French Toast: Eating and Laughing Your Way Around France by Peta Mathias
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
French Toast is a totally pleasurable insight into the sensual delights of France through the eyes and taste buds of Peta Mathias, television personality and food writer. The former owner of a restaurant in Paris, Peta knows how to get the most out of every minute she spends in France. Savour crusty bre ...Show more
Secret City by Lonely Planet
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
Ditch the tourist crowds and get to the real heart of a place with Secret City; an essential guide to getting to know the most interesting, rewarding, a cool neighborhoods in cities around the world. Readers will discover the best little-known sights and things to do, plus the coolest places to eat, dri ...Show more
Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes From by Fred Pearce
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.Ever wondered if declaring support for fair-trade and then chucking Kenyan beans from your shopping trolley to reduce food miles really added up? Or whether the women in Bangladeshi sweatshops really want you to stop buying the clothes from their sewing mac ...Show more
Once While Travelling :The Lonely Planet Story by Tony & Maureen Wheeler
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Founders of the phenomenally successful publishing company Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler have produced travel guides to just about every country across the globe. Lonely Planet Publications was born in 1973 when the Wheelers self-published a quirky travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. T ...Show more
The Angel Tree by Alex Dingwall-Main
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
From the bestselling author of The Luberon Garden comes a second horticultural adventure that takes the author through France, Spain, Greece and Italy in search of an ancient olive tree
The Most Beautiful Villages of the Dordogne by James Bentley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: World Design
The Dorodogne offers splendid scenery, exquisite food and wine, the finest examples of prehistoric art and some of the most enchanting villages of France. This guide offers a journey through the region, from northern gems such as Brantome to "grand" villages such as Hautefort, found further south among ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Villages of Burgundy by Bentley, James
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Synonymous with fine wine, elegant cuisine and good living, Burgundy is also a land of outstanding architecture and charming villages. Many of these ancient communities stand beside the leisurely rivers that wend their way through the duchy - the beginnings of the Seine, the Yonne, the tributaries of th ...Show more
French Dirt - The Story of a Garden in the South of France by William Goodman
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
"One of the most charming, perceptive and subtle books ever written about the French by an American."--San Francisco Chronicle
Sleeping Around : Couchsurfing the Globe by Brian Thacker
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Freeload: /friloud/, v.i.to contrive to take food, benefits, etc, without paying or contributing; cadge. Freeloader, n. Slang.Brian Thacker is globe-trotting again, but this time, he's got himself a goal. Well, three actually:1. Get free accommodation 2. See the world from a local's perspective 3. Save ...Show more
In Turkey I am Beautiful by Brendan Shanahan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
After extensive travel in the wilds of the east, Brendan eventually agreed to run a friend's carpet shop in Istanbul. With only the dubious help of his carpet-dealer friend, a lovable but frequently demanding bipolar drug addict, the results were often disastrous, frequently hilarious, a occasionally po ...Show more
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Lucy Bird
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Eighteen days of unintermitted rolling over "desolate rainy seas" brought the "City of Tokio" early yesterday morning to Cape King, and by noon we were steaming up the Gulf of Yedo, quite near the shore. The day was soft and grey with a little faint blue sky, and, though the coast of Japan is much more ...Show more
Book of Everything by Lonely Planet: various
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet How to Guides
A visual how-to guide for everything to do with travel, presented in a quirky, graphical style; A perfect gift book, inspirational, instructional and fun