Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
In 1991, Monisha Rajesh's family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home. Two years later, fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads and the creepy colonel across the road, they returned to England with a bitter taste in their mouths. Two decades on, she turns to ...Show more
Great Pilgrimage Sites of Europe by Derry Brabbs
69.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
An unsurpassable, visual tour of the greatest pilgrimage sites of Europe, from North to South; East to West Pilgrimage in Europe is currently thriving on a scale that simply could not have been envisaged just a few decades ago. Not only are greater numbers of people now emulating the medieval pilgrims ...Show more
The Bucket List: 1000 Adventures Big and Small by Kath Stathers
45.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: t/u 2/3/18
We all have a list of things we dream of doing-one day-but work, family, school, money, and responsibilities can all get in the way. But what if you had no duties to carry out? No boundaries on what you could experience. No limits to what you could see with your own eyes and encounter firsthand. What wo ...Show more
Slow Trains to Venice: A 4,000-Mile Adventure Across Europe by Tom Chesshyre
24.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of the tracks. From France (dogged by rail worker strikes), through Belgium, the Nether ...Show more
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020 An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning author of international reportage Erika Fatland ta ...Show more
Mystical Places by Sarah Baxter; Amy Grimes (Illustrator)
32.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
Journey to the worlds most enigmatic and magical destinations with this charming guide, full of folklore, unworldly mysteries and far-flung fairy tale locales. Discover 25 mystical destinations from around the globe in this enchanting guide full of magic, folklore and exquisitely beautiful places. S ...Show more
Signs of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor by Stephen Fabes
45.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know something, care. The same could be said for life on the road, too. When Stephen Fabes left his job as a junior doctor and set out to cycle around the world, frontline medicine quickly faded from his mind. Of more pr ...Show more
The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination by Philip Marsden
24.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
A journey by sea along the western coasts of Ireland and Scotland in search of islands, both real and imagined.
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See - Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland by Kendra Greene
36.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature
Iceland is home to only 330,000 people (roughly the population of Lexington, Kentucky) but more than 265 museums and public collections–nearly one for every ten people. They range from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to ex ...Show more
Subterranea by Chris Fitch
60.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: near fine
If you were to peel back the Earth's surface like an orange, then take a sly peek underneath, what extraordinary things would you see? Subterranea is where the world's remaining mysteries are yet to be found. For millennia, across nations and cultures, it has been a hotbed of fantastical stories. It's w ...Show more
India - An Area of Darkness, India: a Wounded Civilization and India: a Million Mutinies Now by V.s. Naipaul
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar.V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. He returned in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childh ...Show more
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages) by Colin Thubron
24.00 NZD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindOn buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the pla ...Show more