Essays & Travelogues
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
$18.99 Add to cartA book for lovers of all things Italian — an homage to the city of Trieste.
This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After vi- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811804
- Language: English
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Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture
$37.50 Add to cart2016 Travel Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers
Finalist for the 2016 IACP Awards: Literary Food Writing
Named one of the Financial Times’ “Best Books of 2016”
An innovative new ta
- Author: Goulding, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0062394037
- Language: English
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Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
$18.99 Add to cartThe unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women-Katarina, Zora, Tania-to flee their homelands multiple times. Eventually Tania, a successfully integr… [more below]
- Author: Romanov, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1609521277
- Language: English
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
$18.95 Add to cartTed Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska–an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his … [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 080327811X
- Language: English
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Cinematic Places
$22.00 Read moreGo beyond the big screen and explore the real places that inspired some of the greatest films of all time – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.
Tr- Series: Inspired Traveller’s Guides #7
- Author: Baxter, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0711264309
- Language: English
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.
There is- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250114055
- Language: English
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Borealis
$14.95 Add to cartArt about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space–Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s experiences moving through the Ala
- Series: Spatial Species
- Author: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1566896193
- Language: English
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One Man’s Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition: An Alaskan Odyssey
$43.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Outdoor Book Award.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark in the Alaskan wilds in 1968, this bestselling memoir features a
- Author: Proenneke, Richard Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 11, 2018
- ISBN10: 1513261800
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
$17.00 Add to cartSteinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141180196
- Language: English
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The Travels
$25.00 Add to cartA sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo’s seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition.
Marco Polo was the most fa- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Polo, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 29 2015
- ISBN10: 014119877X
- Language: English
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The Maine Woods
$17.00 Add to cart“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!…Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.” -Henry David Thoreau
Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three t- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140170138
- Language: English
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Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
$21.99 Add to cartAt sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe
- Author: Kaufman, Kenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0618709401
- Language: English
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute por… [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0804172714
- Language: English
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The Colossus of Maroussi
$15.95 Add to cartLike the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent tra… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218570
- Language: English
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To Venture Further: An Incredible Boat Journey Across the Waterways of Thailand
$19.95 Add to cartIn this memorable exploit from a master storyteller, legendary sailor Tristan Jones makes an exceedingly difficult passage through the infamous Kra peninsula in a small fishing boat.
- Series: Sheridan House Maritime Classics
- Author: Jones, Tristan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073281
- Language: English
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
$23.00 Add to cartIn 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana’s account of his passage around Cape Horn to
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dana, Richard Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 17, 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390081
- Language: English
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Land’s End
$16.00 Add to cart“Cunningham’s short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art.” –The Washington Post
“Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to the sandy, tide-washed ti- Author: Cunningham, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 125001770X
- Language: English
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No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
$35.00 Add to cartMore than just a companion to the hugely popular Travel Channel show, No Reservations is Bourdain’s fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels. The book traces his trips from New Zealand to Ne
- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 1596914475
- Language: English
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Sailing Alone around the World
$18.00 Add to cartThe classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.
Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Slocum, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437363
- Language: English
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Under the Tuscan Sun: 20th-Anniversary Edition
$18.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane–now in a twentieth-annive… [more below]
- Author: Mayes, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0767900383
- Language: English
