Essays & Travelogues
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Train Beyond the Mountains: Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer
$27.95 Read moreA captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world’s most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other i
- Author: Antonson, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1771644869
- Language: English
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For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories
$23.99 Add to cartAfter 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring, award-winning collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People… [more below]
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1641711310
- Language: English
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A Long Tangent: Musings by an old man & his young dog hiking every day for a year
$36.00 Add to cartWHEN M. JOHN FAYHEE first arrived in New Mexico’s rugged Gila Country, he was a naive 20-year-old who didn’t know a javelina from an enchilada. Much has changed in the intervening half century.
In this
- Author: Fayhee, M. John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1958870072
- Language: English
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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
$19.00 Add to cartCarsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America’s most beloved weirdo.
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thi- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535450
- Language: English
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
$18.99 Add to cartOver the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of… [more below]
- Author: Mallowan, Agatha Christie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0062093703
- Language: English
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Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist
$34.95 Add to cartNever in human history has travel been so accessible to so many. But–amid an escalating climate crisis that threatens the homes of vulnerable people across the world–has the human cost of trekking t
- Author: Lindholdt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179493
- Language: English
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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
$19.99 Add to cartIn the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe–in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. He was accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously fa
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0380713802
- Language: English
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and Two
$24.00 Add to cartThe life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’–the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego o- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #1
- Author: Al-Shidy?q, A?mad F?ris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1479800724
- Language: English
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
$18.00 Add to cartIn Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374516936
- Language: English
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Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies- Author: Robb, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0312426844
- Language: English
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Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond
$17.99 Add to cart“Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled…he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things down to their
- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0060930470
- Language: English
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Far and Near: On Days Like These
$19.95 Read moreNow in trade paper Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volum… [more below]
- Author: Peart, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1770412670
- Language: English
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Oaxaca Journal
$17.00 Add to cartFrom “the poet laureate of medicine” and national bestselling author of Awakenings comes a fascinating investigation of Southern Mexico that explores the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Columbian… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Sacks, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 307947440
- Language: English
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
$18.99 Add to cartA book for lovers of all things Italian — an homage to the city of Trieste.
This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After vi- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811804
- Language: English
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Feynman and his sidekick fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending
- Author: Leighton, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320693
- Language: English
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Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture
$37.50 Add to cart2016 Travel Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers
Finalist for the 2016 IACP Awards: Literary Food Writing
Named one of the Financial Times’ “Best Books of 2016”
An innovative new ta
- Author: Goulding, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0062394037
- Language: English
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Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
$18.99 Add to cartThe unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women-Katarina, Zora, Tania-to flee their homelands multiple times. Eventually Tania, a successfully integr… [more below]
- Author: Romanov, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1609521277
- Language: English
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Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey. Over the next 25 years, she would t
- Author: Yale, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1912716356
- Language: English
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
$18.95 Add to cartTed Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska–an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his … [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 080327811X
- Language: English
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Cinematic Places
$22.00 Read moreGo beyond the big screen and explore the real places that inspired some of the greatest films of all time – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.
Tr- Series: Inspired Traveller’s Guides #7
- Author: Baxter, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0711264309
- Language: English
