The Last Voyage of Captain Cook - The collected writings of John Ledyard by John Ledyard; James Zug (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
John Ledyard, the man who dreamed of crossing the United States on foot 20 years before Lewis and Clark, who salled with Captain Cook, formed a fur-trading company with John Paul Jones, and explored Russian Siberia at a time when it was a vast blank marked "unknown" on the map is perhaps the greatest an ...Show more
La Bella Figura - A field guide to the Italian mind by Beppe Severgnini
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
True Pleasures: a Memoir of Women in Paris by Lucinda Holdforth
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good-very good
What better respite is there from down-under diplomacy and politics than to wander the Parisian haunts of some of the most influential women in recent western history? Australian Lucinda Holdforth abandoned her speech-writing job to do just that, exploring the intriguing Paris lives and locales of Nancy ...Show more
By Any Means - His Brand New Adventure from Wicklow to Wollongong by Charley Boorman
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Bikes have always been Charley's first love, but he also enjoys a challenge. So when the chance comes to travel across three continents 'by any means', he jumps right in. Grabbing whatever local transport he can get his hands on, Charley travels from his home town in County Wicklow all the way to Austra ...Show more
Captain Cook, RN - The Resolute Mariner - An International record of Ocean Discovery by Thomas Vaughan; C. M. Murray-Oliver
$15.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
Into the Dark Continent - The travels of Henry Morton Stanley by Hnery Morton Stanley; Frank McLynn (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine
Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola 1605-1612 by Pieter van den Broecke; James D. La Fleur (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 5 | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 1630, Pieter van den Broecke returned to Amsterdam after completing his fifth voyage overseas as a commercial agent for various Dutch companies who were then expanding their worldwide trading networks. Van den Broecke used this homecoming to compose a lengthy manuscript describing his e ...Show more
The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578 by James McDermott (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 6 | Reading Level: very good
Martin Frobisher's third (1578) voyage to Baffin island was the consequence of flawed logic and excessive optimism on the part of the adventurers of the ephemeral 'Company of Cathay'. Their original intention - to find a north-western route to the Far East - had been largely forgotten following the imag ...Show more
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger Volume I - The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813 by William Scoresby; C. Ian Jackson (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No12 | Reading Level: very good
William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, ...Show more