Travelling Light - Walking, running, cycling & hitchhiking from UK to Australia & New Zealand by Tom Elliott
39.95 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
Setting out from the north of England in July 1962 with only a light pack each and a vague plna of heading south, running friends Tom Elliott and John Robinson were tired of their everyday lives. In the early part of their journey through France and Spain - including long stretches walking or running - ...Show more
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
32.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home- five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they make up for in determination- building a grass ho ...Show more
English Journey by J B Priestley
24.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
‘The finest book ever written about England and the English’ Stuart Maconie ‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.’ Dame Judi Dench Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen N ...Show more
The Life Cycle - 8,000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike by Kate Rawles
45.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
'A gripping read for anyone who cares about what we're doing to the planet and how we can change it' DAVID SHUKMAN, FORMER BBC NEWS SCIENCE EDITOR 'Searing observations focused on our need to protect biodiversity - A tour de force' SIR TIM SMIT OBE, CO-FOUNDER OF THE EDEN PROJECT 'An informative, uplift ...Show more
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. ...Show more
Wild Journeys by Bruce Ansley
36.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding party of the northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast, sails around New Zealand's northern and southern cape ...Show more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
'Stunningly written' Sunday Times ... 'Richly absorbing' Guardian... 'Hooks you in from the start' Times... 'Masterful' Independent... 'Hugely compelling' Observer... 'Wonderful' Financial Times Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell. ...Show more
Brazil by Michael Palin
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
Brazil is one of the four new global super powers with its vast natural resources and burgeoning industries. Half a continent in size and a potent mix of races, religions and cultures, of unexplored wildernesses and bustling modern cities, it is also one of the few countries Michael Palin has never full ...Show more
Down South - In Search of the Great Southern Land by Bruce Ansley
49.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: near fine
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south's famous character. Not ...Show more
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Bryson
'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the ki ...Show more
Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Bryson Ser.
"Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northe ...Show more
Notes From A Big Country: Journey Into the American Dream by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al.and returned to li ...Show more