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Cockpit Confidential

Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections

by Patrick Smith ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA fascinating fear of flying book from a commercial airline pilot and author of the popular website askthepilot.com.For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even frightening experience. When you go behind the scenes, however, you can see that the grand theater of air travel is actually fascinating. From the intricate design of airport ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA fascinating fear of flying book from a commercial airline pilot and author of the popular website askthepilot.com.For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even frightening experience. When you go behind the scenes, however, you can see that the grand theater of air travel is actually fascinating. From the intricate design of airport
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Lonely Planet Experience Scotland

by Mike MacEacheran ...

Series series Travel Guide
Lonely Planet's Experience Scotland travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic country with insider tips from our local experts and handy planning tools so you can create your own unique trip.Discover amazing local experiences from digging into shellfish platters in Oban, the 'Seafood Capital of Scotland', to taking a road trip on the crowd-free Cowal Peninsula, and marvelling ... Read more

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Lonely Planet's Experience Scotland travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic country with insider tips from our local experts and handy planning tools so you can create your own unique trip.Discover amazing local experiences from digging into shellfish platters in Oban, the 'Seafood Capital of Scotland', to taking a road trip on the crowd-free Cowal Peninsula, and marvelling
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Lonely Planet Sweden

by Lonely Planet ...

Series series Travel Guide
Lonely Planet's Sweden is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Wander the old town of Stockholm, spot wildlife in the Arctic and sample Swedish meatballs; all with your trusted travel companion.Inside Lonely Planet's Sweden Travel Guide:Lonely Planet's Top Picks</strong... ... Read more

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Lonely Planet's Sweden is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Wander the old town of Stockholm, spot wildlife in the Arctic and sample Swedish meatballs; all with your trusted travel companion.Inside Lonely Planet's Sweden Travel Guide:Lonely Planet's Top Picks</strong...
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Lonely Planet Switzerland

by Nicola Williams, Caroline Bishop, Anthony Haywood, Claire O’Dea, Simon Richmond, Michaela Scalisi, Kerry Walker ...

Series series Travel Guide
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Switzerland.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from climbing Mt Rigi's panorama hiking trail for epic views to puffing up snow-dusted peaks aboard the Brienz Rothorn Bahn, and exploring the medieval Schloss Habsburg, the ancestral home to the Habsburg dynasty.Build a trip to ... Read more

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Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Switzerland.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from climbing Mt Rigi's panorama hiking trail for epic views to puffing up snow-dusted peaks aboard the Brienz Rothorn Bahn, and exploring the medieval Schloss Habsburg, the ancestral home to the Habsburg dynasty.Build a trip to
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Lonely Planet Slovenia

by Virginia DiGaetano, Mark Baker, Anthony Ham ...

Series series Travel Guide
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Slovenia.Discover Slovenia's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from enjoying an exhilarating ride on Zipline Dolinka over the Sava River, to admiring manicured vines full of local furmint grapes in eastern Kungota, and searching for truffles in the ... Read more

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Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Slovenia.Discover Slovenia's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from enjoying an exhilarating ride on Zipline Dolinka over the Sava River, to admiring manicured vines full of local furmint grapes in eastern Kungota, and searching for truffles in the
... Read more
Halliday Wine Companion 2026

The Bestselling and Definitive Guide to Australian Wine

by James Halliday ...

For over forty years James Halliday AM has been Australia's most respected wine critic, and his Halliday Wine Companion is recognised as the authority on Australian wine.A best-selling annual, the Halliday Wine Companion 2026 has been completely revised to bring readers the latest wine ratings, regions, best varieties, winery reviews and a curated selection of the best wines in Australia.The ... Read more

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For over forty years James Halliday AM has been Australia's most respected wine critic, and his Halliday Wine Companion is recognised as the authority on Australian wine.A best-selling annual, the Halliday Wine Companion 2026 has been completely revised to bring readers the latest wine ratings, regions, best varieties, winery reviews and a curated selection of the best wines in Australia.The
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Las Vegas Then and Now

by Su Kim Chung ...

Las Vegas Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today.‘Las Vegas Then and Now’ captures the city's evolution from a desert railroad outpost into the gambling and entertainment capital of the world. Pairing historical photographs of the town with specially commissioned views of the same scene today, this book provides the reader with an intriguing ... Read more

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Las Vegas Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today.‘Las Vegas Then and Now’ captures the city's evolution from a desert railroad outpost into the gambling and entertainment capital of the world. Pairing historical photographs of the town with specially commissioned views of the same scene today, this book provides the reader with an intriguing
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A Small Place in Italy

by Eric Newby ...

This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return to life in the Italian hills where they first met during World War II. But this fulfilment would not come easy. The dream materialised in the form of I Castagni ('The Chestnuts'), a small, ... Read more

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This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return to life in the Italian hills where they first met during World War II. But this fulfilment would not come easy. The dream materialised in the form of I Castagni ('The Chestnuts'), a small,
... Read more
Lonely Planet Scandinavia

by Anthony Ham, Alexis Averbuck, Laura Hall, Thomas O'Malley, Angelo Zinna ...

Series series Travel Guide
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Scandinavia.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from hiking Sweden's spectacular Kungsleden, to channelling Shakespeare at Hamlet's old haunt Kronborg Slot in Denmark, and exploring an oasis of cool cafes in Stockholm's Södermalm.Build a trip to remember with Lonely ... ... Read more

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Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Scandinavia.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from hiking Sweden's spectacular Kungsleden, to channelling Shakespeare at Hamlet's old haunt Kronborg Slot in Denmark, and exploring an oasis of cool cafes in Stockholm's Södermalm.Build a trip to remember with Lonely ...
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Lonely Planet Central Asia

by Bradley Mayhew, Mark Elliott, Anna Kaminski, Stephen Lioy ...

Series series Travel Guide
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Central Asia.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from staying overnight in an authentic yurt in the high eastern Pamirs, to hiking through the wild and memorable Bartang Valley, and haggling for goods at the buzzing Jayma Bazaar in Kyrgyzstan.Build a trip to remember with Lonely ... Read more

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Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Central Asia.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from staying overnight in an authentic yurt in the high eastern Pamirs, to hiking through the wild and memorable Bartang Valley, and haggling for goods at the buzzing Jayma Bazaar in Kyrgyzstan.Build a trip to remember with Lonely
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Peiyu的手繪自助旅行背包

by 張佩瑜（peiyu） ...

Series series 優遊
背包客的背包裡裝了什麼？哪些多餘的東西會讓你半路想扔掉？怎麼藏錢可以防扒手？醫藥備品帶哪些？攜帶3C產品要注意什麼？打開Peiyu的旅行背包，讓她告訴你如何收拾行囊，用最精簡、實用的裝備，「安全」又「盡興」地浪跡天涯！在《秘魯．玻利維亞手繪旅行》、《衣索比亞手繪旅行》、《瓜地馬拉手繪旅行》之後，Peiyu終於公開了她是如何準備這些旅行的！也許你會擔心，要成為自助旅行背包客，是否需要非常多專業的裝備呢？動輒一兩個月的旅程，我的行李該怎麼收拾阿？想去開發中國家體驗當地的風俗民情，但又擔心治安不佳，會有安全的疑慮，該怎麼準備呢？看完這本書你會發現，其實不需要過多的準備，也不需要專業的裝備，身邊一些日常用品就是旅途必備的實用精品。自助旅行其實並不是想像中那麼浪漫，除了旅途中會發生各種意想不到的突發事件，所有的裝備行李也都要自己扛，所以背包裡的每... ... Read more

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背包客的背包裡裝了什麼？哪些多餘的東西會讓你半路想扔掉？怎麼藏錢可以防扒手？醫藥備品帶哪些？攜帶3C產品要注意什麼？打開Peiyu的旅行背包，讓她告訴你如何收拾行囊，用最精簡、實用的裝備，「安全」又「盡興」地浪跡天涯！在《秘魯．玻利維亞手繪旅行》、《衣索比亞手繪旅行》、《瓜地馬拉手繪旅行》之後，Peiyu終於公開了她是如何準備這些旅行的！也許你會擔心，要成為自助旅行背包客，是否需要非常多專業的裝備呢？動輒一兩個月的旅程，我的行李該怎麼收拾阿？想去開發中國家體驗當地的風俗民情，但又擔心治安不佳，會有安全的疑慮，該怎麼準備呢？看完這本書你會發現，其實不需要過多的準備，也不需要專業的裝備，身邊一些日常用品就是旅途必備的實用精品。自助旅行其實並不是想像中那麼浪漫，除了旅途中會發生各種意想不到的突發事件，所有的裝備行李也都要自己扛，所以背包裡的每...
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DK Paris

Must-See Sights. Culture & History. Detailed Maps & Tours. Covers Champs-Élysées, Le Marais, Montmartre, & more

by DK Travel ...

Series series Travel Guide
Make your trip to Paris extraordinaryA stroll along the Seine. Lazy mornings with a coffee and croissant. Taking in world-famous art at the Louvre. Whatever your dream trip involves, this DK travel guide is the perfect companion.Our updated guide brings Paris to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all ... Read more

$12.99 AUD

Make your trip to Paris extraordinaryA stroll along the Seine. Lazy mornings with a coffee and croissant. Taking in world-famous art at the Louvre. Whatever your dream trip involves, this DK travel guide is the perfect companion.Our updated guide brings Paris to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all
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Vagabonding

An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

by Rolf Potts ...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • With a new foreword by Tim Ferriss • “Vagabonding easily remains in my top-10 list of life-changing books. Why? Because one incredible trip, especially a long-term trip, can change your life forever. And Vagabonding teaches you how to travel (and think), not just for one trip, but for the rest of your life.”—Tim Ferriss, from the forewordThere’s nothing like vagabonding: ... Read more

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • With a new foreword by Tim Ferriss • “Vagabonding easily remains in my top-10 list of life-changing books. Why? Because one incredible trip, especially a long-term trip, can change your life forever. And Vagabonding teaches you how to travel (and think), not just for one trip, but for the rest of your life.”—Tim Ferriss, from the forewordThere’s nothing like vagabonding:
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Clanlands

An Unforgettable Journey Through Scotland’s History, Legends and Whisky – the runaway international bestseller

by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish ...

Two friends. One campervan. And plenty of whisky.This is the hilarious true story of a Scottish adventure like no other.With a foreword by Diana Gabaldon.When Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish hit the road, they are not following a script. They are chasing adventure. Armed with a campervan, a shared history and plenty of curiosity, they set out to explore the Scotland that lies beyond the clichés ... Read more

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Two friends. One campervan. And plenty of whisky.This is the hilarious true story of a Scottish adventure like no other.With a foreword by Diana Gabaldon.When Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish hit the road, they are not following a script. They are chasing adventure. Armed with a campervan, a shared history and plenty of curiosity, they set out to explore the Scotland that lies beyond the clichés
... Read more
Cockpit Confidential

Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections

by Patrick Smith ...

A New York Times bestsellerFor millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know...How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly themStraight talk on turbulence, pilot training ... Read more

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A New York Times bestsellerFor millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know...How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly themStraight talk on turbulence, pilot training
... Read more
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country

A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia

by Marcia Langton ...

Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country is a curated guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, respected scholar and author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights into Indigenous languages and customs, history, native title, art and dance, storytelling, and cultural awareness and etiquette for visitors. There is also a directory of Indigenous tourism ... Read more

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Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country is a curated guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, respected scholar and author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights into Indigenous languages and customs, history, native title, art and dance, storytelling, and cultural awareness and etiquette for visitors. There is also a directory of Indigenous tourism
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The Travel Book

A Journey Through Every Country in the World

by Lonely Planet ...

Series series Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherTake a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture.With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, and a few more principalities and dependencies besides, Lonely Planet's Travel Book is the ultimate introduction to a world of travel and the essential travel reference book ... Read more

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherTake a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture.With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, and a few more principalities and dependencies besides, Lonely Planet's Travel Book is the ultimate introduction to a world of travel and the essential travel reference book
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Walking with the ANZACS

The authoritative guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front

by Mat McLachlan ...

'[Mat McLachlan's] knowledge of the front is comprehensive' - Sydney Morning HeraldA complete guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front 1916-18.Walking with the ANZACs aims to become the new essential companion for Australians visiting the Western Front. Each of the 14 most important Australian battlefields is covered with descriptions of the battles and Australia’s involvement in ... Read more

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'[Mat McLachlan's] knowledge of the front is comprehensive' - Sydney Morning HeraldA complete guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front 1916-18.Walking with the ANZACs aims to become the new essential companion for Australians visiting the Western Front. Each of the 14 most important Australian battlefields is covered with descriptions of the battles and Australia’s involvement in
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Canberra

by Paul Daley ...

Series series City series
An implicit sense of public service and 'otherness' has now come to permeate Canberra's identity to a point that there is a great smugness, arrogance even, that the rest of Australia can hate us - but they'll never know how good it is to live here.Canberra is a city of orphans. People arrive temporarily for work, but stay on because they discover unanticipated promise and opportunity in a city ... Read more

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An implicit sense of public service and 'otherness' has now come to permeate Canberra's identity to a point that there is a great smugness, arrogance even, that the rest of Australia can hate us - but they'll never know how good it is to live here.Canberra is a city of orphans. People arrive temporarily for work, but stay on because they discover unanticipated promise and opportunity in a city
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My Life in France

The Life Story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times

by Julia Child ...

When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, ‘a six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian’, she barely spoke a word of French and didn’t know the first thing about cooking.As she fell in love with French culture - buying food at local markets, sampling the local bistros, and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu - her life began to change forever. We follow her ... Read more

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When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, ‘a six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian’, she barely spoke a word of French and didn’t know the first thing about cooking.As she fell in love with French culture - buying food at local markets, sampling the local bistros, and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu - her life began to change forever. We follow her
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Confessions of a Hostie - Airline Travel Tips

by Danielle Hugh ...

Travel with confidence; it just takes the right preparation and approach.Danielle Hugh is an international flight attendant with over 20 years flying around the world; also traveling extensively on her own time - experiencing both sides of airline travel. She answers many of air travels big questions: where to sit on a plane, how to travel with children, conquering fear of flying, when to check-in ... Read more

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Travel with confidence; it just takes the right preparation and approach.Danielle Hugh is an international flight attendant with over 20 years flying around the world; also traveling extensively on her own time - experiencing both sides of airline travel. She answers many of air travels big questions: where to sit on a plane, how to travel with children, conquering fear of flying, when to check-in
... Read more
Iberia

by James A. Michener ...

Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions ... Read more

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Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions
... Read more
Dogstar Rising

A Makana Investigation

by Parker Bilal ...

Series Book 2 - A Makana Investigation
It is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo's crowded streets the heat is rising...The unsolved murders of young homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred. As tensions mount, Makana, who fled his native Sudan a decade ago, has been hired to investigate threats that have been made to a hapless travel agent. The case draws him close to Meera, a woman who knows what it is like to lose ... Read more

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It is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo's crowded streets the heat is rising...The unsolved murders of young homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred. As tensions mount, Makana, who fled his native Sudan a decade ago, has been hired to investigate threats that have been made to a hapless travel agent. The case draws him close to Meera, a woman who knows what it is like to lose
... Read more
Lonely Planet Japan

by Simon Richmond, Ray Bartlett, Andrew Bender, Rob Goss, Trent Holden, Hannah Kirshner, Jessica Korteman, Craig McLachlan, Kate Morgan, Thomas O'Malley, Winnie Tan, Phillip Tang ...

Series series Travel Guide
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Japan.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from visiting Yoshino for Japan's most famous cherry-blossom-viewing festival to sipping sake at a 300-year-old brewery in Niigata, and exploring the Unesco-listed streetscapes of Hagi.Build a trip to remember with Lonely Planet's</st... ... Read more

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Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Japan.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from visiting Yoshino for Japan's most famous cherry-blossom-viewing festival to sipping sake at a 300-year-old brewery in Niigata, and exploring the Unesco-listed streetscapes of Hagi.Build a trip to remember with Lonely Planet's</st...
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