Stories from Our Back Roads The South Island by Ray Stone
$50.00 NZD
Category: Travel writing | Reading Level: near fine
This book is for people who enjoy driving and exploring the stories of our back roads, but most of all it is for people who love New Zealand, whether they choose to do it from behind the wheel of their SUV or the comfort of their sofa. Stories from our Backroads: South lsland will introduce you to some ...Show more
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel writing
A landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey's eastern border - tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy. The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most ...Show more
The Dream of Europe by Geert Mak
$40.00 NZD
Category: Travel writing
The long-awaited sequel to Geert Mak's landmark In Europe. 'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial Times How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here? From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, exam ...Show more
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World by Pico Iyer
$44.99 NZD
Category: Travel writing | Reading Level: very good
'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul' Elizabeth Gilbert 'In elegant and ecstatic prose, Pico Iyer uncovers our wonderful capacity for hope' Katherine May One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we might find paradise on ...Show more
The Life Cycle - 8,000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike by Kate Rawles
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel writing
'A gripping read for anyone who cares about what we're doing to the planet and how we can change it' DAVID SHUKMAN, FORMER BBC NEWS SCIENCE EDITOR 'Searing observations focused on our need to protect biodiversity - A tour de force' SIR TIM SMIT OBE, CO-FOUNDER OF THE EDEN PROJECT 'An informative, uplift ...Show more
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth
$26.00 NZD
Category: Travel writing
One sunny spring morning in the seventies, an unlikely Englishman set out on a pilgrimage that would take him across Japan's entire length. Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth travelled on foot from Soya, the country's northernmost tip, to Sata in the extreme south, traversing three island ...Show more
Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge
$24.00 NZD
Category: Travel writing
From the bestselling author of Silence comes an illuminating examination of the joy of walking. From those perilous first steps as a toddler, to great expeditions, from walking to work to trekking to the North Pole, Erling Kagge explains that he who walks goes further and lives better. Walking is a book ...Show more
Wild Women: A collection of first-hand accounts from female explorers by Mariella Frostrup
$44.99 NZD
Category: Travel writing
A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup. From Constantinople to Crimea; from Antarctica to the Andes. Throughout history adventurous women have made epic, record-breaking journeys under perilous circumstances. Whether escaping constricte ...Show more
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
$32.99 NZD
Category: Travel writing
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania's utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter - a ...Show more
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation by Leon McCarron
$37.99 NZD
Category: Travel writing
For thousands of years, the Tigris has acted as a lung exhaling life into Mesopotamia. Its cycles of flooding created seasons of plenty and seasons of scarcity. Water was once everywhere, from the northern mountains to the southern marshlands. But it is now beginning to falter, becoming clogged and erra ...Show more