Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing | Series: Great Kerouac Ser.
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it r ...Show more
Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space by Cees Nooteboom
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
One fine day, and I know how romantic and old-fashioned that sounds, but it is what happened in my case, I packed a rucksack, took leave of my mother, and caught the train to Breda. An hour later - you know how small the Netherlands is - I was standing at the side of the road on the Belgian border stick ...Show more
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
This is a compendium of travel writing from a master traveller Paul Theroux who celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, "The Tao of Tr ...Show more
My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure by Humphreys, Alastair
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019 Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits - busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play. In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had never been overseas; had hardly even left the quiet villa ...Show more
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Age by Daniel Klein
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Travels with Epicurus- A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Ageis a humorous, uplifting meditation on finding the pleasures of old age, by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. When philosopher, jokester and septuagenarian Daniel Klein goe ...Show more
Perseus in the Wind - A Life of Travel by Freya Stark
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Written just after the Second World War, Perseus in the Wind (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark's writings. She muses on the seasons, the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day, the smell of the earth after rain, Muslim sai ...Show more
Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
This is a book about the universe which begins with swimming salmon and ends with the starry sky. From the tiniest Earth dwellers to far-flung celestial bodies - considering everything from the similarity of gods to donkeys, to exploding stars and exploding sea cucumbers - Amy Leach rekindles our commun ...Show more
The Journey Matters: Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style by Jonathan Glancey
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
A celebration of the best journeys that ordinary passengers could take by rail, road, sea and air throughout the twentieth century, by the bestselling author of Spitfire: The Biography.
Just as Well I'm Leaving by Michael Booth
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Without Hans Christian Andersen there would be no Alice in Wonderland, no Roald Dahl and maybe even no Harry Potter (and he has outsold them all), but few realise that the man who invented children's literature was also a pioneering travel writer. Having been dragged against his will to live in Denmark, ...Show more