Essays & Travelogues
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The Innocents Abroad
$7.95 Add to cartOne of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain’s irreverent and incisive commentary on nineteenth century Americans encountering the Old World.
Co- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530497
- Language: English
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Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
$18.95 Add to cartThis national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco–sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s … [more below]
- Author: Neely, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 164009444X
- Language: English
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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
$17.99 Add to cartElaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. “I c
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353400
- Language: English
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Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel
$21.95 Add to cart2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner
2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist
2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Associat… [more below]- Author: Roberts, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496222849
- Language: English
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A Maze in Thailand: The Fortunes and Fiascoes of a Free Spirit
$17.95 Add to cartDespite my self-knowledge of an overtaxed imagination and a weakening grip on reality resulting from a lack of quality sleep, I was still confident in the strength of my mind and spirit. I still trust… [more below]
- Author: Thumann, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1957723823
- Language: English
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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$27.99 Add to cartFar away from the trendy caf?, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.
Midnight in Siberia chronicles David Greene’s journey on the Trans-Siberian
- Author: Greene, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351874
- Language: English
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Walking my Dog, Jane
$25.00 Add to cartIn the late 1970s, workers laid a pile of gravel over the length of Alaska. This was the service road for the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, from the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free saltwat
- Author: Rozell, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 173394821X
- Language: English
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Talking to the Ground
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God comes an entrancing, eloquent, and entertaining account of the author’s adventurous journey on horseback through the… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1982112190
- Language: English
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The Twenty: One Woman’s Trek Across Corsica on the Gr20 Trail
$17.95 Add to cartIn this past-the-blush-of-youth adventure story, Marianne Bohr and her husband head to Corsica to celebrate turning sixty by hiking the 124-mile GR20, Europe’s toughest long-distance footpath, and fin… [more below]
- Author: Bohr, Marianne C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424321
- Language: English
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Riding Toward Everywhere
$18.00 Add to cartArelentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence, William T. Vollmann now takes to the rails. In the company of experienced fellow train-hopper Ste
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0061256765
- Language: English
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
$19.99 Read moreINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux’s train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp obser… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 07 1989
- ISBN10: 039552105X
- Language: English
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Kon-Tiki
$8.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl’s astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific.
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure–a journey of 4,300 nautica- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Heyerdahl, Thor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0671726528
- Language: English
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
$18.00 Add to cartA fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translation
Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north,… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Ibn Fadlan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455078
- Language: English
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America
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night–“a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity”–Baudrillard mixes aper us and observations with a wicked sense of fu… [more below]
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 20 2010
- ISBN10: 184467682X
- Language: English
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Train Beyond the Mountains: Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer
$27.95 Read moreA captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world’s most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other i
- Author: Antonson, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1771644869
- Language: English
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For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories
$23.99 Add to cartAfter 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring, award-winning collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People… [more below]
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1641711310
- Language: English
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A Long Tangent: Musings by an old man & his young dog hiking every day for a year
$36.00 Add to cartWHEN M. JOHN FAYHEE first arrived in New Mexico’s rugged Gila Country, he was a naive 20-year-old who didn’t know a javelina from an enchilada. Much has changed in the intervening half century.
In this
- Author: Fayhee, M. John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1958870072
- Language: English
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Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist
$34.95 Add to cartNever in human history has travel been so accessible to so many. But–amid an escalating climate crisis that threatens the homes of vulnerable people across the world–has the human cost of trekking t
- Author: Lindholdt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179493
- Language: English
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and Two
$24.00 Add to cartThe life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’–the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego o- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #1
- Author: Al-Shidy?q, A?mad F?ris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1479800724
- Language: English
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Oaxaca Journal
$17.00 Add to cartFrom “the poet laureate of medicine” and national bestselling author of Awakenings comes a fascinating investigation of Southern Mexico that explores the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Columbian… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Sacks, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 307947440
- Language: English
