Istanbul - Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
$29.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination. This is a supremely moving account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his ho ...Show more
Bali: A Cultural History by Arthur Cotterell
$35.80 NZD
Category: Travel
Bali is unlike anywhere else. Despite the advent of international tourism, this Indonesian island remains an untarnished cultural gem set in an idyllic landscape. Spirit-haunted as is the rest of Southeast Asia, Bali boasts a unique amalgam of beliefs because Hinduism overlays a much older relationship ...Show more
The Italians by John Hooper
$32.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John Hooper's marvellously entertaining and perceptive book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Look ...Show more
Billy Connolly's Tracks Across America by Billy Connolly; Matt Whyman
$49.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In 2011, we published Billy Connolly's Route 66 - the story of the legendary Scottish comedian's journey along the most famous road in America. The book (which tied-in to an ITV series), performed really well - clearly, armchair travelling with Billy Connolly as your guide is an appealing prospect to ma ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Provence Cote D'azur by Rough Guides
$37.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Rough Guide to...
The brand new, full-colour The Rough Guide to Provence and the Cote d'Azur is the ultimate guide to one of the most compelling regions of southern France. Discover all the highlights for yourself, with expert listings, stunning photography and lively background information. The Rough Guide to Provence a ...Show more
The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha's Daughters by Christine Toomey
$26.99 NZD
Category: Travel
A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent her on a two-year, 60,000-mile odyssey to learn more about the contemporary women choosing in their thousands to become part of a long tradition of female spirituality that stretches back through the centuri ...Show more
Crete Top 10 - DK Eyewitness Travel Guide by Robin Gauldie
$21.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide
DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Crete will lead you straight to the very best there is to see and do in Crete. Whether you're looking for the Top 10 museums or want to find the best nightspots, this guide is the perfect pocket-sized companion. With dozens of Top 10 lists to peruse - from the Top 10 B ...Show more
Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large by Michael Frayn
$28.99 NZD
Category: Travel
In mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer about some of the places in the world that interested him. He wanted to describe 'not the extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday', and his accounts became the s ...Show more
Secret London: Exploring the Hidden City, with Original Walks and Unusual Places to Visit by Andrew Duncan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Travel
Aimed at visitors and Londoners alike, this fully updated new edition of Secret London unlocks the city's most fascinating secrets - both above and below ground. Celebrated historian Andrew Duncan strips away bricks, mortar and tarmac to uncover parts of the capital that even born and bred Londoners may ...Show more
Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE
$22.99 NZD
Category: Travel
Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Ever ...Show more
Thailand's Islands & Beaches 10e by Mark Beales
$39.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Travel Guide Ser.
#1 best-selling guide to Thailand's islands and beaches* Lonely Planet Thailand's Islands and Beaches is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Swim with sea life in crystal-clear coves, laze in hammocks under limestone peak ...Show more
Tarte Tatin by Susan Loomis
$0.00 NZD
Category: Travel
Further adventures on life in a small French town from Susan Loomis, cookery book writer and author of "On Rue Tatin". In this title, Susan Loomis shares with us how she, her husband and two children settled into life in a small French town, got to know neighbours and learned how to be accepted as inhab ...Show more