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The Stubborn Light of Things - A Nature Diary by Melissa Harrison
$32.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
A nature diary by award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside. 'A writer of great gifts.' Robert Macfarlane 'A nature writer with a knowledge and eye for detail that recalls Thomas Hardy and John McGahern.' Th ...Show more
Where There's a Will - Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent by Emily Chappell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
A London cycle courier with a taste for adventure, Emily Chappell entered an extraordinary new race - The Transcontinental - in which riders must find their own way, entirely unassisted, across Europe in the shortest time possible. On her second attempt, she won the women's event, covering nearly 4,000 ...Show more
The Virago Book of Women Travellers by Mary Morris
$39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
'A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' Guardian Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this collection as women travel for peril or pleasure, whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French countryside, to challenge the fierce Sahara or c ...Show more
Impossible Owls - Essays from the Ends of the World by Brian Phillips
$29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
From its opening journey into remote Alaska for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, IMPOSSIBLE OWLS leads us on a kaleidoscopic exploration of contemporary reality. Brian Phillips takes us to a sumo tournament in Japan, the jungle in India, the studio of a great Russian animator, a royal tour of the Yukon Terri ...Show more
The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders by Ben Aitken
$32.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED A CHIP SHOP IN POZNAŃ One millennial, six coach trips, one big generation gap. When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of ...Show more
Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght
$48.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
When wildlife researcher Jonathan Slaght was a young Peace Corps volunteer in the Russian Far East, he caught a brief glimpse of a Blakiston's fish owl. It was the furthest south the species had been documented in over a hundred years, and a chance encounter that would change his life. In Owls of the E ...Show more
The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange
$27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
'This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit' Adam Nicolson Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to ...Show more
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier; Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures. The world he describes sprawls all the way from the Caribbean west across the Pacifi ...Show more
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War & Peace by Kapka Kassabova
$39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region's past, and the secret of its enduring allure. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmothe ...Show more
Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir by Agatha Christie
$34.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again! To the world she was Agatha Christie, legendary author o ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
$26.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literar ...Show more
Discover and Explore the Chatham IslandsFirst to See the Sun by Cherry Lawrie
$62.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing