• 2021 Summer Catalogue
  • Calendars 2021
  • Diaries 2021
  • Nelson
  • Animals
  • Agriculture
  • Antiques / Collectibles
  • Architecture / Design
  • Art
  • Astrology
  • Astronomy
  • Atlases
  • Audio Books
  • Aviation
  • Biography / Memoir
  • Book Tokens/vouchers
  • Bookmarks
  • Building
  • Business and Law
  • Cars
  • Children
  • Colouring books
  • Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Computing
  • Cooking
  • Craft
  • Current Affairs
  • Design
  • Diaries
  • Dictionaries
  • Diet and Nutrition
  • Environment
  • Fashion/Costume
  • Fiction
  • Film, TV and Theatre
  • Fishing
  • Fitness
  • Games
  • Gardening
  • Gender
  • Genealogy
  • Gift
  • Guest / Visitor Books
  • Guns & Knives
  • Health
  • History
  • Hobbies
  • Humour
  • Hunting
  • Jigsaw puzzles
  • Journals
  • Languages
  • Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
  • Maori
  • Maps
  • Martial Arts
  • Massage
  • Military
  • Motorbikes
  • Music
  • Myths and Legends - General
  • Natural History
  • Nautical
  • New Zealand
  • Paperblanks
  • Parenting
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Pictorial
  • Poetry / Plays
  • Politics
  • Popular Science
  • Posters
  • Pregnancy & Childbirth
  • Psychology / Self Help
  • Railways
  • Recent arrivals: Non-Fiction
  • Reference - General
  • Religions / Faith
  • Sex
  • Sport
  • Technical - General
  • Text Books
  • Tractors / Trucks
  • Travel
  • True Crime
  • Wine, Beer & Spirits
  • Woodwork
  • Writing
  • Yoga
  • Young Adult
  • 2020 New Zealand Ockham Book Awards Shortlist
  • 2020 Pukapuka Talks
  • Home
  • Shop
  • Newsletters
  • Magazines
  • Events
  • Competitions
  • About
    • Loyalty Scheme
  • Contact
  •    Login/Sign up
  • Facebook
  • Email
  • Login/Sign up

Page & Blackmore Booksellers

Start typing to search by keyword, title, author or ISBN
Searching...
Going to product page...
  • Home
  • Shop
  • Newsletters
  • Magazines
  • Events
  • Competitions
  • About 
    • Loyalty Scheme
  • Contact
  1. Travel
  2. Travel - Narratives

Browse by category

  • 2021 Summer Catalogue
  • Calendars 2021
  • Diaries 2021
  • Nelson
  • Animals
  • Agriculture
  • Antiques / Collectibles
  • Architecture / Design
  • Art
  • Astrology
  • Astronomy
  • Atlases
  • Audio Books
  • Aviation
  • Biography / Memoir
  • Book Tokens/vouchers
  • Bookmarks
  • Building
  • Business and Law
  • Cars
  • Children
  • Colouring books
  • Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Computing
  • Cooking
  • Craft
  • Current Affairs
  • Design
  • Diaries
  • Dictionaries
  • Diet and Nutrition
  • Environment
  • Fashion/Costume
  • Fiction
  • Film, TV and Theatre
  • Fishing
  • Fitness
  • Games
  • Gardening
  • Gender
  • Genealogy
  • Gift
  • Guest / Visitor Books
  • Guns & Knives
  • Health
  • History
  • Hobbies
  • Humour
  • Hunting
  • Jigsaw puzzles
  • Journals
  • Languages
  • Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
  • Maori
  • Maps
  • Martial Arts
  • Massage
  • Military
  • Motorbikes
  • Music
  • Myths and Legends - General
  • Natural History
  • Nautical
  • New Zealand
  • Paperblanks
  • Parenting
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Pictorial
  • Poetry / Plays
  • Politics
  • Popular Science
  • Posters
  • Pregnancy & Childbirth
  • Psychology / Self Help
  • Railways
  • Recent arrivals: Non-Fiction
  • Reference - General
  • Religions / Faith
  • Sex
  • Sport
  • Technical - General
  • Text Books
  • Tractors / Trucks
  • Travel
  • True Crime
  • Wine, Beer & Spirits
  • Woodwork
  • Writing
  • Yoga
  • Young Adult
  • 2020 New Zealand Ockham Book Awards Shortlist
  • 2020 Pukapuka Talks

Travel > Travel - Narratives

Large 9781775541172

Down South: In Search of the Great Southern Land by Bruce Ansley

$50.00 NZD

Available Stock:
16

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 so very long ago, the South Island had most of New Zealand's people and just about all of the money. Gold miners found fortunes in the hills and rivers, sheep barons straddled mountains, valleys and plains. Wealthy southerners ruled the government. Where now lies the South Island's golden fleece? And what is its future? ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9781760893132

Stalin's Wine Cellar by John Baker

$40.00 NZD

Available Stock:
10

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 and, Kevin Hopko, had ever come across. The list was discovered to be a comprehensive catalogue of the wine collection of Nicholas II, the last Czar of Russia. The wine had become the property of the state after the Russian Revolution of 1918, during which Nicholas and his entire family were executed. Now owned by Stalin, the wine was discretely removed to a remote Georgian winery when Stalin was concerned the advancing Nazi army might overrun Russia, and inevitably loot artefacts and treasures. Half a century later, the wine was rumoured to be hidden underground and off any known map. John and Kevin embarked on an audacious, colourful and potentially dangerous journey to Georgia to discover if the wines actually existed; if the bottles were authentic and whether the entire collection could be bought and transported to a major London auction house for sale. Stalin's Wine Cellar is a wild, sometimes rough ride in the glamorous world of high end wine. The cast of characters include Stalin, Hitler, Czar Nicholas II and a motley bunch of Georgian businessmen/cowboys toting handguns, in the early days of Russian business development that led to the world of Putin and oligarchs. ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 77319066 938291723212604 1031009343241191424 o

Just a Mum On the Camino de Santiago by Rachel Goodman

$30.00 NZD

Available Stock:
7

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 rimage trail. Why? I honestly don't know! I'm not religious. Or a long-distance walker (or short-distance either) but I just HAD to do it. In Part One I get organised for the Camino and face some stark realities about my state of fitness (groan) and the logistics of escaping mothering duties for five weeks. (yay!) Part two is in the form of a daily diary as I walk the Camino covering topics such as: Blisters, the benefits of eating breakfast and reading guide books correctly. Musings about life, surviving snoring tournaments, questioning faith and finding it, reaching the edges of my sanity and proving you can live off one bra and a few pairs of undies for a month. With an abundance of humour and brutal honesty, I tell what it was really like for this 'Just a mum' to take on this insane idea and what the Camino taught me about myself and my role in life as a mother. ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9781785786488

The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders by Ben Aitken

$33.00 NZD

Available Stock:
4

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 lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life, and signed himself up. Six times over. Good value aside, what Ben was really after was the company of his elders - those with more chapters under their belt, with the wisdom granted by experience, the candour gifted by time, and the hard-earned ability to live each day like it's nearly their last. A series of coach holidays ensued - from Scarborough to St Ives, Killarney to Lake Como - during which Ben attempts to shake off his thirty-something blues by getting old as soon as possible. ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9780330453677

Into the Wild (FTI Edition) by Jon Krakauer

$30.00 NZD

Available Stock:
3

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 ts of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature. 'An astonishingly gifted writer: his account of 'Alex Supertramp' is powerfully dramatic, eliciting sympathy for both the idealistic, anti-consumerist boy - and his parents' Guardian 'A compelling tale of tragic idealism' The Times ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9781787833005

Tough Women Adventure Stories - Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination by Jenny Tough

$25.00 NZD

Available Stock:
3

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 avelling alone, immersing yourself in new cultures and meeting new people. Perhaps it's running ultramarathons in the blistering heat and beating the competition. Perhaps it's conquering your fears. The badass adventurers in this collection are all fearless, intelligent, compassionate and curious about the world - and they all happen to be female. From endurance obstacle races to arctic expeditions, from mountain climbing to wingsuit flying, from horse trekking to swimming the English Channel, they have set the bar high for what women are capable of. Let yourself be inspired by their stories of grit, courage, determination, triumph and heartbreak - you never know, it might lead to something incredible! ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large c1an3v8irm65odxwdyzyk3a8kc mvinh9jxddgzjt8ekag

Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan; Graham McTavish

$35.00 NZD

Available Stock:
3

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 rt of Scotland at Glencoe and travel from there all the way to Inverness and Culloden battlefield, where along the way they experience adventure and a cast of highland characters. In this story of friendship, finding themselves, and whisky, they discover the complexity, rich history and culture of their native country. ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9781925820577

Fearless Footsteps - True Stories That Capture the Spirit of Adventure by Nathan James Thomas (Editor); Jennifer Roberts (Editor)

$30.00 NZD

Available Stock:
2

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 ng for adventure. This inspirational collection of true travel stories proves that the best journeys are to be had when you feel the fear but go anyway. From a nervous flier anxiously taking to the skies for the first time to a female traveller braving the Middle East, from a death-defying hike on an Indonesian volcano to the anxious freedom of finding yourself alone on the other side of the world, these stories are certain to send you looking for your passport. Created by the popular travel writing website, Intrepid Times, as part of an international writing competition that saw entries pouring in from across the globe, Fearless Footsteps is travel writing at both its most exhilarating and its most introspective. Covering every continent from Africa to Antarctica, these carefully selected stories get to the heart of what it means to be a traveller and see the world with courage, open-mindedness, and relentless curiosity.   ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9781916129207

Slow Road to San Francisco by David Reynolds

$33.00 NZD

Available Stock:
2

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 ts a huge variety of Americans--white, black, Hispanic, Asian, native American; Christian, Muslim, atheist, Mormon, Mennonite; rich, middling, poor. They talk about everything from slavery, Indian reservations, fracking, and forest fires to baseball, beer, the blues, Butch Cassidy, and Marilyn Monroe. Everyone has something to say about Donald Trump, from those who "love him" to those who "hate him." Reynolds follows the direction of history, the direction taken by explorers and pioneer settlers. As he travels he conjures a vivid picture of the US then and now; its landscape and its people in all their diversity. ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9780241413289

A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier; Nicholas Thomas (Editor)

$30.00 NZD

Available Stock:
2

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 c to the Philippines and Southeast Asia - a vast expanse tied together by the Spanish Empire. Dampier and his men live lives of rascally precariousness, in the shadow of great Spanish galleons and fortresses, always on the verge of disaster. His book is filled with raids, escapes, wrecks and storms, but Dampier is also a great observer of animals, exotic foods, boats, customs: the book is a cornucopia of descriptions of everything from giant centipedes to bananas. It was originally designed simply to entertain and to be useful for later adventurers and merchants, but it is now a unique document, miraculously preserving glimpses of now long-vanished peoples and places. This new edition, introduced and annotated by Nicholas Thomas, makes clear Dampier's key role as a proselytiser for the early British Empire, as an inspiration for generations of naturalist and explorers, and as a uniquely curious character. ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9781788161213

Signs of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor by Stephen Fabes

$45.00 NZD

Available Stock:
2

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 ssing concern were the daily challenges of life as an unfit rider on an overloaded bike, helplessly in thrall to pastries. But leaving medicine behind is not as easy as it seems. As he roves continents, he finds people whose health has suffered through exile, stigma or circumstance, and others, whose lives have been saved through kindness and community. After encountering a frozen body of a monk in the Himalayas, he is drawn ever more to healthcare at the margins of the world, to crumbling sanitoriums and refugee camps, to city dumps and war-torn hospital wards. And as he learns the value of listening to lives - not just solving diagnostic puzzles - Stephen challenges us to see care for the sick as a duty born of our humanity, and our compassion. ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9781783785933

The Museum of Whales You Will Never See - Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland by Kendra Greene

$37.00 NZD

Available Stock:
2

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 ist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, which poses a particularly Icelandic problem: How to display what can’t be seen? In The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, A. Kendra Greene is our wise and whimsical guide through this cabinet of curiosities, showing us, in dreamlike anecdotes and more than thirty charming illustrations, how a seemingly random assortment of objects–a stuffed whooper swan, a rubber boot, a shard of obsidian, a chastity belt for rams–can map a people’s past and future, their fears and obsessions. “The world is chockablock with untold wonders,” she writes, “there for the taking, ready to be uncovered at any moment, if only we keep our eyes open.”   ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Items per page:
1 - 12 of 1636 ← Previous 1 2 3 … 136 137 »
Print catalogue

Page & Blackmore Booksellers Ltd

254 Trafalgar Street, (PO Box 200), Nelson, New Zealand
Tel - (03) 548 9992

Email: info@pageandblackmore.co.nz

  • Facebook
  • Email

System by Circle

© CircleSoft 2021.