Life on the Golden Horn by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Travelling through the wartorn Balkans with her husband on what proved to be a wholly useless diplomatic mission to Constantinople, Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) left a vivid, informative, clever account of her adventures in the mysterious, sophisticated culture of Ottoman palaces, bathing places and ...Show more
Adventures in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. A vanished wor ...Show more
The Shipwrecked Man (Great Journeys) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
The original disaster narrative, The Shipwrecked Men by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1492-c.1560) tells how a confident, well-equipped Spanish expedition to explore the Florida mainland came utterly to grief through arrogance, storms and bad luck, leaving a handful of survivors to stagger to Mexico Cit ...Show more
The Customs of the Kingdoms of India by Marco Polo
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
As Marco Polo (1254-1324) returned home across the Indian Ocean, after years in the service of Genghis Khan, he picked up a fabulous array of stories from sailors and merchants, about the peoples of the region, some reliable, some wholly implausible, but all fascinating. "Great Journeys" allows readers ...Show more
Piracy, Shipwreck and Flying Foxes: Great Journeys by William Dampier
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Dampier's (1651-1715) adventures and writing inspired both Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, but in his own right he was a remarkable, observant and enjoyable writer - whether on a woefully mishandled pirate raid in Spanish America or on a desperate journey to Sumatra in an open boat. He also left ...Show more
In the Heart of the Amazon Forest by Henry Walter Bates
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvelous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true - a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in his qu ...Show more
Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants by Herodotus
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
So much of what we know of the Ancient World comes from Herodotus (c.490 BC - c.420 BC) that he will always remain the greatest of historians. But, in addition, such a large part of the entertainment value of the Ancient World comes from his enormous, omnivorous, sometimes credulous appetite for stories ...Show more
From the Meadows of Gold by Mas'udi
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Much of his work has vanished, but Mas'udi's (c.890-c.956) matchless "The Meadows of Gold" has almost miraculously survived: a compendium of stories and information on what he knew of the worlds of the Middle East, the Far East and Europe. It is both a great monument to Islamic scholarship and a time ca ...Show more
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: Travel Writing
"Travels with Herodotus" records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees ...Show more
A Castle in Spain by Matthew Parris
27.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Walking in the Pyrenees, twenty years ago, Matthew Parris and his sister came upon a magnificent medieval house. It had crests and a date 1559 chiselled into the stone: its walls were intact, but the oak ridge timber supporting the roof had split. This is the story of a man's dream to turn a forgotten r ...Show more
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