The Best American Travel Writing 2009 by Simon Winchester
$22.50 NZD
Category: Travel
Acclaimed writer Simon Winchester brings his keen literary eye to this year's volume of the finest travel writing from the past year. "Full of insights, humor, the exotic and distant, and the ordinary and near" ("Library Journal") this collection finds "a perfect mix of exotic locale and elegant prose" ...Show more
Travelling Light - Stories from the world we explored in the 70s by Steve Lowndes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine
This is the true story of life on the road for two young people back in the day when travel was one big adventure. In 1969 Steve Lowndes and Lisa Potts met by chance at a dusty bus stop in Bolivia and spent the next ten years travelling around the world together. Pakistan, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Iran, ...Show more
A Plumber's Progress : Pilgrimage to the Heart of Tibet by W.J. O'Connell
$15.00 NZD
Category: Tramping & Mountaineering
After decades of work middle-aged WJ O'Connell, unmarried, jobless, with none of the usual fetters of modern life, takes to the road. His route takes him from Delhi to Kashmir and Ladakh. He has experiences both bizarre and terrifying on his personal and spiritual quest.
High Time by Louise Hillary
$22.50 NZD
Category: Tramping & Mountaineering
A family trek in the land of the Sherpas by the wife of the famous conqueror of Everest, Louise Hillary, author of A Yak for Christmas.
An Affair with Africa - Expeditions and Adventures Across a Continent by Alzada Carlisle Kistner
$22.50 NZD
Category: Travel
In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was grippe ...Show more
The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey by Monty Don
$18.50 NZD
Category: Gardening
This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners, wars, plots and natural disasters run through ...Show more
More Retro Caravans by Don Jessen
$49.99 NZD
Category: Travel
The retro caravan craze continues at an ever-increasing rate with more wonderful restorations hitting the road every year and younger families now joining the movement. Caravans from the 1920s to the 1980s are being restored and used to recapture the long hazy days of summer that many of us remember so ...Show more
Explore New Zealand Nature: A Natural History Road Trip by Brian Parkinson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Naturalist and author Brian Parkinson follows the main highways and back country roads, stopping off at New Zealand’s most spectacular locations. The country’s isolation for millions of years means its flora and fauna are unique. Parkinson highlights forest birds, towering trees, glacial lakes and acti ...Show more