Essays & Travelogues
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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
$19.99 Add to cartPaul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618658971
- Language: English
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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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Finding George Orwell in Burma
$24.00 Add to cartA fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast Asia
Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling- Author: Larkin, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 06 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037110
- Language: English
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A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
$14.99 Add to cartA Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer intere
- Series: Mint Editions (the Natural World)
- Author: Bird, Isabella L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1513206710
- 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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Prairie Time
$29.95 Add to cartWinner, Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, presented by the Native Plant Society of Texas In its prime, the Texas Blackland Prairie formed a twelve-million-acre grassy swath across the state from the San … [more below]
- Series: Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce #10
- Author: White, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1623491363
- 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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When the Church Burns Down, Cancel the Wedding: Adventures from the Other Half of Single
$17.99 Add to cartHilarious, inspiring, and thoroughly authentic, Sara E. Braca’s debut memoir takes readers along on her post-divorce adventures around the world, sharing a life lived fully – if untraditionally – and
- Author: Braca, Sara E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: October 05 2022
- ISBN10: 9798885045988
- Language: English
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Back to Istanbul: On Foot Across Europe to the Great Silk Road
$32.50 Read moreAfter trekking nearly 7,500 miles, from Istanbul, Turkey to Xi’an, China, French travel writer Bernard Ollivier thought he had put the Silk Road behind him–enough for a retiree to rest on his laurels… [more below]
- Author: Ollivier, Bernard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1510776826
- Language: English
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The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious–And Perplexing–City
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L’Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.
Like so m… [more below]- Author: Lebovitz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 076792889X
- 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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Three Weeks with My Brother
$35.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.
As moving as his bestselling works of fi- Author: Sparks, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0446500100
- Language: English
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
$27.99 Add to cartOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imp
- Author: Albinia, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338606
- 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 Add to cartAdvice 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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Beyond the Sunset, a travel memoir: Volume 1: Adventures Outside My Comfort Zone
$24.95 Add to cartFrom Woodstock to the Okavango. How a bookworm turned flower child turned healthcare executive found joy in traveling the world
Structured in a series of essays and anecdotes, this memoir tells the st
- Series: Beyond the Sunset #1
- Author: Knowlton, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1620069164
- Language: English
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North American Odyssey: 12,000 Miles Across the Continent by Kayak, Canoe, and Dogsled
$28.00 Add to cart“Deep down, there is just something that draws us to the land, to wild places. We were there to listen to the land.”
When National Geographic Adventurers of the Year Amy and Dave Freeman marry, they se
- Author: Freeman, Amy And Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1571311688
- 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
