Shooting the Globe - The Travel Memoirs of a Photojournalist by Maurice Harvey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: near fine
Maurice Harvey's story ranges from quirky to grippingly poignant as he travels in a reporting role for the United Bible Societies from Cuba to Lebanon, from Rwanda to Sarajevo, from Fiji to Mongolia. .. A fascinating and entertaining book that takes the reader closer to the human soul of some the world' ...Show more
Through the French Canals by David Jefferson
$18.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Through the French Canals has probably tempted more people to explore the beautiful waterways of France than any other book. A bestseller for many years and now in its 13th edition, it is the essential planning guide for anyone wanting to cruise through the stunning scenery of the French waterways, or t ...Show more
Graeme Dingle: Dangerous Journeys by Pat Booth
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Graeme Dingle, Dangerous Journeys an inspirational story that will take you to the peaks and cutting edge of human endurance. Dangerous Journeys is the adventure we would all like to go on - the stroy of a New Zealander who has conquered the mountains and unexplored regions of the world.. Dingle's great ...Show more
Race to Dakar by Charley Boorman
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
In 2004 Charley Boorman completed his astonishing round-the-world bike trip with his friend, Ewan McGregor. The journey left him exhausted, exhilarated and hungry for a new challenge. And what greater challenge than the Dakar rally? Beginning in Lisbon and ending in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, the ...Show more
The Global Soul: Jetlag, Shopping Malls and the Search for Home by Pico Iyer
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: good
In the global village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. "Everywhere is made up of everywhere else," motion is our most constant state of being, our very souls have been put into circulation.
Without Reservations : The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
'In many ways, I was an independent woman,' writes Alice Steinbach, single working mother and Pulitzer prize-winnning journalist. 'For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shovelled my own snow, and had relationships that allowed for a lot of freedom on both sides.' Slowly, however, she saw ...Show more
The Idiot and the Odyssey by Joel Stratte-McClure
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
When inquisitive American journalist Joel Stratte-McClure decides to walk around the Mediterranean Sea, we re in for an exhilarating adventure. As a 30 year expatriate in France, he explores the coast, countryside and regional cultures as well as his own mind with compulsive vigour. Armed with a copy of ...Show more
Backblocks America : Jo & Gareth Morgan take on the States, Canada and Mexico by Jo & Gareth Morgan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Backblocks America: Jo and Gareth Morgan take on the States, Mexico and Canada is the story of Jo and Gareth's latest trip. Backblocks America is a roadtrip of discovery. They start at St Augustine, Florida where the first European settlement was made in 1565 by the Spanish, and eventually wander to the ...Show more
Emails from the Edge by Ken Haley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
He's been expelled from Syria on suspicion of terrorism, encountered Osama bin Laden in a Tehran bazaar, been dragged from the Hungarian parliament in handcuffs and interviewed with the editor-in-chief of al-Jazeera, all during a remarkable two-year journey by wheelchair across Eurasia. Walkley Award-wi ...Show more
A Walk to the Western Isles by Frank Delaney
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
This travel book retraces Samuel Johnson and James Boswell's journey through Scotland and its Western Isles in the autumn of 1773. The book tells in some part the history of Scotland in the 18th century and today, of the people of the Highlands and islands then and now, their history ...Show more
Exotic Travel Destinations for Families by Jennifer M. Nichols; Bill Nichols
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Santa Monica Press Ser.
Want to stare eye-to-eye with giant tortoises in the Galapagos? How about rent a luxurious castle in Italy? Or view prolific wildlife on safari in Tanzania? Interested in taking your children to Bora Bora, Cambodia, or Iceland? Exotic Travel Destinations for Families is your passport to exhilarating fam ...Show more
First Pass Under Heaven - One Man's 4,000-Kilometre Trek Along the Great Wall of China by Nathan Gray
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: good-very good
The Great Wall of China is the largest man-made structure ever built, stretching for over 4,000 kilometres from central Asia, across the Gobi Desert, through the remote, cold mountains of northern China to end on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Nathan Gray, a young New Zealand lawyer, wanted to be the ...Show more