Beautiful People in New Zealand by O'Sullivan, Suzzannah
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Never Say Old by Anne Barry
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
We all say it: "I'd love to retire young". Former Kiwi firefighters Anne and John Barry did just that. They worked and saved hard and then, fit and ready for fun, sold everything when they were in their late 40s and took to the road in their custom-designed luxury bus. Now in their 50s, they have recent ...Show more
Naked in Budapest: Travels with a Passionate Nomad by Heather Campbell Hapeta
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Whether naked in Budapest, canoeing down the Zambesi, sailing the Great Barrier Reef, cooking in Athens, watching bear cubs in Alaska, Heather says she feels most alive when on the road. Heather gets to know locals, learn something of their culture, religion and language and retells some of her adventur ...Show more
Why Walk When You Can Ride? by Tania Krupitza
27.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
How to find and lose a horse in Ecuador Seduced by grandiose visions of explorers of old, Tania Krupitza and two friends decided to buy horses and ride them through Ecuador. Despite a queue of charming Ecuadorian gentlemen eager to help, they ended up with one horse that looked like a mule, one that ...Show more
The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate by Michael Wallis
79.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
The best-selling author of "Route 66" and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer celebrate America's first transcontinental highway in all its neon glory. It began in 1913 with a glorious new highway--stretching across 3,389 miles and 13 states--that connected the bright lights of Broadway with the fogg ...Show more
How to Live Off-grid : Journeys outside the system by Nick Rosen
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Literally, the word 'off-grid' refers to places or people without mains water, power or a phone line. Off-grid locations can range from private islands to yurts and tree-houses; the people living there might be back-packers, right wing survivalists, international business travellers or hippies; they may ...Show more
Chile: Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler found out when she travelled alone with two carpetbags from the top to the bottom, form the driest desert in ...Show more
Playing Cards in Cairo - Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City by Hugh Miles
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: good
Recently installed in Cairo as a freelance journalist and expat barfly, Hugh Miles soon meets and falls in love with Roda, a beautiful Egyptian doctor, who introduces him to Egypt's favourite pastime, the card game tarneeb, to her all-female card circle, and to a previously unseen side of life in the Mi ...Show more
Playing Cards in Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City by Hugh Miles
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an Egyptian woman. Twice a week he plays cards with a small group of Arab, Muslim women and through this med ...Show more
Tigers in Red Weather by Ruth Padel
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she decided to visit what she had always wanted to see: tropical jungle and a wildlife sanctuary. Her impromptu trip was the start of a remarkable two-year journey in search of that most elusive and beautiful animal: the tiger. Armed with her gra ...Show more
The Lost Kingdoms of Africa : Through Muslim Africa by truck, bus, boat and camel by Jeffrey Tayler
27.00 NZD
29.95 (9% off)
Category: Travel Writing
This is the account of a journey through realms of Africa so remote, so geographically and culturally isolated that their frontiers have rarely been breached.The Sahel region of the lower Sahara - whipped by ferocious winds, shrouded in secrets and home to a vast Muslim population - is the southernmost ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
25.00 NZD
29.99 (16% off)
Category: Travel Writing
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD"In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book."--Chr ...Show more