About Us
Book Tokens
News and ...
Events
Bookclub News
Bookseat
Our Favourites
Specials
PORSE Review
Napier and Hawke'...
Art Deco
Local History
New Zealand
NZ Scenic
NZ History and S...
NZ Biography/Memoir
NZ Natural History
NZ Travel guides
NZ Other non-fic...
Maori
Arts and Crafts
Language
Culture and History
Myths and Legends
Plants and medicine
Music
Art, Style, Living
NZ Art & Design
Architecture
Arch Specials
Design
Art and Art History
Photography
Fashion
Style and Interiors
Coffee Table
Fiction
NZ Fiction
Contemporary
Classics
Popular Penguins
Crime and Thriller
Historical
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Graphic Novels
Adult Audio Books
Play Scripts
Poetry
NZ Poetry
Biography/Memoir
True Crime
Children and Teens
NZ children and ...
Parenting
Baby
Picture books
Gecko Press
Childrens Fiction
Young Adult Fiction
Graphic Novels
Junior Non-Fiction
Senior Non-fiction
Education and texts
Early Childhood...
Activity Books
Puzzles and toys
Children's Audio...
Business and Comp...
Cooking
NZ Cuisine
Special diets an...
Craft
Entertainment
Music
Film, television...
Gardening
History, Politic...
History
Military
Politics
Commentary
Philosophy
Ancient civilisa...
Mind, Body, Spirit
Health
Self Help
Reference
Dictionaries
Atlases
On writing and r...
Science and Nature
Science Writing
Environment
Nature
Astronomy
Sport and Hobbies
Fishing and hunting
Transport
Travel
Travel Guides
Travel Writing
Phrasebooks
Travel Photography
Wine and spirits
Quirky Gift Ideas
Humour
Puzzle Books
Inspirations
Stationary
Journals
Cards and Paper
Graphic
netStep
Password:
ID (firstname.lastname):
Sign Up
Search:
ISBN / ISSN
Title
Author
Publisher
Barcode
Travel Writing
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Catalogue
|
Rep List
|
Back List
Showing 1 - 6 of 408 results
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
| ... |
Next >
|
Last >>
(click to enlarge)
ISBN / ISSN:
9781848092402
The Mango Orchard
order quantity
NZ$ 37.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Robin Bayley
Published by:
Preface Publishing
In Stock:
4
As a child, Robin Bayley was enchanted by his grandmother’s stories of Mexican adventures: of bandits, wild jungle journeys, hidden bags of silver and a narrow escape from the bloody Mexican Revolution. But Robin sensed there was more to these stories than anyone knew, and so he set out to follow in the footsteps of his great-grandfather.
The Mango Orchard
is the story of parallel journeys a hundred years apart, into the heart of Latin America. Undaunted by the passage of time and a paucity of information, Robin seeks out the places where his great grandfather Arthur 'Arturo' Greenhalgh travelled and lived, determined to uncover his legacy. Along the road Robin encounters witches, drug dealers, a gun-toting Tasmanian Devil and an ex-Nazi diamond trader.
He is threatened with deportation, offered the protection of Colombian guerrilla fighters and is comforted by the blessings of los santos.
(click to enlarge)
ISBN / ISSN:
9780099526315
A Single Swallow : Following an Epic Journey from South Africa to South Wales
order quantity
NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Horatio Clare
Published by:
Vintage Books
In Stock:
2
From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, writer and birdwatcher, it is the expedition of a lifetime. Along the way he discovers old empires and modern tribes, a witch-doctor's recipe for stewed swallow, explains how to travel without money or a passport, and describes a terrifying incident involving three Spanish soldiers and a tiny orange dog. By trains, motorbikes, canoes, one camel and three ships, Clare follows the swallows from reed beds in South Africa, where millions roost in February, to a barn in Wales, where a pair nest in May.Review: A hell of a journey The Times The author deploys some fine lyrical writing and a gift for inventive, unexpected metaphor ... Clare's ...
more
(click to enlarge)
ISBN / ISSN:
9780141025568
Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash
order quantity
NZ$ 15.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Mark Twain
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
In Stock:
2
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 ...
more
(click to enlarge)
ISBN / ISSN:
9780571241774
Coast to Coast
order quantity
NZ$ 33.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Jan Morris
Published by:
Faber and Faber
In Stock:
2
Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the United States, by car, train, ship and aeroplane. In her words a 'period piece', "Coast to Coast" describes an American identity markedly different from today. In her brilliant prose, Morris records with exuberence and curiosity a time of innocence in the US - when television was in its infancy, the Big Mac had not been invented and the popular song of the day was "Chattanooga Choo-Choo".
(click to enlarge)
ISBN / ISSN:
9781877361968
Digging for Spain : A Writer's Journey
order quantity
NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Penelope Todd
Published by:
Longacre Press
In Stock:
2
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.
(click to enlarge)
ISBN / ISSN:
9781846041518
In the Valley of Mist
order quantity
NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Justine Hardy
Published by:
Rider & Co
In Stock:
2
Mohammed Dar and his three brothers were born in a boat on a lake in Kashmir, a place of exquisite beauty that was to become a war zone and nuclear flashpoint. This Himalayan valley of water, mist and mountains was once one of India's greatest tourist draws. In 1989, it exploded into insurgency. Kashmir became a rallying cry for jihadi movements all over the region and Pakistan's backing of the conflict triggered, in part, its own Islamist crisis. Mohammed Dar and his family found themselves living inside a new and foreign world of violence. Justine Hardy has stayed with the Dar family for many years, reporting on the conflict. She tells their story of living through the destruction of their adored homeland. Through their eyes we see the rise of religious fundamentalism and intolerance, the ethnic cleansing of the Hindu population of the valley, and the recruitment of a generation to jihad. And, amid the fighting, families continue to ...
more
Open Printable
Showing 1 - 6 of 408 results
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
| ... |
Next >
|
Last >>
Beattie & Forbes Booksellers
70 Tennyson St, Napier New Zealand
Tel +64 (06) 835 8968 ; Fax +64 (06) 835 8726
books@beattieandforbes.co.nz
Bookshop system by Circle
