The Hebrides by Paul Murton
43.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Paul Murton has spent half a lifetime exploring some of the most beautiful islands in the world - the Hebrides. He has travelled the length and breadth of the Scotland's rugged, six-thousand-mile coast line, and sailed to over eighty islands. In this book Paul visits each of the Hebridean islands in t ...Show more
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland by A. Kendra Greene
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Meet the obsessives and dreamers of this remote island nation, and travel through the collections of Iceland's eclectic museums and into its curious past. Welcome to Iceland, a very small nation with a very large number (two hundred and sixty five) of (mostly) very small museums. Founded in the backyard ...Show more
Greatest Walks of the World: 200 incredible hikes of a lifetime: amazing adventures and epic trails by Stuart Butler, Mary Caperton Morton
50.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Greatest Walks of the World is an indispensable guide for walkers, hikers and trekkers. It will also appeal to the armchair travellers among us. Explore the world's best walks: chart the routes, read details only a local would know, and see these epic destinations for yourself. Illustrated throughout wi ...Show more
Imagine a City: A Pilot Sees the World by Mark Vanhoenacker
38.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
The bestselling author of Skyfaring celebrates the world's cities from his perspective as a pilot'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTON___________________A l ...Show more
Paris Match: Falling in (love) with the French by John von Sothen
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
How to become Parisian - a genuine, laugh-out-loud tale of French life.
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
"Excellent ... packed with information and interesting anecdotes."--The Washington Post A groundbreaking new look at Himalaya and how climate change is re-casting one of the world's most unique geophysical, historical, environmental, and social regions. More rugged and elevated than any other zone on ea ...Show more
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: Anniversary Edition
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' S ...Show more
The Intimate City: Walking New York by Michael Kimmelman
65.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
From the New York Times architecture critic, his celebrated walking tours of New York City, now expanded, covering four of the five boroughs and some 540 million years of history, accompanied by some of the people who know it best As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an ema ...Show more
Tough Women Adventure Stories - Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination by Jenny Tough (ed.)
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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
The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders by Ben Aitken
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
One millennial, six coach trips, one big generation gap. 'Both moving and hilarious' - Spectator, Books of the Year 'A tale of gloriously eccentric British pensioners. Aitken rivals Alan Bennett in the ear he has for an eavesdropped remark ... boy, can he write.' - Daily Mail, Book of the Week FROM THE ...Show more
North Korea Journal by Michael Palin
38.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: travel writing bio | Reading Level: very good
A glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, as told by Britain's best-loved travel writer. In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without interne ...Show more
Not Alone: Walking Te Araroa Trail Through New Zealand by Tim Voors
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
A stunning illustrated memoir of one man's journey across New Zealand's stunning yet challenging Te Araroa Trail. This book documents Voors' adventurous hike across New Zealand's infamous Te Araroa Trail. First, he is alone, but soon meets two women who become his travelling companions and the three of ...Show more