The Spirit of Adventure is the most animating impulse in the human breast. Man naturally detests inaction; he ... More

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Katie Kitamura is speeding across Japan on a train to Osaka to visit her parents. The landscape and the journey evoke everything from her distant ... More

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When ten Pakistani men walk into Kathleen Jamie's small Scottish town on a peace march, in November 2001, she is thrown back to her own travels in ... More

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Letters from a tour of England and Scotland

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Violet Cressy-Marcks was fearless when faced with physical threats. She had already been trekking from Cape to Cairo and had sleighed across the icy ... More

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Annie, Lady Brassey was a very popular Victorian author. She travelled with her husband, Thomas and their four children aboard their yacht, the ... More

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The international adventures of a southern widow turned patron of historical discovery, Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 ... More

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Explores the adventures of both celebrated and unknown women travellers who endured Russian bed bugs, unveiled the secrets of Turkish harems, endured ... More

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Isabel Savory's first book, published in 1900, was a best seller sensation about a game hunting expedition she made with friends from Bombay up to ... More

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Desmond Morris, the renowned natural historian, describes his travels around the world in fascinating and often hilarious detail, together with the ... More

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This biographical dictionary provides an extensive guide to prominent female travelers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. British women make ... More

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The distinguished explorer and writer recounts his rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa. Faced with constant attack ... More

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In early 1999, George Negus signed off from ABC-TV's Foreign Correspondent program and took a much-publicised year off in Italy with his journalist ... More

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Our entire civilization has become inundated with questions by the global war against Islamic Fundamentalism as a result of the heinous attack on ... More

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"Finding Falafel" is the story of a young American woman's discovery of her Jewish heritage as a student in Israel and a fascinating portrait of the ... More

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The reader is invited to join Angus Deayton on a quest for terrestrial happiness which sees him travelling to the four corners of the world and ... More

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For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan face to face, ... More

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For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan -- face to face, ... More

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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of ... More

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