Essays & Travelogues
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The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country
$19.99 Read moreWhen she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn’t Disneyl… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1785780239
- Language: English
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
$16.95 Add to cartExtracts from two of Bell’s most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters
A woman far ahead of her time,
- Author: Bell, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1843915472
- Language: English
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Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey Into Muslim Europe
$16.99 Read moreA magical, eye-opening account of a journey into a Europe that rarely makes the news and is in danger of being erased altogether. Another Europe. A Europe few people believe exists and many wish didn’… [more below]
- Author: Hussain, Tharik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1784778281
- Language: English
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Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water
$20.00 Read moreThe critically acclaimed Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom pays tribute to Venice–the city, its history, and its treasures
“Mr. Nooteboom . . . [has] a highly distinctive voice–- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Nooteboom, Cees
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264607
- Language: English
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Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City
$10.95 Read moreAnna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home-in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages o… [more below]
- Series: Literary Travel
- Author: Quindlen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0792242076
- Language: English
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Watermark
$17.00 Add to cartIn this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Joseph Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of forty-eight sh
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Brodsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539049
- Language: English
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The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World
$19.99 Add to cartThis 12th volume in the popular series presents the best travel writing by women for women that’s been done in the past few years. Adventures range from a trip into a new neighborhood to expeditions t… [more below]
- Series: Best Women’s Travel Writing
- Author: Spalding, Lavinia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1609521897
- Language: English
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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
$18.00 Read more“Chicago is a tale of two cities,” headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and diverging outlooks on the future of the city. Yet to kee… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 16 2019
- ISBN10: 022661901X
- Language: English
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain
$18.00 Add to cartA funny, generous, wonderfully written account of a family making a life and home in remote but enchanting southern Spain–from the first drummer of the rock band Genesis.
No sooner had Chris Stewart- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Stewart, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375709150
- Language: English
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Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean
$35.00 Add to cart“Keahey’s exploration of this misunderstood island offers a much-needed look at a much-maligned land.”–Paul Paolicelli, author of Under the Southern Sun
Sicily is the Mediterranean’s largest and most- Author: Keahey, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0312597053
- Language: English
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The House at Capo d’Orso
$24.95 Read moreRocks, wind, sea, and sky frame a house on the Sardinian coast, and the house frames a family’s life and art, suspended in memory.
How does a house shape experience? How does architecture establish a- Author: Brandolini, Sebastiano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544962
- Language: English
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Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
$16.00 Read moreIt had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the lengt
- Author: Ferguson, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1841952885
- Language: English
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Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces
$16.95 Read moreIn Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to Lesoth
- Author: McGrath, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1950539504
- Language: English
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The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and Its People
$29.99 Read moreA Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 BestsellerA Waterstones Travel Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year
What kind of country is England today?
What does it mean to be English?
Are we
- Author: Maconie, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0008498261
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
$20.00 Add to cart“An invaluable book . . . A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present.”-Sarah Wildman, New York Times Book Review
The appearance, m- Author: Tremlett, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0802716741
- Language: English
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Forks: A Quest for Culture, Cuisine, and Connection: Three Years, Five Continents, One Motorcycle
$50.00 Read moreHave you ever thought of quitting your job, selling your earthly belongings, and chucking the rest to travel the world? Allan Karl did just that. After waking up to the realization that his career and… [more below]
- Author: Karl, Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0989441814
- Language: English
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribut… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Mayle, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1101974281
- Language: English
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The Inland Sea
$22.95 Add to cart“An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre.”–Publishers Weekly
In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existent
- Author: Richie, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1611720249
- Language: English
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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
$19.00 Add to cartWhen Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find ou… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 27 1992
- ISBN10: 0679738347
- Language: English
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
$19.00 Read moreThe bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discour… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0679776141
- Language: English
