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The Vanished Kingdom - Travels Through The History Of Prussia by James Charles Roy
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Twice in this century, Germany initiated wars of unimagined terror and destruction. In both cases, defense of the “Prussian” realm, the German homeland, was the perceived and vilified perpetrator. Few today understand with any precision what “Prussia” means, either geographically or nationalistically, b ...Show more
When in Rome: 2000 Years of Roman Sightseeing by Matthew Sturgis
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
The story of what Rome's visitors have looked at over the past two thousand years: the buildings, the statues, the paintings, the artefacts that have most impressed each generation of travellers from the time of the Roman Republic in the second century BC up to the present age of mass tourism.
A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu
$18.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
"Rarely has humanity's relationship to nature been so beautifully and vividly depicted. A Dream in Polar Fog is both elegant and exciting and also serves as a living anthropology of a gone world. It accomplishes everything a novel should."Neal Pollack A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a cross-cultural ...Show more
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Presents a true story of intrigue, murder, forgery and eccentricity set in the steamy, surreal atmosphere of Savannah, Georgia. This book brings the unpredictable twists and turns of a murder case that are interwoven with a first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South.
Lights Out for the Territory - 9 Excursions in the Secret History of London by Ian Sinclair; Marc Atkins (Illustrator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
This is a record of long journeys on foot, from Hackney to Chingford and down to the river, around the City in its ring of steel, and through the heart of Westminster, Lambeth and Millbank.
North Korea Journal by Michael Palin
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine
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
Night Haunts - A journey through the London night by Sukhdev Sandhu
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
London at night, from Shakespeare's time to Dickens to Jack the Ripper, was always seen as a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence, teeming with rogues and bandits. But is it now as bland and unthreatening as any new town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across London to find out whether the London night rea ...Show more
The Danakil Diary - Journeys Through Abyssinia 1930-34 by Wilfred Thesiger
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now considered to be the greatest living explorer. The Danakil Diary is the account of two journeys Thesiger made into the Danakil country in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, in 1930-34 at the age of 24 - which, today, he still regards as the most dangero ...Show more
A Voyage in the Sunbeam - Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Anna Brassey
$16.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
Mexican Days - Journeys into the heart of Mexico by Tony Cohan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Tony Cohan's indelible vision of a seductive, enticing and intoxicating world in ON MEXICAN TIME, his bestselling chronicle of discovering a new life in the tiny mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, become a travel classic. In MEXICAN DAYS point of arrival becomes point of departure as - faced with t ...Show more
Voyages and Visions - Towards a Cultural History of Travel by Jas Elsner (Editor); Joan-Pau Rubiés (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Critical Views Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginativ ...Show more