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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette
37.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. There are more hellish jungles, more dictators and their flamboyant mistresses, more surviving Nazis, more missionaries, more wild battles and lurid coups than perhaps anywhere. For the timid it may be a country to a ...Show more
The Gardens Of Mars by John Gimlette
67.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
A portrait of Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island and a place of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity (including a plethora of endemic species), as well as for its tangled and troubled history. A journey – both historical and contemporary – among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling ...Show more
The Gardens of Mars - Madagascar, an Island Story (PB) by John Gimlette
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity: Madagascar. 'A beautifully written depiction of the history of this beguiling island' Lite ...Show more
Theatre of Fish : Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador by John Gimlette
37.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
An extraordinary journey across the magnificent, but bizarre coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. John Gimlette's journey across this awesome and often brutal western extreme of the Americas broadly mirrors that of Dr Eliot Curwen, his great-grandfather, who spent a summer there as a doctor in 1893, ...Show more
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge by John Gimlette
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
In this compelling and elegant travel memoir, John Gimlette returns to Guyana, the Wild Coast in South America, to discover his ancestral colonial history - one of brutal, cruel and often uncomfortable truths. Intrigued by the tale of a distant ancestor who perished on the Wild Coast in 1630, John Gimle ...Show more
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