Essays & Travelogues
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Brothers on the Bashkaus: A Siberian paddling adventure
$15.95 Add to cartFrom rafts made from old germ-warfare suits and felled logs to lifejackets stitched together from soccer balls and wine bladders, river running in the former Soviet Union has evolved much like Austral
- Author: Buchanan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0692615059
- Language: English
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The Travels of IBN Battuta: In the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1326, Ibn Battuta began a pilgrimage to Mecca that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later. His engrossing account of that journey provides vivid scenes from Morocco, southern Russia, India, China, a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Travel, Adventure
- Author: Ibn Battuta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: December 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437655
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Silk Road
$18.99 Add to cartTo travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, d
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231770
- Language: English
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Eurohobo: (And I’m a Hobo!) a How-To Zine about Tramping, Freight Train Hopping, and Free Riding Passenger Trains in Europe
$6.95 Read moreHave you ever dreamed of train hopping across Europe, but had no idea how you’d be able to do it? Fear not Hobo Lee has you covered.
- Author: Lee, Hobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1648410057
- Language: English
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Death & Survival in Glacier National Park: True Tales of Tragedy, Courage, and Misadventure
$18.95 Add to cartSheer cliffs, avalanches, turbulent rivers, cold lakes, severe weather, grizzly bears – these are just a few of the ways you can die while visiting Glacier National Park. Since 1910 when the park was … [more below]
- Author: Guthrie, C. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: May 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1560376589
- Language: English
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Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter
$18.95 Add to cartThe Columbianna, an ancient tramp steamer with a notably eccentric crew, 200 layers of paint on her decks, a sailing history going back to 1945, and demons in her plumbing, was crossing the Atlantic f
- Author: Buckley, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073923
- Language: English
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Turkeys are Jerks and Other Observations from an American Road Trip
$53.32 Add to cartTwo Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Turkeys are jerks and other observations from an American Road Trip is a road trip romp from the Chicago area to San Diego and back. Theresa Goodrich grabs her laptop, her camer
- Series: Two Lane Gems #1
- Author: Goodrich, Theresa L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0960049541
- Language: English
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
$19.00 Add to cartEvery morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignore… [more below]
- Author: Sorkin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477574
- Language: English
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Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan
$19.95 Read moreThe 75th anniversary printing of the captivating story of Kent’s journey to Tierra del Fuego.
Rockwell Kent is one of America’s most famous graphic artists. He was also an avid traveler. Kent was espec
- Author: Kent, Rockwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0819564095
- Language: English
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Out West: A Journey Through Lewis and Clark’s America
$24.95 Add to cartOne hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark’s “Voyage of Discovery” (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps. Out West is an account of three separate jo… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 080326626X
- Language: English
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
$20.00 Add to cartAt the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost–who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs–decided t… [more below]
- Author: Troost, J. Maarten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0767915305
- Language: English
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
$19.95 Read more“What decided me to go to Lhasa was, above all, the absurd prohibition which closes Thibet.” One of the great adventure classics, published in 1927, and considered one of the best adventure books of t… [more below]
- Author: David-Neel, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851109
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank–not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keen… [more below]
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437360
- Language: English
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The Braindead Megaphone
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
T- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 159448256X
- Language: English
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What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela
$19.95 Add to cartTo celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic’s warning of catfights, death, and a s… [more below]
- Author: Christmas, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2007
- ISBN10: 1553652401
- Language: English
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Sailing Alone Around the World
$16.95 Add to cart“The classic of its kind.” —Travel World
“One of the most readable books in the whole library of adventure.” —Sports Illustrated
“The finest single-handed adventure story yet written.” —Seafarer
Chall- Author: Slocum, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 1956
- ISBN10: 0486203263
- Language: English
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Travel as a Political ACT
$21.99 Add to cartChange the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ev… [more below]
- Series: Rick Steves
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1631217631
- Language: English
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The Spell of New Mexico
$16.95 Add to cartA rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century’s best-known writers. Included are selections by Mary Austin, Oliver La Farg
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: May 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0826307760
- Language: English
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The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca: His Account of the Disastrous First European Exploration of the American Southwest
$10.95 Add to cartOf the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover North America, only four returned. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the 1528-1536 expedition crackles with excitement, relating the survivors’ journey a… [more below]
- Author: Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0486431800
- Language: English
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The Road to Oxiana
$19.98 Add to cartIn 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan an… [more below]
- Author: Byron, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0195325605
- Language: English
