Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides by Tom Chesshyre
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Rail enthusiast Tom Chesshyre, author of Slow Trains to Ven ...Show more
A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: Bryson Ser.
"In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world. Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, p ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
29.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: The Canons
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd ...Show more
My Four Seasons in France: A Year of the Good Life by Janine Marsh
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: The\Good Life France Ser.
A little more than 10 years ago, Janine Marsh and her husband Mark gave up their city jobs in London to chase the good life in the countryside of northern France. Having overcome the obstacles of starting to renovate her dream home--an ancient, dilapidated barn--and fitting in with the peculiarities of ...Show more
The Path of Peace - Walking the Western Front Way by Anthony Seldon
28.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator 'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer 'A noble endeavour' New Statesman 'A haunting, intense, enjoyable and memorable book' Tristan Gooley 'Compelling and well-balanced... valuable and poignant' Times Literary Supplement ***A WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 PICK*** W ...Show more
Wild Journeys by Bruce Ansley
37.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding party of the northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast, sails around New Zealand's northern and southern cape ...Show more
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kasakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
38.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives | Series: Journey through former Soviet Republics
Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How have these countries developed since ...Show more
Fledgling by Hannah Bourne-Taylor
40.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Fledgling tells the story of a woman rediscovering herself through connecting with nature after starting a whole new life in a different continent Read the powerful account of one woman's struggle to reshape her identity when all normality has fallen away. When lifelong bird-lover Hannah Bourne-Taylor m ...Show more
The Gentle Art of Tramping by Stephen Graham; Alastair Humphreys (Foreword by)
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
'Know how to tramp and you know how to live... Know how to meet your fellow-wanderer, how to be passive to the beauty of Nature and how to be active to its wildness and its rigour' The tramp is a friend of society; a seeker, they pay their way if they can. One includes in the category "tramp" all true ...Show more