Love in Old Age - My Year in the Wight House by Hunter Davies
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Queen Victoria so liked the Isle of Wight she built a royal residence here. Thousands of people got stoned here at music festivals in the late 1960s. And, in the very un-hippyish Covid summer of 2020, Hunter Davies and his girlfriend escaped locked-down North London for a week's holiday on the Isle of W ...Show more
Into Iraq by Michael Palin
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
A fascinating and rare insight into the history and culture of Iraq, by Britain's best-loved travel writer. In March 2022, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin journeyed along the River Tigris and into Iraq to gain a glimpse of life in an area of the world that can claim ...Show more
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland. He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search ...Show more
Around the World in 68 Days - Observations of Life from a Journey Across 13 Countries by K. O. H. Buck SONG
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Insights into thirteen countries' ancient and modern cultures, their national identities and nation brands, and their place in the world today.Around The World In 68 Days is a travelogue with a big difference - not about how to get there, what to see or where to dine, but instead, seeking to glean insig ...Show more
Farewell Mr Puffin - A Small Boat Voyage to Iceland by Paul Heiney
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
'It would be hard to imagine a more thoughtful, intelligent and companionable person to go to sea with than Paul Heiney.' Bill Bryson'High comedy on the high seas. Informative and warm and freezing. It's quite a combination.' Griff Rhys JonesThe puffin is the joker amongst the seabirds of the north Atla ...Show more
The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands by Alastair Bonnett
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
A fascinating exploration of new and disappearing islands around the world, by the author of Off the Map. 'Extraordinary... A fascinating and intelligent book.' - Sunday Times New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disapp ...Show more
Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, "Journey Without Maps" is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain ...Show more
Sydney Art Deco & Modernist Walks: Potts Point & Elizabeth Bay by Peter Sheridan AM
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
A walking tour of Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay exploring Sydney's Art Deco and Modernist Architecture
Greenery: Journeys in Springtime by Tim Dee
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
'A joyful, poetic hymn to spring... Dee is one of our greatest living nature writers' Observer One December, in midsummer South Africa, Tim Dee was watching swallows. They were at home there, but the same birds would soon begin journeying north to Europe, where their arrival marks the beginning of spri ...Show more
To the Lake: A Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
The celebrated author of Border explores a mysterious, ancient, and little-understood corner of EuropeLake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two ancient lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region’s past and the secret of its enduring allure. Two lakes ...Show more
Turkey: The Passenger by Elif Shafak and Fattima Bhutto, et al.
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing | Series: The Passenger
The Big Dig by Elif Batuman -A Story of Dust and Lightby Burhan Sönmez - An Author Recommends by Elif Shafak - plus: the thirty-year coup and the dam that is washing away 12,000 years of history, and more. The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own ...Show more
Maiden Voyages - Women and the golden age of transatlantic travel by Siân Evans
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing | Reading Level: near fine
A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some trav ...Show more