Essays & Travelogues
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Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America
$31.00 Read moreA moving and provocative exploration of male friendship and loneliness, from New York Times bestselling author, filmmaker, and actor Andrew McCarthy as he crisscrosses the country to reconnect with hi… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783215
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration from the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers
$26.99 Add to cartTravel + Sketching = Inspiration
When we travel, we don’t want to follow the same itinerary as everyone who’s come before us. We want to feel like explorers, adventurers in undiscovered territory. And- Author: Gregory, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 28 2013
- ISBN10: 144032025X
- Language: English
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Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
$19.00 Add to cartWith The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious… [more below]
- Author: Troost, J. Maarten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0767921992
- Language: English
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Curious Men: Lost in the Congo
$21.95 Add to cartAn experienced adventurer partners with an innocent nineteen-year-old to plan a journey on the most dangerous river in the world. What starts as one man’s dream ends up as another man’s nightmare. It … [more below]
- Author: Kunzinger, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1963695437
- Language: English
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
$22.00 Add to cartFor the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of he… [more below]
- Author: Ehrlich, Gretel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0679758526
- Language: English
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Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
$19.00 Add to cart“Completely satisfying, as well-paced and exhilarating as a good run.”–The Boston Globe
Whether running is your recreation or your religion, Adharanand Finn’s incredible journey to the elite training- Author: Finn, Adharanand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0345528808
- Language: English
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Along the Edge of America
$20.99 Add to cartThe best-selling author and walker Peter Jenkins, landlubber par excellence, now takes to the waves and explores, as only he can, a part of America rich in history, mystery, and lore: from the Florida
- Author: Jenkins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0395877377
- Language: English
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The Best American Travel Writing
$19.99 Add to cartIn his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that “spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side… [more below]
- Series: Best American
- Author: Wilson, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0618858644
- Language: English
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The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
$15.95 Add to cartThe White Spider dramatically recreates not only the harrowing, successful ascent made by Harrer and his comrades in 1938, but also the previous, tragic attempts at a wall of rock that was recently en… [more below]
- Author: Harrer, Heinrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0874779405
- Language: English
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Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America
$29.00 Read moreA moving and provocative exploration of male friendship and loneliness, from New York Times bestselling author, filmmaker, and actor Andrew McCarthy as he crisscrosses the country to reconnect with hi… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1538768941
- Language: English
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Walking the Line: Discoveries Along the Los Angeles City Limits
$21.95 Add to cartA 342-Mile Exploration of America’s Second Largest City
Walking the Line is an inspirational urban walking adventure that explores Los Angeles, away from the glamor and fame of its well-known centrally
- Author: Meals, Roy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999577702
- Language: English
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Everything Changes Everything: Love, Loss, and a Really Long Walk
$30.00 Add to cartA resonant and timely story about love, loss, and forging a path forward in the aftermath of grief.
After tragedy upended the contours of her life, Lauren Kessler, an unflinching immersion journalist- Author: Kessler, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0306835754
- Language: English
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In Xanadu: A Quest
$19.00 Add to cartWilliam Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the… [more below]
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0307948889
- Language: English
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A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey to Become Cubana-Americana
$17.99 Add to cartFor fans of Chanel Cleeton’s Next Year in Havana, a real-life story of how a young woman’s five-day trip to Cuba, her mother’s birthplace, completely changed her view of herself as a second-generation… [more below]
- Author: Caver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896360148
- Language: English
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Cheese Trekking: How Microbes, Landscapes, Livestock, and Human Cultures Shape Terroir
$29.95 Add to cartExploring the intersection between traditional and modern, this is a no-holds-barred guide to natural cheesemaking, dairying, and pastoralism–and one man’s global quest to make milk Sacred again.
In- Author: Warmedahl, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1645022986
- Language: English
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River-Horse: Across America by Boat
$24.00 Add to cartThe author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth “takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
In his most ambitious journey ever, William Least Heat-Moo
- Author: Heat Moon, William Least
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140298606
- Language: English
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Far Appalachia: Following the New River North
$24.00 Add to cartWith his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn’t just tell stories, he lets them unfold quietly, powerfully, and eloquently. Now the beloved host of NPR’s All Things Considered and bestselling au… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0385320132
- Language: English
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
$16.95 Add to cartThirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0547237936
- Language: English
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Getting Lost on My Way: Self-Discovery on Ireland’s Backroads
$17.99 Add to cartFor fans of McCarthy’s Bar, a debut memoir about a woman’s humorous and poignant solo adventures of self-discovery on Ireland’s backroads following a painful divorce.
When an introverted, divorced, m- Author: Hartman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1647429765
- Language: English
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This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
$18.99 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-ol
- Author: Myre, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1684425662
- Language: English
