By Catriona Rowntree
Books are an important part of travel. They keep us entertained on long journeys (often picked up just before boarding), they relax us by the pool or at the beach, and they bring stories of worlds far away home. This week, we’re continuing to bring travel home through the pages of 8 books. And we’d love ...
Discover how and where inspiring women have changed our world with Lonely Planet’s In Her Footsteps, a travel guide to places where female activists, artists, pathbreakers and icons have studied, lived, worked, reigned and explored. Released ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, In Her Footsteps allows readers to journey to the heart of women’s ...
"101 Inspirations For Your Journey", by Meredith Gaston. It wasn't hard to decide whether this would resonate with a Journeys To Come audience! I picked up this sweet hard-cover book a fortnight ago from a shop (The Epicurean) in Red Hill, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula (which is, I believe, close to where its author now resides). In ...
"Women Who Run With The Wolves - Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman", by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. For all of its feminine wisdom and intuitive insights. "The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck", by Sarah Knight. This is Sarah Knight’s lifestyle take on Marie Kondo’s art of decluttering and living a tidy life. Knight’s hilarious ...
"The Amazing Mrs Livesey", by Freda Marnie Nicholls. A ridiculously absurd (but true) tale of Australia’s greatest imposter who had over 40 aliases, eight official marriages, four children, five divorces and one of Australia’s greatest fraudsters. "The Pillars of the Earth" series, by Ken Follett. Giant tomes of gripping drama from 12th Century England and beyond. "All The Light ...
I love that reading can take you anywhere in the world in a few pages. When I’m travelling, I always try to read a book on the place I’m travelling through, so I can pick out the names of towns and better visualise where the writer is. But I love too, that feeling of sitting ...