New Europe by Michael Palin
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history, filming its exquisite sights and talking to its diverse peoples, Michael fills what has been a void in ...Show more
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Adventure writer Richard Grant takes on "the most American place on Earth" the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta. Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. ...Show more
1000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
800 pages, b/w photos, indexes "At last a book that tells you what's beautiful, what's fun, and what's just unforgettable - everywhere on earth" -Newsweek First published 2003.
Worlds Apart - Travels in War and Peace by Gavin Young
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
Travels with Alice by Calvin Trillin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin's accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters. In Taormina, Sicily, they cheerfully disagree with Mrs. Tweedie's 1904 assertion that the beautiful town "is being spoilt," and skip the Grand Tour in favor of swimming holes, ta ...Show more
In Siberia by Colin Thubron
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good- very good
In the early 80s Colin Thubron wrote a bestselling book about his travels around the Soviet Union in an old Morris Minor. In the late 90s, post Soviet Union, he decided to explore Siberia - this time by truck, by bus, by boat. The result is a wonderfully readable and evocative account of an extraordinar ...Show more
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land by John L. Stephens; V. W. Von Hagen (Introduction by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Perhaps best known for his discovery of the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan, lawyer-turned-archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) was the author of a number of highly praised travel books. The present volume, his first effort in the genre, received wide acclaim from reviewers, including Edgar Allan Po ...Show more
Cook's Tour - The Story of Popular Travel by Edmund Swinglehurst
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Frontiers of Heaven: A Journey Beyond the Great Wall by Stanley Stewart
$7.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
For the Chinese, the Great Wall defined a psychological frontier. Within it lay the Celestial Kingdom, the compass of all civilization. Beyond lay a barbarian world of chaos and exile. Chinese journeys to the west, along the ancient Silk Road, were passages into the unknown, often into legend. Today the ...Show more
Within Tuscany - Reflections on a Time and Place by Matthew Spender
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
More than 20 years ago, sculptor Matthew Spender and his wife left England for what they intended to be a brief interlude in Tuscany. In his memoir Spender takes us on a meditative tour of the place he now calls home - ranging back in time to the 1260 battle of Montaperti when for the last time the Sien ...Show more