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Life on the Golden Horn by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Travelling through the wartorn Balkans with her husband on what proved to be a wholly useless diplomatic mission to Constantinople, Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) left a vivid, informative, clever account of her adventures in the mysterious, sophisticated culture of Ottoman palaces, bathing places and ...Show more
Lost in Time (Geronimo Stilton The Journey Through Time #4) by Geronimo Stilton
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Geronimo Stilton Journey Through Time | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
I couldn't believe it. I, Geronimo Stilton, had to travel back in time to save a friend! Professor Paws von Volt needed my help. He had traveled to the past alone to prove that an artifact in the Egyptian Mouseum was genuine -- and now he was lost in time! My friends and I boarded the professor's newest ...Show more
No Time to Lose (#5 Geronimo Stilton: Journey Through Time) by Geronimo Stilton
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Geronimo Stilton: Journey Through Time
New Mouse City is in danger! There is only one way to bring harmony back to the island. Geronimo and friends must travel back in time to retrieve King Solomon's Ring. Along the way Geronimo visits Napoleon, the Vikings, and the ancient Cretans.
Piracy, Shipwreck and Flying Foxes: Great Journeys by William Dampier
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Dampier's (1651-1715) adventures and writing inspired both Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, but in his own right he was a remarkable, observant and enjoyable writer - whether on a woefully mishandled pirate raid in Spanish America or on a desperate journey to Sumatra in an open boat. He also left ...Show more
Quest by Aaron Becker
$19.00 NZD
Category: Picture books | Series: Journey
Aaron Becker, creator of Journey, a Caldecott Honor book, presents the next chapter in his stunning wordless fantasy. A king emerges from a hidden door in a city park, startling two children sheltering from the rain. No sooner does he push a map and some strange objects into their hands than he is c ...Show more
Quest (Journey #2 HB) by Aaron Becker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Picture books | Series: Journey
Aaron Becker, creator of "Journey," a Caldecott Honor book, presents the next chapter in his stunning wordless fantasy. A king emerges from a hidden door in a city park, startling two children sheltering from the rain. No sooner does he push a map and some strange objects into their hands than he is cap ...Show more
Return (Journey #3 HB) by Aaron Becker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Picture books | Series: Journey
Aaron Becker, creator of the award-winning Journey and its stunning, celebrated sequel, Quest, presents the final chapter in his luminous, wordless fantasy. Failing to get the attention of her busy father, a lonely girl turns back to a fantastic world for friendship and adventure. It's her third journey ...Show more
Sold as a Slave by Olaudah Equiano
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the USA to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. His account of his life is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement, but al ...Show more
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kasakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Journey through former Soviet Republics
Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How have these countries developed since ...Show more
Teahupoo by Tim McKenna
$90.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Journey Through the World & Nature
This book is an ode to a unique natural phenomenon and to the courageous athletes who seek to conquer it.In 2000, a new and spectacular wave was discovered, created by an unusual reef break off the coast of Tahiti. Within days, this wave-known as Teahupoo-had become a Mecca for surfers from around the w ...Show more
The Cobra's Heart by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
One of the most brilliant journalists of the postwar world, Kapuscinski (born 1932) spent decades criss-crossing Africa, witnessing the horrors of a continent ravaged by imperialism and its aftershocks. Humane, evocative and magical, The Cobra's Heart makes the case for Kapuscinski as a great writer as ...Show more
The Congo and the Cameroons by Mary H. Kingsley
$15.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fendin ...Show more