The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
$26.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
In 1933, Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. "The Road to Oxiana" offers not only a wonderfu ...Show more
Lands of Lost Borders : A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
$35.00 NZD
Category: Asia
"Lands of Lost Borders is illuminating, heart-warming, and hopeful in its suggestion that we will explore not to conquer but to connect."--Booklist (starred review) "Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic."--Pico Iyer ...Show more
River of the Gods - Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
$28.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
'This complex, compelling tale is told with simplicity and grace' - The Times A story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers. For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the mid-19th century, Ric ...Show more
Love in Old Age - My Year in the Wight House by Hunter Davies
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Queen Victoria so liked the Isle of Wight she built a royal residence here. Thousands of people got stoned here at music festivals in the late 1960s. And, in the very un-hippyish Covid summer of 2020, Hunter Davies and his girlfriend escaped locked-down North London for a week's holiday on the Isle of W ...Show more
The Border: A Journey Around Russia by Erika Fatland
$30.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
Erika Fatland travels along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way.The Border is a book about Russia and Russian history without its author ever enterin ...Show more
Tourists - How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves by Lucy Lethbridge
$25.00 NZD
Category: British Isles
*FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH*'I really can't recommend this enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom Holland'Delightful ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book' Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on Sunday'It is the paramount wish of every English heart, ever addicted to vag ...Show more
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
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland by Tom Parfitt
$40.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about how British journalist Tom Parfitt walked a thousand miles across Russia's Caucasus mountains to lay to rest a ghost after witnessing the carnage of the Beslan school siege in 2004. 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt ...Show more
The Ravens Nest - An Icelandic Journey Through Light and Darkness by Sarah Thomas
$28.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A breathtaking mix of nature writing, memoir and travel, this is the story of the making and unmaking of a marriage, and the search for home among the elemental landscape of Iceland's bewitching Westfjords.
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
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century by Jessica Vincent
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Travel writing mattersExplore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the most respected travel writers in the world: Levison Wood, Monisha Rajesh, Jessica Vincent and Simon WillmoreThe world has chang ...Show more
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Ash Garton
$45.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
'A moving love letter to Europe' - Lea Ypi, author of FreeHomelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, investigative reporting and intimate memoir by our greatest writer about Europe.Drawing on half a century of travel and thinking, Homelands tells the story of Europe since its emergence from ...Show more