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Red Nile: The Biography of the World's Greatest River by Robert Twigger
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. 'A tour de force' FINANCIAL TIMES. So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the legends a ...Show more
Red Nile: The Story of the World's Greatest River by Robert Twigger
60.00 NZD
Category: History
'Not long ago, in a small rubber boat more suited to a beach than the Nile, I floated downstream for ten kilometres, from my suburb to the city centre. I passed an island where, according to legend, Moses was left in his basket; a few kilometres farther downstream was the spot where Joseph and Mary land ...Show more
The Modern Explorers: Epic Journeys to the Ends of the World by Robin Hanbury-Tenison; Robert Twigger
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. Most of the accounts are written by the explorers themselves, and they all vividly describe challenging and extraordinary expeditions to ...Show more
Voyageur by Robert Twigger
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Fifteen years before Lewis and Clark, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, looking to open up a trade route, set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie travelled by bark canoe and had a cache of rum and a crew of Canadian voyageurs, hard-living backwood ...Show more
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world's religions. They are also a plant h ...Show more
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
39.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world's religions. They are also a plant h ...Show more
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