Ransacking Paris by Patti Miller
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
What does it mean to fulfil a dream long after it seems possible? When Patti Miller arrives to write in Paris for a year, the world glows 'as if the light that comes after the sun has set hadspilled gold on everything'. But wasn't that just romantic illusion? Miller grew up on Wiradjuri land in country ...Show more
GOING WITH THE GRAIN by SELIGSON SUSAN
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Susban Seligson in this book shares her adventures in the bread trade as she stalks pillowy round loaves on their way to the communal bakeries of Morocco's ancient city of Fez, and gapes at the coiled stainless steel innards of a mammoth American Wonder Bread factory.
Vanilla Beans and Brodo - Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany by Isabella Dusi
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
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Billy Connolly's Australia by Connolly,Billy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Travelling by plane, motorbike and boat, and on foot, Billy Connolly tours the length and breadth of Australia with his stage show, and delivers a personal commentary on what he sees. From Sydney to Canberra, and from Alice Springs to Barthurst Island, he sets out to find the true spirit of the people o ...Show more
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor
$18.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan Mc Gregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an inspirational UNICEF visit to Africa, they knew they had to go back and experience this extraordinary continent in more depth. And so they se ...Show more
Normal for Norfolk by Keith Skipper
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Reeking of native cunning, Keith Skipper's stories, reflections and miscellany on Norfolk humour will have you in stitches. The famous awkward streak, often couched in glorious understatement and a rich dialect, feeds the humour to bring a smile to the most serious of subjects.
Around the World in Eighty Treasures by Dan Cruickshank
$18.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Dan Cruickshank travels through 36 countries in four and a half months to tell the story of civilisation through the world's greatest treasures. Dan Cruickshank's quest is to tell the story of civilisation through the greatest of man's achievements. It will also be the story of his travels, and who and ...Show more
Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour, insight and warmth in this beautifully illustrated book that ac ...Show more
Himalaya by Michael Palin (Photos Basil Pao)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Michael Palin's most arduous journey yet, through some of the most visually stunning but dangerous regions of the world.In this his most challenging journey, Michael Palin tackles the Himalaya, the greatest mountain range on earth, a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders ...Show more
New Europe by Michael Palin
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history, filming its exquisite sights and talking to its diverse peoples, Michael fills what has been a void in ...Show more
Brazil by Michael Palin
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Brazil is one of the four new global super powers with its vast natural resources and burgeoning industries. Half a continent in size and a potent mix of races, religions and cultures, of unexplored wildernesses and bustling modern cities, it is also one of the few countries Michael Palin has never full ...Show more
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
280 pages Frances Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer - opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countrywide. Doing for Tuscany what M.F.K.Fisher and Peter Mayle did for Provence, mayes writes about the teas ...Show more