Essays & Travelogues
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To Venture Further: An Incredible Boat Journey Across the Waterways of Thailand
$19.95 Add to cartIn this memorable exploit from a master storyteller, legendary sailor Tristan Jones makes an exceedingly difficult passage through the infamous Kra peninsula in a small fishing boat.
- Series: Sheridan House Maritime Classics
- Author: Jones, Tristan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073281
- Language: English
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
$23.00 Add to cartIn 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana’s account of his passage around Cape Horn to
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dana, Richard Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 17, 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390081
- Language: English
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Land’s End
$16.00 Add to cart“Cunningham’s short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art.” –The Washington Post
“Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to the sandy, tide-washed ti- Author: Cunningham, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 125001770X
- Language: English
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No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
$35.00 Add to cartMore than just a companion to the hugely popular Travel Channel show, No Reservations is Bourdain’s fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels. The book traces his trips from New Zealand to Ne
- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 1596914475
- Language: English
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Sailing Alone around the World
$18.00 Add to cartThe classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.
Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Slocum, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437363
- Language: English
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Under the Tuscan Sun: 20th-Anniversary Edition
$18.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane–now in a twentieth-annive… [more below]
- Author: Mayes, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0767900383
- Language: English
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Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
$18.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable journey through Central Asia, one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world.
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the So- Author: Fatland, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1643137697
- Language: English
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The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit
$28.99 Add to cartThe Land Where Lemons Grow is the sweeping story of Italy’s cultural history told through the history of its citrus crops. From the early migration of citrus from the foothills of the Himalayas to It
- Author: Attlee, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1581572905
- Language: English
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
$14.99 Read moreIbn Battutah – ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
He did not return t- Author: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621471
- Language: English
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The Songlines
$18.00 Add to cartFor its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin’s classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart
Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chatwin, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0142422576
- Language: English
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Assassination Vacation
$19.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, t… [more below]
- Author: Vowell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 074326004X
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of Central and Eastern Europe (Part 1: The Eastern Mountains) [Deluxe Color Ed
$29.95 Add to cartBronze Medal, 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards: Best Regional Non-Fiction – Europe. Finalist, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel.
An engaging and informative chronicle of a hik
- Series: Into the Carpathians #1
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: December 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1633931536
- Language: English
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The Art of Travel
$18.00 Add to cartA wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will “give one an expansive sense of wonder” (The Baltimore Sun).
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ou… [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: de Botton, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 11 2004
- ISBN10: 0375725342
- Language: English
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize
In the heart of China’s Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060855029
- Language: English
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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
$19.99 Add to cart“Theroux’s eye for landscape remains as sharp as ever . . . It’s Theroux’s remarkable gift for getting strangers to reveal themselves that makes going along for this ride worthwhile.” — New York Time
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0544705173
- Language: English
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
$20.00 Add to cartThe Christian Science Monitor’s #1 Best Book of the Year
A witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, “The- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1250081564
- Language: English
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Very Charleston: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Lowcountry Charm
$23.00 Add to cartCobblestone streets leading to perfectly preserved historic homes. Intricate wrought-iron gates opening to lush, fragrant gardens. A skyline of steeples and a river harbor bustling with schooners and … [more below]
- Author: Gessler, Diana Hollingsworth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 14 2003
- ISBN10: 1565123395
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of Central and Eastern Europe (Part 1: The Eastern Mountains) [Black and White
$17.95 Add to cartBronze Medal, 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards: Best Regional Non-Fiction – Europe. Finalist, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel.
An engaging and informative chronicle of a hik
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1633932427
- Language: English
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
$16.95 Add to cartWith a New Preface by the Author
Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its p- Author: Savoy, Lauret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1619028255
- Language: English
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Green Hills of Africa
$30.00 Add to cartThe most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti–presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collecti… [more below]
- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1476787557
- Language: English
