Japan: The Passenger by Various
40.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
'Some Japanese stories end violently. Others never end at all, but only cut away, at the moment of extreme crisis, to a butterfly, or the wind, or the moon.' - Brian Phillips
Home is an Island - A Writer's Tribute to New Zealand's Islands by Neville Peat
40.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Reading Level: near fine
Neville Peat has been a New Zealand writer for over 50 years, and during his working life has visited many of the islands within Aotearoa’s marine realm, from the tropics to Antarctica. This book is about these islands, including Stewart Island/Rakiura, Anchor Island in Tamatea/Dusky Sound, Kāpiti Islan ...Show more
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads by Tim Cope
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Reading Level: very good
Lone-adventurer Tim Cope travelled the entire length of the Eurasian steppe on horseback, from the ancient capital of Mongolia to the Danube River in Hungary. This formidable 6,000-mile journey took three years to complete. It is a journey that has not been completed successfully since the days of Gengh ...Show more
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: Landscapes Ser.
From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways--a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from ...Show more
A Thing of Beauty - Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece by Peter Fiennes
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 'Peter Fiennes's road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described' Mary Beard, TLS 'Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece' Observer What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It's now a golden age for these t ...Show more
Icons of England by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Reading Level: General Adult
This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub sign ...Show more
The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
'This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit' Adam Nicolson Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to ...Show more
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan Slaght
26.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russia's remote far eastern forest, and of the world's most extraordinary owlThe forests near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire are the only place on earth where brown bears, leopards and tigers co-e ...Show more
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
38.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Reading Level: very good
In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of t ...Show more
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. ...Show more
One Place de l'Eglise: A Year in Provence for the 21st century by Trevor Dolby
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
A joyous and life-affirming story of one family's move from London to a rural French villageOne day a Londoner and his wife went a little crazy and bought a crumbling house in deepest Languedoc. It was love at first sight.Slowly the family make this house a home, they get to know the locals and these bu ...Show more
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020 An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning author of international reportage Erika Fatland ta ...Show more