Sydney by Jan Morris
28.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created...but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shinest'.
The Last Supper : A Summer in Italy by Rachel Cusk
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
When prize-winning author Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey leads them to both the expected - the Piero della Francesca trail and queues at the Vatican - and the surprisin ...Show more
Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large by Michael Frayn
28.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
In mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer about some of the places in the world that interested him. He wanted to describe 'not the extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday', and his accounts became the s ...Show more
Istanbul - Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
29.99 NZD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: good
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination. This is a supremely moving account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his ho ...Show more
Xanadu by John Man
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Marco Polo's journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia, to the court of Kublai Khan in China is one of the most audacious in history. His account of his experiences, known simply as "The Travels", uncovered an entirely new world of emperors and concubines, great buildings - 'stately pleasure ...Show more
The Caliph's House : A year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Travel Writing
Look into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul... Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s, married, with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash, cramped, ennervating British city life. Flying in the face of friends' advice, he longed to fulfil his dream ...Show more
Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington
26.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
'We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure...'When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said th ...Show more
On a Hoof and a Prayer : Around Argentina at a gallop by Polly Evans
27.99 NZD
34.00 (17% off)
Category: Travel Writing
Around Argentina at a Gallop At the age of thirty-four, Polly Evans finally fulfilled a childhood dream
The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles by Canoe to the Legendary City of Timbuktu by Kira Salak
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
'In the beginning, my journeys feel at best ludicrous, at worst insane. This one is no exception.' Kira Salak recently became the first person to successfully canoe 600 miles down the River Niger from Old SÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂgou to Timbuktu - the golden city of the Middle Ag ...Show more
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
21.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to'. And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the ki ...Show more
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other sid ...Show more