Best of 2017 - Travel

Oh the places you’ll go if you read one of these!

Our top travel books for 2017 will take you on the wildest journeys imaginable, through myth-laden Iceland to Route 66 in the U.S.A.

We guarantee you’ll come down with the travel bug after reading a few of these!

Best of 2016 - Top 10 Fiction

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Every country in the world, in one guidebook: Lonely Planet's The World. A Traveller's Guide to the Planet.

We've taken the highlights from the world's best guidebooks and put them together into one 900+ page whopper to create the ultimate guide to Earth. This user-friendly A-Z gives a flavour of each country in the world, including a map, travel highlights, info on where to go and how to get around, as well as some quirkier details to bring each place to life. In Lonely Planet's trademark bluespine format, this is the ultimate planning resource.

From now on, every traveller's journey should start here...

  • Nearly 1000 colour photos of must-visit highlights
  • More than 200 colour maps
  • The guidebook every traveller needs to own

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)

Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01/10/2017
34%
OFF
RRP  $39.99
$26.75

Lonely Planet's bestselling The Cities Book is back. Fully revised and updated, it's a celebration of 200 of the world's most exciting urban destinations, beautifully photographed and packed with trip advice and recommendations from our experts - making it the perfect companion for any traveller deciding where to visit next.

- Highlights and itineraries help travellers plan their perfect trip

- Urban tales reveal unexpected bites of history and local culture

- Discover each city's strengths, best experiences and most famous exports

- Includes the top ten cities for beaches, nightlife, food and more

- Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler shares his all-time favourite cities

- Fully revised and updated with the best cities to visit right now

About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more.

TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)

Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
14/11/2017
43%
OFF
RRP  $80.00
$46.25
In this moment I am perfect. I am free to be whoever I want, and all I want to be is a woman in a red spotty dress, speeding into her future in a shiny red car.

Raw, sharply funny and heartfelt, Wish You Were Here is a girl’s own adventure with bite, a hilarious rollercoaster ride that will make you itch to escape the everyday and hit the road with this irresponsible and irresistible adventurer.

Reeling from the devastating collapse of her marriage to the man she thought was the love of her life, after a late night enjoying smashing all her china a little too much, Sheridan Jobbins decides she needs to do something drastic to save her sanity.

Her solution is to buy a hot red car and drive across America. Hopelessly unprepared and heartbroken, she sets out on the road trip of a lifetime determined to find herself and ironically finds love instead. But not before she has a whole bunch of crazy adventures and wrong turns along the way.

Every woman with a heart and a sense of humour will want jump on board this unforgettable ride and it’s the best antidote for anyone who’s ever had her heart broken and thought she might not survive.

Advance praise

‘Raw, hilarious and wise, this wild ride will have you crying with laughter.’ Amanda Keller

‘An absolutely riveting read. Hilarious and moving simultaneously.’ Mark Colvin

‘Entertaining, colourful, thought-provoking, and life-affirming … there is much to appreciate in this brave adventure and warts-and-all romantic tale, not least Jobbins’ candour and gutsy self-analysis. Expect to snort out loud as it picks up comic-speed.’ Books+Publishing

Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29/08/2017
 
$29.99

Walking has been the constant in Ailsa Piper's life.

Setting down one foot after the other takes her to a transformative-and transcendent-place.

Her bestselling memoir Sinning Across Spain was inspired by the tradition of medieval walkers who were paid by others to carry their sins to holy places. The cargo included anger, envy, pride and lust. She hiked alone through the endless olive groves of the Camino MozBrabe, from the legendary southern city of Granada toward the centuries-old pilgrim destination, Santiago de Compostela, in the far north-west of Spain.

In dusty pueblos and epic landscapes, miracles found her. Angels in both name and nature eased her path. When faced with the untimely death of her husband, Peter, her 'true north', Ailsa returned to the Camino trail, this time in France, to walk through her sorrow.

This second pilgrimage is the story of a walk where the burden is her own grief, not the sins of others, and which ultimately sees her walking into life and hope.

Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02/10/2017
RRP  $24.99
$23.75

 

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