Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia by Wheeler, Sara
$26.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among oth ...Show more
Days in the Caucasus by Banine (tr. Anne Thompson-Ahmadova)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman’s determined struggle for freedom We all know families that are poor but ‘respectable’. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not ‘respectable’ at all… This is the extraordinary memoir of an ‘odd, rich, exotic’ childhood – of growing ...Show more
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
$28.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-five years after she left, Kassabova returns to Bulgaria to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece in an immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and ex ...Show more
On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe by Andrzej Stasiuk
$30.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A brilliant and ground-breaking collection of travel narratives from Central and Eastern Europe. Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveller. His journeys - by car, train, bus, ferry - take him from his native Poland to small towns and villages with unfamiliar yet evocative names in Sl ...Show more
Greece: The Passenger by Various
$33.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
'On the Greek island of Ikaria, life is sweet . . . and very, very long. What is the locals' secret?' - from "The Island of Long Life" by Andrew Anthony
Stalin's Nose - Across the Face of Europe by Rory MacLean
$30.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
Winston the pig fell into Aunt Zita's life when he dropped onto her husband's head and killed him dead. It was a distressing end to a distinguished life of spying for the U.S.S.R. After the funeral Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and vivacious eccentric, refuses to remain at home in East Germany. Inst ...Show more
In Siberia by Colin Thubron
$30.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
This is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth. He journeyed by train, river and truck among the people most damaged by the breakup of the Soviet Union, travelling among Buddhists and animists, radical Christian s ...Show more
Journey into Cyprus by Colin Thubron
$29.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
The people, their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy. This is the account of a unique journey - a six-hundred-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island's peace. Colin Thubron intertwines myth, history and personal anecdote in a quest from which the character ...Show more
Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim: On Foot, Across Europe to Rome by Harry Bucknall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
Watching in disbelief as his computer was struck by lightning in 2007, Harry Bucknall had no idea that the subsequent trail of events would lead him to Rome - five years later, on foot. Following the Via Francigena, the ancient pilgrim path that dates back nearly two thousand years, Harry walks through ...Show more
Journeys by Stefan Zweig
$23.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
For the insatiably curious Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education and a personal balm for the depression he experienced when rooted in one place for too long. He spent much of his life weaving between the countries of Central Europe, visiting authors and friends and exploring the continen ...Show more