Essays & Travelogues
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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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Istanbul: Memories and the City
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.
“- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Pamuk, Orhan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2006
- ISBN10: 1400033888
- 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
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The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World
$27.95 Read moreEXPLORE THE LANDSCAPES OF THE OCCULT – EXPAND THE HORIZONS OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
This ground-breaking new approach to the history of magic explores the occult through geography, inviting you to embark- Author: Sharp, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1786786737
- Language: English
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Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays
$17.95 Read more2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction
Essays about migration, displacement, and the hope for connection in a time of emotional and geopolitical disruption by a Soviet-born writer and forme- Author: Badkhen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1681377063
- Language: English
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My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents
$28.00 Read moreWith heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer woman as she searches the world for a place of security and acceptance to call ho… [more below]
- Author: Neal, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221842
- Language: English
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A Long Walk South: Adventures and Tales from the Appalachian Trail
$18.95 Add to cartThere’s something to be said about being average. It’s not a bad thing, but it isn’t necessarily great either. After growing up in suburban New England, following the social norms and reluctantly fall
- Author: Herrick, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889605485
- Language: English
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The Passenger: South Korea
$22.00 Read moreFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Hell Joseon by Elisa Shua Dusapin – The View from the North by Lee
- Series: Passenger
- Author: VV Aa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1787705153
- Language: English
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Thrilling Cities: Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond
$18.99 Add to cartA CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BOND
Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote
- Author: Fleming, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0063299143
- Language: English
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Cape Cod
$8.95 Read more“Unquestionably the best book that has ever been written about Cape Cod, and it is the model to which all new books about the Cape are still compared.” — Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau
The- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 19 2004
- ISBN10: 486434931
- Language: English
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Wanderlust: Extraordinary People, Quirky Places, and Curious Cuisine
$17.95 Read moreIn this engaging follow-up to her first book, Travel Mania, Karen Gershowitz reflects on the unusual places she’s visited (in more than ninety countries!). Along the way, readers will be introduced to… [more below]
- Author: Gershowitz, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425573
- Language: English
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Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
$19.95 Add to cartA new and expanded edition of Peter Allison’s hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “Only food runs!”
With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Al
- Author: Allison, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149303538X
- Language: English
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Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets, and Gatemouth’s Gator: Essays
$14.99 Add to cartWhether he’s fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloo
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0060755504
- Language: English
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A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life
$18.99 Add to cart–
In these essays, Marcia simultaneously navigates
the globe while carving out a second career as a travel writer for major
magazines, while navigating her own past and the bumpy and sometimes comp- Author: DeSanctis, Marcia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1609522060
- Language: English
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Lacrónica / Thechronicle
$24.95 Read more*Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo a la Trayectoria profesional 2023*
40 a?os de periodismo narrativo condensados en una obra magistral; Lacr?nica reafirma a Caparr?s como una de las voces impresci… [more below]- Author: Caparr?s, Mart?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 8439742088
- Language: Spanish
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$7.95 Add to cartTravels with a Donkey in the Cévennes brims with Robert Louis Stevenson’s wry and exquisite observations and his obvious delight in the farmers and peasants he encounters in the Cévennes, a region o… [more below]
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1959891383
- Language: English
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Travels on the St. Johns River
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens an… [more below]
- Author: Bartram, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0813080444
- Language: English
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A Long Way from Paris
$16.00 Add to cartIn this searing, authentic memoir, Elizabeth is hired to herd goats on a remote mountain farm in the South of France where she carves out a life for herself without heat, running water, or even a good
- Author: Murray, E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0990310213
- Language: English
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Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean
$16.95 Add to cartAtlantis The legendary lost continent comes under the close scrutiny of archaeologist David Hatcher Childress. From Ireland to Turkey, Morocco to Eastern Europe, or remote islands of the Mediterranea… [more below]
- Series: Lost Cities Series
- Author: Childress, David Hatcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: February 14 1996
- ISBN10: 0932813259
- Language: English
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Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska–Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal
$19.95 Add to cartA new paperback edition of Kent’s first book, often referred to as “Alaska’s Walden.”
In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska
- Author: Kent, Rockwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: July 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0819552933
- Language: English
