A Handful of Honey : Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria by Annie Hawes
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean. Travelling through Morocco and Algeria sh ...Show more
Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern by Simon Winder
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel
A personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's history, folklore, cuisine, architecture and landscape, it describes Germany's past afresh - and in doing so sees a country much like our own: Protestant, aggressive and committed to eating some very strange f ...Show more
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
47.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting 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" enumerates 'The Contents of Some Travellers' Bags' and expose ...Show more
French Toast: Eating and Laughing Your Way Around France by Peta Mathias
35.00 NZD
36.00 (2% off)
Category: Travel
French Toast is a totally pleasurable insight into the sensual delights of France through the eyes and taste buds of Peta Mathias, television personality and food writer. The former owner of a restaurant in Paris, Peta knows how to get the most out of every minute she spends in France. Savour crusty bre ...Show more
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys : Great Writers on Great Places by Klara Glowczewska
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel
From the #1 travel magazine in the USA, a collection of travel tales from some of todays finest writers Travel writing maintains its seemingly endless popularity, and this volume offers a particularly transporting body of work, pairing exotic locales with writers of the highest caliber: Russell Banks wr ...Show more
Unclaimed Coast: The First Kayak Journey Around Shackleton's South Georgia by Mark Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: Travel
A gripping account of one of the most extreme sea kayak expeditions undertaken - the first successful circumnavigation of South Georgia in the South Atlantic ocean.Includes South Georgia's whaling station history and its connection with Ernest Shackleton. First published October 2007.
Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places : 500 Essential Journeys by Christopher Somerville
45.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Storm-battered headlands, hidden waterfalls, tumbledown cottages, the ruins of haunted chapels deep in forgotten woods, medieval Green Men, old mines and quarries being recaptured by nature, rusting sea-forts tottering on sandbanks ...Britain and Ireland are full of wild places, some remote, many often ...Show more
Escape from the Antarctic (Great Journeys Series) by Sir Ernest Shackleton
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel
Although Shackleton's (1874-1922) epic expedition to reach the South Pole was a complete disaster, it was rescued from absurdity by his heroic, terrifying crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat to a whaling station on South Georgia. Through one of the greatest recorded feats of navigation and of ...Show more
Wild: An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel
I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy. Part of the journey was a green riot and part a deathly bleakness. I got ill, I got well. I went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang my head off in their highlands. I met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trust ...Show more
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics
IN PATAGONIA is a Quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, as he goes along, describes his encounters with other people whose stories delay him on the road.
In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak (tr from Dutch Sam Garrett)
35.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result is mesme ...Show more
Among the Russians by Colin Thubron
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and relays his extraordinary journey in characteristically ly ...Show more