One Red Paperclip : The Story of How One Man Changed His Life One Swap at a Time by Kyle MacDonald
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Kyle MacDonald wanted his own house. The problem was he didn't have a job and he didn't have any money. Thinking back to his childhood he remembered the game he loved to play - Bigger and Better. It was a way of trading your old stuff to get bigger and better new stuff. Legend had it, some people manage ...Show more
Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons: Travels in Sicily on a Vespa by Matthew Fort
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
"At the age of twenty-six Matthew Fort first visited the island of Sicily. He and his brother arrived in 1973 expecting sun, sea and good food, but they were totally unprepared for the lifelong effect of this most extraordinary of islands. Thirty years later, older and a bit wiser but no less greedy Mat ...Show more
A Piano in the Pyrenees by Tony Hawks
37.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
'If you had to pick two things you wanted - if you had to - what would you pick?' I hesitated. This was a bigger question than usually got asked at these post-match debriefs. 'I suppose the honest answer would be,' I said, still accessing the last pieces of required data from a jumbled mind, '- meet ...Show more
Ripped and Torn by Amaranta Wright
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Amaranta Wright was a young writer living in Miami when Levi's hired her to travel through Latin America. Her brief was to befriend teenagers and report back with every aspect of their lives: their hopes, fears, dreams and aspirations. At first, she saw the job as a means to travel around a continent ...Show more
French Leave : A wonderful year of escape and discovery by John Burton Race
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
French Leave, tie-in to the major TV series directed by Pat Llewellyn, who discovered Jamie Oliver and the Two Fat Ladies, follows two-star Michelin chef John Burton Race, his wife, six children and Labrador dog as they escape everyday life in London and head off to rural France to set up home for a yea ...Show more
The Vine Garden by Alex Dingwall-Main
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
What happens when you relocate to the perfect house, in the perfect village in Provence, and nearly ten years later the shine has gone? Garden designer Alex Dingwall-Main is facing cultural brick walls, neighbourly warfare and non-paying business clients. He and his family are thinking of packing their ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
26.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literar ...Show more
My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel
35.99 NZD
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Category: Travel Writing
The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City In 1923 a stout fifty-five-year-old Frenchwoman named Madame Alexandra David-Neel, a former opera singer and a dedicated student of the East, disguised herself as a male pilgrim and ascended to the ancient Tibetan c ...Show more
In Praise of Savagery by Warwick Cairns
26.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
One man's journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa. As a young man, Warwick Cairns met the then elderly explorer Wilfred Thesiger and the two men struck up an unlikely friendship. Invited to visit him at his African home, Cairns decides to make a bit of an adventure of it ...Show more
The Dolce Vita Diaries by CATHY ROGERS AND JASON GIBB
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Travel Writing
A deliciously different travelogue. In 2005, Cathy and Jason threw in successful careers as TV presenters and producers to become olive farmers in Italy. With their one year old daughter and Italian dictionary in tow, they found themselves in the middle of a European nowhere untouched by modernity.
A Year in Tibet: A Voyage of Discovery by Sun Shuyun
34.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
A Year in Tibet follows the author as she lives for eighteen months in a remote village in Tibet. Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and Buddhism. Now, accompanied by a television crew of Chinese and Tibetans, she spent a year in a remote town in the Tibetan mountain ar ...Show more
The Hungry Cyclist : Pedalling the Americas in Search of the Perfect Meal by Tom Kevill Davies
24.99 NZD
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Category: Travel Writing
Over 100,000 miles to cover, one man, one bike and one hungry stomach.Having created his alter-ego, the Hungry Cyclist and with thousands of pedal-powered miles before him, Tom Kevill-Davies pushed off from New York City on one of the most ambitious gastronomic adventures ever undertaken. A ballsy trave ...Show more