Category: Travel
Category: Early New Zealand
Category: Travel
A restless 17-year-old seeking fame, fortune (and romance) goes hitchhiking with three older girls. What begins as a holiday frolic becomes a survival recipe for life. Radiating hope and energy, the narrative follows this naive New Zealander to London with her family. Tragedy strikes when Julia's father ...Show more
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Country Guide
This comprehensive guide provides information for travelling in New Zealand for every budget, and provides guides to all its outdoor activities, its flora and fauna, sights, public transport, history and culture.
Category: Travel
Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those at home. The thirty-eight cities covered in this entertaining anthology of travellers' tales are spread over six continents, ranging from Beijing to Berlin, ...Show more
Category: Travel
For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live ...Show more
Category: Travel
Category: Travel
Hired to contribute to Lonely Planet's Brazil guidebook, Kohnstamm fled his Wall Street job to pursue his dream of being a travel writer. This book is the story of the adventure that followed. He goes beyond the narrow slice of experience squeezed into the guidebook format and for the first time offers ...Show more
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of t ...Show more
Category: Travel
'Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,' writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey though the continent he knows and loves best. Having travelled down the right-hand side of Africa in Dark Star Safari, he sets out this time from Cape Town, heading northwards in a new direction, up the left ...Show more