Essays & Travelogues
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.
There is- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250114055
- Language: English
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AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
$14.95 Add to cartIn 2003, software engineer David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Miller’s account of this thru-hike along t
- Author: Miller, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 1935597191
- Language: English
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Lady Long Rider: Alone Across America on Horseback
$18.95 Add to cartRiding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swi… [more below]
- Author: Ende, Bernice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1560377224
- Language: English
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Here Not There: 100 Unexpected Travel Destinations
$30.00 Add to cartDesign a truly unique vacation with 100 intriguing alternatives to more predictable, expensive, and overcrowded destinations.
Let’s face it. These days, many of the world’s most beloved places have be- Author: Nelson, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1426222580
- Language: English
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French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris
$16.99 Add to cartA Midwest Indie Bestseller
When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disa
- Author: Carpenter, Scott Dominic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1609521838
- Language: English
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A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
$18.95 Add to cartSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history–the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Sal… [more below]
- Author: Ocker, J. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1581573391
- Language: English
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A Therapeutic Atlas: Destinations to Inspire and Enchant
$32.99 Add to cartA selection of unique and beautiful destinations around the world, which offer powerful new perspectives on life.
The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 191289193X
- Language: English
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Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: The Making of the American West
$26.99 Add to cartWinner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant…. [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0805062963
- Language: English
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Impossible Owls: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY.
One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar‘s Best Books of 2018. Named one- Author: Phillips, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0374175330
- Language: English
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Letter to the Americans
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, … [more below]
- Author: Cocteau, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231593
- Language: English
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The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
$19.99 Add to cartIn recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the Pulitzer-Prize winning a
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062432966
- Language: English
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The Best American Travel Writing 2021
$16.99 Add to cart“The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person’s experience in some other physical place and culture,” writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, “and, at its best,
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Lakshmi, Padma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0358361311
- Language: English
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The Best American Travel Writing 2020
$16.99 Add to cartThe year’s best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane.
Writing, reading, and dreaming about travel have surged, writes Robert MacFarlane in his in- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Wilson, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0358362032
- Language: English
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Migratory Birds
$15.95 Add to cartA sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss, in the vein of Valeria Luiselli’s Sidewalks.
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Oliver, Mariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 194549252X
- Language: English
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The Tristan Gooley Collection: How to Read Nature, How to Read Water, and the Natural Navigator
$59.99 Add to cartClocks, compasses, GPS, and Google can only get us so far. In this special collection, lifelong wanderer and New York Times-bestselling author Tristian Gooley walks us through, book-by-book, the near-… [more below]
- Series: Natural Navigation
- Author: Gooley, Tristan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1615197443
- Language: English
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Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York
$18.99 Add to cart“Gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be a New Yorker–slightly insane, broke, and madly in love. These essays made me laugh out loud with recognition. New York City isn’t an easy place to… [more below]
- Author: Botton, Sari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 147678440X
- Language: English
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Borealis
$14.95 Add to cartArt about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space–Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s experiences moving through the Ala
- Series: Spatial Species
- Author: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1566896193
- Language: English
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Compass Lines: Journeys Toward Home
$19.95 Add to cartIn essays that traverse latitudes and continents, John Messick’s Compass Lines explores the paths we take toward belonging. Here, broken vehicles mark the porous boundaries between built and natural w
- Author: Messick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1736755838
- Language: English
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One Man’s Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition: An Alaskan Odyssey
$43.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Outdoor Book Award.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark in the Alaskan wilds in 1968, this bestselling memoir features a
- Author: Proenneke, Richard Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 11, 2018
- ISBN10: 1513261800
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
$17.00 Add to cartSteinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141180196
- Language: English
