Neither Here Nor There - Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hamemrfest, the norther ...Show more
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because h ...Show more
Cinnamon City by Miranda Innes
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Travel Writing
Want to escape to a place where the sun always shines? Where passionate music, magic potions and the drama of Africa are cooled by the genius of Arabic culture? Miranda Innes and her partner Dan Pearce were lured into buying a beautiful long-neglected riad in the heart of the magical pink-walled city of ...Show more
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Fantasized about quitting the 9-5? Walking away from credit card debt and student loans? Think living in the South Pacific for two years sounds like a perfect solution and perhaps even a winning idea for your first novel? Maarten Troost does just that, setting up as a devil-may-care islander while his g ...Show more
Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill
27.99 NZD
32.95 (15% off)
Category: Travel Writing
Tim Cahill has no notion of 'going to extremes'. It's just what he does naturally.He learns many valuable life lessons along the way: how to drink with the Aussies (trying to match them beer for beer is not a good idea); a method for developing acute claustrophobia (crawling on your belly for two weeks ...Show more
The Man Who Cycled the World by Mark Beaumont
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had begun his attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Mark smashed the Guinness World Record by an astonishing 81 days. He had travelled more than 18,000 miles on his own th ...Show more
Robbie Coltrane's B-road Britain by Robbie Coltrane
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Travel Writing
Tired of the endless tarmac and Little Chefs, and keen to see more on his travels than the tail-lights of the car in front of him, Robbie Coltrane has set himself quite a challenge. Instead of scaling the Himalayas, trekking across the Antarctic or hacking through the Brazilian rainforest, he has decide ...Show more
Trek by Paul Stewart
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Travel Writing
It is 1955, Kenya. A group of four acquaintances set out to drive from Nairobi to London, via the Sahara desert, in a 8 horse-power Morris Traveller. Under the leadership of Alan Cooper, a down-on-his-luck farmer, the group was made up of a worldly field biologist who recorded the whole trip on her 8mm ...Show more
Between Extremes: A Journey Beyond Imagination by Brian Keenan
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
For 4 years Keenan and McCarthy were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with only each other and a few volumes of an ancient American encyclopedia to sustain them, they could only wander the wide open spaces of their imagination. To displace the ugly confines ...Show more
Getting under sail by Brannavan Gnanalingam
24.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Morocco to Ghana. Overland. Three New Zealanders. Armed with a guide book and stereotypes. They go being warned of danger, poverty and war by people who had never been there. They end up embroiled in a civil war - but it wasn't really anything to do with Africa. Part-travelogue, part-picaresque, and par ...Show more