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My Old Man And The Sea- David & Daniel Hays
A father and son sail around Cape Horn.
Hardback with dj,1995,223 pgs.
ISBN- 1565121023
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Polar Dream- Helen Thayer
The first solo journey by a woman to the North Pole.
Foreward by Sir Edmund Hillary.
Ex-library hardback with dj,1993,252 pgs.
ISBN- 0316906271
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Five Months In A Leaky Boat- Ben Kozel
Rowing through Mongolia and Siberia to the Artic Ocean.
Trade pb,2003,422 pgs.
ISBN- 0732911915
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Siberian Dream- Irina Pantaeva
A young woman's journey from an ancient indigenous Siberian culture to the New York fashion world.
Softcover,1999,309 pgs.
ISBN- 0553812408
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Cleopatra's Needle- Anne Mustoe
Cycling from Cleopatra's Needle in London to the needle's original site in Egypt.
Hardback with dj,2003,248 pgs.
ISBN- 0852279842
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Facing Up- Bear Grylls
A remarkable journey to the summit of Mount Everest.
Trade pb,2000,289 pgs.
ISBN- 0333903226
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
After 50,000 Miles- Hal Roth
A guide for those wanting to cross oceans in small sailing vessels.
Hardback with dj,1978,329 pgs.
ISBN- 0540071706
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
My Everest- Karen Gazley
The story of the young widow of an Everest victim who went on to become an adventurer,journalist and tutor.
Signed copy,softcover,2004,204 pgs.
ISBN- 0958251509
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Searching For Crusoe- Thurston Clarke
A journey among the last real islands.
Hardback with dj,2001,342 pgs.
ISBN- 0345411439
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
Michael Palin- Himalaya
A journey along the full length of the Himalaya.
Softcover,2005,293 pgs.
ISBN- 0753819287
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
A Book Of Sea Journeys
Compiled by Ludovic Kennedy.
Hardback with dj,1981,394 pgs.
ISBN-0002163101
Condition- C
Price: NZ $12.00
Endurance- Alfrd Lansing
Sir Ernest Shackletons' epic voyage.
Hardback with dj,2000,277 pgs.
ISBN-029764680X
Condition- B
Price: NZ $18.00
The Lonely Sea And The Sky- Francis Chichester
Autobiography of the 1st man to sail solo around the world.
Hardback with dj,6th ed.1967,352 pgs.
Condition- D
Price: NZ $10.00
Gypsy Moth Circles The World- Francis Chichester
The first solo yacht trip around the world.
Hardback with dj,1967,267.
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Living On The Edge- Yvonne Claypole
A couple's sojourn in the Antarctic.
Signed copy,trade pb,2001,262 pgs.
ISBN- 0732269156
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
The Biggest Boat I Could Afford- Lee Hughes
4000 kilometres with a damn fool in a dinghy.
Trade pb,2004,304 pgs.
ISBN- 1869416082
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
In The Ghost Country- Peter hillary & John E.Elder
Peter Hillary's version of the ill-fated 1998-9 Antarctic expedition .
Trade pb,2004,337 pgs.
ISBN- 1869416163
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Ice Trek- Eric Phillips
The bitter journey to the South Pole by Peter Hillary,Jon Muir and Eric Phillips.
Trade pb,2000,251 pgs.
ISBN- 1869503600
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Travels in search of the legend of Ernest Hemingway.
Hardback with dj,1999,255 pgs.
ISBN- 0297825283
Condition- B
Price: NZ $15.00
A Year In Provence- Peter Mayle
The pleasurable and frustrating transition to an old farm house with vineyard in Provence.
Softcover,1989,197 pgs.
ISBN- 0330312367
Condition-C
Price: NZ $6.00
Toujours Provence- Peter Mayle
Sequel to-A Year In Provence.
Softcover,1991,211 pgs.
ISBN- 0330319477
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
Muddling Through Madagascar- Dervla Murphy
A journey by foot,bush-taxi,bus and truck through Madagascar.
Softcover,1998,310 pgs.
ISBN- 0006550916
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
Coasting- Susan Kurosawa
A year by the Central Coast-Australia.
Softcover,2000,258 pgs.
ISBN- 0733612377
Price: NZ $6.00
I Dreamed Of Africa- Kuki Gallmann
A family's life in Kenya.
Softcover,2007,323 pgs.
ISBN- 9780141033181
Condition- B
Price: NZ $6.00
A Brush With India- Linda-Marie De Vel
An artist's journey through Rajasthan,Agra and Varanasi.
Softcover,2002,183 pgs.
ISBN- 1877270326
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
On Mexican Time- Tony Cohan
An Americam writer and his wife find a new home and a new lease on life in a charming 16th century hill town in Mexico.
Softcover,1999,289 pgs.
ISBN- 1863591303
Condition- B
Price: NZ $6.00
Duende- Jason Webster
A journey in search of Flamenco.
Softcover,2003,347 pgs.
ISBN- 0552999970
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
Indian Balm- Paul Hyland
Journeys in the southern subcontinent.
Softcover,1995,288 pgs.
ISBN- 0006380999
Price: NZ $6.00
Stealing From A Deep Place- Brian Hall
Travels in south-eastern Europe.
Softcover,1989,270 pgs.
ISBN- 0749390239
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
In The Land Of Oz- Howard Jacobson
A wildy funny account of a journey to contemporary Australia.
Softcover,1988,380 pgs.
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
Dark Shadows Falling- Joe Simpson
Tragedy and triumph on Mt Everest.
Softcover,1998,207 pgs.
ISBN- 0099756110
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
Touching The Void- Joe Simpson
Mountaineering adventures.
Softcover,1997,207 pgs.
ISBN- 0099771012
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
First Time Around The World- Doug Lansky
A trip planner for the ultimate journey.
Softcover,2003,311 pgs.
ISBN- 1843530570
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
Australian Legendary Tales
Aboriginal myths and legends.
Softcover,1998,132 pgs.
ISBN- 1859585361
Condition- C
Price: NZ $6.00
Seduced By The Sea- Ed. by Tessa Duder
Stories from seafaring New Zealanders.
Trade pb,2002,366 pgs.
ISBN- 1869504461
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
A Baby In A Backpack To Bhutan- Bunty Avieson
An Australian family in the Land Of The Thunder Dragon.
Trade pb,2004,225 pgs.
ISBN- 140503582X
Condition- A
Price: NZ $12.00
Jupiter's Travels- Ted Simon
A 4 year odyssey around the world by motorbike.
Hardback with dj,1979,363 pgs.
ISBN- 0241101808
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
More Great Railway Journeys
Seven intrepid individuals embark on expeditions across countries and continents.
Softcover,1997,190 pgs.
ISBN- 014026650X
Condition- C
Price: NZ $8.00
A pilgrimmage To El-Medinah And Meccah
Richard F.Burton's account of his travels in Arabia.
Heron Books hardback,517 pgs.
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Taking On The World- Ellen MacArthur
When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. ! This book tells her story.
Illustrated Softcover,2003,394 pgs.
ISBN- 0141006978
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
From Sea To Shining Sea- Gavin Young
A present-day journey into America's past.
Trade pb,1995,297 pgs.
ISBN-0091753554
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
The Carpet Wars- Christopher Kremmer
An odyssey through a crescent of Islamic nations and regions following the historical and cultural threads of the oriental carpet.
Trade pb,2002,447 pgs.
ISBN- 0732268567
Condition- C
Price: NZ $12.00
Raw Spirit:In Search Of The Perect Dram- Iain Banks
Author Iain Banks travels his native Scotland sampling the whisky as he goes to find the perfect dram.
Softcover,2003,306.
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Everest- Ed.by Peter Gilman
Foreward by Sir Edmund Hillary.
The best writing and pictures from seventy years of human endeavour on Mt Everest.
Large hardback with dj,1995,208 pgs.
ISBN- 0316904899
Condition- B
Price: NZ $19.00
Pole To Pole
Photographs and commentary from Michael Palin's Pole To Pole expedition in the summer of 1991.
Illustrated hardback,1994,191 pgs.
ISBN- 0563370181
Condition- B
Price: NZ $19.00
New Europe- Michael Palin
Michael Palin sets out to discover the half of Europe he never knew.
Illustrated hardback with dj,2007,406 pgs.
ISBN- 9780297844495
Condition- B
Price: NZ $15.00
Right To The Edge- Charley Boorman
Sydney To Tokyo By Any Means.
Hardback with dj,2009,324 pgs.
ISBN- 9781847443519
Condition- A
Price: NZ $15.00
Under The Osakan Sun- Hamish Beaton
A funny intimate wonderful account of three years in Japan.
Trade pb,2008,314 pgs.
ISBN- 9780958275026
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
See Naples and Die- Penelope Green
Naples- warts and all by an Australian journalist.
Softcover,2007,283 pgs.
ISBN- 9780733622892
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Faraway- Lucy Irvine
Lucy Irvine takes her family to live on an isolated island in the farthest corner of the Solomons.
Softcover,2001,446 pgs.
ISBN- 0552146803
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Undress Me In The Temple Of Heaven- Susan Jane Gilman
A modern heart of darkness filled with Communist operaives,backpackers and pancakes.
Trade pb,2009,346 pgs.
ISBN- 9780446555432
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
The 8.55 To Baghdad- Andrew Eames
Travelling from London to Baghdad by train on the eve of the Iraq war,through the troubled areas of the Balkans and the Middle East in the footsteps of Agatha Christie.
Softcover,2004,400 pgs.
ISBN- 0552150770
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
The Lost World Of The Kalahari- Laurens Van Der Post
Travels amongst the Bushmen of the Kalahari in south-west Africa.
Hardback with dj & Photos,1961,253 pgs.
dj has a few small tears.
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Madagascar Travels- Christina Dodwell
A 4 month journey in the wilds of Madagascar.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1995,204 pgs.
ISBN- 0340625635
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
Sleeping Around- Brian Thacker
A couch surfing tour of the globe.
Softcover,2009,379 pgs.
ISBN- 9781741752106
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
Journey Through Britain- David St John Thomas
David St John Thomas journeys by rail and car around Britain, exploring the fascinating and diverse character of Britain today. He reflects on Britain, Britishness, the British people and how they have changed, not always for the worse, over the fifty-odd years he has known them as an author and a publisher.
Softcover,2004,700 pgs.
ISBN- 0711225680
Condition- B
Price: NZ $15.00
Pilgrim Snail- Ben Nimmo
Inspired by the murder of the girl he loved while working for charity in Belize,Ben Nimmo set out to play tribute to her memory and raise money for her memorial fund by walking from Canterbury to Santiago de Compostela in Spain- with a trombone.
Softcover,2001,245 pgs.
ISBN- 0007104731
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Blood River- Tim Butcher
Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher sets out to retrace the footsteps of H.M.Stanley's famous expedition and to tell the story of the Congo.
Softcover,2007,363 pgs.
ISBN- 9780099494287
Condition- C
Price: NZ $12.00
The Sindbad Voyage- Tim Severin
A attempt to recreate the seven Voyages Of Sindbad from Oman to China and whatever truth there may have been in the Tales Of The Arabian Nights.
Softcover,1982,238 pgs.
ISBN- 0099322900
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Eat This !- Ian Jackman
Ian Jackman journeys from the east coast to the west coast of the USA savouring local culinary treats,guilty pleasures and some oddities that no true food lover should miss.
Trade pb,2007,433 pgs.
ISBN- 9780060855908
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
On Rue tatin- Susan Loomis
Living and cooking in a small French town.
Trade pb,2001,286 pgs.
ISBN- 0732264154
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
North By Northwestern
A seafaring family on deadly Alaskan waters.
Trade pb with photos,2010,320 pgs.
ISBN- 9781847378842
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00