Where There's a Will - Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent by Emily Chappell

$24.99 NZD

Category: Travel

A London cycle courier with a taste for adventure, Emily Chappell entered an extraordinary new race - The Transcontinental - in which riders must find their own way, entirely unassisted, across Europe in the shortest time possible. On her second attempt, she won the women's event, covering nearly 4,000 miles in 13 days and 10 hours, sleeping in short bursts wherever exhaustion took her. In the aftermath of a win that troubled as much as pleased her she worked with Mike Hall, the founder of the race, until his tragic death on the road. Where There's a Will is a book about a normal person finding the capacity to do something extraordinary; the paradoxes of comradeship, competition, vulnerability and will and the shock of grief, combined in a beautifully written and very human story. ...Show more

Glimpses of New Zealand Scenery by B.E. Baughan

$40.00 NZD

Category: Travel

The New Zealand Illustrated Tourist Guide by Richard Wedderspoon

$55.00 NZD

Category: Travel

Along the Road - A Book of New Zealand Life and Travel by Elsie K. Morton

$30.00 NZD

Category: Early New Zealand

Fair Weather Hitchhiker

$30.00 NZD

Category: Travel

A restless 17-year-old seeking fame, fortune (and romance) goes hitchhiking with three older girls. What begins as a holiday frolic becomes a survival recipe for life. Radiating hope and energy, the narrative follows this naive New Zealander to London with her family. Tragedy strikes when Julia's father dies and upheaval follows. After a trip to Paris, hitchhiking adventures encompass: sleeping rough in Stockholm, a traverse of Yugoslavia, and almost finding love in Greece. Meeting up with a boyfriend in Naples is the beginning of a chaotic motor-cycle ride and near disaster on a plain in Spain. Back in London Julia faces the Cuban missile nuclear threats and endures the worst winter of the century before returning to New Zealand. In due course she survives an impetuous marriage, cleaning her teeth with beer, a pavlova crisis and the dramatic outcome of a fatal mountaineering accident in the Southern Alps. Treks across the Antarctic wastes, seeing the US by pick-up truck, hitchhiking in South America completes the author's headlong pursuit of life and the sometimes catastrophic consequences. ...Show more

New Zealand by Tony Wheeler

$16.50 NZD

Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Country Guide

This comprehensive guide provides information for travelling in New Zealand for every budget, and provides guides to all its outdoor activities, its flora and fauna, sights, public transport, history and culture.

Great Cities Through Travellers' Eyes by Furtado, Peter

$29.99 NZD

Category: Travel

Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those at home. The thirty-eight cities covered in this entertaining anthology of travellers' tales are spread over six continents, ranging from Beijing to Berlin, Cairo to Chicago, Lhasa to London, St Petersburg to Sydney and Rio to Rome. This volume features commentators across the millennia, including the great travellers of ancient times, such as Strabo and Pausanias; those who undertook extensive journeys in the medieval world, not least Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta; courageous women such as Isabella Bird and Freya Stark; and enterprising writers and journalists including Mark Twain and Norman Lewis. We see the world's great cities through the eyes of traders, explorers, soldiers, diplomats, pilgrims and tourists; the experiences of emperors and monarchs sit alongside those of revolutionaries and artists, but also those of ordinary people who found themselves in remarkable situations, like the medieval Chinese abbot who was shown round the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris by the King of France himself. Some of the writers seek to provide a straightforward, accurate description of all they have seen, while others concentrate on their subjective experiences of the city and encounters with the inhabitants. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling historian Peter Furtado, each account provides both a vivid portrait of a distant place and time and an insight into those who journeyed there. The result is a book that delves into the splendours and stories that exist beyond conventional guidebooks and websites. ...Show more

Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells by Pico IYER

$22.50 NZD

Category: Travel

 For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love, even though we know that we and they are dying.In a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honouring the dead, this question has a special urgency and currency. Iyer leads us through the autumn following his father-in-law's death, introducing us to the people who populate his days: his ailing mother-in-law, who often forgets that her husband has died; his absent brother-in-law, who severed ties with his family years ago but to whom Hiroko still writes letters; and the men and women in his ping-pong club, who, many years his senior, traverse their autumn years in different ways. And as the maple leaves begin to redden and the heat begins to soften, Iyer offers us a singular view of Japan, in the season that reminds us to take nothing for granted. ...Show more

Our Stolen Summer by Mary Stuart Boyd

$125.00 NZD

Category: Early New Zealand

Villas & Gardens Of Tuscany by Bajard Sophie/bencini Raffaello

$17.50 NZD

Category: Travel

Do Travel Writers Go To Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm

$27.50 NZD

Category: Travel

Hired to contribute to Lonely Planet's Brazil guidebook, Kohnstamm fled his Wall Street job to pursue his dream of being a travel writer. This book is the story of the adventure that followed. He goes beyond the narrow slice of experience squeezed into the guidebook format and for the first time offers an unvarnished look at travel writing itself. First published 2008. ...Show more

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux

$13.50 NZD

Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good

In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of t he unknown and the unexpected - charting places unknown and those known as a young teacher 40 years before. In the Swahili language, the word "safari" simply means "journey", and this - to Theroux - is the ultimate journey. It is a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival time are an irrelevance and where contentment can be found balancing on top of a truck in the middle of nowhere. ...Show more