Essays & Travelogues
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Strange Stories of Alaska & Th
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the pages of early-day northern newspapers comes a startling collection of accounts of the extraordinary and the unexplained: Mammoths discovered frozen whole in the icy grip of a glacier. A trop… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0945397518
- Language: English
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My Venice and Other Essays
$17.00 Add to cartDonna Leon’s wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have been praised for their intricate plots and gripping narratives, but also for their insight into the culture, politi… [more below]
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122809
- Language: English
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From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
$16.00 Add to cartAfter two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Seth, Vikram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 12 1987
- ISBN10: 039475218X
- Language: English
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The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
$16.95 Add to cartFor centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O’Shea (“a graceful an
- Author: O’Shea, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355691
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains)
$30.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.
The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hi
- Series: Into the Carpathians #2
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0578705702
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
$26.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684833638
- Language: English
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Prairyerth: A Deep Map
$24.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. By the author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review).
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- Author: Heat Moon, William Least
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 634
- Publish Date: February 15 1999
- ISBN10: 039592569X
- Language: English
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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
$27.98 Add to cartThe diary of Dervla Murphy’s bicycle trek from Dunkirk, across Europe, the Middle East, and the Himalayas, to India. An amazing narrative from an amazing woman.
- Author: Murphy, Dervla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: December 31, 2010
- ISBN10: 1906011419
- Language: English
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Toward Beauty: Reigniting a Creative Life on the Camino de Santiago
$15.95 Add to cart“A vivid, thoughtful, and openhearted pilgrim’s tale of regeneration, Toward Beauty will charm and move you and make you laugh.” -Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room
At the Grand
- Author: Garnhum, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1778265308
- Language: English
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Rim to River: Looking Into the Heart of Arizona
$24.95 Add to cartTom Zoellner walked across the length of Arizona to come to terms with his home state. But the trip revealed more mountains behind the mountains.
Rim to River is the story of this extraordinary journ- Author: Zoellner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0816553289
- Language: English
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The Innocents Abroad
$7.95 Add to cartOne of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain’s irreverent and incisive commentary on nineteenth century Americans encountering the Old World.
Co- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530497
- Language: English
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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (New Edition)
$23.00 Read moreFrom the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genoc
- Author: Kaplan, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312424930
- Language: English
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Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
$18.95 Read moreThis national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco–sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s … [more below]
- Author: Neely, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 164009444X
- Language: English
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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
$17.99 Add to cartElaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. “I c
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353400
- Language: English
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Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel
$21.95 Add to cart2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner
2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist
2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Associat… [more below]- Author: Roberts, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496222849
- Language: English
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A Maze in Thailand: The Fortunes and Fiascoes of a Free Spirit
$17.95 Add to cartDespite my self-knowledge of an overtaxed imagination and a weakening grip on reality resulting from a lack of quality sleep, I was still confident in the strength of my mind and spirit. I still trust… [more below]
- Author: Thumann, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1957723823
- Language: English
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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$27.99 Add to cartFar away from the trendy caf?, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.
Midnight in Siberia chronicles David Greene’s journey on the Trans-Siberian
- Author: Greene, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351874
- Language: English
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Travels with My Donkey
$24.00 Add to cartHaving no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Britain’s indefatigable traveling Everyman, sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Comp
- Author: Moore, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0312320833
- Language: English
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A Short History of Charleston
$22.99 Read moreA lively chronicle of the South’s most renowned city from the founding of colonial Charles Town through the present day
A Short History of Charleston–a lively chronicle of the South’s most renowned an
- Author: Rosen, Robert N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1643361864
- Language: English
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Hidden Travel: The Secret to Extraordinary Trips
$15.99 Add to cartHave you ever had a magic moment on a trip that so moved you, you knew you’d remember it forever? Hidden Travel shows you how to experience more such moments anywhere. While most travel guide books re… [more below]
- Author: Brock, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 173511880X
- Language: English
