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
Full Circle by Michael Palin
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In this account of the third of Michael Palin's travel adventures for BBC Television, he journeys for almost a year, covering 50,000 miles and all of the 18 countries that border the Pacific Ocean, encompassing a wide diversity of landscape, culture and people.
Love And War In The Apennines by Eric Newby
$6.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
After the Italian Armistice in 1943, Eric Newby left the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year and evaded the advancing Germans by going to ground high in the mountains and forests south of the River Po. In strange isolation he was sheltered and protected for over three months by an informal ne ...Show more
Pictures from the Water Trade - An Englishman in Japan by John David Morley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
God Bless America : Diaries of an Englishman in the Land of the Free by Piers Morgan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
Piers Morgan never really got on with America. And America had never really got on with him. But flitting between British shores and the Land of the Free, he discovers his burgeoning celebrity as the 'nasty Brit' on a top-rated US TV series gives him unprecedented access to people, places and parties on ...Show more
To the Frontier by Geoffrey Moorhouse
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
To the Frontier is the compelling and vivid account of Geoffrey Moorhouse's three-month journey through Sind, Baluchistan and the Punjab to the legendary North-West frontier of Pakistan. From there he reached the closed Khyber Pass and the border with Afghanistan which he was - uniquely - permitted to c ...Show more
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because h ...Show more
In the Empire of Genghis Khan by Stanley Stewart
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
As a child, award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on horseback. This is the story of how that dream was fulfilled by following in the footsteps of a 13th-century Franciscan friar. Eight centuries ago the Mongols burst forth from Central Asia in a series of spectacular ...Show more
Round Ireland In Low Gear (Picador Books) (Reprint Edition) by Eric Newby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
To avoid other tourists, Eric Newby decided that the depths of winter would be the very best time to explore Ireland by mountain bike. He even managed to persuade his long-suffering wife, Wanda to accompany him. From the shores of Donegal to the holy mountains, Newby guides the reader on a tale of misha ...Show more
The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent by Hugh Honour and John Fleming
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Letters from Egypt 1862-1869 by Lady Duff Gordon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
re-edited with additional letters by Gordon Waterfield
Mister Raja's Neighborhood - Letters from Nepal by Jeff Greenwald
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good