Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr
$26.00 NZD
Category: Asia
The essential book for anyone visiting Bangkok - a wonderful mixture of history and culture - from the author of Lost JapanOne of Asia's most extraordinary cities, Bangkok is also one of the most baffling. It is filled with remarkable people and glittering golden palaces and temples, but is also a maze ...Show more
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Amy Stanley
$26.00 NZD
Category: Asia
A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back in the historical picture.Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now k ...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
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Stunning.' - Andre Aciman 'These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.' - Elif Shafak Cyprus ...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
Steam Trains Today: Journeys Along Britain's Heritage Railways by Andrew Martin
$40.00 NZD
Category: British Isles
A delightfully warm exploration of a very British obsession.
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
Land of Eagles - Riding Through Europe's Forgotten Country by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$33.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
Albania is the least-known and least developed country in Europe. It has a long, rich and troubled past, characterised by unrest and isolationism. Today, very little is known of its people - beyond those who have emigrated to other countries in Europe - and its landscapes have remained virtually untrave ...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
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
The End of the Road by Jack Cooke
$37.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous - and not so famous - tombs, graves and burial sites. Along the way, he ...Show more