Greatest British Railway Journeys by Freemantle (Mi Portillo)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Travel books
It is now over a decade since the much-loved Great British Railway Journeys series set off on its incredible run discovering the cultural, social and engineering landscape of the United Kingdom through the prism of George Bradshaw's Handbook to rail travel. Veteran politician and ex cabinet minister Mic ...Show more
Excellent Short Walks in the North Island - 250 walks under 2 hours by Peter Janssen
$33.00 NZD
Category: Travel books
Wherever you are in the North Island you're sure to be within reach of a short walk with an excellent destination. Peter Janssen has hand-picked more than 250 short but memorable walks throughout the mainland and offshore islands. All walks will suit those who enjoy walking but do not want a long tramp ...Show more
Footnotes - A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel books
'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
Pravda Ha Ha - True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean
$26.00 NZD
Category: Travel books
Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carr In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric ...Show more
The Journey Matters - Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style by Jonathan Glancey
$28.00 NZD
Category: Travel books
What was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS Normandie, to fly with Imperial Airways from Southampton to Singapore, to steam from Manhattan to Chicago on board the New York Central's 20th Century Limited or to ...Show more
Greece: The Passenger by Various
$33.00 NZD
Category: Travel books | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
'On the Greek island of Ikaria, life is sweet . . . and very, very long. What is the locals' secret?' - from "The Island of Long Life" by Andrew Anthony
The Passenger: Brazil by A. A. . AA.VV.
$33.00 NZD
Category: Travel books | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
A new series from Europa Editions, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Order and Progress? by Jon Lee Anderson・Funk, Pride and Prejudice by Alberto Riva・On the River, I Was King by Eliane Brum・Also: the road that dissects th ...Show more
Atlantis: A Journey in Search of Beauty by Carlo Piano; Renzo Piano; Will Schutt (Translator)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Travel books
Renowned architect Renzo Piano (the New Whitney Museum, the Pompidou Center, Potsdamer Platz, Cite Internationale, New York Times Building, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, etc.) and his son Carlo, a well-regarded journalist, set sail from Genoa one late Summer day to search for Atlantis, the perf ...Show more
Japan: The Passenger by Various
$33.00 NZD
Category: Travel books | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
'Some Japanese stories end violently. Others never end at all, but only cut away, at the moment of extreme crisis, to a butterfly, or the wind, or the moon.' - Brian Phillips
Christchurch Architecture - A Walking Guide by Patrick John And Reynolds Walsh
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel books
SIXTY BUILDINGS AND SIX ROUTES AROUND A REBUILDING CITY. The second in the series of guides to New Zealands urban architecture by the wellknown team of writer John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds. This handy pocket-sized book suggests a series of city walks that take in both the historicbuilding ...Show more
Guide to Life - Lonely Planet by Lonely Planet
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel books | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
This book collects together cultural pearls of wisdom from 86 countries to form the ultimate reference book for how to live well. Each culture lives by its own words of wisdom - handed down from generation to generation, covering everything from keeping a house tidy as a Shinto shrine to cooking a meal ...Show more
Off The Beaten Track: Hunting Tales from the New Zealand Back Country by Dave Shaw
$40.00 NZD
Category: Travel books
Off the back of the successful TV series Red Stag Timber Hunters' Club (currently in its sixth season, with more to come), Andre, Anto, Dan, Tim, Sam and Dave are the official members of 'The Hunters Club', a team of intrepid and passionate hunters who aren't afraid to put in the hard yards, reaching ar ...Show more