Renowned as a mecca for culinary experiences marvelous Melbourne has a great deal to offer those whose taste buds are tingling. So get out and get into the action with a copy of The Age Cheap Eats 2010, which caters for citizens in the country or the city.
If you want to eat well in Melbourne [...]

Take a journey along The River with journalist Chris Hammer and see it in its death throes through his eyes. Is it too late to save it? Will he be able to inspire Australians from all walks of life and all backgrounds to come together as a nation and lend their resources to help save [...]

Donna Mulhearn challenges the status quo on her journey from journalist to press secretary to pilgrim and from human shield to activist, in the process finding her way back to the Catholic faith she abandoned as a child.

Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour of Europe is treading a well worn path. That of the young English grand tourist who, in the eighteenth century, spent up to five years traveling through France and Italy returning home via Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Their journey highlighted the importance of local customs and traditions growing an [...]

Nicolas Rothwell paints a poetic, profound picture in his splendid production Journeys to the Interior. He surveys both the natural and human cultures that inhabit that rarified extension of the great Australian continent from the Kimberley Ranges to Cape York.
Australia’s centre and north are a world apart from its big coastal cities. [...]

The Italian Touch is more than a book and is, in many ways priceless. Vanity Fair said “it presents a rich sampling of Italian life”. Without experiencing the jetlag, enjoy a journey in style in the country that defined what style is and, still sets the trends stylish people everywhere follow. Italian Touch is a [...]

In Kokoda Spirit, journalist Patrick Lindsay takes us on a journey that explores the track as it is today and how it was in 1942. With his unique storytelling he reconnects us with the past while taking us on the gruelling journey that is Kokoda.
The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia’s Alamo. If Gallipoli [...]

Slow Life – Kate O’Brien

Posted on December 13th, 2009 by Jarvis in Environment, Non-Fiction, Travel

In Slow Life author Kate O’Brien offers practical tips, inspiring case studies and insightful analysis demonstrating that improving our ecological and carbon footprint is both chic and achievable.
Confronted with the rising tide of environmental change, a growing number of people are seeking a healthier way of living, voicing concerns about the environment and sustainable [...]

Nine people. Nine Lives. Each taking a different religious path. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India – William Dalrymple is a modern Indian Canterbury Tales.
Three brothers from a remote village in the Himalayas are driven by poverty to become monks. One becomes a famous masked dancer; the second an accomplished player [...]

Holidays will never be the same again when you choose The Road Less Travelled.
The Road Less Travelled is a guide to the world’s unspoilt sights and experiences. Presenting 1,000 fresh and fascinating alternatives to hundreds of well-known tourist destinations and sights; including alternatives to the Carnival in Rio and the beaches of Thailand, the most-visited [...]

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