A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
$34.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows), ...Show more
Collectors Anonymous: Aotearoa New Zealand
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Attention all op shoppers, bargain hunters, treasure seekers and expert thrifters. Collectors Anonymous is your insider’s guide to over 1,500 vintage boutiques, op shops, antique stores, secondhand book retailers, auction houses, junk shops, recycled building suppliers and more! We've toured th ...Show more
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Bryson Ser.
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation?s heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC ...Show more
Running The World: My World-Record Breaking Adventure to Run a Marathonin Every Country on Earth by Butter, Nick
$37.00 NZD
Category: Travel
'Superb - a great book to fuel your wanderlust.' Mark Beaumont --- In 2019, Nick Butter became the first man to run a marathon in every country on Earth. This is Nick's story of his world record-breaking adventure and the extraordinary people who joined him along the way. On January 6th 2018, Nick Bu ...Show more
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cur ...Show more
Mountain Man by James Forrest
$29.00 NZD
Category: Travel
'Proof that epic adventures are open to everyone, even if you've got a day job.' Alastair HumphreysNicknamed 'Mountain Man' by the Sunday Telegraph, James Forrest is the record-breaking adventurer who climbed every mountain in England and Wales in just six months – the fastest ever time. Solo and unsupp ...Show more
Sissinghurst: the Dream Garden by Tim Richardson; National Trust (As told to); Jason Ingram (By (photographer)); Dan Pearson (Foreword by)
$70.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Step inside the world's most famous garden and understand the strength of its attraction since is was bought and transformed by writer Vita Sackville West and diplomat Harold Nicholson in the 1930s. This unforgettable garden of rooms is influential today for its design, its exuberant planting, and its e ...Show more
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte
$37.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Crossing the Unknown Sea shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their work-or find out what their life's work is-this book is essential to navig ...Show more
The Last RiverThe Tragic Race for Shangri-la by Todd Balf
$0.00 NZD
Category: Travel
It was the ultimate whitewater adventure on the Mount Everest of rivers, and the biggest challenge of their lives....October 1998 an American whitewater paddling team traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." On Day 12 ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Literary titan George Orwell penned Animal Farm and 1984, as well as this classic. In Burmese Days, Orwell drew upon his own time in India to craft a biting look at the days of British Imperialism. When a whites-only European club decides to allow one native membership, Dr. Veraswami is first in line to ...Show more
Travels of the Zephyr by Caroline Mac Killian
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Travels of the Zephyr is an interactive book that introduces readers to various lands and peoples across the globe through the notes of the fictional explorer James Mac Killian, who lived from 1889 to 1978. James Mac Killian traveled the world in his homemade hot-air balloon, the Zephyr, documenting eve ...Show more
Great Railway Journeys in Australia and New Zealand 2/e by David Bowden
$40.00 NZD
Category: Travel
35 trips that highlight some of the most interesting, scenic and rewarding railway journeys in Australia and New Zealand. They include the renowned long-distance journeys, such as The Indian Pacific in Australia that takes travellers on a three-day trip from Perth to Sydney or the The Northern Explorer ...Show more