Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia - Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on) by Chris Stewart
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
A special anniversary edition with a new chapter 25 years on.Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Spanish mountain farm to print. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn enough money to buy a se ...Show more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more
The Ravens Nest - An Icelandic Journey Through Light and Darkness by Sarah Thomas
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
A breathtaking mix of nature writing, memoir and travel, this is the story of the making and unmaking of a marriage, and the search for home among the elemental landscape of Iceland's bewitching Westfjords.
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
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
The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' - Brian Eno ... 'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' - John Higgs ... 'A perfect example of the power and beauty of industrial music' - Cosey Fanni Tutti W ...Show more
Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
38.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
The Perfect Shot - Lonely Planet by Lonely Planet
50.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
Revealing the best of Lonely Planet's travel photography from across the globe, this pictorial does more than display beautiful photographs of classic scenes and locations. Our photographers in their words share the backstories of how they got the perfect shot, making this an inspirational and illuminat ...Show more
The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement by Shane Tim; Benzie Major
25.00 NZD
Category: Fitness/Sport
'Heads up here's how to run like a pro' The Times'A fascinating book' Adharanand Finn, author of Running With the Kenyans'I'm convinced that Shane's insights were were instrumental in me winning the Marathon des Sables for a second time' Elisabet Barnes, coach and athlete'Shane is the Indiana Jones of t ...Show more
Camping on the Wye by S. K. Baker
20.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent time sailing and camping on the River Wye. Baker, a keen artist and diarist, recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books. The res ...Show more
On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty- ...Show more
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
33.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania's utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter - a ...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