Essays & Travelogues
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Burton Holmes. Travelogues. the Greatest Traveler of His Time 1892-1952
$25.00 Add to cartIt was the Belle ?poque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home.
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Caldwell, Genoa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 31 2018
- ISBN10: 3836557800
- Language: English
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Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
$28.00 Read moreJamie Zeppa was 24 when she left a stagnant life at home and signed a contract to teach for two years in the Buddhist hermit kingdom of Bhutan. Much more than just a travel memoir, Beyond the Sky and … [more below]
- Author: Zeppa, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 157322815X
- Language: English
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Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light
$16.95 Add to cartThirty-two writers share their observations and revelations about the world’s most seductive city.
“Whether you have lived in Paris or not, this captivating collection will transport you there.” –Na- Author: Rowlands, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1565129539
- Language: English
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Mermaids and Ikons: A Greek Summer
$14.95 Add to cartAward-winning poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen explores her strongly personal responses to the landscape, culture, and people of Greece in this exquisitely written travel diary, which was originall
- Author: Macewen, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1487002637
- Language: English
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Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine
$17.95 Add to cartSummoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer t… [more below]
- Series: Arab American Writing
- Author: Shihab, Aziz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 081560968X
- Language: English
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The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
$21.99 Add to cart“Theroux is at his best when he tells [people’s] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux’s great mission had always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself–and thus, to chal… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 054422793X
- Language: English
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The Last Pool of Darkness: The Connemara Trilogy
$20.00 Add to cartIn the second volume of his beloved Connemara trilogy, cartographer Tim Robinson continues to unearth the stories of this rich landscape in Ireland–weaving placelore, etymology, geology, and the meet… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Robinson, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1571313745
- Language: English
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Travels With My Grief: A personal journey of love, loss and recovery
$30.65 Add to cartWhen Susan Bloch lost her partner John far too early, she faced her grief with courage – and what many would term a moment of madness.
Giving up her successful career in the UK, she moved overnight to
- Author: Bloch, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1912666979
- Language: English
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Mississippi Solo: A River Quest
$19.99 Add to cartSince the publication of his first book, Mississippi Solo, Eddy L. Harris has been praised for his travel writing. In this exciting reissue of his classic travelogue, readers will come to treasure the
- Author: Harris, Eddy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805059032
- Language: English
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This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
$30.99 Add to cartA profoundly different way of looking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Reporting from Jerusalem for The New York Times and Fox News respectively, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, witnessed a decades-old
- Author: Myre, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0470550902
- Language: English
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The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels
$20.00 Add to cartHailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation’s most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757538
- Language: English
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99 Drams of Whiskey: The Accidental Hedonist’s Quest for the Perfect Shot and the History of the Drink
$24.00 Add to cartKate Hopkins knew there had to be more to whiskey than using it as a mixer. She had an unquenchable thirst to learn more about the drink and set out on an ambitious itinerary researching its history.
- Author: Hopkins, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0312638329
- Language: English
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The Foghorn’s Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast
$19.99 Add to cart‘A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea’ Brian Eno
‘As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests’ John- Author: Allan, Jennifer Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 147461504X
- Language: English
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Never a Stranger: From her past in Croatia and Russia, to finding a son in Bhutan, to befriending women in Africa, one woman’s stories o
$15.99 Add to cartI hang from the final limb of a family tree of generations of unintentional travelers–exiles, refugees, displaced people.
My first journey–involuntary–took place less than a year after my birth. Wh- Author: Romanov, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0997761938
- Language: English
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Paddling My Own Canoe: A Solo Adventure on the Coast of Molokai
$16.95 Read moreGo Simple, Go Solo, Go Now
In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. A
- Author: Sutherland, Audrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1938340760
- Language: English
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With Light Steam
$41.58 Add to cartIn 1996 Bryon MacWilliams left the relative stability of the United States for the chaos of post-Soviet Russia and stayed. Over the course of nearly twelve years he reported on academe and the science
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Macwilliams, Bryon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 875807089
- Language: English
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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
$24.99 Add to cartExplore more than forty forsaken urban destinations around the world in a “highly entertaining read . . . for history buffs, mystery fanatics and travel junkies alike” (GoNomad).
Cities are mortal,- Author: De Tocqueville, Aude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0316352020
- Language: English
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Rome and a Villa
$19.99 Add to cart“These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water.” — The New Yorker
“Perhaps the
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Clark, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062363409
- Language: English
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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
$15.95 Add to cartEveryone knows that America is 50 states and…some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states–American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Island
- Author: Mack, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355616
- Language: English
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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 006180410X
- Language: English
