Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
Old Glory - An American Voyage by Jonathan Raban
$35.00 NZD
Category: The Americas
Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, Raban opens himself to experience the river in all her turbulent and unpredictable old glory. Going wherever the current takes him, he joins a coon-hunt in Savana, falls for a girl in St Louis, worships with black Baptists in Memphis, han ...Show more
Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy by Peter Wilson
$60.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
An idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of Italy, accompanied by the author's own witty illustrations.In Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy, architect Peter Wilson offers a Grand Tour of Grand Tours, providing an idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of It ...Show more
Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand by Ella Christie; Caroline Eden (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: JM Journeys
INTRODUCED BY CAROLINE EDEN, award-winning author of Black Sea, Red Sands and Samarkand'Medieval pomp, splendour, and picturesqueness... a life that one can hardly even realize.'In 1912, Ella R. Christie - a veteran Scottish traveller who had made expeditions to Kashmir, Tibet, Malaya, Borneo, China, Ko ...Show more
Into Iraq by Michael Palin
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
A fascinating and rare insight into the history and culture of Iraq, by Britain's best-loved travel writer. In March 2022, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin journeyed along the River Tigris and into Iraq to gain a glimpse of life in an area of the world that can claim ...Show more
The Po - An Elegy for Italy's Longest River by Tobias Jones
$43.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Reading Level: near fine
A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture. The River Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling for 650 kilometres from its source in the Alps across the entire width of the peninsula until it reaches the Adriatic Sea in the east. Flowing through ...Show more
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland. He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search ...Show more
The Illustrated Route 66 Historical Atlas by Jim Hinckley
$70.00 NZD
Category: The Americas
This state-by-state atlas is fully illustrated and includes historic sites & points of interest along Route 66. Interest in it as a travel destination continues.
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$30.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
$26.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
An entertaining and informative journey across Italy in the footsteps of the great Italian political hero, Garibaldi.Bestselling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Garibaldi, revolutionary and future architect of a united Italy, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna ac ...Show more
Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides by Tom Chesshyre
$30.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Rail enthusiast Tom Chesshyre, author of Slow Trains to Ven ...Show more
Walking The Invisible by Michael Stewart
$26.00 NZD
Category: British Isles
See through the eyes of the Brontës as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry.An 'imaginative and elegant trek through the landscape of the Brontës' GraziaIn his journey to ...Show more