Essays & Travelogues
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Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
$18.95 Read moreAn 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
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Green Hills of Africa
$20.00 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
- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 19, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476787581
- Language: English
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
$20.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
The fl neur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who stride
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017- Author: Elkin, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537437
- Language: English
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Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
$18.00 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Robyn Davidson’s opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the fol- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Davidson, Robyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 0679762876
- Language: English
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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors
$16.99 Add to cartFor more than three decades, bestselling author Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life. From her dazzling first novel, Love
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 006230996X
- Language: English
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The Passenger: Mexico
$22.00 Add to cartFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Underground Tenochtitlan by Guadalupe Nettel – Crime and (No) Punis
- Series: Passenger
- Author: VV, Aa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1787704696
- Language: English
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Goodbye to a River: A Narrative
$19.00 Read moreIn the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometime… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Graves, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375727787
- Language: English
