Slow Road to San Francisco by David Reynolds
$33.00 NZD
Category: The Americas
From Ocean City, Maryland to San Francisco, Reynolds traverses the US and observes--with remarkable honesty and insight, not to mention a humorous and sometimes skeptical eye--Trump's America, and the Americans' way of life. As he moseys from east to west, driving slowly, and stopping frequently, he mee ...Show more
Footnotes - A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
'The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I started.'Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of twelve inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through the lens of the past.The journey starts in Dorset, shaped by the childhood visions of Enid Blyton, ...Show more
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia - Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on) by Chris Stewart
$25.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
A special anniversary edition with a new chapter 25 years on.Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Spanish mountain farm to print. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn enough money to buy a se ...Show more
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
The acclaimed author of The Wild Places examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we moveIn this exquisitely written book, which folds together natural history, cartography, geology, and literature, Robert Macfarlane sets off to follow the ancient routes that crisscross both ...Show more
Days in the Caucasus by Banine (tr. Anne Thompson-Ahmadova)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman’s determined struggle for freedom We all know families that are poor but ‘respectable’. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not ‘respectable’ at all… This is the extraordinary memoir of an ‘odd, rich, exotic’ childhood – of growing ...Show more
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
$28.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-five years after she left, Kassabova returns to Bulgaria to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece in an immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and ex ...Show more
On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe by Andrzej Stasiuk
$30.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A brilliant and ground-breaking collection of travel narratives from Central and Eastern Europe. Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveller. His journeys - by car, train, bus, ferry - take him from his native Poland to small towns and villages with unfamiliar yet evocative names in Sl ...Show more
Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons: Travels in Sicily on a Vespa by Matthew Fort
$30.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
"At the age of twenty-six Matthew Fort first visited the island of Sicily. He and his brother arrived in 1973 expecting sun, sea and good food, but they were totally unprepared for the lifelong effect of this most extraordinary of islands. Thirty years later, older and a bit wiser but no less greedy Mat ...Show more
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing | Series: Great Kerouac Ser.
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it r ...Show more
Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space by Cees Nooteboom
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
One fine day, and I know how romantic and old-fashioned that sounds, but it is what happened in my case, I packed a rucksack, took leave of my mother, and caught the train to Breda. An hour later - you know how small the Netherlands is - I was standing at the side of the road on the Belgian border stick ...Show more
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
This is a compendium of travel writing from a master traveller Paul Theroux who celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, "The Tao of Tr ...Show more
My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure by Humphreys, Alastair
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019 Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits - busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play. In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had never been overseas; had hardly even left the quiet villa ...Show more