Essays & Travelogues
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The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
$15.95 Add to cartAfter eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like.
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618658955
- Language: English
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757546
- Language: English
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Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landsca
$17.99 Add to cartMcKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion.–Entertainment Weekly
In Wandering- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1627790209
- Language: English
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The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures
$17.95 Read moreThe phrase “an animal a thousand miles miles long,” attributed to Aristotle, refers to a sprawling body that cannot be seen in its entirety from a single angle, a thing too vast and complicated to be … [more below]
- Author: Tonino, Leath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1595348581
- Language: English
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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
$19.99 Add to cart“A book to be plundered and raided.” — New York Times Book Review
“A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day.” — USA Today Paul The- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0547737378
- Language: English
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the Nort… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307948900
- Language: English
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Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
$16.00 Read moreAdvice on achieving a fulfilling old age from one of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
After being advised by his dentist to get tooth implants, Daniel Klein decide- Author: Klein, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126628
- Language: English
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To a Mountain in Tibet
$17.99 Add to cart“A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted.” –Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books
“Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0061768278
- Language: English
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Bedside Companion for Travel Lovers: An Anthology of Intrepid Journeys for Every Night of the Year
$29.95 Add to cartTake the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology of travel writing.
Traveling’s never been easier. Wherever you are, find yourself- Author: Hunter, Jane McMorland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1849949190
- Language: English
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Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
$28.00 Read moreJamie Zeppa was 24 when she left a stagnant life at home and signed a contract to teach for two years in the Buddhist hermit kingdom of Bhutan. Much more than just a travel memoir, Beyond the Sky and … [more below]
- Author: Zeppa, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 157322815X
- Language: English
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Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light
$16.95 Add to cartThirty-two writers share their observations and revelations about the world’s most seductive city.
“Whether you have lived in Paris or not, this captivating collection will transport you there.” –Na- Author: Rowlands, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1565129539
- Language: English
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The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
$21.99 Add to cart“Theroux is at his best when he tells [people’s] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux’s great mission had always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself–and thus, to chal… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 054422793X
- Language: English
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The Last Pool of Darkness: The Connemara Trilogy
$20.00 Add to cartIn the second volume of his beloved Connemara trilogy, cartographer Tim Robinson continues to unearth the stories of this rich landscape in Ireland–weaving placelore, etymology, geology, and the meet… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Robinson, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1571313745
- Language: English
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Mississippi Solo: A River Quest
$19.99 Add to cartSince the publication of his first book, Mississippi Solo, Eddy L. Harris has been praised for his travel writing. In this exciting reissue of his classic travelogue, readers will come to treasure the
- Author: Harris, Eddy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805059032
- Language: English
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The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels
$20.00 Add to cartHailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation’s most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757538
- Language: English
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Never a Stranger: From her past in Croatia and Russia, to finding a son in Bhutan, to befriending women in Africa, one woman’s stories o
$15.99 Add to cartI hang from the final limb of a family tree of generations of unintentional travelers–exiles, refugees, displaced people.
My first journey–involuntary–took place less than a year after my birth. Wh- Author: Romanov, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0997761938
- Language: English
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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
$24.99 Add to cartExplore more than forty forsaken urban destinations around the world in a “highly entertaining read . . . for history buffs, mystery fanatics and travel junkies alike” (GoNomad).
Cities are mortal,- Author: De Tocqueville, Aude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0316352020
- Language: English
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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
$15.95 Add to cartEveryone knows that America is 50 states and…some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states–American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Island
- Author: Mack, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355616
- Language: English
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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 006180410X
- Language: English
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a member of Parliament and best-selling author of The Places in Between, an exploration of the Marches–the borderland between England and Scotland–and the political turmoil and vivid lives that
- Author: Stewart, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745651
- Language: English
