Discourses of Difference - An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism by Sara Mills
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. ...Show more
Imperial Eyes - Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Studies in colonial and exploration discourse have identified the enormous significance of travel writing as an ideological apparatus of Empire. The study of travel writing has, however, tended to remain either naively celebratory, or dismissive, treating texts as symptoms of imperial ideologies. Imperi ...Show more
Expedition Naga - Diaries from the Hills in Northeast India 1921-1937/2002-2006 by Peter van Ham; Jamie Saul
$40.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
"Expedition Naga" is a multisensory trip into one of the world's most remote and least accessible regions. Diaries written by British administrators/explorers during punitive expeditions in the 1920's and -30's against the Naga, a people once notorious for their headhunting activities, are compared with ...Show more
Wainwright in the Valleys of Lakeland by A. Wainwright
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Gone to New York - Adventures in the city by Ian Frazier
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Frazier makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again just the way he did In the early 1970s, the writer Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. Gone to New York is Frazier's account of the city over the thirty years he's lived there, a boo ...Show more
Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
$18.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: National Geographic adventure classics | Reading Level: very good
Follows the classic travel adventures of the late-nineteenth-century woman, who defied the conventions of Victorian England to complete her father's research in western and equatorial Africa, during which she forged warm relationships with the natives and survived surprising challenges. Trade Paperb ...Show more
A Week At The Airport - A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in the middle of Terminal 5 on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he is writing and to come and ...Show more
Chile - Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good-very good
Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler found out when she travelled alone with two carpetbags from the top to the bottom, form the driest desert in ...Show more
Wheels Within Wheels by Dervla Murphy
$6.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
A first-hand account of the life of travel writer Dervla Murphy in which she tells of her early life in Lismore, Co. Waterford, in her rather unusual household. Her father was the county librarian and her mother a chronic invalid. An only child, Dervla was allowed from the age of seven to freely roam on ...Show more
First Class -Legendary Train Journeys Around the World by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel
This enchanting book, which comes with a slipcase designed to resemble a steamer trunk, takes readers on memorable journeys on the Orient Express, le Train Bleu, the California Zephyr, and others across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. In this title, readers encounter the elegant porters and bellb ...Show more
The Man In Seat 61 - A guide to taking the train through Europe by Mark Smith
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Rising Ground - A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine
Why do we react so strongly to certain places? Why do layers of mythology build up around particular features in the landscape? When Philip Marsden moved to a remote creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to begin exploring these questions, prompting a ...Show more