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
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$28.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hotel on Place Vendome is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hotel Ritz-a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance-from Tilar J. Manzeo, the New York Times bestse ...Show more
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
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
$28.00 NZD
Category: The Americas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960, the author set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states. Th ...Show more
Trieste by Jan Morris
$28.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Jan Morris has crafted a meditation on a most unusual city. James (as she was then) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of World War II. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Paperback (B-Format)
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
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
Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain by Matthew Engel
$30.00 NZD
Category: British Isles
Britain gave railways to the world, yet its own network is the dearest (definitely) and the worst (probably) in Western Europe. Trains are deeply embedded in the national psyche and folklore - yet it is considered uncool to care about them. For Matthew Engel, the railway system is the ultimate expressio ...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
Notes from the Cévennes - Half a Lifetime in Provincial France by Adam Thorpe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
A charming memoir exploring the history, landscape and people of rural France, told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman, writer and poet. Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient ...Show more