Rome: The Passenger by Various
33.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
IN THIS VOLUME:'Rome doesn't judge you' by Nicola Lagioia, 'The soul of the city' by Matteo Nucci, '39 memos for a book about Rome' by Francesco PiccoloPlus: a guide to the sounds of Rome; the feigned unrest and real malaise of the suburbs; the influence of the Vatican; the excessive power of real esta ...Show more
Nothing Like a Dane by Keri Bloomfield
37.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Humorous and heartfelt, Nothing Like a Dane is a memoir of a New Zealander living her best life in Denmark. The Danish concept of hygge is a wonderful thing. Even if most fail miserably when they try to pronounce or explain its true essence. Unless you’re a Viking of course. As Keri stood in the departu ...Show more
Clanlands - Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Reading Level: near fine
Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander- Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of O ...Show more
Horizon by Barry Lopez
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
From the National Book Award-winning author of the classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us from pole to pole and across decades of lived experienc ...Show more
Footnotes - A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
'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
Slow Trains to Venice: A 4,000-Mile Adventure Across Europe by Tom Chesshyre
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of the tracks. From France (dogged by rail worker strikes), through Belgium, the Nether ...Show more
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | 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
God and the Angel: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's Tour De Force of Australia and New Zealand by Shiroma Perera-Nathan
70.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
God and the Angel is the first illustrated book on the 1948 Old Vic Tour of Australia and New Zealand, led by Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Written from an Australian perspective and utilising never-before published photos from the National Library and author's collection, God and the Angel dia ...Show more
The Downhill Hiking Club - A Short Walk Across the Lebanon by Dom Joly
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: HEZBOLLAH HIKING CLUB
Three men. 470 kilometres. Twenty-one days. Welcome to the downhill Hiking Club . . . At a boozy, cricket-filled afternoon at Lord's, Dom Joly convinces his two closest friends to agree to the unthinkable: a challenging hike across Lebanon, from the Israeli border in the south, along the spine o ...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
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: Bryson
'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the ki ...Show more
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