Best travel books
The New Zealand Herald‘s travel editor, Jim Eagles, has provided his summary of the best books of last year. The top 10 to make the list are:
- The Travel Book: A Journey through Every Country in the World (Lonely Planet)
- Traveller’s Atlas (Dorling Kindersley)
- The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand By Geographx (Craig Potton Publishing)
- Pohutukawa & Rata: New Zealand’s Iron-Hearted Trees By Philip Simpson (Te Papa Press)
- Canterbury By Arno Gasteiger (Penguin Viking)
- Himalaya By Michael Palin (Allen & Unwin)
- Wildlands: Adventures in Some of the Most Extraordinary Places on Earth By James Frankham (New Holland)
- The White Masai By Corinne Hofmann (Bliss Books)
- Phaic Tan: Sunstroke on a Shoestring By Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch (Hardie Grant Books)
Paul Johnson
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