Reader's Feast - Travel & Environment

The Business of Nature
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Roslyn Russell

As a schoolboy in the 1960s the 'birdman' John Gould was a familiar identity to a young Gould member. In this illustrated volume, covering Gould's years in Australia (1838-1840), author Roslyn Russell outlines the sacrifices and tragedies that Gould, his devoted and artistically talented wife Elizabeth, and their new family, endured by travelling from London to Van Diemen's Land to achieve his lifetime work in ornithology. His outstanding legacy remains a gift to Australian wildlife and an inspiration to those who study the unknown. - Reviewed by Chris G

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At the Water's Edge
Price: AUD 25.95 Author: John Lister-Kaye

Daily encounters with the natural world, collated and bound in this book, make for a wonderful, decades-long homage to the beauty that is all around us. Simply listening, watching and recording these moments is a celebration of our world.

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Merchants of Doubt
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway

Who better to fight scientific data than scientists? This is the story of the so-called 'Tobacco Strategy', using experts to sow doubt, a strategy adopted to counter the veracity of climate change.

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A Family in Paris
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Jane Paech

Jane Paech was pleasantly surprised when her husband came home from work and asked how she would feel about living in Paris for two years. She immediately answered "when are we going?". But with two young children in tow the glamour she envisioned never really materialised as she launched herself into finding an apartment, getting her children into school and learning the intricacies of daily Parisian life. I particularly like her description of how to shop for clothes like a real Parisian (pages 32 and 33), very intimidating! - Reviewed by Nicole

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The Stylist's Guide to NYC
Price: AUD 39.99 Author: Sibella Court

Complete with map, this 'stylish' book chronicles New York City's best, as determined by Sydneysider Sibella Court, following her visits to the iconic American city over the past 15 years.

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Memoirs of a Dervish
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Robert Irwin

A trip to Algiers in the 1960s would set the course for Robert Irwin's life that now sees him as the Middle East editor of the Times Literary Supplement and author of books on the history and culture of the Islamic world. In this book he recounts the memories of that trip to Algiers and recreates that time in his own life and the history of the region.

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Here & There
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: A.A. Gill

I rarely pick up a travel narrative as I am one of that small group who don't especially like travel. However, in this collection of his articles from Australian Gourmet Traveller, A.A. Gill displays irreverance and wit combined with intelligent observation and presents a thoroughly enjoyable book. By example, this sentence on ecotourism: "if you can find somewhere so remote that Eskimos won't live there, then you've got about half an hour to get somewhere they do" (Be sure to read his take on the Swedish and the British.) - Reviewed by Mary D

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My Heart Wanders
Price: AUD 59.99 Author: Pia Jane Bijkerk

The author offers us a reflective approach to the nature of travel in this deeply personal account of what prompted her to leave her native Sydney and travel to Paris and Amsterdam. A spiritual guide, if you will, to travelling.

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Searching for Women who Drink Whisky
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Miranda Kennedy

With a family history of global travel, Miranda Kennedy felt she was always destined to go to India (as her British great-aunt Edith had done in 1930). She brings her journalist's eye to exploring the complexities of modern India, calling upon the many women who become her friends and 'guides'.

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Unholy Pilgrims
Price: AUD 24.95 Author: Tom Trumble

The Camino de Santiago de Compostela is one of the holiest pilgrimages in the world - until now. Tom Trumble takes up an offer from his mate Dave to walk the pilgrimage, a decision that has unforeseen and hilarious consequences.

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To a Mountain in Tibet
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron, one of the most renowned travel writers in the world, tackles Mt. Kailash. Located beyond the Himalayas, Thubron explores this beautiful, isolated place and its people - from the villagers to the monks. This is also a personal journey for the writer as he grieves over the death of a loved one.

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The Great Disruption
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Paul Gilding

Paul Gilding has dedicated his life and career to informing us of our impact on the world. Despite the inevitability, as he sees it, of the effects of climate change, he takes an optimistic view of how we can continue to live on this planet. It is, nonetheless, a view encompassing harsh realities of the consequences of our previous actions.

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Oh Mexico!
Price: AUD 24.99 Author: Lucy Neville

The beauty of this book - and others like it - is the insight you gain into a place that you haven't had an opportunity to visit. I've always had a fascination with Mexico and Lucy Neville's tale of her two years spent living and working there has given me a taste of what to expect should I eventually get there. Seeing the country through her eyes provided part history lesson, part travel brochure, and more. I loved the way her life took unexpected twists and turns and although I wasn't so enamoured by the romantic aspects of her story, there were plenty of misadventures that I enjoyed reading about, particularly the time she appeared in a locally produced soap opera!

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Me, Myself and Lord Byron
Price: AUD 34.99 Author: Julietta Jameson

Taking Lord Byron's constant reinvention of his life as her guiding premise, Julietta Jameson traverses Europe during a period of selfimposed exile from her usual life. Both illuminating Byron's life and creating her own European memories, Jameson affords the reader a rich and multi-layered trip through some of the most stunning and culturally exotic cities in the world.

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India Calling
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Anand Giridharadas

Returning to his parents' homeland, New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas has come up with a bird's eye view of India, a country steeped in tradition yet awakening to new influences. Depicted under chapter headings such as 'Dreams', 'Ambition', 'Anger', and 'Love' the author introduces us to many and varied characters as they negotiate modern day life in one of the most fascinating countries on the planet.

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Human Planet
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Dale Templar

The human species is under the microscope in this lavish and captivating book from the BBC that accompanies a television series of the same name. As well as detailing our species, it explores our interaction with the other inhabitants of the planet. The environment features heavily as the reader is taken on a journey to all parts of the world and introduced to the various ways in which man responds to the physical world nature provides.

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Swenys
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Brendan Kilty

A photographic essay of the most famous 'store' in world literature, this is a journey through modern-day Dublin as guided by the world inhabited by Leopold Bloom and James Joyce and made famous through all of Joyce's works, especially Ulysses

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