The Riddle and the Knight : In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
His book about that voyage, The Travels, was heralded as the most important book of the Middles Ages as Mandeville claimed his voyage proved it was possible to circumnavigate the globe. In the nineteenth century sceptics questioned his voyage, they even doubted he had left England. The Riddle and The Kn ...Show more
The Road to Little Dribbling - More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: very good
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nationâe(tm)s heart and became the best-selling travel book ever, and was also voted in ...Show more
The Roads to Santiago by Derry Brabbs
$75.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
Designated as World Heritage sites in 1993, the ancient pilgrimage routes to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela have seen an astonishing rise in the number of pilgrims undertaking the route for purposes of religion or tourism. There were no fewer than 180,000 bona fide pilgrims in the Holy Year of 200 ...Show more
The Santiago Pilgrimage by Jean-Christophe Rufin
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: very good
"Whenever I was asked: 'Why did you go to Santiago?', I had a hard time answering. How could I explain to those who had not done it that the way has the effect - if not the virtue - to make you forget all reasons that led you to become involved in it in the first place." Each year, tens of thousands of ...Show more
The Scent Trail by Celia Lyttelton
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
When Celia Lyttelton visited a bespoke perfumers, she realized a long-held ambition: to have a scent created solely for her. Entering this heady, exotic world of oils and essences, she was transported from a leafy London square to a place of long-forgotten memories and sensory experiences. And once draw ...Show more
The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses by Cecilia Lyttleton
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
When Celia Lyttleton visits a bespoke perfumers, one of only a handful in London, she enters the heady and exotic world of scent. From a London backstreet she is transported to a world made up of thousands of oils, unguents and balms, all hidden away in an old Chinese medicine chest. And so begins a rem ...Show more
The Seventy Wonders Of China by Jonathan Fenby
$90.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
A complete and essential overview of China's marvels in all areas, from the natural world to inventions to artistic and architectural achievements. As China emerges as a great world economic power, this book shows what makes it such a special country and civilization, with topics ranging from the natur ...Show more
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro : On Foot Across East Africa by Rick Ridgeway
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
This is a remarkable account of a thrilling journey on foot from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Indian Ocean. Rick Ridgeway, one of the world's foremost mountaineers and adventurers, offers us a rare view of East Africa as it is today, and how it once was before the incursion of European civilis ...Show more
The Shark and the Albatross: Travels with a Camera to the Ends of the Earth by John Aitchison
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
For twenty years John Aitchison has been travelling the world to film wildlife for the BBC and other broadcasters, taking him to far-away places on every continent. The Shark and the Albatross is the story of these journeys of discovery, of his encounters with animals and occasional enterprising individ ...Show more
The Shipwrecked Man (Great Journeys) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
The original disaster narrative, The Shipwrecked Men by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1492-c.1560) tells how a confident, well-equipped Spanish expedition to explore the Florida mainland came utterly to grief through arrogance, storms and bad luck, leaving a handful of survivors to stagger to Mexico Cit ...Show more
The Sites of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
$85.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
'The Sites of Ancient Greece' presents 150 of Georg Gerster's most spectacular and evocative photographs of the landscapes and architecture - both ancient and modern - of Greece, a country he has visited and photographed numerous times in his long career. The photographs in this book were taken between ...Show more
The Soul of Scotland - Anam Na H-Alba by Max Milligan
$90.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: Very Good
With extraordinary images, The Soul of Scotland (Anam na H-Alba) presents a rich new portrait of a diverse and beautiful country, avoiding the cliched photographs of the same old castles and postcard views repeated in so many books on the subject. In this glorious book, divided into sections on city, co ...Show more