The Well at the World's End by A.J. Mackinnon
35.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
When A.J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the Well at the World's End, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth. Determined not to fly ('It would feel like cheating'), he sets out with a ruc ...Show more
An Idiot Abroad : The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Presenting the Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington: Adventurer. Philosopher. Idiot. Karl Pilkington isn't keen on travelling. Given the choice, he'll go on holiday to Devon or Wales or, at a push, eat English food on a package holiday in Majorca. Which isn't exactly Michael Palin, is it? So what happened ...Show more
The Beautiful and the Damned : Life in the New India by Siddhartha Deb
42.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
From leadership seminars in fancy hotels to medieval figures walking from town to town looking for work in small town factories; from the naive waitresses working in the mecca of five star hotels to farmers struggling to grow the right crops for the 21st century, Siddhartha Deb's book is the riveting, m ...Show more
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Toibin
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
For four years from 1990, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. The result is this beautifully wrought book. He shows the complications and contradictions of the Catholic Church, and tries to unravel how they in turn influence a country's sense of nationalism. It is not quite a tra ...Show more