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
The Journey Matters: Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style by Jonathan Glancey
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
A celebration of the best journeys that ordinary passengers could take by rail, road, sea and air throughout the twentieth century, by the bestselling author of Spitfire: The Biography.
Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast by Samanth Subramanian
$24.00 NZD
Category: Asia
In a coastline as long and diverse as India's, fish inhabit the heart of many worlds - food of course, but also culture, commerce, sport, history and society. Journeying along the edges of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian delivers a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories. Following Fish conducts rich j ...Show more
Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany: And Other Revelations from a Mediterranean Sea Change by Shamus Sillar
$37.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Packed with history, culture, misadventure, and a little Mafioso action, the story of a newly married couple and the year they spent in Sicily Gill and I had dreamt of living in Italy for as long as we'd been together. This is the story of an Aussie couple who sought a Mediterranean Sea change only to ...Show more
Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr
$30.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and ...Show more
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
$33.00 NZD
Category: Asia
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
Just as Well I'm Leaving by Michael Booth
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Without Hans Christian Andersen there would be no Alice in Wonderland, no Roald Dahl and maybe even no Harry Potter (and he has outsold them all), but few realise that the man who invented children's literature was also a pioneering travel writer. Having been dragged against his will to live in Denmark, ...Show more
In America: Travels with John Steinbeck by Geert Mak
$35.00 NZD
Category: The Americas
In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans. As Steinbeck said to a friend: 'I must see how the country looks and smells and sounds.' The trip became Travels With Charley, o ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace; Andrew Berry (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Asia
The Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace 'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia, from Singapore to the wilds of New Guinea, encountering head-hunters, jungles, birds of pa ...Show more
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
$30.00 NZD
Category: The Americas
This is Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Acclaimed and beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to his own country - America - for the first time in Deep South. For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islan ...Show more
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth. In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found. This is its story. 'Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson Michael Palin - Monty Python ...Show more
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages) by Colin Thubron
$26.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindOn buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the pla ...Show more