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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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9781741759495
Destination Saigon : Adventures in the Vietnam
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Walter Mason
Published by:
Allen & Unwin
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Get a taste of the real Vietnam and its people on a sometimes funny, always fascinating journey from the bustling cities to out of the way villages, into Buddhist monasteries and along the Mekong - a real delight for armchair travellers and those contemplating their own adventure.
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9780753823248
Around the World in Eighty Days
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Michael Palin
Published by:
Gollancz
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'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are certainly no high-speed rail links yet across India, China or the USA. Passenger services have practically disappeared from the world's shipping lanes ...Recourse to air travel, even as a convenient means of escape, was not allowed.' Following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world. The rules were simple, but nothing else about the trip was straightforward...From a tour of Venice on a rubbish barge to ship spotting at the Suez Canal and the bicycle rush hour and snake snacks in China, this is an unparalleled tribute to man's ability to make life difficult for himself.
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9781840247299
Beasts in My Belfry
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Gerald Durrell
Published by:
Summersdale Publishers
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There were, unfortunately, no schools for incipient animal collectors and none of the professional collectors then operating would take on anybody who had only unbounded enthusiasm and very little practical experience to offer. Gerald Durrell, who would one day become a much-loved conservationist and author, dreamt of running his own zoo. In "Beasts in my Belfry", he takes his first step towards fulfilling his ambition in this charming account of his job as a student keeper in Whipsnade Park in 1945. With notebook and pen in hand, the eager young Durrell observes his co-workers and animal charges alike, including Albert, the ventriloquist lion, who amuses himself by jumping out at people. Whether getting dirty mucking out the buffalo enclosure or attempting to cajole a skittish gnu into a transportation crate, life in the zoo is certainly never boring.
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9780141025568
Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash
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NZ$ 15.00 each
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Author:
Mark Twain
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Penguin Books Ltd
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One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Mark Twain's (1835-1910) account of his tour with a group of fellow Americans around the sights of Europe is both hilarious and touching, Twain's exasperation and dismay at the phoney and exploitative being matched by his excitement and pleasure in the genuinely beautiful. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilizations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were ...
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Digging for Spain : A Writer's Journey
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Penelope Todd
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Longacre Press
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As her children grow up, and her strong sense of Christian faith wavers, Penelope Todd realises that she has to make some drastic changes to her life. She leaves her nursing job and risks everything -- as Mansfield once said -- in order to pursue her wish to write. Using day-to-day observations of people, nature, weather, New Zealand and Spain, the author carefully untangles her life and decides to go through psychoanalysis. She uncovers a fiercely focused need to open herself up and to explore and discover new horizons. She glances in and out of the past, showing how the present is tugged at by memory, and how memory shudders through the present. This is a portrait of the growth of a writer, of the challenges of faith, and the route one woman takes to reach a better accommodation with herself, and her family.
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9780752837062
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
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Michael Palin
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Gollancz
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When Michael Palin was researching for his novel HEMINGWAY'S CHAIR his interest was stimulated by Hemingway's appetite for travel and 'Papa's' evocations of the places he knew. Hemingway remains a compelling figure, and Palin's goal was to revisit Hemingway's world. This book includes the American West ('wide lawns and narrow minds'), Idaho, Michigan ('fly fishing, hunting'), Europe in the First World (where Hemingway was wounded serving in the Ambulance Brigade), Cuba (where Hemingway wrote FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS), Paris in the Roaring Twenties and Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Sun Valley and Key West - where the Hemingway lookalike competition is an annual event.
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