The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia by Paul Theroux
24.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Great Railway Bazaar" is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the ...Show more
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
28.00 NZD
32.00 (12% off)
Category: Travel Writing
When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to literature. "Notes From Walnut Tree Farm" collects together the jottings, musings and observations with which he filled a series of notebooks for the last six years of his life. In this beautiful illustrated co ...Show more
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
31.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: good
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying an ...Show more
The Cobra's Heart by Ryszard Kapuscinski
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
One of the most brilliant journalists of the postwar world, Kapuscinski (born 1932) spent decades criss-crossing Africa, witnessing the horrors of a continent ravaged by imperialism and its aftershocks. Humane, evocative and magical, The Cobra's Heart makes the case for Kapuscinski as a great writer as ...Show more
Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash by Mark Twain
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Mark Twain's (1835-1910) account of his tour with a group of fellow Americans around the sights of Europe is both hilarious and touching, Twain's exasperation and dismay at the phoney and exploitative being matched by his ...Show more
Across the Empty Quarter by Wilfred Thesiger
17.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for himself in a world ever more hemmed in by progress and 'civilization', Thesiger (1910-2003) embarked on his amazing journeys across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter to test himself and to show what could still be done. The result was a monument bo ...Show more
Jaguars and Electric Eels by Alexander von Humboldt
7.50 NZD
14.95 (49% off)
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
A great, innovative and restless thinker, the young Humboldt (1769-1859) went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in Venezuela - in the Llanos and on th ...Show more
Fighting in Spain by George Orwell
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
For an entire generation, the Spanish Civil War was the ultimate test of commitment and courage as Communism and Fascism faced each other across Europe. Nobody wrote more vividly or more painfully about this than Orwell (1903-1950), as he came face to face with the reality of the civil war in Catalonia. ...Show more
Sold as a Slave by Olaudah Equiano
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the USA to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. His account of his life is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement, but al ...Show more
Hunt for the Southern Continent by James Cook
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
On the second of his three great voyages, James Cook (1728-1779) took on the most frightening of all his challenges - to travel as far south as possible, to regions never before explored, in the hope of finding a new great continent which could be settled by the British. He found the continent - but it ...Show more
Escape from the Antarctic (Great Journeys Series) by Sir Ernest Shackleton
14.99 NZD
17.00 (11% off)
Category: Travel Writing
Although Shackleton's (1874-1922) epic expedition to reach the South Pole was a complete disaster, it was rescued from absurdity by his heroic, terrifying crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat to a whaling station on South Georgia. Through one of the greatest recorded feats of navigation and of ...Show more
The Congo and the Cameroons by Mary H. Kingsley
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fendin ...Show more