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A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire by A.P. Chekhov
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. This book mixes his witty, charming letters back to friends on hi ...Show more
Across the Empty Quarter by Wilfred Thesiger
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for himself in a world ever more hemmed in by progress and 'civilization', Thesiger (1910-2003) embarked on his amazing journeys across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter to test himself and to show what could still be done. The result was a monument bo ...Show more
Adventures in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. A vanished wor ...Show more
Borneo, Celebes, Aru by Wallace Alfred Russel
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin 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.
Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash by Mark Twain
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
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 ...Show more
Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music (PB) by Paul Kildea
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Series: Journey Through Romanticism | Reading Level: near fine
'Beguiling ... Limpidly written, effortlessly learned' William Boyd, TLS, Books of the Year In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin ...Show more
Fighting in Spain by George Orwell
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
For an entire generation, the Spanish Civil War was the ultimate test of commitment and courage as Communism and Fascism faced each other across Europe. Nobody wrote more vividly or more painfully about this than Orwell (1903-1950), as he came face to face with the reality of the civil war in Catalonia. ...Show more
From the Meadows of Gold by Mas'udi
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Much of his work has vanished, but Mas'udi's (c.890-c.956) matchless "The Meadows of Gold" has almost miraculously survived: a compendium of stories and information on what he knew of the worlds of the Middle East, the Far East and Europe. It is both a great monument to Islamic scholarship and a time ca ...Show more
Hunt for the Southern Continent by James Cook
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
On the second of his three great voyages, James Cook (1728-1779) took on the most frightening of all his challenges - to travel as far south as possible, to regions never before explored, in the hope of finding a new great continent which could be settled by the British. He found the continent - but it ...Show more
In the Heart of the Amazon Forest by Henry Walter Bates
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvelous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true - a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in his qu ...Show more
Jaguars and Electric Eels by Alexander von Humboldt
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
A great, innovative and restless thinker, the young Humboldt (1769-1859) went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in Venezuela - in the Llanos and on th ...Show more
Journey (#1) by Aaron Becker
$19.00 NZD
Category: Picture books | Series: Journey
Be swept away on an elaborate flight of fancy in this Caldecott award-winning, wondrously illustrated picture book about self-determination and unexpected friendship. The winner of the prestigious Caldecott Honor, and described by the New York Times as 'a masterwork', Aaron Becker's stunning, wordless ...Show more