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
Southeast Asia - An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
$33.00 NZD
Category: Asia
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area.
Maiden Voyages - Women and the golden age of transatlantic travel by Siân Evans
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing | Reading Level: near fine
A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some trav ...Show more
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
‘Meticulous research, lyrical writing … A book that goes to the eeriest, most desolate places on Earth and finds hope' LOUISE GRAY This is a book about abandoned places: exclusion zones, no man's lands, ghost towns and post-industrial hinterlands – and what nature does when we're not there to see it. ...Show more
Under the Dragon by Rory MacLean
$29.00 NZD
Category: Asia
The memory of a brief visit to Burma had haunted Rory MacLean for years. A decade after the violent suppression of an unarmed national uprising, which cost thousands of lives and all hopes for democracy, he seized the chance to return. Travelling from Rangoon to Mandalay and Pagan, into the heart of the ...Show more
Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
$30.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains and windswept coastlines facing Sicily - 'the most beautiful kilometre in Italy' - wrote Gabriele d'Annunzio of its coastline. Though steeped in a rich and ancient past, Calabria had been lost from view when Norman Douglas visited in the early 1900s. Lo ...Show more
Where Hornbills Fly: A Journey with the Headhunters of Borneo by Erik Jensen
$30.00 NZD
Category: Asia
Once headhunters under the rule of White Rajahs and briefly colonised before independence within Malaysia, the Iban Dayaks of Borneo are one of the world's most extraordinary indigenous tribes, possessing ancient traditions and a unique way of life. As a young man Erik Jensen settled in Sarawak where he ...Show more
The Flying Carpet: Adventures in a Biplane from Timbuktu to Everest and Beyond by Richard Halliburton
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that 'an adventure not in the air is obsolete', Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931 and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet.
Italian Journeys: From Venice to Naples and Beyond by William Dean Howells
$28.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
When Abraham Lincoln appointed William Dean Howells Consul to Venice, the young writer embarked on a journey that would leave an indelible impression on his life and work. Howells lived in Italy for four years, from 1861, during the pivotal and tumultuous period of Italian reunification. Italian Journey ...Show more
Jane Austen's England: A Walking Guide by Anne-Marie Edwards
$23.00 NZD
Category: British Isles
This is an engaging account of Austen's life and work, arranged as a series of walking tours through the towns and countryside she knew and loved - the settings for her novels. The 15 circular walks in the book describe the country houses, churches, great estates and elegant cities Austen knew and intro ...Show more