Essays & Travelogues
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Walking my Dog, Jane
$25.00 Add to cartIn the late 1970s, workers laid a pile of gravel over the length of Alaska. This was the service road for the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, from the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free saltwat
- Author: Rozell, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 173394821X
- Language: English
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Talking to the Ground
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God comes an entrancing, eloquent, and entertaining account of the author’s adventurous journey on horseback through the… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1982112190
- Language: English
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A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time
$21.99 Add to cartTeasing out the history of a place celebrated for timelessness where countless paddle strokes have disappeared into clear waters requires a sure and attentive hand. Stephen Wilbers s account reaches b… [more below]
- Author: Wilbers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1596299703
- Language: English
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The Twenty: One Woman’s Trek Across Corsica on the Gr20 Trail
$17.95 Add to cartIn this past-the-blush-of-youth adventure story, Marianne Bohr and her husband head to Corsica to celebrate turning sixty by hiking the 124-mile GR20, Europe’s toughest long-distance footpath, and fin… [more below]
- Author: Bohr, Marianne C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424321
- Language: English
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Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off & Other Lessons from the Le Wis & Clark Trail
$17.95 Add to cartMore than two hundred years later, the “voyage of discovery”–with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mystery–continues to draw us along the Lewis and … [more below]
- Series: Bison Original
- Author: Tubbs, Stephenie Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803215851
- Language: English
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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
$17.99 Add to cartTim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as “so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in … [more below]
- Author: Parks, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0393348822
- Language: English
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Riding Toward Everywhere
$18.00 Add to cartArelentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence, William T. Vollmann now takes to the rails. In the company of experienced fellow train-hopper Ste
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0061256765
- Language: English
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Teche: A History of Louisiana’s Most Famous Bayou
$25.00 Add to cartRecipient of a 2017 Book of the Year Award presented by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Shane K. Bernard’s Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves- Series: America’s Third Coast
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1496809416
- Language: English
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Sola: One Woman’s Journey Alone Across South America
$22.00 Add to cartSOLA chronicles the true story of a young woman’s plunge from her pleasant narrow life into a rich foreign continent brimming with Panpipe-playing Zen masters, nighttime motorboat rides redlining thro
- Author: Field, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0996626409
- Language: English
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
$19.99 Read moreINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The Old Patagonian Express chronicles Paul Theroux’s train journey from his home in Boston, Massachusetts to the foot of South America, in 1978. Full of witty and sharp obser… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 07 1989
- ISBN10: 039552105X
- Language: English
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We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
$19.99 Add to cart“Powerful. . . . A candid, highly informative, and heartfelt tale of forgiveness between former fierce enemies in the Vietnam War.” —St. Petersburg Times
The #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldi
- Author: Moore, Harold G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 006114777X
- Language: English
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 22 1999
- ISBN10: 067975833X
- Language: English
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Kon-Tiki
$8.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl’s astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific.
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure–a journey of 4,300 nautica- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Heyerdahl, Thor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0671726528
- Language: English
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Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail
$24.95 Add to cartFormer high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks
- Author: Waterston, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747501
- Language: English
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
$18.00 Add to cartA fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translation
Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north,… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Ibn Fadlan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455078
- Language: English
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See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy
$20.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cui… [more below]
- Author: Mayes, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0451497708
- Language: English
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America
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night–“a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity”–Baudrillard mixes aper us and observations with a wicked sense of fu… [more below]
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 20 2010
- ISBN10: 184467682X
- Language: English
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Iberia
$24.00 Add to cart“Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”–The Wall Street Journal
Spain is an immemorial land like no o… [more below]- Author: Michener, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0812969804
- Language: English
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
$21.99 Add to cartThe legendary travel writer’s thrilling and dangerous account of his journey across Africa
A rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and en… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 485
- Publish Date: April 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0618446877
- Language: English
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
$19.99 Add to cartSkeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hell… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 0316159352
- Language: English
