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Motoring with Mohammed by Eric Hansen
29.95 NZD
38.00 (21% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to ...Show more
Orchid Fever by Eric Hansen
22.95 NZD
27.99 (18% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
A true story of one of the world's strangest plants and humanity's oddest obsessions: the orchid, brought to book by the author, traveller and self-confessed orchid obsessive. From the Orinoco River to the hothouses of Kew, and the clandestine nurseries of Europe to the peat bogs of Minnesota, this is a ...Show more
Orchid Fever by Hansen Eric
27.95 NZD
34.99 (20% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
The acclaimed author of Motoring with Mohammed brings us a compelling adventure into the remarkable world of the orchid and the impossibly bizarre array of international characters who dedicte their lives to it. The orchid is used for everything from medicine for elephants to an aphrodisiac ice cream. A ...Show more
Stranger in the Forest by Eric Hansen
29.99 NZD
39.95 (24% off)
Category: Adventure | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath the rain forest canopy, they trekked through a hauntingly beautiful jungle ...Show more
The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer - Close encounters with strangers by Eric Hansen
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Eric Hansen is an intrepid traveller with a keenly perceptive eye and an appreciation for the odd and unusual. He will go anywhere, try anything, and always manages to capture something remarkable in the doing.In this extraordinary book, Hansen writes about drinking mind-altering kava in Vanuatu, his he ...Show more
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