Notes from A Small Island by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
"In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: \
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring suc ...Show more
Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to . . . ' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongre ...Show more
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West; Geoff Dyer (Introduction by)
55.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Canons Ser.
A travel literature classic. Introduced by Geoff Dyer: 'As a book about Yugoslavia it's a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating'
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
32.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home- five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they make up for in determination- building a grass ho ...Show more
The Full English - A Journey in Search of a Country and Its People by Stuart Maconie
42.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
From the author of 250,000-copy bestseller Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North A Sunday Times Book of the Week A New Statesman nonfiction pick for 2023 A Bookseller One to Watch What kind of country is England today? What does it mean to be English? Are we hungry for change or seeking old certa ...Show more
Where My Feet Fall Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull
24.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this beautiful collection, twenty outstanding writers set out ...Show more
Unravelling the Silk Road - Travels and Textiles in Central Asia by Chris Aslan
45.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter steppes. Then came the Cotton Road, marked by greed, c ...Show more
The Gathering Place - A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times by Mary Colwell
44.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
'Deeply poetic.' CAROLINE LUCAS MP 'A masterpiece of storytelling.' NICK MAYHEW-SMITH 'Mary Colwell is a candle of open-minded curiosity.' PATRICK LAURIE 'An unforgettable story.' MICHAEL MCCARTHY 'Inspiring.' JEREMY MYNOTT 'Brave, tough and surprisingly funny.' ROGER MORGAN-GRENVILLE- Mary Colwell mak ...Show more
Beating About the Bush by Len Beadell
26.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
Len Beadell's classic account of the building of the famous Gunbarrel Highway across Central Australia in which he recounts in his own colourful style the outstanding events of its construction.
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
The classic bestseller of British nature writing Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Travelling Through the Land of My Ancestors by Louise Erdrich
24.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
For more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has won prizes, critical acclaim, and the hearts of readers the world over with her spellbinding novels of Native American life.