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Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'c ...Show more
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West; Geoff Dyer (Introduction by)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Canons Ser.
A travel literature classic. Introduced by Geoff Dyer: 'As a book about Yugoslavia it's a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating'
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
Contest Of The Century: The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer [No relation]
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Description: By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage, challenging American supremacy. Yet he als ...Show more
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
$27.99 NZD
Category: Photography
An illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.
The Colour of Memory by Geoff Dyer
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post. 'We're not lost,' one of his hero's friend's says, 'we're virtually extinct'. It is a small world in Brixton that Dyer commemorates, of council flat and instant wastel ...Show more
The Contest of the Century - The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the world stage, challenging America's recent supremacy. With its new na ...Show more
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