Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, His Wife and Her Alligator by Homer Hickman
$22.99 NZD
Category: Travel
'Must-read...A funny yet tragic tale of a husband and wife's car journey across the US with Albert the alligator in tow. Yes, really.' Marie Claire A journey of a thousand miles. With an alligator on the back seat. And John Steinbeck as a passenger. This is a tale where everything is true,except the bit ...Show more
Rome Tales by Helen Constantine (ed.)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in the twentieth and contemporary new writers such as Melania Mazzucco and Igiaba Scego, offer the delight of ...Show more
Paris: A Guide to the City's Creative Heart by Janelle McCulloch (Photographer)
$59.99 NZD
Category: Travel
It's hard not to be smitten by Paris. The city of love and light is one of the most enchanting in the world, but it also has a tendency to keep its best spots well hidden. After spending the last 20 years exploring the city, journalist and photographer Janelle McCulloch has discovered all of Paris' secr ...Show more
The Sites of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
$49.99 NZD
$75.00 (33% off)
Category: Photography
'The Sites of Ancient Greece' presents 150 of Georg Gerster's most spectacular and evocative photographs of the landscapes and architecture - both ancient and modern - of Greece, a country he has visited and photographed numerous times in his long career. The photographs in this book were taken between ...Show more
France on Two Wheels: Six Long Bike Rides for the Bon Vivant Cyclist by Adam Ruck
$29.99 NZD
Category: Travel
For Adam Ruck, France and cycling go together like a rich Camembert and a heady glass of Bordeaux. This book - full of useful details and tips - follows him through six intricately plotted Gallic cycling routes; from Lake Geneva to the Channel, the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, Vichy to Roanne, Paris t ...Show more
From Eskimo Point to Alice Springs by Anne Watts
$37.00 NZD
Category: Travel
This is the moving and heartwarming memoir of a British nurse who has spent her life working in the world's most remote and hostile environments. In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse, eager to use her skills. Her father expected her to work locally, not too far from North Wales, wh ...Show more
One Man and His Bike by Mike Carter
$28.99 NZD
Category: Travel
What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling? Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London to Calcutta. He encountered drunken priests, ...Show more
Landfalls by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
$29.99 NZD
Category: Travel
For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls in rem ...Show more
London in 3-D by Greg Dinkins
$19.99 NZD
$34.99 (42% off)
Category: Travel
Like a long-forgotten photo album, these books open up to display a forgotten world that comes to life through 3-D technology. Starting with a colourful history of stereoscopic photography, which started in the 1850's, and rapidly became the internet of it's time, with thousands of viewers, and door-to- ...Show more
Andes by Michael Jacobs
$36.99 NZD
Category: Travel
Stretching for over 5,500 miles, and containing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the largest salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size only by the Himalayas, the Andes impress by statistics alone. But beyond the range's sheer immensity, is its concentration of radically contrasti ...Show more
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
$26.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journey across the entire Byzantine world, and William Dalrymple has followed in their footsteps.
I Never Knew That About the River Thames by Christopher Winn
$32.99 NZD
Category: Travel
In this title, bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey out of London along the banks of the River Thames to discover the secrets and stories of England's most famous waterway. Discover the Thames' literary heritage at Pangbourne, near Reading, famous as the home of The Wind ...Show more