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	Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. It remains one of the major feats of singlehanded voyaging, and has since been the inspiration for the many who have gone to sea in small boats. Starting from Boston in 1895, by the time he dropped anchor in Newport, Rhode Island over three years after his journey began, he had cruised some 46,000 miles entirely by sail and entirely alone. Slocum's account of his epic voyage is a classic of sailing literature, acclaimed as an unequalled masterpiece of vital yet disciplined prose. It will be welcomed by admirers of his legendary achievement. 'It is a timeless work that can be read again and again, and a story that totally absorbs the reader with it's enormity and honest endeavour' RNSA Journal 'Slocum's prose is a model of its kind: honest, vivid, salty, and at times, lyrical' Traditional Boats and Tall Ships 'One of the all-time classic sailing narratives' Classic Boat Author: Joshua Slocum Publisher: A & C Black Publishers ISBN: 9780713679359 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $21.95 Our Price: $19.54
	New Zealand Driving Holidays Explore New Zealand and create your own memorable and unique holiday with New Zealand Driving Holidays. Spanning the nation from tip to toe, the 29 scenic routes detailed in this new practical guide will appeal to both national and international visitors alike. Written by top NZ travel journalist Donna Blaber, NZDH is a true insider's guide, jam-packed with local information, travel tips, and humour, presented in an easy-to-read itinerary format with accompanying maps and stunning panoramic photography. All driving holidays enable visitors and self-drive enthusiasts to see the country at a pace that leaves time to savour the moment, with breakout options highlighting day trips of special interest. Alternatively readers can select highlights from different stories and create their own unique pathway through this fascinating land, meeting colourful local characters en route, absorbing cultural highlights and savouring regional food and wine. NZDH provides the ultimate 'on the road guide' to NZ whether you?re following the beaten track, taking the road less travelled, or simply enjoying the read from the comfort of an armchair. Author: Donna Blaber, Alastair Wilson Publisher: Deerace Publishing ISBN: 9780975782101 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $25.95 Our Price: $23.10
	101 Beautiful Small Towns in Italy Beautifully illustrated as well as informative, One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy: Shops and Crafts focuses on two of the most popular reasons to visit Italy: shopping and the artisanal products for which Italy is famous. Made in Italy has become synonymous with style and craftsmanship, and every region of the country has its specialties: Venice is known for magical glassware designs, delicate lace, and luxurious velvet Milan and Como for the finest of woven silks the Dolomites and the mountainous regions of Calabria and Sicily for hand-carved wooden objects, among them the famously mischievous wooden peg-doll, Pinocchio Florence for gold jewelry, leather, and straw goods Naples for cameos Assisi for embroidery and Deruta, Gubbio, and many towns in Puglia and Sicily for their time-honored history of ceramic making. A thorough appendix provides helpful addresses and phone numbers to accommodate planning your trip, including hotels, restaurants, wineries, and shops. Each spread features a sidebar with information on local delicacies to be tasted and imbibed, as well as where to find the town's choicest goods. Author: Paolo Lazzarrin Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780847828401 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $99.00 Our Price: $88.11
	101 Beautiful Small Towns in France This book is a one-of-a-kind tour through the charms of small French towns. Each town is as remarkably varied as the many different regions of the country, shaped and influenced by geography, climate, and history. Travel between hilltop hamlets in the Central Massif and in the Pyrenees to rockbound coastal fishing villages in Normandy and Brittany to the ancient woodsy towns of Alsace with their half-timbered Hansel-and-Gretel architecture and fortress-like castles. Sidebars offer invaluable information on local curiosities and delights to explore, unique artisanal products to buy, local wines to savor, and age-old culinary specialties to sample. A detailed appendix tells you where to shop, sight see, eat, and drink-avec plaisir! Beautiful as well as informative, 101 Beautiful Small Towns in France is a tour through the delights of the French countryside a place where the pace slows down, locals engage strangers in conversation, and every town has its local specialty. Beautiful, full-color photographs create the perfect atmosphere as you wander the alleys with the locals in an unexplored town that will prove once and for all that the heart and soul of France lies in the countryside far from the grandeur and pomp of Paris. Author: Simonetta Greggio Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780847828418 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $99.00 Our Price: $88.11
	Gourmet Shops of NY New York is famously rich in diversity, a city where you can find cooks from every corner of the globe down each street. The city's gourmet shops dazzle all five senses and entice you to taste new delicacies. Gourmet Shops of New York captures this unique experience in gorgeous photos and authentic recipes. Here you will discover the most seductive culinary treasures to be found only in New York. One hundred of the best-loved and most-visited gourmet destinations, from neighborhood jewels to exotic superstores are explored in fascinating detail-from the sparkling cases of cheeses at Dean & Deluca to the overwhelming spice shelves at Kalustyans. Secrets and stories from behind the counters provide tips on using and preparing different special foods, making the book as useful as it is beautiful. Sixty one-of-a-kind recipes bring home the rewards of New York's unrivaled food culture. For discerning eaters everywhere, Gourmet Shops of New York inspires the imagination and makes a great gift or souvenir for anyone with a taste for the best. Author: P. Miesel & Nathalie Sann Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780847829323 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $89.95 Our Price: $80.06
	Secrets of Rome From Italy's popular author Corrado Augias comes the most intriguing exploration of Rome ever to be published. In the mold of his earlier histories of Paris, New York, and London, Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous, historical figures and uncovering secrets and conspiracies that have shaped the city without our ever knowing it. From Rome's origins as Romulus's stomping ground to the dark atmosphere of the Middle Ages from Caesar's unscrupulousness to Caravaggio's lurid genius from the notorious Lucrezia Borgia to the seductive Anna Fallarino, the marchioness at the center of one of Rome's most heinous crimes of the post-war period, Augias creates a sweeping account of the passions that have shaped this complex city: at once both a metropolis and a village, where all human sentiment-bravery and cowardice, industriousness and sloth, enterprise and laxity-find their interpreters and stage. If the history of humankind is all passion and uproar, then, as the author notes, for centuries Rome has been the mirror of this history, reflecting with excruciating accuracy every detail, even those that might cause you to avert your gaze. Author: Corrado Augias Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780847829330 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $59.95 Our Price: $53.36
	One Hundred and One Beautiful Small Towns in Mexico One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Mexico broadens the successful One Hundred & One Towns series with a tour through the virgin coastal hamlets, sun-kissed terra-cotta villages, and lush green hilltop towns that abound in Mexico. This is the armchair traveler's escape and the serious tourist's companion, featuring exceptional photography referencing a rich cultural background steeped in ancient Mayan folklore and religious tradition. This book ventures through the countryside providing in-depth histories of the smaller, less trodden towns that speckle Mexico's varied terrain, and introduces readers to the sights, sounds, and scents that are all a part of Mexico's powerful allure. Towns are organized by region and are accompanied by information on local delicacies, nightlife, and must-see hot spots. A complete appendix with addresses and phone numbers of recommended hotels, villas, bed-and-breakfasts, restaurants, and more can be found at the back of the book, as well as a suggested reading list to round out your trip. Author: Guillermo Garcia Oropeza Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780847830282 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $99.00 Our Price: $88.11
	New York City A comprehensive guide to all the best places to visit, enjoy a meal, and stay in New York City, for travelers and residents alike. From Harlem to the East Village to the Bronx's City Island, this guide covers each major neighborhood and borough. In this new second edition, veteran travel writer Paul Karr updates the latest goings-on in the Big Apple, including: - The skinny on the newly reopened Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), back in its Midtown home after a hiatus in Queens - The latest on the exciting new Time-Warner Center, which brings together a world-class hotel, an unparalleled collection of renowned chefs, live jazz, and first-class shopping beneath one colossal roof--actually, two - The opening of a new observation deck at Rockefeller Center, offering an alternative to the Empire State Building - The hottest new boutique hotels, restaurants, and nightlife - Updated subway maps reflecting the latest changes in New York City mass transit, as the city continues to rebuild after 9/11. - 15 maps, 75 black & white photographs, index. Author: Paul Karr Publisher: Countryman Press Inc. ISBN: 9780881507584 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $27.95 Our Price: $24.88
	Dark Sun Dark Sun is the remarkable story of self-confessed 'vagabond' George Dibbern. Following internment on Somes Island in Wellington Harbour in World War I, he returned to his native Germany where for ten years he struggled unsuccessfully to find employment and to adapt to the role of husband and father. In 1930, with his thirty-two foot ketch, Te Rapunga, he broke free from the impending scourge of Nazism, and the constraints and conventions of society. He was to roam the Pacific for the next thirty years, interrupted only by a second internment on Somes Island in World War II, and died in Auckland in 1962 while preparing to return at last to his wife and three daughters in Germany. 'My life is one with the sea. We respect each other and I have no other master,' he once said. He also maintained he answered solely to his own conscience, whose judgement was stricter than any statute of law. 'If you live in harmony with life,' he wrote, 'life will take care of you.' His book Quest, describing the initial four-year sea voyage that led to these convictions, was published in 1941 (Norton, Allen Lane). It won the admiration of American author Henry Miller, who wrote to Dibbern 'as a brother', and whose compassion and support helped Dibbern's family to survive the devastation of Germany after World War II. Miller recognised in Dibbern a man, like himself, well ahead of his time. Meticulously researched and told with the narrative tug of fiction, Dark Sun gives for the first time the full compelling story of the life of 'German George'. It is a timely and inspiring chronicle of what one man accomplished and endured (as well as the repercussions to his family) when, acting on his beliefs, he sailed under his own flag, created his own passport - and 'took his fun where he found it'. Author: Erika Grundmann Publisher: David Ling Publishing Limited ISBN: 9780908990931 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $49.95 Our Price: $44.46
	The End of the Street This book talks about balancing the needs of the social world with the needs of the ecosystem. Dobereiner's concept of sustainable development contains not only the physical elements of a community but also its economic and social impacts. Dobereiner looks at how development ideals can be transferred into practical techniques - site planning, designing and building green projects - that conserve natural resources, take advantage of existing urban structures and improve the economic and social dimensions of a community, while considering the financial realities that must be faced. Most of what needs to be done is both known and technically feasible. Dobereiner's development strategy is unique in that it takes into account the pre-existing structure of the community to which it applies. It is realism applied to the most urgent of needs - a manual and manifesto for taking active steps to ensure that conurbations exist properly in synergy with the environment in which they are built and from which they take their energy. The social world of human beings is, in its own right, a living animal and an animal that requires a home. The environment in which it houses itself can be better harnessed and worked with more effectively - a greater symbiosis between animal and land. Dobereiner's vision applies sensible, achievable planning notions and visionary guidelines to an extremely pressing situation. Author: David Dobereiner Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd ISBN: 9781551642789 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $42.95 Our Price: $38.23
	Against Venice This is the first book in a new Anti-Voyages series which aims to subvert the cliches of travel and travel writing. In a world glutted with books extolling foreign lands and intrepid travelers, Against Venice stands alone. Noted intellectual Regis Debray evokes a vivid picture for us in hyperbolic, tongue-in-cheek prose of a cultural amusement park, a kind of Euro-Disney for snobs. In this ostentatious sanctuary of the Beautiful, the Artificial, and the Picturesque, the tired senior exec or stockbroker feels rejuvenated, transfigured by the glow of Art the Tourist, caught up in the festive unreality of the city's ongoing fancy dress ball, feels free on the very spot where the native inhabitant feels imprisoned. Venice only plays the city and we play at discovering it. And, as the introduction points out, it is not finally Venice itself, but rather this repertoire of poses, temptations, daydreams, and alibis it so easily encourages that is Debray's real target. Kill this inner Venice, he urges, or it will surely kill you. Author: Regis Debray, Philip Wohlstetter and Philip Wohlsetter Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S. ISBN: 9781556433054 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $28.95 Our Price: $25.77
	Secret Hotels Where should we stay? This may be the most vexing question facing anyone planning a holiday, especially travellers whose resources are limited. But finding affordable accommodation does not mean having to settle for surly desk clerks, paltry meals and a cramped hotel room whose only window faces a brick wall. Breathtaking views, attentive service, great on-site food and the full range of amenities are all available at a cost that won't make you cringe. You just have to know where to look.That's where Secret Hotels comes in. Compiled by the editors of Budget Travel magazine, this out-of-the-ordinary guidebook acquaints you with an enticing array of lodgings including beachside cottages, hilltop villas and gracious, family-run guesthouses where you can stay in comfort and style without having to worry about breaking the bank. Setting its sights on eight of the world's top travel destinations, including Provence, Tuscany, Tahiti, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Cornwall, Bali and the French Riviera, Secret Hotels scopes out the hidden treasures that, till now, have mostly been known only to the locals. The description of each hotel is accompanied by sumptuous colour photos of the grounds and interiors, and contact information and rates are provided. Author: Erik Torkells Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc ISBN: 9781584796237 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $35.00 Our Price: $31.15
	Talk to the Snail From the bestselling author of the A YEAR IN THE MERDE and MERDE ACTUALLY, comes an indispensable, tongue-in-cheek, guide to the quirks and foibles of the French A Frenchman goes into a pub with a giant snail on his shoulder. The barman says, Wow, where did you find that? The snail replies In France, there are loads of them. The French can't see why this would be funny at all it dares to suggest that they are not at the centre of the universe. Why would the barman be talking to the snail? Surely there can't be anyone better to talk to than a Frenchman? If you have ever found yourself trapped in an airport/train station/traffic jam due to self-righteously striking French employees, or subjected to the withering stare that French waiters seem to reserve especially for the well-intentioned foreigner, or even just attempting the most basic interaction with a French person this hilarious little guide is just what you need.From how to get served in a St Germain caf to the monumental importance of 'bonjour', from the perils of mispronunciation to the dubious consequences of subsidised culture, with his customary wit and astute observations, Stephen Clarke skilfully guides us through the quagmire of Gallic idiosyncrasies, and shows us how to get the best, and what we really want, from the French. Full of real-life anecdotes and seriously useful advice, this is essential reading for anyone even thinking of visiting La France Author: Stephen Clarke Publisher: Random House Publishers ISBN: 9781741665376 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $17.76
	Hotel Heaven Sex, cocaine, football, shopping we all have addictions. For Matthew Brace it is luxury hotels. Brace has been a happily helpless luxury hotel junkie from an early age and became so hooked that he gave up a lucrative career as a Fleet Street journalist to become a professional travel writer. Hotel Heaven is the fascinating, glamorous and hilarious account of more than a decade of relentlessly posh travel, painstaking research and an awful lot of fun. Jetting into far-flung airstrips, being chauffeured in Rolls Royces, sharing lifts with movie stars and tents with hyenas, stalking TV celebrities from behind lobby pot-plants, sipping cocktails with multi-millionaires in Hollywood, Bali and Bora Bora, and being able to smile and say good evening, how utterly delightful to make your acquaintance in 7 different languages: all part of the daily grind of the five-star hotel reviewer. In Hotel Heaven, Brace takes you inside the hallowed walls of the world's most fabulous and expensive luxury hotels. He walks you through their corridors and lush gardens, lets you plunge into their pools and luxuriate in their best suites. But things do not always go to plan for the jet-set travel writer and Brace recounts hilarious and humiliating incidents which have almost ended his career as a professional bon viveur. So dust off your Prada in-flight satchel and come on a truly fabulous round-the-world glamour trip with an incurable luxury hotel junkie. Come to Hotel Heaven! Author: Matthew Brace Publisher: Random House Publishers ISBN: 9781741665079 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	Are We There Yet? For two glorious weeks we're going to forget about work, leave all care behind, run away from the empty routine of our lives and pretend we are Thelma and Louise, minus the assault and descent into a criminal vortex, of course.'Rach and Jules, two thirty-something gals, hit the road in search of the ultimate solo holiday and the secret to eternal happiness.Are We There Yet? is part travelogue, part road trip and for the most part extremely funny. When they're not trying to tone their bums and impress their sexy, if not-so-bright, fitness leader, dis'ing divorcees over the ninth bottle of chardy, or questioning the pampered existence of Namronette Kitten Seven Space Kitten with a Mission, Rach and Jules are on a quest for truth, honesty and the perfect pub pash. Along the way they contemplate the really big questions, like: What does a single girl do for sex these days? Is there such a thing as a meaningful internet date? What happens when your best friend has the nerve to fall in love? And is it okay to eat basil after it's been stuffed down a bloke's trousers?Whether you've been single, are single, know someone who's single or might indeed be single sometime in the future, Are We There Yet? will have you laughing all the way to the health spa or the nearest bar. Author: Rachel Weiss & Julie Adams Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781741143775 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $22.95 Our Price: $20.43
	Sicilian Summer I came to Sicily an idle bystander and found myself bewitched by its neglected grandeur, sad beauty and passionate intensity in the background I hear once more the cool fizz of lemons on a hot day, the demented click of cicadas and the spluttering of battered Fiats in narrow streets: the sounds of Sicily. This is a story of family honour, religion, tragedy, sex, bitter history and sweet pastries.'Travel writer Brian Johnston accepted an invitation to attend the confirmation of a friend's god-daughter in Sicily, naively expecting little more than the chance to immerse himself in some genuine southern Italian hospitality, while exploring the vibrant tastes, smells, flavours and rituals of Sicilian food. But Sicily has a way of getting under your skin, and as well as being seduced by the island's earthy and mysterious charms, he found himself unexpectedly swept up in flamboyant family dramas and dangerous village politics, eccentric personalities and age-old feuds. A delicious and wholly irresistible tale of passion, power, politics and pasta This is the story of a summer in Sicily. Author: Brian Johnston Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781741147353 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	Shearer's Motel 'Roger McDonald uses language with the precision of a diamond cutter.' US Publishers Weekly Another shed coming up on the horizon...a low, wide roof of galvanised iron the only landmark in a million square miles of flatness and glare...The sun blazed overhead like a nuclear pile. His hat smelt like a dirty sock. His body was sticky, itchy, tired. The tyres od his odl yellow truck, sunk into the sand, gave out a hot, desolate, perished rubber odour, heatwaves ballooning from the bodywork. The impression he had, glancing back towards the vehicel, was of disintegrating material only just holding together. A split in his hat admitted a hot bar of sunlight onto his scalp. His eyeballs felt like pinpoint charred coals and he wanted to slide down into what shade there was...Yesterday morning he had left a tin-roofed farmhouse far to the south of here - Sharon, his wife, and his three daughters hardly stirring in their sleep as they said goodbye. Then while he was out at the truck tying down the last of his load they woke up more, stumbled from bed and huddled in jumpers, stamping their feet in the chill, hugging themselves in the greyness of first light.Sharon brought him a mug of tea and they stood looking at each other over the steaming rims. Well, there was more to this going away than met the eye. The talk of money. The talk of returning to the country of his childhood. It wasn't the full story...He took the cool, pre-autumnal, misty dawn track away - across sheep paddocks dotted with poplars. In a ground mist a flock of starlings formed a perfect heart collapsing into the tatters of a pine windbreak. It was a reversed image of emotion. He was leaving a house, making a break, following a pattern he barely understood. He only knew it was happening that he was making it happen, adn was going, and if he didnt there was a kind of death he woudl face, he couldn't name what it was. Into the hard-living world of travelling shearers in the Australian outback comes internation Author: Roger McDonald Publisher: Random House Publishers ISBN: 9781740510516 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	Back on the Wooltrack In BACK ON THE WOOL TRACK, Michelle Grattan traces the footsteps of pre- eminent journalist and war historian C.E.W Bean. In 1909, Bean was commissioned by the Sydney Morning Herald to write a series of articles on the wool industry in western New South Wales. The articles were later compiled into a book and published as ON THE WOOL TRACK which went on to become an Australian classic. (Continually in print until 1966.) Now, almost 100 years later, Michelle Grattan traces Beans footsteps and paints a fascinating picture of the Far West in 21st century Australia. Like Bean, whose descriptions brought to life the characters who inhabited this harsh, arid region, BACK ON THE WOOL TRACK is about people. Grattan visits the wool country and tracks down descendants of people Bean met during his travels and she observes the modern shearers, doing an old job in a new world. As Bean brought the outback to his city readers in 1909, Grattan interprets the Western Division for contemporary Australians. BACK ON THE WOOL TRACK is a vivid and sensitive portrayal of this delicate country that responds like a piano to whatever touches it. Author: Michelle Grattan Publisher: Random House Publishers ISBN: 9781740511674 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie This is an eye-popping tour of some of the most eccentric, bizarre and downright absurd collections of artefacts ever put on show. Strange things, human beings. They get passionate about strange things, too. All over the world and throughout the ages people have accumulated the extraordinary objects of their affection. Some of these collections are now museums...Michelle Lovric presents an armchair pilgrimage to some of the world's oddest and most interesting. They include museums of asparagus, lawnmowers, ships in bottles, the pets of American presidents, menstruation, worry beads and burnt food. There's the vast Spam museum in Minnesota, the tiny Carrot Museum in Belgium, Iceland's elegant and studious Phallological Museum, the hi-tech Parasite Museum in Japan, the chilling Museum of Madness in Venice, or London's atmospheric Old Operating Theatre. Each page describes in colourful detail a different eccentric or remarkable museum. Curators explain the reasons behind their collections. Other museums let their exhibits speak for themselves - conclusive proof that one man's rubbish is another man's relic. Troubled by how conformist, boring and homogenous the world sometimes seems? Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie is the ideal tonic - a darkly hilarious celebration of the infinite variety of human weirdness. Author: Michelle Lovric Publisher: ICON BOOKS LTD ISBN: 9781840468335 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $35.00 Our Price: $31.15
	Tuscan Secrets 'You can't help being won over by its charm ...' - Canberra TimesReluctantly leaving Venice behind her, Marlena de Blasi travels with her Italian husband south to begin their new adventure. It's in San Casciano dei Bagni, a small Tuscan village that Marlena and Fernando hope to find a rural way of life in which they can both share.Almost immediately, Barlozzo, a gruff, charming Tuscan who has lived in San Casciano all of his life, appears as their guide. Through him, Marlena and Fernando explore the old rhythms of country life linked to the growing seasons. Barlozzo's fascinating stories lead Marlena and Fernando to the regional festivals, to taste just-pressed olive oil drizzled over roasted country bread, and zucchini blossoms, fried to a golden lightness and sprayed with sea-salted water. Barlozzo shares his knowledge of farming traditions, ancient health potions and artisan food makers but he has secrets he doesn't share, and one of them concerns the beautiful Floriana, whose illness teaches Marlena that happiness is truly a choice.Beautifully combining Marlena's passions, Tuscan Secretsalso weaves Marlena's enticing recipes through this utterly delightful memoir of food, travel and love. 'Rich in both personal and historical detail, and coupled with her tremendous recipes, this is a winner.' - Family Circle Author: Marlena de Blasi Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781741752618 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $23.95 Our Price: $21.32