News Blog @ Wellington City Libraries

If you can’t wait to get away, check out our extensive geography and travel collection! Where underpants come from : from check-out to cotton fields -travels through the new China recounts the author’s first year in Middle Kingdom. Cholas in bowlers : a journey to Bolivia is a story of elopement to the Tibet of the Americas where futbol, witchcraft, cocaine, llamas both dried and alive, and more changes of government than any other country are not unusual. Red tape and white knuckles sees the author undertaking a grand trek by motorbike from London through to Africa which paints a vivid picture of travelling through the vast African landscape. Avoiding prison and other noble vacation goals is the amazing adventures of an American young woman who goes through prison to find love and is ready to do everything to save it from hopeless South American bureaucracy and the judicial system. Gone to New York : adventures in the city is an evocation of the Big Apple through essays spanning over thirty years that depict the author’s journey from the Midwest to Manhattan, Brooklyn and eventually New Jersey. B-road Britain is a unique outlook on the people, places and events that make this country so special. And if you want to know more about Beijing, check out this month’s Travel Recent Picks.

(Book descriptions from Amazon)