Cycling Home from Siberia by Rob Lilwall
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
'It is late October, and the temperature is already --40C...My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.'In 2004 Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a h ...Show more
La Bella Figura : An Insider's Guide to the Italian Mind by Belle Severini (tr from Italian Giles Watson)
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
'First of all, let's get one thing straight. Your Italy and out Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, white wine and raven haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It's alluring but complicated. In Italia ...Show more
Cruise Ship SOS: The Life-Saving Adventures of a Doctor at Sea by Ben Macfarlane
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Who gets the call if it all goes wrong at sea?Meet Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spending a year as a repatriation doctor, he's heading around the world as a ship's doctor - and with 3,000 passengers and crew to look after he's in for the most exciting trip of his life.On one dramatic voyage he deals with br ...Show more
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Venice | Reading Level: very good
Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a unique and unforgettable portrait of Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world's most beautiful historic city, scandal, corruption and venality are rampant, a ...Show more
Mirrors of the Unseen : Journeys in Iran by Jason Elliot
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Travel Writing
Drawing on three years of travel and research, "Mirrors of The Unseen" offers a rare and timely portrait of Iran, introducing us to the sublime architecture of Isfahan, the forests of the north, the bleak landscapes of Kurdistan and the urban contradictions of the capital, Tehran. An exploration of Iran ...Show more
Mirrors of the Unseen by Jason Elliott
49.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Jason Elliot's new book, Mirrors of the Unseen - Journeys in Iran , builds on the success of his award-winning first book, An Unexpected Light This is literary travel writing at its best: brimming with history, anecdote and provocative analysis. The distillation of three years of travel and resear ...Show more
A Handful of Honey : Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria by Annie Hawes
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean. Travelling through Morocco and Algeria sh ...Show more
Falling Off the Edge: Globalization, world peace and other lies by Alex Perry
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. What if that's not the case? Alex Perry, award-winning foreign correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands ...Show more
Butter Chicken in Ludhiana : Travels in small town India by Pankaj Mishra
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra travelled through the small towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air; brash and ostentatious, kitschy and clamorous, here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young woman from Jhansi aspiring to be a beauty queen; a ri ...Show more
Driving Home: An American Scrapbook by Raban Jonathan
49.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Charting a course through the Pacific Northwest, through American history and recent world events, "Driving Home" is a must for fans of Jonathan Raban, as well as the perfect introduction to anyone not yet familiar with his writing. For over thirty years now, Jonathan Raban has written about movement; a ...Show more
Passage to Juneau - A Sea and Its Meaning by Jonathan Raban
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. The physical distance is 1,000 miles of difficult-and ...Show more
Saddled at Sea by Josie Dew
59.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
What should have been a straightforward five-week journey, crossing two oceans, passing through the Panama canal and taking in the islands of the South Pacific en route, turns into an epic journey of rough seas, clashing personalities and crises in the ship's engine room. And when the Speybank receives ...Show more