Scribbling The Cat : Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
From the author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight comes a powerful and sometimes painful account of an intense relationship - between a writer, her words, and those she chooses to write about.When Alexandra "Bo" Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a ...Show more
Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else: The Stories Behind Australia's Weird and Wonderful Place Names by Eamon Evans
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
From Dismal Swamp to Useless Inlet, Intercourse Island to Dirty Womans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names going - now described and explained in one humorous and fascinating book. Australia's vast spaces and irreveren ...Show more
Abroad - British Literary Traveling Between the Wars by Paul Fussell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.
The Tribes Triumphant: Return Journey to the Middle East by Charles Glass
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
A powerful and insightful narrative of a journey -- once violently interrupted and here resumed -- through one of the most compelling regions on earth. From Aqaba to Jerusalem and on into Palestine, veteran commentator on the Middle East, Charles Glass writes a thoughtful, inquisitive and dispassionate ...Show more
In Maremma - Life and a House in Southern Tuscany by David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
An intimate portrait of life in a small rural town in Tuscany recounting David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell's restoration of a dilapidated 1950's farmhouse in southern Tuscany and the process by which they became initiated into a part of Italian life that foreigners rarely see. The pleasures of the olive h ...Show more
Holidays by William McInnes
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Remember those long, languid holidays when the only decisions to be made were what to pack in the Esky and who should get the front seat on the drive to the beach? Let William McInnes reignite your nostalgia for holidays past, and give you a taste of the boundless opportunities that await in holidays to ...Show more
Visits to the Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: The Century Travellers | Reading Level: very good
Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain by David and Hilary Crystal
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine
Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it. It unites the warriors, whose invasions transformed the language, with the poets, scholars, reformers, and others who helped create its character. The book relates a real journey. David and Hilary Cry ...Show more
Billy Connolly's Tracks Across America by Billy Connolly; Matt Whyman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In 2011, we published Billy Connolly's Route 66 - the story of the legendary Scottish comedian's journey along the most famous road in America. The book (which tied-in to an ITV series), performed really well - clearly, armchair travelling with Billy Connolly as your guide is an appealing prospect to ma ...Show more
Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America by David Hatcher Childress
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Lost Cities Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Childress takes the reader on journeys deep into deadly jungles, windswept mountains, and scorching deserts in search of lost civilisations and ancient mysteries. Explore stone cities high in mountain forests and fantastic tales of Inca treasure, living dinosaurs, and a mysterious tunnel system. Whether ...Show more
Touring in 1600: A Study of the Development of Travel as a Means of Education by E. S. Bates
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: The Century Travellers | Reading Level: very good
Between Mexico And Poland by BRETT Lily
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Autobiographical account of a writer's journeys to Mexico, New York and Poland. Relates her experiences in Mexico as she tries to write a novel, the devastation of losing her New York home, and researching a novel in Poland. Author was born in Germany and emigrated to Melbourne in 1948. Her first book, ...Show more