Lonely Planet New Zealand Best Trips 26 Amazing Road Trips by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; Brett Atkinson; Sarah Bennett; Lee Slater

$39.99 NZD

Category: Lonely Planet | Series: Travel Guide Ser.

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet New Zealand's Best Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering New Zealand by car. Featuring more than 30 amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along t he way, seek out alfresco dining and seductive wineries, follow New Zealand's premier wilderness highway to Milford Sound and discover spectacular natural landscapes, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to New Zealand, rent a car, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet New Zealand's Best Trips : Lavish colour and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-colour route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Detours, Walking Tours and Link Your Trip Covers Marlborough, Bay of Islands, Akaroa, West Coast, Central Plateau, Milford Sound, Waiheke Island, Kaikoura, Mackenzie Country, Waitomo Caves, Canterbury, Rotorua, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Queenstown and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet New Zealand's Best Trips is perfect for exploring New Zealand via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car. Planning a New Zealand trip sans a car? Lonely Planet New Zealand, our most comprehensive guide to New Zealand, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. Looking for a guide for New Zealand's South Island or North Island? Check out Lonely Planet's New Zealand's South Island guide or New Zealand's North Island guide for a comprehensive look at what each island has to offer. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition. ...Show more

The Art of Free Travel: A Frugal Family Adventure, Cycling from Daylesford to Cape York by Patrick Jones

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Category: Travel

Patrick, Meg and their family had built a happy, sustainable life in regional Victoria. But in late 2013, they found themselves craving an adventure: a road trip. But theirs was a road trip with a difference. With Zephyr (10), Woody (1) and Zero their Jack Russell, they set off on an epic 6,000km year-l ong cycling journey along Australia's east coast, from Daylesford to Cape York and back. Their aim was to live as cheaply as possible - guerrilla camping, hunting, foraging and bartering their permaculture skills, and living on a diet of free food, bush tucker, and the occasional fresh road kill. They spent time in Aboriginal communities, joined an anti-fracking blockade, documented edible plants, and dodged speeding cars and trucks on the country's most dangerous highways. The Art of Free Travel is the remarkable story of a rule-breaking year of ethical living. ...Show more

Couchsurfing in Russia: Friendships and Misadventures Behind Putin's Curtain by Stephan Orth

$38.00 NZD

Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: 5.5 Travel

'In the late summer of 2016' writes award-winning travel writer Stephan Orth, 'a journey to Russia feels like visiting enemy territory.' In this humorous and thought-provoking book, Orth ventures through that vast and mysterious territory to uncover the real, unfiltered Russia not seen in today's headl ines- authentic, bizarre, dangerous, and beautiful. Sidestepping the well-trod tourist path, he travels the country from Moscow to Vladivostok - across seven time zones and almost 9,500 kilometres - making stops in Chechnya, Saint Petersburg, Siberia, and beyond. Staying with an eclectic array of hosts, he bumps into gun nuts, internet conspiracy theorists, faux shamans, and Putin fans; learns to drive in death-defying Russian style; and discovers how to cure hangovers by sniffing rye bread. But he also sees a darker side of the country, witnessing firsthand the effects of Putin's influence in the run-up to the 2016 American election and the power of propaganda in this 'post-fact? era. Weaving everything together with thoughtfulness and warmth, Orth follows the acclaimed Couchsurfing in Iran with another complex, funny, and personal travelogue - a colourful portrait of a fascinating and misunderstood country. ...Show more

Outpost by Dan Richards

$36.99 NZD

Category: Travel Writing

There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet. Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. These are landscapes that speak of deep time, whose scale can knock us down to size. Their untamed nature is part of their beauty and such places have long drawn the adventurous, the spiritual and the artistic.For those who go in search of the silence, isolation and adventure of wilderness it is - perhaps ironically - to man-made shelters that they often need to head; to bothies, bivouacs, camps and sheds. Part of the allure of such refuges is their simplicity: enough architecture to keep the weather at bay but not so much as to distract from the natural world.Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of Washington State, from Iceland's 'Houses of Joy' to the Utah desert; frozen ghost towns in Svalbard to shrines in Japan; Roald Dahl's Home Counties writing hut to a lighthouse in the North Atlantic, Richards explores landscapes which have inspired writers, artists and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? What can we do to protect them? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge? ...Show more

The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman

$37.99 NZD

Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: 3 Biography

In The Bells of Old Tokyo, Anna Sherman explores Japan and revels in all its wonderful particularity. As a foreigner living in Tokyo, Sherman's account takes pleasure and fascination in the history and culture of a country that can seem startlingly strange to an outsider. Following her search for the l ost bells of the city - the bells by which its inhabitants kept time before the Jesuits introduced them to clocks - to her personal friendship with the owner of a small, exquisite cafe, who elevates the making and drinking of coffee to an art-form, here is Tokyo in its bewildering variety. From the love hotels of Shinjuku to the appalling fire-storms of 1945 (in which many more thousands of people died than in Hiroshima or Nagasaki), from the death of Mishima to the impact of the Tohoku earthquake of 2011. For fans of The Lonely City, and Lost in Translation, The Bells of Old Tokyo is a beautiful and original portrait of Tokyo told through time. ...Show more

Upside Down World map 12e by HEMA MAPS STAFF

$11.99 NZD

Category: Guides & Maps

Upside down world. Traditional world maps are drawn from the perspective of the first European explorers and cartographers - with the Northern Hemisphere at the top. We think it's time to break with tradition and show the world from the perspective of all those people living in the southern Hemisphere. After all, there is no ancient geographical feature saying "This way up". ...Show more

Rotorua's Top Spots by McCree

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Category: Rotorua Books

The thriving thermal region at the volcanic heart of New Zealand is the subject of this new addition to a series that features the most popular tourist destinations around New Zealand . Rotorua's many attractions include: Volcanic activity: the bubbling mud pools and spuoting geysers of Hell's Gate, Wai mangu, Te Whakarewarewa and Waiotapu, home of the spectacular Champagne pool and Lady Knox geyser: Scenic lakes: Lakes Tarawera, Rotorua and Totoiti are major drawcards for anglers and water sports enthusiasts: Maori heritate at Ohinemutu, Te Puia and other settlements visitors will find a wide range of living traditions on show, from performances to arts & crafts ...Show more

Kiwi Maps Rotorua-Whakatane by Kiwi Maps

$6.50 NZD

Category: Guides & Maps

Kiwi Maps Pathfinder Rotorua Taupo and Tokoroa by kiwi

$8.99 NZD

Category: Guides & Maps

Worth a Detour South Island by PETER JANSSEN

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Category: Guides & Maps

Travel writer Peter Janssen has travelled extensively around the North and South Island and here he shares special quirky experiences and sublime scenery that are known to locals but are most often bypassed by visitors heading to better-known attractions

Kiwimap Pathfinder: North Island Complete Driver's Atlas with Indexed Country Roads by .

$32.99 NZD

Category: Guides & Maps

Kiwimaps most comprehensive road map of New Zealand's North Island rural road network. Large scale, easy to read text with easy to identify tourist features. Includes Regional, main city & town centre enlargements, also motorhome and touring information.

Kiwi Maps Eastern & Southern North Island by Kiwi Maps

$8.99 NZD

Category: Guides & Maps