The Shark God : Encounters with Myth and Magic in the South Pacific by Charles Montgomery
36.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Encounters With Myth And Magic In The South Pacific This is a daring journey to confront legend and sorcery in a forgotten corner of the South Pacific. Deep in the stacks of the Bodleian Library, a young man opens a small packet of sand, buried among crates of notes from the first missionaries to the So ...Show more
The Chains of Heaven : An Ethiopian Romance by Philip Marsden
27.99 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: Travel Writing
Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago. 'Ethiopia bred in me the conviction that if there is a wider purpose to our life, it is to understand the world, to seek out it ...Show more
The Tribes Triumphant: Return Journey to the Middle East by Charles Glass
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: good
A powerful and insightful narrative of a journey -- once violently interrupted and here resumed -- through one of the most compelling regions on earth. From Aqaba to Jerusalem and on into Palestine, veteran commentator on the Middle East, Charles Glass writes a thoughtful, inquisitive and dispassionate ...Show more
Mad About the Mekong : Exploration and empire in South-East Asia by John Keay
26.99 NZD
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Category: Travel Writing
This is the story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France's greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today. Any notion of sailing up the Mekong in homage to Francis Garnier has been unthinkable until now. From i ...Show more
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
26.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journey across the entire Byzantine world, and William Dalrymple has followed in their footsteps.
In Xanadu by William Dalrymple
25.99 NZD
26.99 (3% off)
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across th ...Show more
The Well at the World's End by A.J. Mackinnon
35.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
When A.J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the Well at the World's End, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth. Determined not to fly ('It would feel like cheating'), he sets out with a ruc ...Show more
An Idiot Abroad : The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Presenting the Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington: Adventurer. Philosopher. Idiot. Karl Pilkington isn't keen on travelling. Given the choice, he'll go on holiday to Devon or Wales or, at a push, eat English food on a package holiday in Majorca. Which isn't exactly Michael Palin, is it? So what happened ...Show more
The Beautiful and the Damned : Life in the New India by Siddhartha Deb
42.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
From leadership seminars in fancy hotels to medieval figures walking from town to town looking for work in small town factories; from the naive waitresses working in the mecca of five star hotels to farmers struggling to grow the right crops for the 21st century, Siddhartha Deb's book is the riveting, m ...Show more
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Toibin
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
For four years from 1990, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. The result is this beautifully wrought book. He shows the complications and contradictions of the Catholic Church, and tries to unravel how they in turn influence a country's sense of nationalism. It is not quite a tra ...Show more