Wild Places (Inspired Traveller's Guide) by Sarah Baxter
$32.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
A guide to 25 untameable or rewilded places throughout the world, with beautiful illustrations and great tips for the mindful traveller, as well as commentary on conservation of these special places.
Birding Without Borders - An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World by Noah Strycker
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel
In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world's birds in one year. For 365 days, with a backpack, binoculars, and a series of one-way tickets, he traveled across forty-one countries and all seven continents, eventually spotting 6,042 species--by far th ...Show more
The Travel Book (Lonely Planet Kids) by Lonely Planet Kids
$29.99 NZD
Category: Travel
Get to know our diverse planet with the second edition of Lonely Planet Kids' best-selling title. Thoroughly updated and revised and, for the first time, the book will now cover the entire globe with a full page dedicated to every independent country as well as territories that don't officially qualify ...Show more
Who Lived There? The Stories Behind Historic New Zealand Buildings by Nicola McCloy; Jane King
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel
You can't help but wonder about the stories behind the unusual buildings you see around New Zealand - from cute colonial cottages to abandoned industrial buildings or ghost towns. Nicola McCloy went looking to find out ... who lived there? From basic stone cottages in barren-looking countryside to prett ...Show more
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
$37.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: trans Jennifer Croft
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." --Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." --Washington Post From the incompa ...Show more
Latitude: The Astonishing Adventure that Shaped the World by Nick Crane
$37.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
By knowing the shape of our earth we can create maps, survive the oceans, follow rivers, navigate the skies, and travel across the globe. This is the story of our world, of how we discovered what no one thought possible - the shape of the earth. A thrilling and page-turning account of the first major e ...Show more
Maiden Voyages - Women and the golden age of transatlantic travel by Siân Evans
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some trav ...Show more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
$24.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'Stunningly written' Sunday Times ... 'Richly absorbing' Guardian... 'Hooks you in from the start' Times... 'Masterful' Independent... 'Hugely compelling' Observer... 'Wonderful' Financial Times Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell. ...Show more
Footnotes - A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel
'The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I started.'Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of twelve inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through the lens of the past.The journey starts in Dorset, shaped by the childhood visions of Enid Blyton, ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days: Popular Penguins by Jules Verne
$13.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness" One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he ...Show more
Mystical Places by Sarah Baxter; Amy Grimes (Illustrator)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
Journey to the worlds most enigmatic and magical destinations with this charming guide, full of folklore, unworldly mysteries and far-flung fairy tale locales. Discover 25 mystical destinations from around the globe in this enchanting guide full of magic, folklore and exquisitely beautiful places. S ...Show more
The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit' Adam Nicolson Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to ...Show more