Kiwis Might Fly
10 best books like Kiwis Might Fly (Polly Evans): The Age of Shakespeare, The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific, Slipping into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand, Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador, The World: Travels 1950-2000, Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria, The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers, Last Seen in Lhasa: The story of an extraordinary friendship in modern Tibet, Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru, World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 890 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
| Author | Frank Kermode |
| ISBN | 0679642447 |
In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on...
When Charles Montgomery was ten years old, he stumbled upon the memoirs of his great-grandfather, a seafaring missionary in the South Pacific. Poring over the faint text and faded pictures, he was entranced by the world of black magic and savagery the bishop described, and couldn't help but wonder...
Slipping into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand
| Author | Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson |
| ISBN | 0345466349 |
In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s ode to his personal paradise–his adopted home, New Zealand. After living in California, why did Masson settle– out of all the places on earth–in such a faraway land? It turns out that while visiting...
Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador
| Author | John Gimlette |
| ISBN | 1400078539 |
Newfoundland is one of the most intriguing places in North America, a land of breathtaking but cruel beauty, populated by some of the saltiest, oddest characters you’ll ever find. In Theatre of Fish, John Gimlette vividly describes the dense forests and forbidding coastlines and recounts the colorful...
The World: Travels 1950-2000
| Author | Jan Morris |
| ISBN | 0393052087 |
If you like to travel, or read about traveling, this is a wonderful book! Jan Morris has been everywhere, she has written beautifully about her travels in many, many books. This book condenses the stories into vignettes of those trips. From accompanying Edmund Hillary on the first successful summiting...
| Author | Mark Rotella |
| ISBN | 0865476969 |
Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy
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a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria...
| Author | Eric Hansen |
| ISBN | 0679771824 |
Eric Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring amid plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies topless dancers on a bird-watching expedition in California....
| Author | Claire Scobie |
| ISBN | 1846040051 |
Some go to Tibet seeking inspiration, others for adventure. The award-winning journalist, Claire Scobie, found both when she left her ordinary life in London and went to the Himalayas in search of a rare red lily. Her journey took her to Pemako, where few Westerners have set foot and where the myth of...
| Author | Hugh Thomson |
| ISBN | 0753822075 |
Imagine that all the great discoveries of Ancient Egypt had happened in the last few years...and you will have some conception of the great excitement over recent finds in Peru.
Many of the extraordinary cultures of Ancient Peru, from the lines of Nasca to the temple-cult of Chavín, buried...
World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 890 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
| Author | UNESCO |
| ISBN | 1554074630 |
The first book that fully describes every official UNESCO World Heritage site -- the world's most extraordinary places.
In 1959 the government of Egypt decided to build the Aswan High Dam, which would flood a valley containing treasures of ancient civilizations. In response, UNESCO launched an...
Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain
| Author | Lori L. Tharps |
| ISBN | 0743296478 |
Magazine writer and editor Lori Tharps was born and raised in the comfortable but mostly White suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was often the only person of color in her school and neighborhood. At an early age, Lori decided that her destiny would be discovered in Spain. She didn't know anyone...
In this Bracingly Honest, Page-Turning Memoir, what begins as a manic money chase-desperate to hang on to his home after his marriage breaks up. David Denby realizes he can buy out his wife's share only if he can first make a killing in the stock market-ultimately becomes an unforgettable encounter...
Tired of London, Tired of Life: One Thing A Day To Do in London
| Author | Tom Jones |
| ISBN | 0753540320 |
As the late great Samuel Johnson sagely observed, 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.'
When author Tom Jones found himself doing the same things week in, week out while living in England's treasured capital, he decided to heed Johnson's words and seek out a thing to do each day...
Sleeping Around: A Couch Surfing Tour Of The Globe
| Author | Brian Thacker |
| ISBN | 1741752108 |
Ein sehr amüsantes Buch, und für mich, als Reiseliteraturfan aller Art, sehr kurzweilig zu lesen. Von einigen nicht so wohlwollenden Rezensionen, die bemängelten, dass es in diesen Geschichten hauptsächlich ums Saufen geht, muss ich zwar zustimmen. Aber Brian Thacker schafft es, mit seiner...
| Author | Peter Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0840759614 |
Stories that reveal spiritual pilgrimage. In this book, Peter and Barbara tell of their spiritual journey, until now, an untold story. Their walk across America, although an exhilarating adventure, was also an exhausting test that pushed them to the edge of their physical and spiritual endurance....
I Never Knew That About London
Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital's history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world's most dynamic metropolis I Never Knew That About London unearths the hidden gems of legends,...
Fumbling: A Journey of Love, Adventure, and Renewal on the Camino de Santiago
| Author | Kerry Egan |
| ISBN | 0385507666 |
In the spirit of Kathleen Norris and Anne Lamott, Kerry Egan describes her journey from grief to faith in this candid, spiritually profound account of her pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, the medieval pilgrim route through Northern Spain.
Kerry Egan, a student at Harvard Divinity...
| Author | Lana Penrose |
| ISBN | 0987437402 |
When Lana and Dion head to Athens, they have no idea what lies in wait. Dion has been offered the job of the century, while Lana chases a sabbatical involving sun, sea and sand. But while the gods couldn't have been kinder, this is one travel adventure that does not go according to plan.
Lana finds...
Around the World in 80 Dates
| Author | Jennifer Cox |
| ISBN | 1416513159 |
Sorry, Dorothy--sometimes your heart's desire isn't in your own backyard.
Head of PR and spokesperson for Lonely Planet travel guides, Jennifer Cox has explored the most remote regions, toured the most exotic terrains, and bonded with people the world over. So how come finding her soul mate in...
| Author | M.F.K. Fisher |
| ISBN | 1593760248 |
In Among Friends M. F. K. Fisher begins her recollections in Albion, Michigan, but they soon lead her to Whittier, California, where her family moved in 1912, when she was four. The "Friends" of the title range from the hobos who could count on food at the family’s back door to the businessmen who advertised...
The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure
| Author | Mark Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0743249410 |
Adventure writer Mark Jenkins has journeyed around the world, crossing wild country, probing the hinterlands, getting arrested over a dozen times. He has made a life out of doing things the hard way.
The result is a book that dives headfirst into adventure and experience. Jenkins transports the...
Amore: An American Father's Roman Holiday
| Author | Roger Friedland |
| ISBN | 0062325582 |
Part memoir, part cultural exploration, Amore follows an American father as he and his teenage daughters journey into the heart of Rome, into the way Romans love and what they have to teach about its erosion in America
As his twin daughters approached adolescence, sociologist Roger Friedland...
Forever Paris: 25 Walks in the Footsteps of the City's Most Illustrious Figures
| Author | Christina Henry De Tessan |
| ISBN | 1452104883 |
Take a stroll through Édith Piaf's Belleville, dine at Napoléon's favorite restaurant, and explore the late-night haunts of Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, and Pablo Picasso. From the author of the best-selling City Walks: Paris deck, this lively collection of walking adventures follows...
Secret London - an Unusual Guide
| Author | Rachel Howard |
| ISBN | 2915807280 |
Mingle with the most extravagant handlebar moustaches in Britain, pay your respects at the dog cemetery in Hyde Park, visit a Masonic temple, take trapeze lessons in a former power station, pray in a floating church, sail on a disused reservoir, discover the stone from which Arthur drew Excalibur,...
