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Down South: In Search of the Great Southern Land by Bruce Ansley
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south's famous character. Not ...Show more
Stalin's Wine Cellar by John Baker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, John was the perfect person for an occasional business partner, Andrew Simon, to approach with a mysterious wine list that was foreign to anything John, or his second-in-comm ...Show more
Just a Mum On the Camino de Santiago by Rachel Goodman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
I am just a mum, who desperately needs an adventure. I have mothered children for most of my life, and as the kids get older, I'm left wondering who I am and what to do next. Unfit and unmotivated, I somehow find myself walking 800km across Spain on a thing called the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilg ...Show more
The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders by Ben Aitken
$33.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED A CHIP SHOP IN POZNAŃ One millennial, six coach trips, one big generation gap. When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of ...Show more
Into the Wild (FTI Edition) by Jon Krakauer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limi ...Show more
Tough Women Adventure Stories - Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination by Jenny Tough
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
It's time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being physically fit and mentally resilient. Perhaps it's doing something no one else has done before. Perhaps it's breaking down boundaries and proving what you can do, in spite of the naysayers. Perhaps it's tr ...Show more
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan; Graham McTavish
$35.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. Unlikely friends Sam and Graham begin their journey in the hea ...Show more
Fearless Footsteps - True Stories That Capture the Spirit of Adventure by Nathan James Thomas (Editor); Jennifer Roberts (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Travelling the world is an exhilarating, eye-opening, life-affirming experience. But it can also be scary to even think about. There are language barriers, borders to cross, planes to fly in, and of course, the mystery of an unknown land. It can be difficult to take the chance, even when you're yearni ...Show more
Slow Road to San Francisco by David Reynolds
$33.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
From Ocean City, Maryland to San Francisco, Reynolds traverses the US and observes--with remarkable honesty and insight, not to mention a humorous and sometimes skeptical eye--Trump's America, and the Americans' way of life. As he moseys from east to west, driving slowly, and stopping frequently, he mee ...Show more
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier; Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures. The world he describes sprawls all the way from the Caribbean west across the Pacifi ...Show more
Signs of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor by Stephen Fabes
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know something, care. The same could be said for life on the road, too. When Stephen Fabes left his job as a junior doctor and set out to cycle around the world, frontline medicine quickly faded from his mind. Of more pre ...Show more
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See - Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland by Kendra Greene
$37.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Iceland is home to only 330,000 people (roughly the population of Lexington, Kentucky) but more than 265 museums and public collections–nearly one for every ten people. They range from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to ex ...Show more