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
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
‘Meticulous research, lyrical writing … A book that goes to the eeriest, most desolate places on Earth and finds hope' LOUISE GRAY This is a book about abandoned places: exclusion zones, no man's lands, ghost towns and post-industrial hinterlands – and what nature does when we're not there to see it. ...Show more
The Flying Carpet: Adventures in a Biplane from Timbuktu to Everest and Beyond by Richard Halliburton
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that 'an adventure not in the air is obsolete', Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931 and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet.
The Journey Matters - Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style by Jonathan Glancey
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
What was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS Normandie, to fly with Imperial Airways from Southampton to Singapore, to steam from Manhattan to Chicago on board the New York Central's 20th Century Limited or to ...Show more
Great Cities Through Travellers' Eyes by Furtado, Peter
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those at home. The thirty-eight cities covered in this entertaining anthology of travellers' tales are spread over six continents, ranging from Beijing to Berlin, ...Show more
Mirror to Damascus by Colin Thubron
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', "Mirror to Damascus" provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well a being a charming and witty personal record of a city well-loved. In explaining how modern Damascus is r ...Show more
Berezina by Sylvain Tesson; Katherine Gregor
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Moscow to Paris in a sidecar: an epic, crazy 2,500 mile road trip following Napoleon's retreat
A Winter in Arabia - A Journey Through Yemen by Freya Stark
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored its vast hinterlands. In 1934, she made her first journey to the Hadhramaut in what is now Yemen - the first woman to do so alone. Even though that journey ended in disappointment, sickn ...Show more
Hidden Places: An Inspired Traveller's Guide by Sarah SARAH BAXTER; Amy Grimes (Illustrator)
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
Wander off the beaten track to uncover the world's most secret destinations: discover an ancient gateway to the Mayan underworld, a mysterious underwater monument sunken off the Ryukyu Islands in Japan or a prehistoric village covered for centuries by a huge sand dune in the Orkney Islands. Travel journ ...Show more
Spiritual Places - Inspired Traveller's by Sarah Baxter; Harry Goldhawk (Illustrator); Zanna Goldhawk (Illustrator)
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
From the manmade splendour of the Pacific Ocean Easter Island statues to the medieval pilgrimage of Camino de Santiago, discover places that will be a balm to the mind and a tonic to the soul. Travel journalist Sarah Baxter reveals destinations that promise profound experiences, whether places of natura ...Show more
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See - Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland by Kendra Greene
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Iceland is home to only 330,000 people (roughly the population of Lexington, Kentucky) but more than 265 museums and public collections–nearly one for every ten people. They range from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to ex ...Show more
Footnotes - A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
'The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I started.'Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of twelve inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through the lens of the past.The journey starts in Dorset, shaped by the childhood visions of Enid Blyton, ...Show more