Reading about journeys
Poems
- Heemi by Hone Tuwhare
- Bus Journey South Hone Tuwhare
- Maintrunk Country Road Song by Sam Hunt
- The Odyssey HomerUlysses Alfred Lord Tennyson
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Cilla McQueen
- She's Leaving Home Lennon and McCartney
- Approach to a City William Carlos Williams
- Riversong Sam Hunt
- Papa Tu A Nuku Hone Tuwhare
- Going to Sleep With Words in My Head Keith Thorsen
- The Road Barry Mitcalfe
- Night Mail WH Auden
- He Never Once Lost His Way Albert Wendt
Films
Non Fiction
- Roald Dahl's autobiographies, Boy and Going Solo have some wonderful chapters involving journeys.
Short Stories
- The Yellow Brick Road Witi Ihimaera
- Through the Tunnel Doris Lessing
- A Kind of Madness Philip Mincher
- Beans Patricia Grace
- When We Stopped Elizabeth Knox
- Journey Patricia Grace
Novels
- The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
- The Call of the Wild Jack London
- Walkabout James Vance Marshall
- The Homecoming Cynthia Voigt
- The Old Man and the Sea Earnest Hemmingway
- Water in the Blood Alan Bunn
- Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
- Among the Cinders Maurice Shadbolt
- The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
- The Journey John Marsden
- I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven
Published on: 23 Nov 2010
