John Reed Books

The Christchurch Town Hall 1965-2019: A Dream Renewed by Ian Lochhead (Edited by)

$65.95 AUD

Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine

The 2019 re-opening of the Christchurch Town Hall is celebrated in this richly illustrated volume. Threatened with demolition following earthquake damage in 2011, the building has been renewed through seismic strengthening, restoration and repair. With contributions from those who shaped its original de sign, along with accounts of the renewal project and the story of the hall's Rieger organ, this book explains why the Christchurch Town Hall is of both national and international significance. It will appeal to a diverse range of readers, from architects and acousticians, to musicians and those who seek a better understanding of what makes it such an outstanding performance venue, as well as to citizens who take pride in their town hall. Opened in 1972, the Christchurch Town Hall was acclaimed for its architectural excellence and established the national reputation of its designers, Warren & Mahoney. Harold Marshall's acoustic design brought international recognition and helped to transform the way concert halls were designed around the world. Serving as the city's leading concert venue for almost forty years, the Christchurch Town Hall has been acclaimed by performers as diverse as Leonard Bernstein, Kiri Te Kanawa and Carlos Santana. Yet it was always more than just a performance venue, becoming the focus for many of the city's civic, social, cultural and educational rituals. In 2019 the renewed town hall became, once more, Christchurch's `public living room'. ...Show more

Greetings From Amsterdam by COLLEEN GESKE

$24.95 AUD

Category: Travel

Greetings from Amsterdam is a visual guided tour that takes the reader through the Netherland’s capital city and beyond. Explore Amsterdam’s rich history and culture, tour its diverse neighbourhoods, and discover the many colourful festivities that make Amsterdam the dynamic, cosmopolitan city it is tod ay. With over 17 million visitors each year, Amsterdam is one of the most unique and vibrant cities in the world, and Greetings from Amsterdam will give you a glorious taste of all that it has to offer. ...Show more

Stewart Island by NEVILLE PEAT

$21.95 AUD

Category: Travel

Stewart Island is an increasingly popular holiday destination for eco-tourism and outdoor recreation, with many bush walks and a wealth of natural features to enjoy. Neville Peat introduces the attractions of the island - what to see and do, its walks and tramps, its national park, wildlife, history and magnificent scenery. ...Show more

Unexpected Rewards: Travelling to the Arctic with a Mobility Scooter by Maureen T Corrigan

$24.95 AUD

Category: Travel

Have you ever packed your bags for a holiday and wondered whether you'd forgotten anything? Passport, plane ticket, hotel booking... But what if you also had to remember to find out whether you could use the shower in your hotel? Or how many steps you had to climb to get to your room? Or whether you cou ld get on and off the trains in the country you were travelling to? These are only some of the challenges facing a traveller who happens to have mobility issues. When Maureen Corrigan, a former medical doctor and health administrator, developed multiple sclerosis she began to make a series of adaptations in her life in order to be able to continue doing the things she loves - chief among them, travel. With her practical spirit and her inability to take 'no' for an answer, Maureen is an inspiration to us all, whether or not we have mobility issues. Her latest adventure, to Norway and the Arctic, provides us with a fascinating insight into how those adaptations play out in real life, as well as taking us on a journey to the starkly stunning vistas of the land of the midnight sun. ...Show more

John Betjeman on Trains by GLANCEY JOHNATHON

$29.95 AUD

Category: Travel

John Betjeman (1906-1984) was not only one of the best-loved Englishmen of the twentieth century, he was also the people's favourite poet and champion of many causes linked to the preservation of Britain's heritage. Whether those causes concerned buildings, bridges or railway branch lines, Betjeman was a feared adversary of bureaucratic excesses. This delightful little book is a celebration of his love of railways and rail travel. Ten letters selected by his daughter, Candida Lycett Green, each describe a journey that he made or that he planned to make or that he planned for a friend or relative. Jonathan Glancey has added his own words to each letter; words that set the scene, bring the letters to life, that describe Betjeman's moods - humorous, mischievous, brisk for business - and above all, remind us of the age of the steam locomotive in Britain and the many stations closed and track miles lost during the sixties and seventies. ...Show more

Riding Route 94 by MCKIE DAVID

$29.95 AUD

Category: Travel

On previous journeys through Britain, David McKie headed for places he had heard of and was eager to see. But how true, how representative a picture of the country could that provide? What, he wondered, might happen if he let chance dictate his itinerary? McKie decides to travel only where he was taken by buses with the number 94, stopping off along the way to visit often unexpected places. Chance also takes the form of unexpected encounters at the bus stop or stumbling across some fascinating slice of local history in a country churchyard. Eschewing such simplistic generalisations as the 'north-south divide', he nonetheless finds themes emerging: Why do some communities thrive and grow while others seem set on a course of inevitable decline - sometimes even communities living cheek by jowl? What kind of urban landscape have we inherited from the post-war planners, whose best intentions too often took little account of how people actually want to live? And how much are our opportunities and expectations shaped by the communities we are born into? These buses will take David McKie across the idyllic Isle of Mull (where the driver pauses to let him drink in the view), to the furthest reaches of Cornwall ('in England, but certainly not of England'), through the post-industrial landscape of Middlesbrough, and to a whole host of places, some privileged, some bereft, some in between. This is a journey that will make the reader discover unfamiliar places for the first time and see familiar places through fresh eyes. So get your ticket from the driver and take your seat: you're about to discover that some of the most unexpected things in this ever-surprising country are to be glimpsed through the window of the number 94 bus. ...Show more

World Street Food: Easy Recipes for Young Travellers by Carolyn Caldicott

$29.95 AUD

Category: Travel

Full of simple, yet innovative, travellers' favourites, World Street Food is the cookbook for all young travellers and all beginner cooks. Carolyn and Chris Caldicott, co-founders of London's World Food Cafe, recreate the tantalizing tastes of street stalls and night markets, trattorias and tea-houses, camp-fire cook-ups and comfort food in back-packer cafes. Carolyn's recipes simplify on-the-road classics, using ingredients that you don't have to go to the ends of the earth to find and providing clear cooking instructions. Chris's stunning photographs transport you back to the Mediterranean as you concoct aubergine parmigiana or piperrada sauce, to the Atacama Desert as you relish a pepper, potato and chorizo tortilla, to the heights of Table Mountain as you munch bunny chow, to a rooftop cafe overlooking the Ganges as you tuck into an easy biryani, to the pagoda cafes of Burma as you enjoy khao coconut rice noodles. ...Show more

Little Book of Caravans by RIVRON ROWLAND

$19.95 AUD

Category: Travel

Anatolian Days and Nights by ANGIE JOY E. & BRENNER STOCKER

$22.95 AUD

Category: Travel

When Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner meet on the balcony of a guesthouse in a small resort town on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, they think they have only a mutual friend and a summer dream in common. Soon, they discover a shared love of travel, history, culture, cuisine, and literature; and they begi n a ten-year odyssey through Turkey. Inspired by the poetry of thirteenth-century mystic Jelaluddin Rumi, Brenner and Stocke journey to central Turkey for the Whirling Dervishes Festival. A visit to a Turkish bath becomes a lesson in sensuality and patience. Their interest in the cults of the mother goddess takes them to Ephesus, the Black Sea, and east into Mesopotamia. Through intuition, experience, and a bit of serendipity, Brenner and Stocke find excitement, friendship, and love, and learn how and why Turkey--a country that holds the keys to Western Civilization--continues to grow in world importance. Travel writing with literary value, Anatolian Days and Nights will appeal to armchair travelers as well as those about to hit the road. ...Show more