The Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
30.00 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Return to "The Great Railway Bazaar" in "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" as Paul Theroux experiences the journey that launched his travel writing career for the second time. Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Gr ...Show more
Irish Blood, English heart, Ulster Fry by Annie Caulfield
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Annie Caulfield's early years were spent by the seaside in Ireland. However, the family shifted to Sixties London and soon she wasn't sure who she was - was she English, was she Irish, and if so, what kind of Irish? This book gives a funny insight into the lives of ordinary people as Annie Caulfield's a ...Show more
Wild: An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
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
Extra Virgin: Amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria by Annie Hawes
25.00 NZD
27.00 (7% off)
Category: Travel Writing
When Annie Hawes buys a hillside cottage in Italy for no more than the price of a dodgy second-hand car, a capable young Englishwoman becomes a surprisingly incapable Ligurian 'Signorina' . . .
The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen
38.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin nature classics
In this classic volume, Matthiessen exquisitely combines both nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully portrays the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers; the drama of the predator kills; the hundreds of exotic animals; the breathtaking landscapes; and the area' ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
The Hills of Adonis by Colin Thubron
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Ostensibly this is a book about Lebanon, finely written and deeply felt - not the Lebanon which a Beirut businessman would recognize, but a coastline of small historic ports and a littoral of beautiful mountains. In this country, the ruins of Phoenician, Greek and Roman are among the most impressive in ...Show more
Mirror to Damascus by Colin Thubron
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', "Mirror to Damascus" provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well a being a charming and witty personal record of a city well-loved. In explaining how modern Damascus is r ...Show more
Chasing the Devil: On Foot Through Africa's Killing Fields by Tim Butcher
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Delhi by Sam Miller
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
In an extraordinary portrayal of one of the world's fastest growing cities, Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi. Following a spiral course through the city, he visits its less celebrated destinations; ancient monuments and imperial buildings give way to the unexpected, the ignored and the ecc ...Show more
A Single Swallow : Following an Epic Journey from South Africa to South Wales by Horatio Clare
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, w ...Show more
Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic by Wheeler Sara
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler discovers a compex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery. The Magnetic North is a ...Show more