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Book Cover: The South African Story with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
By Roger Friedman & Benny Gool

Based on the 10-part documentary television series of the same name, The South African Story with Desmond Tutu is a travelogue with a difference. Created by veteran producers Roger Friedman and Benny Gool, and taking in all the country's nine provinces, it is a colourful tapestry which brings together the vibrancy and warmth of the diverse people of South Africa and the spectacular beauty of their...

Based on the 10-part documentary television series of the same name, The South African Story with Desmond Tutu is a travelogue with a difference. Created by veteran producers Roger Friedman and Benny Gool...

Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780143528142
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Plains of Cambedoo
By Eve Palmer

The Karoo is one of the world's oldest and greatest deserts. To the casual traveller it is an arid desolation, without life and without charm. To those who know it, it is a land of secret beauty and infinite variety, fierce sometimes, hostile sometimes, but exercising a fascination that makes the rest of the world seem strangely tame.

For six generations, Eve Palmer's family have lived there, on the...

The Karoo is one of the world's oldest and greatest deserts. To the casual traveller it is an arid desolation, without life and without charm. To those who know it, it is a land of secret beauty and infinite...

Published: 03/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143528029
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Return to Cambedoo
By Eve Palmer

This is not a cookery book, although recipes are included. It is a book about food.

'This is how it happened. I had been planning a book on plants, and in between notes for this, I had been collecting recipes, for the benefit of children, and grandchildren, of the farm food we had enjoyed on my old Karoo home – Cranemere – between Graaff-Reinet and Somerset East on the plains of Camdeboo...

This is not a cookery book, although recipes are included. It is a book about food.

'This is how it happened. I had been planning a book on plants, and in between notes for this, I had been collecting...

Published: 03/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143528036
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books
Whether describing the archival jolt of holding Virginia Woolf's suicide note in the British Library or the outlaw thrill of cruising Main Street in small-town America on a bike nicknamed 'Il Mostro,' Bishop tells a story filled with insight and humour.
Whether describing the archival jolt of holding Virginia Woolf's suicide note in the British Library or the outlaw thrill of cruising Main Street in small-town America on a bike nicknamed 'Il Mostro,' Bishop tells a story filled with insight and humour.
Published: 21/07/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143051312
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2011
Packed full of information about the best places to eat and drink in Sydney.
Packed full of information about the best places to eat and drink in Sydney.
Published: 07/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143011736
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Age Cheap Eats 2010

If you want to eat well in Melbourne on a budget, Cheap Eats is the BEST guide for you. The 2010 edition contains more than 500 reviews (including more than 100 new eateries) of the BEST places to eat and drink. As well as metro reviews, there's a section on country Victoria, Melbourne's BEST bars, and a new 'BEST coffee' feature. In fact, this year's guide is all about the BEST, with a series of 'BEST'...

If you want to eat well in Melbourne on a budget, Cheap Eats is the BEST guide for you. The 2010 edition contains more than 500 reviews (including more than 100 new eateries) of the BEST places to eat...

Published: 22/02/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143011774
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica
By Dorothy Carrington

'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...'

Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. Granite Island , much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably vivid and delightful portrait. For the first time Corsica is brought to light as a vital element in Europe:...

'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...'

Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. Granite...

Published: 28/07/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141442273
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Labels
By Evelyn Waugh

Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design.

Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design.

Published: 21/07/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780141193588
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Ninety Two Days
By Evelyn Waugh

Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design.

Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design.

Published: 05/08/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780141193601
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  South from Granada
By Gerald Brenan
Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, village customs, superstitions and characters...
Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way...
Published: 28/07/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141189321
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Dark Star Safari: Popular Penguins

Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari is a journey overland from Cairo to Cape Town. He travels
across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, through Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Encompassing some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth - and some of the most dangerous - Dark Star Safari is a powerful love letter to the continent...

Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari is a journey overland from Cairo to Cape Town. He travels
across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, through Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania...

Published: 01/09/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141037295
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Penguin Great Journeys: In the Heart of the Amazon Forest
By Walter Henry Bates
One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvellous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true – a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in his quest for ever more obscure specimens on ever more narrow and creeper-choked tributaries.

Great...

One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvellous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true – a great...
Published: 22/05/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141025391
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover: The Penguin Map of the World
Published: 21/08/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140515282
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New   Continent
By Humboldt Alexander Von
Alexander Von Humboldt visited the tropics of the New World between 1799 and 1804. On his return he wrote the personal narrative, a classic work of travel that is also one of the great products of enlightenment natural science.
Alexander Von Humboldt visited the tropics of the New World between 1799 and 1804. On his return he wrote the personal narrative, a classic work of travel that is also one of the great products of enlightenment...
Published: 01/03/1996
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140445534
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  In the South Seas

In the South Seas records Stevenson's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 1888-9.  Originally drafted in journal form while Stevenson travelled, it was then ambitiously rewrittento describe the islands and islanders as well as Stevenson's own personal experiences. In the South Seas was published posthumously in 1896.  Its...

In the South Seas records Stevenson's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 1888-9.  Originally drafted in journal form while Stevenson...

Published: 18/11/1998
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140434361
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark & Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Woman
By Mary Wollstonecraft

In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A Short Residence in Sweden is the record of Wollstonecraft's last journey in search of happiness, into the remote and beautiful backwoods of Scandinavia.

In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A Short...

Published: 05/08/1987
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140432695
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  South: The Endurance Expedition
By Ernest Shackleton

In 1914, as the shadow of the First World War falls over Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the entire Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field gradually thickens, gripping their ship Endurance and slowly crushing her, marooning all twenty-eight men on the polar ice. In a breathtaking, seemingly...

In 1914, as the shadow of the First World War falls over Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the entire Antarctic continent. Their initial...

Published: 18/10/1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140288865
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  North of South: an African Journey
Published: 18/09/1996
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140188264
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Labels
Evelyn Waugh chose the name Labels for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already 'fully labelled' in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by Waugh's quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit.
Evelyn Waugh chose the name Labels for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already 'fully labelled' in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail...
Published: 14/04/1995
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140188370
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Tao of Travel
By Paul Theroux

One of our finest travel writers presents a literary traveller's handbook

After fifty years of wandering the globe, Paul Theroux collects the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel examines 'The Contents of Some Travellers' Bags' and exposes 'Writers Who Wrote About Places They...

One of our finest travel writers presents a literary traveller's handbook

After fifty years of wandering the globe, Paul Theroux collects the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a...

Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141044262
RRP: $19.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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