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Amsterdam: A brief life of the city by Mak Geert
$29.99 NZD
Category: Travel
A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. In this fascinating examination of the city's ...Show more
In America: Travels with John Steinbeck by Geert Mak
$35.00 NZD
Category: Travel
In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans. As Steinbeck said to a friend: 'I must see how the country looks and smells and sounds.' The trip became Travels With Charley, o ...Show more
In America: Travels with John Steinbeck by Geert Mak
$39.99 NZD
Category: Travel
In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green GMC pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans. The truck was named Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse, and Steinbeck was Cervantes' foolhardy knight. America was looking ...Show more
In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak (tr from Dutch Sam Garrett)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Travel
Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result is mesme ...Show more
The Dream of Europe by Geert Mak
$40.00 NZD
Category: Travel
The long-awaited sequel to Geert Mak's landmark In Europe. 'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial Times How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here? From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, exam ...Show more
The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century by Geert Mak
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel
The long-awaited sequel to Geert Mak's landmark In Europe 'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesHow did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining ...Show more
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