The Road Less Travelled, foreword by Bill Bryson (Dorling Kindersley, RRP $80): We all know about the favourite touristy places and events that everyone talks about but what about those that are just a little further off the beaten track…
Category: Places
Beautiful book tells NZ’s story
New Zealand: Portrait of a Nation, by Graham Stewart (Grantham House Publishing, RRP $59.99): We are fortunate to live in an incredibly picturesque country and that unrivalled beauty is to the fore in this stunning book that shows New Zealand’s…
Diary of a hard-case road-trip
Work Can Wait, by Wayne Perkins and Dennis Deavoll (Houndster Books, $34.95): Following the progress of a group of hard-case Kiwis riding across America, Work Can Wait is a travelogue, a diary and a whole lot of fun. The book has been…
A chronicle of Mother Nature’s damage
Tarawera, by Geoff Conly (Grantham House Publishing, $39.99): When Mt Tarawera erupted early on the morning of June 10, 1886, 153 people died and New Zealand lost what was at the time the country’s greatest tourist attraction, the spectacular pink and…
A story worth telling
Courage, Sacrifice, Devotion, by Noel Gillespie (Infinity Publishing, $35.95): This is the story of the last bastion of aviation exploration — the Antarctic. The United States Naval aviators, who in the early years of Operation Deep Freeze flew their twin-engine…