Essays & Travelogues
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Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
$19.99 Add to cartIt started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor — acclaimed actor and self-confessed bike nut — noticed that it was possible to ride all … [more below]
- Author: McGregor, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743499344
- Language: English
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The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America
$28.00 Add to cart2020 Natan Notable BookWinner, 2020 Latino Book Awards Best Travel Book
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countrie… [more below]- Series: Pitt Latin American
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 082296631X
- Language: English
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The Lycian Shore: A Turkish Odyssey
$17.95 Add to cart‘There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical.’ Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient … [more below]
- Series: Freya Stark Collection
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1848853122
- Language: English
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A Woman in the Polar Night
$19.95 Add to cart“An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.” — Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle
A rediscovered classic memoir – the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman’s year spent living in- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Ritter, Christiane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1805330896
- Language: English
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Holiday: The Best Travel Magazine That Ever Was
$95.00 Add to cartThe first book on magazine sensation Holiday, which between 1946 and 1977 was one of the most exciting publications in the world. Renowned for its bold layouts, literary credibility, and ambitious cho… [more below]
- Author: Fiori, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 847866254
- Language: English
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All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the author of If You Can’t Take the Heat comes a travel memoir of finding yourself exactly where you need to be– even if you aren’t quite sure where you are
Some people are meant to travel the- Author: Deruiter, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1541724658
- Language: English
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An African in Greenland
$19.95 Add to cartT t -Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland–and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the cou… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Kpomassie, T?t?-Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322889
- Language: English
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The Travels of IBN Battuta: In the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1326, Ibn Battuta began a pilgrimage to Mecca that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later. His engrossing account of that journey provides vivid scenes from Morocco, southern Russia, India, China, a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Travel, Adventure
- Author: Ibn Battuta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: December 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437655
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Silk Road
$18.99 Add to cartTo travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, d
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231770
- Language: English
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Eurohobo: (And I’m a Hobo!) a How-To Zine about Tramping, Freight Train Hopping, and Free Riding Passenger Trains in Europe
$6.95 Read moreHave you ever dreamed of train hopping across Europe, but had no idea how you’d be able to do it? Fear not Hobo Lee has you covered.
- Author: Lee, Hobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1648410057
- Language: English
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Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter
$18.95 Add to cartThe Columbianna, an ancient tramp steamer with a notably eccentric crew, 200 layers of paint on her decks, a sailing history going back to 1945, and demons in her plumbing, was crossing the Atlantic f
- Author: Buckley, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073923
- Language: English
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
$19.00 Add to cartEvery morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignore… [more below]
- Author: Sorkin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477574
- Language: English
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
$19.95 Read more“What decided me to go to Lhasa was, above all, the absurd prohibition which closes Thibet.” One of the great adventure classics, published in 1927, and considered one of the best adventure books of t… [more below]
- Author: David-Neel, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851109
- Language: English
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Sailing Alone Around the World
$16.95 Read more“The classic of its kind.” —Travel World
“One of the most readable books in the whole library of adventure.” —Sports Illustrated
“The finest single-handed adventure story yet written.” —Seafarer
Chall- Author: Slocum, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 1956
- ISBN10: 0486203263
- Language: English
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Travel as a Political ACT
$21.99 Add to cartChange the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ev… [more below]
- Series: Rick Steves
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1631217631
- Language: English
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Strange Stories of Alaska & Th
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the pages of early-day northern newspapers comes a startling collection of accounts of the extraordinary and the unexplained: Mammoths discovered frozen whole in the icy grip of a glacier. A trop… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0945397518
- Language: English
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From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
$16.00 Add to cartAfter two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Seth, Vikram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 12 1987
- ISBN10: 039475218X
- Language: English
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The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
$16.95 Add to cartFor centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O’Shea (“a graceful an
- Author: O’Shea, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355691
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains)
$30.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.
The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hi
- Series: Into the Carpathians #2
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0578705702
- Language: English
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Rim to River: Looking Into the Heart of Arizona
$24.95 Add to cartTom Zoellner walked across the length of Arizona to come to terms with his home state. But the trip revealed more mountains behind the mountains.
Rim to River is the story of this extraordinary journ- Author: Zoellner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0816553289
- Language: English
