Essays & Travelogues
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Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s
$17.00 Add to cart“This is a book ripped from the headlines, from Black Lives Matter to recently thriving downtowns stripped of office workers and service workers. Those catching the brunt of it all, those with the ste… [more below]
- Author: Maharidge, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 195121322X
- Language: English
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Texas Wit & Wisdom
$19.95 Add to cartThis book is a friendly, entertaining collection of stories, anecdotes, amusing quotations, funny signs, some classic Texas jokes, and even some surprisingly sound advice from the often wacky but alwa… [more below]
- Author: Chariton, Wallace O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 1556222572
- Language: English
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The World of Venice: Revised Edition
$19.99 Add to cartA fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. “A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened … [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0156983567
- Language: English
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The Tree Where Man Was Born
$19.00 Add to cartA timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
A finalist for th- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106244
- Language: English
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
$19.99 Add to cartA century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0060826592
- 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
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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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Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family’s Past Among Taiwan’s Mountains and Coasts
$17.95 Read moreThis “stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and off… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Jessica J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1646220005
- Language: English
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Refraction: An Arctic Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartRefraction recounts the experience of working in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a remote Arctic outpost and home to the largest oilfield in North America. It’s the story of one person’s journey, told in a serie
- Author: Rettig, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1956368256
- Language: English
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Last of the Donkey Pilgrims
$20.99 Add to cartKevin O’Hara’s journey of self-discovery begins as a mad lark: who in their right mind would try to circle the entire coastline of Ireland on foot–and with a donkey and cart no less?
But Kevin had pr- Author: O’Hara, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 076530984X
- Language: English
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The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
$22.95 Add to cartThe Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman’s personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys
- Author: Mahoney, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: March 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0618446656
- Language: English
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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and self-discovery by Sue Monk Kidd, the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings, and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor
Sue Monk Kid- Author: Kidd, Sue Monk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117971
- Language: English
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Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway
$24.99 Read moreAn illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator Emma Fick’s epic train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway–from Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow–including more than 20
- Author: Fick, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0063080362
- Language: English
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Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago: A Solo Woman’s Travel Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartReady to rove? In Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago, Janine Harrison fosters wanderlust in armchair travelers and prepares trekkers about to tackle the French Way from St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France,
- Author: Harrison, Janine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0578894459
- 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
