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
The Passenger: India by Various
$33.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
"Essential in these times of narrowing national horizons."- The Bookseller
The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
$25.00 NZD
Category: Asia
A compelling and timely inside account of the recent crisis in Burma and its troubled journey from dictatorship to democracy. 'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' - Financial Times 'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' - William Dalrymple Precariously positioned be ...Show more
Shadow City - A Woman Walks Kabul by Taran Khan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Winner of the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for Non-Fiction 2020'A fabulous piece of writing... I recommend it unreservedly' William Dalrymple'A brilliant book' Christina LambOne of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk...When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabu ...Show more
To the Lake: A Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
The celebrated author of Border explores a mysterious, ancient, and little-understood corner of EuropeLake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two ancient lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region’s past and the secret of its enduring allure. Two lakes ...Show more
Turkey: The Passenger by Elif Shafak and Fattima Bhutto, et al.
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing | Series: The Passenger
The Big Dig by Elif Batuman -A Story of Dust and Lightby Burhan Sönmez - An Author Recommends by Elif Shafak - plus: the thirty-year coup and the dam that is washing away 12,000 years of history, and more. The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own ...Show more