The Border: A Journey Around Russia by Erika Fatland
$30.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
Erika Fatland travels along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way.The Border is a book about Russia and Russian history without its author ever enterin ...Show more
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland by Tom Parfitt
$40.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about how British journalist Tom Parfitt walked a thousand miles across Russia's Caucasus mountains to lay to rest a ghost after witnessing the carnage of the Beslan school siege in 2004. 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt ...Show more
The Ravens Nest - An Icelandic Journey Through Light and Darkness by Sarah Thomas
$28.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A breathtaking mix of nature writing, memoir and travel, this is the story of the making and unmaking of a marriage, and the search for home among the elemental landscape of Iceland's bewitching Westfjords.
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Ash Garton
$45.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
'A moving love letter to Europe' - Lea Ypi, author of FreeHomelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, investigative reporting and intimate memoir by our greatest writer about Europe.Drawing on half a century of travel and thinking, Homelands tells the story of Europe since its emergence from ...Show more
Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$30.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont
$25.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic. Small nations such as the Baltic States of Latvia and Es ...Show more
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Stunning.' - Andre Aciman 'These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.' - Elif Shafak Cyprus ...Show more
Land of Eagles - Riding Through Europe's Forgotten Country by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$33.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
Albania is the least-known and least developed country in Europe. It has a long, rich and troubled past, characterised by unrest and isolationism. Today, very little is known of its people - beyond those who have emigrated to other countries in Europe - and its landscapes have remained virtually untrave ...Show more
A Chip Shop in Poznan - My Unlikely Year in Poland by Ben Aitken
$25.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
Why do the Poles leave Poland? Travel writer Ben Aitken booked a one-way ticket to Poznan to find out. This account of his year is a bittersweet portrait of an unsung country.
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars by Joseph Roth; Michael Hofmann (Introduction by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
From Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a new selection of writings about Europe between the wars, by turns poignant, witty and unsettling
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
$30.00 NZD
Category: Rest of Europe/Russia/Scandinavia
"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020 An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning author of international reportage Erika Fatland ta ...Show more