Venice: City of Pictures by Martin Gayford
$65.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Enchanting, captivating, precious--Venice is one of the most cherished cities in the world. For centuries it was the heart of a global maritime power and a crossroads for diverse cultures. Today the city attracts millions of visitors each year, enticed by its irresistible beauty. Art lovers are drawn h ...Show more
Rome: A Sketchbook by Matthew Rice
$48.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Matthew Rice is a long-time observer and illustrator of cities, buildings and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny ability to express the energy of a place through a few lines of ink and splashes of paint. In the first book in this new sketchbook series, he explored the glittering canals of Venic ...Show more
Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy by Peter Wilson
$60.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
An idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of Italy, accompanied by the author's own witty illustrations.In Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy, architect Peter Wilson offers a Grand Tour of Grand Tours, providing an idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of It ...Show more
The Po - An Elegy for Italy's Longest River by Tobias Jones
$43.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Reading Level: near fine
A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture. The River Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling for 650 kilometres from its source in the Alps across the entire width of the peninsula until it reaches the Adriatic Sea in the east. Flowing through ...Show more
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$26.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
An entertaining and informative journey across Italy in the footsteps of the great Italian political hero, Garibaldi.Bestselling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Garibaldi, revolutionary and future architect of a united Italy, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna ac ...Show more
Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides by Tom Chesshyre
$30.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Rail enthusiast Tom Chesshyre, author of Slow Trains to Ven ...Show more
Venice: A Sketchbook Guide by Matthew Rice
$45.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
A guide to the wonders of Venice, conveyed by means of an artist's sketchbookMatthew Rice is a long-time observer and illustrator of cities, buildings and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny ability to express the energy of a place through a few lines of ink and splashes of paint. For years, Ven ...Show more
Sacred Paris: A Guide to the Churches, Synagogues, and the Grand Mosque in the City of Light by Susan Cahill
$35.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
When visiting the City of Light, the spirit of Paris can be felt everywhere. It holds a sacred history that goes beyond words, beyond religion, and its legendary places of worship are truly its crown jewels. Susan Cahill's Sacred Paris is a guide for seasoned Parisian visitors, novices, and armchair tr ...Show more
Slow Trains Around Spain - A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides by Tom Chesshyre
$40.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Reading Level: very good
Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Tom Chesshyre hits the tracks to take in the country through ...Show more
Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Lose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician.' - The Times Despite decades spent poetically chronicling Mediterranean life in Rhodes, Cyprus and Corfu, celebrated ...Show more
The Hero's Way - Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$40.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Reading Level: near fine
This is a widely appealing idea for a travel/history book from the bestselling author of Italian Ways, in which Tim follows the hair-raising journey of Garibaldi, revolutionary and future architect of a united Italy, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna across the Apennines, to look at Italy past and ...Show more
Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
$30.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains and windswept coastlines facing Sicily - 'the most beautiful kilometre in Italy' - wrote Gabriele d'Annunzio of its coastline. Though steeped in a rich and ancient past, Calabria had been lost from view when Norman Douglas visited in the early 1900s. Lo ...Show more